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Indians And Relics  
Breckinridge County KyArchives History Other 
Book Title: A Glimpse Of The Past 
Long before the white man migrated to Kentucky, it was the hunting ground for 
many Indian tribes, who were steeped in their manner and traits.  The coming of 
the white man forced them westward in search of privacy, where their customs 
and traditions could continue without the white man's interference.  As 
civilization moved farther westward, the Indians sought more privacy in more 
isolated areas where their customs became more difficult to perform. 
The Indians are different from all other human beings.  They are beardless and 
their bones are a reddish hue.  They believe in life after death, but in 
different surroundings than is believe by others. 
The Indian got his education without schools and books.  He learned from need 
and his ingenuity in meeting these needs causing the modern world to marvel at 
his accomplishments. 
They left only momentos of a past that indicated a culture of intelligence, 
which seems impossible to this modern world.  They practived morality and 
virtue in a manner our modern society would benefit by emulating.  Each tribe 
had its own codes and standards that when trespassed upon, the outcome was 
decided on the battlefield.  Their sill with bow and arrow, spear and tomahawk 
was very destructive.  In the fields and woodlands of Kentucky are many of the 
arrowheads, weapons and gadgets left behind in their exit to escape their 
destrction by their aggressors. 
The Indians introduced tobacco to the early settlers.  Corn or maize was 
another Indian first, along with other things and ideas that have been adopted 
and developed into modern use. 
It was a universal custom among Indan tribes for the women to do all the work 
in the fields, while the males hunted, fished and kept on the look out for 
enemies. 
In the early 1800s Indians were still in Kentucky and in someplaces lived among 
the white man. 





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