Poems of Penacook

resent city of Concord. 5. Page 11. This name is assumed for reasons that appear later. See note 18. 6. Page 11. The native Indians of New Hampshire were of the Algonquin race and of the Nipmuck family. 7. Page n. The term Penacook, the "Crooked Place," refers to the tortuous course of the river Merrimack within the limits of the city of Concord. It appears that the Indians of New Hampshire frequently adopted tribal names from the localities where they resided. 8. Page n. It is doubtful if the eastern Indians of the present territory of the United States ever employed theskins of animals in the construction of their wigwams, though there is historic evidence that the western Indians did so. The word noted is used by poetic license. 9. Page 11. An assumed name. 10. Page 11. The Manit, or Manitou, was the supreme deity of the American Indians. n. Page 12. The Indian sannups, or males of the tribe, only occasionally condescended to labor, work being the special function of the squaws. 12. Page 14. The term medicine, as used among the Indians, seems to imply the existence of an occult gift in the man who subjectively adopts it. In astrology, also, people who are born under the special influence of the ascending sun are said to be proud. Some mystics have also asserted that persons who are born under a peculiar aspect of the sun are gifted with a second sight. 13. Page 15. Among the Indians, the rite of burying the tomahawk symbolized t...