NATIVE TRIBES OF BRITISH 

 NORTH AMERICA 



CHAPTER I 

 THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE 



THE &quot; Old World &quot; was startled in 1493 by 

 the great navigator Columbus, who returned 

 with wonderful narratives concerning the &quot; New 

 World &quot; of North America, whose native population 

 he called &quot; Indians &quot; because, strange as it may 

 seem to us, he thought that by sailing west he must 

 come to the land of India. At the present day 

 scientists are at a loss to account for the origin of 

 Eskimo and North American Indian tribes ; some 

 times the former are connected with the European 

 cave dwellers, who did such beautiful work in bone 

 and ivory toward the end of the old Stone Age. 

 Whatever may have been the origin of countless 

 numbers of Indians, comprising hundreds of tribes, 

 we may be certain that they had inhabited the 

 continent from a very remote period, for in very 

 deep old layers of soil one may find stone axes and 

 arrowheads, which are side by side with human 

 remains and the bones of extinct species of the 

 horse. 



Not one little book, but many large ones, would 



