Excerpt from The Childhood of Ji-Shib, the Ojibwa: And Sixty-Four Pen Sketches For ages before the White Man came, America was the home of the Red Man; and the Red Man and his kindred lived In closer touch with nature than his pale -face follower dreams. When the White Man came there were more than a thousand tribes of Red Men in America, and they spoke about a hun dred different languages, each more unlike the others than the English is unlike the Russian. The largest linguistic family lived about the St. Lawrence river and the Great Lakes, and pushed over the plains southward to Tennessee, northward to Hudson bay, and westward to the Rocky mountains in Canada. They are known as the Algon quian family. In early times there weremany tribes and some confederacies in this family; one of the largest tribes was the Ojibwa, or Chippewa, whose descendants still live in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Canada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.