The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-13

that the shrewd Indian that indicate
supreme contempt for the whole proceedings.
The tribes which he ruled made up OF subdi-
visions, and distributed that town village
constituted one OF these divisions
These towns independent of each other but were
al under Emperor and governed by him his apponteca
in each village sachem tribal council and priest
The sachem was a member OF the Kings council, and
vas looked for advice and direction all civil and do
cs matters lie mad absolute power OF lie and death,
and his word ordinarily considered final. The wero-
vance was the war leader, and the chief in all hunting
expeditions In time OF war he supreme in authority.
lie appointed by the Emperor while the was
The tribal council chosen by the people had the author
y OF counsel and advice in every town. There gen
"iOI i.et d " c'O"oCOnOco' over us deah-
eaons the Emperor himself presided and always treated
with profound respect The general council up
Of representatives from the various tribal towns
The priests had authority religious and spiritual
matters They held in high esteem
in regard to all important undertakings.
1t be from these that there was
siderable conference in the government among the Indians
me resemblance to English forms OF governmental life
cs tat after ALL the historians might have read their
ideas into such observation and such information
might nave come TO them with the limited means OF finding
information at their command Il little difficult to inn
agne such advanced ideas Of government among people
50 savage and SO isolated these aborigines
Among them land held in common, each inhabiant
having equal rights all hunting privileges Private
pery dwellings and gardens respected by all The vii
iags were usually built upon high places, contiguous to
streams Of They composed OF twenty-five
thirty houses which built of sapngs planted regular
distances like posts and then bent and tied together in
the middle. The I'D by skfu application
and of bark and grasses adroity interviewer The roof
came down well the structure Sometimes there
windows but usually only one opening The fire
middle
and usually there opening proper place in the
root the escape the smoke The beds arranged
around the fire and usually elevated few feet
the ground, made of pallets of furs and skins
stretched upon the floor Several families usually occupied
of these dwellings The shape of the houses either
ObOng circular The circular form much smaller
generally used. Each dwelling place had
plot OF ground for the cultivation of and vegetables
Certain planted and cultivated The mulberry
tree, for especially popular and the Oca
ton OF Of these Indian villages could be traced
years afterward by the presence and growth OF these null
berry trees The sunflower also favOre and in all
their gardens it could be growing in luxurance.
The products Of the field in the MAN, beans
and squashes pumpkins These ordinarily all grown
they the fields. The planted at
Intervals the have many of
the roasting of which the Indians At
the harvest the gathered when perfectly
dried and seasoned sheled and stored away huge
baskets for the winters This the Of
hominy.
Captain John Smith said There yet no place in Nr-
gna discovered TO be savage in which they have
LgOn." Every Indian village had temple and attending
priests The temples usually capacous They
entered always from the At the end OF the
building there rude of chancel altar with ho
low wndings and pillars and around stood divers black inn
fashioned to the shoulders with their faces looking down
the church, These temples cared for by the priests,
who practced in them certain times rituas services
They believed i'll the existence OF Supreme Being who
wise and bountul and benevolent They usually believed
il another being who represented the evil principle
and whom they held responsible for all the evil and OF
their lives.