--- title: Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Kickapoo Indians first lived in what is now Illinois. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Oth… # Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 31 sentences and 545 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. The Kickapoo Indians first lived in what is now Illinois.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Their present home is in the Indian Territory.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") One of their peculiar customs is that they have a tribe whipper who makes his weekly rounds with his whip to punish children, and in this way the parents save themselves from the pain of inflicting punishment upon their children.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Indians dislike rudeness or noisy behavior when there should be quiet.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Fire-water, as they call whiskey, makes them forget the manners their parents taught them.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Many of the Seminole Indians live in the Everglades of Florida.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") They are a tall, dignified, intelligent race, and resent the visits of white people unless it is shown that the visitor is a friend, for they have been driven to these Everglades by reason of conquering whites.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") They live in roofed huts and cultivate several kinds of crops.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") They once owned rich lands in upper Florida and Alabama.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Their language is said to be very musical.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The Cherokee and Natchez tribes once lived in Mississippi and Louisiana.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") They were very wise in war and had many things which they manufactured in times of peace.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") They carved curious shell ornaments, which are often found in southern mounds.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The Flathead Indians of the west bind a piece of stiff board upon the forehead of their papooses.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The child’s head flattens as it grows, and he carries his race mark through life.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The Blackfoot Indians were so called because during a retreat the burnt prairie grass stained their moccasins as black as the blackest cayuse or pony.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") The term Digger Indians has been given to various tribes conquered and driven from their fishing and hunting grounds.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") They live almost wholly upon roots of weeds or the few insects and small animals found in the plains of eastern Utah and the surrounding country.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") The stronger tribes will not let them fish in lake or stream, and their whole life is miserable.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indians of California were originally very brave and warlike, but the remnants of the tribes are broken in spirit and seem broken-hearted.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") Those which have drifted or have been driven by whites and red men into the peninsula of southern California are much like the Diggers.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") The different tribes and nations scattered over America seemed to have known much about metals, although they used stone arrow points and stone axes when the first explorers visited their homes.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") The copper mines of Lake Superior show yet where the Indians have mined in them.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Gold and silver ornaments were used in many tribes to decorate the braves and their squaws.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Shells were carved with sharp tools and used as ornaments, or cut small into wampum.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Arrowheads were of flint or jasper and were made by the arrow makers of the tribe.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") It is said each nation had its own shape of arrowhead.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") Some preferred very small points; some chose the larger ones.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") The early races of white people in all ancient lands used stone for many purposes.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") This first period has been called the Stone Age; this was followed by the Copper Age; then came the Iron Age.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indians do not seem to have used iron before white men came, and were living in what history would call the Stone Age.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The Indian Names For the Months or Moons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/15/) - next →: [The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/17/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)