Myths That Every Child Should Know

In many parts of the country when the soil is disturbed

arrowheads are found. Now, it is a great many years since arrow

heads have been used, and they were never used by the people

who own the land in which they appear or by their ancestors. To

explain the presence of these roughly cut pieces of stone we

must recall the weapons with which the Indians fought when

Englishmen, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, and Spaniards first came

to this part of the world. There may be no authentic history of

Indians in the particular locality in which these old-fashioned

weapons come to light, but their presence in the ground is the best kind of evidence that Indians once lived on these fields or were in the habit of hunting over them. In many parts of the country these arrow heads are turned up in great numbers; museums large and small are plentifully supplied with them; and they form part of the record of the men who once lived here, and of their ways of killing game and destroying their enemies. Wherever there are arrow heads there have been Indians.