Breaking the Wilderness

CHAPTER V

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Three Conditions of Wilderness Life—Farming in the Driest Country—The _Cache_—The Clan, the Unit of the Tribe—Hospitality—Totems and Totem Marks—Dress—An Aboriginal Geographer—The Winter Life—The War-path, the Scalp-lock, and the Scalp-dance—Mourning the Lost Braves—Drifting 75