To: Red Badger
One funny story from Heckwelder;s book is the Dutch gave the Indians hoes and rakes as gifts for cultivating. Metal tools with out the wooden handles. When the Dutch returned months later the Indians were wearing them around their necks. They didn’t know what they were for.
19 posted on
12/04/2007 12:55:34 PM PST by
4yearlurker
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To: 4yearlurker
What’s funny about that? I’m Indian and I still don’t know or want to know what a rake or hoe is. LOL (or a lawn mower)
32 posted on
12/04/2007 2:11:32 PM PST by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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