"Inouan Daya aw se Canapaw Thoexies"" By" Marius Barbosa, Macmillan, 128, 64.
In the days of the explorers and the fur traders the America \dians commanded respect and rod hutred or fear, but now that they have dwindled rapidly the "great, national reserva-Lions, our attitude, has hanged one of sentimentality. 'This fascinating study of the' Stonios
Jountains la an attempt to Kootonays) of the, Rocks, jo mind. of the Red mao, aid his attitude to white civilization, shown by folklore and the ions and prophecies of the native seers or witch-doctors. Mr. Barbean explains why the tribes sullenly refused. all the blessings lof European civilization except isoase, firewater and the rifle: 'The difficulties of the early mis sionaries are exemplified by the eubtloty of - a noted sorcerer among the Western Crees, an droit. imposter who had' been baptised," and claimed in franco to have gone to the white man's Heaven; ho reported to hi that it waa far too, exch 1edom for the dusky people of the prairies and mountains, that. ho had found there none of the its of hia ancestors, nor fishing, hunting and dancing.
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