Bellona Times
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According to the Indian custom, the young Tecumseh, immediately after his birth, was placed in a sack made of soft deerskin, laced up the front with leather thongs, and decorated with embroidery of colored quills.
This was strapped to a flat board, having a wooden bow extending over the infant's head.
Even though she was the wife of the chief, Tecumseh's mother had little time to devote to her child.
She must gather firewood, prepare and cook the food brought in by the hunters, make and mend the deerskin clothing and moccasins, cure the skins of deer and other animals, and sow and cultivate and reap their little harvest of Indian corn.
For the first year of his life, the little Tecumseh was carried about by his mother in the odd little cradle strapped to her back.
When she worked in the fields, she would place the cradle against a tree or pass the loop over a branch so that the cradle might swing to and fro in the breeze.
After the lad was a year old, he was fed on soup made of venison or fish thickened with wild rice or corn.
In the fall, the Indian women
gathered the rice and stored it for food during the long winter months paddling their canoes into the marsh they would pull the rice stocks over the side and thresh out the grain with the paddles into the bottom until the frail crafts were loaded as deep as safely permitted thousands of wild ducks came to feed on the rice
Disturbed by the canoes, they rose, their wings sounding like thunder, and whirling in the air betook themselves to the deeper solitudes of the marshes.
Passenger pigeons flew northward in the spring, and returned southward again in the fall, in such vast numbers that the sun was darkened at midday.
It was a very wonderful and interesting world to the young Tecumseh.
He was soon able to run about the village and to ask countless questions about everything he saw or heard.
His school days had begun.
Yet he did not study out of books.
His teachers were his parents and elder brothers.
From them he learned the names of the plants and trees and how they were useful to man.
He learned, too, the names of the animals and their habits.
Walking through the woods, his father would tell him what animals had passed and how long since they had gone by.
It was easy to read the tracks in the snow, but hard to decipher the trail in the summer woods.
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