Their food is very simple. They have meat and fish and berries, and
cakes made of corn. The meat they eat is the flesh of the deer and
other wild animals.
[Illustration: An Indian Chief.]
The Indians are of a copper color. They are sometimes called "Red
Men." They have high cheek bones, black eyes, and straight black hair.
The Indian men spend their time hunting and fishing. They do not have
bows and arrows now. They shoot with guns as white men do.
The Indian women do all the work. They cook the food, make the clothes,
and plant the corn. They also put up the wigwams and take them down.
For the Indians do not live always in the same place, but often move
about.
An Indian woman is called a squaw, and an Indian baby is called a
pa-poose'. You would wonder if you saw the Indian baby's cradle. It
is a bag made of skin fixed to a flat board. It is just large enough
for baby to fit in. The little papoose is wrapped up warm and put into
the bag. The mother carries the baby on her back in this cradle.
Often she hangs the cradle up on a branch of a tree. Then the little
red baby swings while its mother is cooking or working in the field.
[Illustration: An Indian Baby.
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