While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Blewmouths. Mentioned in a Georgia tract of 1740 (Force
Tracts, I, 3, 1836) apparently as a tribe w. of the
Choctaw. "According to the French Indians [Choctaw] there is a large city
where a blue-lipped people live, of whom they have often heard it said that if
any one tries to kill them he becomes insane" (Brinton, Nat, Leg.
Chahta-Muskokee Tribes, 10, 1870). Nothing further is known of them.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
