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Our Northwest Letter.
A WORD ABOUT THE RED MAN~—THE INDIAN oF THE COAST CONTRASTED WITH HIM OF THE PRAIRIE—ON THE RESERVE —INDUS- TRIAL SCHOOLS—ETHNOLOGY OF IHE GREAT FAMILIES
(Special Correspondence of The Examiner.)
Prominent among the many interesting features of a trip across the continent is certainly that of coming in contact with the red man in his native wilds; of studying his appearance and habits, and noting what has been done and is being done by ‘he government of the country to bring abou!
his civilization. Whenever an oppurtunity
afforded, we gladly visited the different
reserves by which the whole map of the
Northwest is dotted, and studied the camp life and daily pursuits of their occupants.
Quite frequently, too, either at the stations
which we passed on our way over the coun-
try, or in uur journeyings by trail, did we
encounter isolated bands or groups of braves, squaws and papooses, now driving
hard bargains in rude English with the
tourist for mementoes in the shape of
polished horns, beadwork or baskets ; now
picking buffalo bones on the open prairie ;
now, as has become the too general prac-
tice of our own poor Micmacs, begging
money, food or clothing from anyone they
may happen to meet. In British Colum-
bia whole sectionsof 4 tribe, if net the whole nation itself, were often found to
have fallen into the social modes of life of
their white neighbors. The men work out
and earn good wages as stevedores or com-
mon laborers, while their villages are built
upin every way similar to those of the working classes of our people—long rows of snug cottages, trim and clean in their fresh coat of whitewash, well-supplied shops and churches that would do credit to any small settlement being no uncommon sights. In
the Northwest, too, the attempts in all the branches of husbandry made at many of the reserves were most creditable. We were told that the first prize for white fife,
rye and vegetables, as well as different other prizes, were taken by Indians of the Crooked Lakes Reserve at Regina Fair last year. Under the present system there the government is doing much to educate their free-and-easy proteges ; and while it is difti- cult to make the marked progress all would welcome, still what has been already accom- plished gives abundant hope for the future. Some tribes or subdivisions of tribes, it is true, do much better than others as tillers of the soil; but we were assured by com-
petent authority that every tribe of Treaty
indians and almost every gente had made considerable advancement along the lines of the government's policy. Many North- west bands have given up their wandering and restless habits entirely and settled down to honest work. The amount of superstition, ignorance and lazinesa to be overcome by the authorities in inculcating principles of self-support and industry is simply appalling. To the warrior nothing was more contemptible than work; it was fit for squaws ant white men only. In fact, every civilized influence has been com- batted to the last foot of standing ground; and it is only now thst the seeds sown years ago are bearing fruit. Yearly the Government expends upon Indian affairs an immense sum of money between parlia- mentary appropriations and the interest on the “Indian Fund.” This amount covers industrial schools, rations, supplies of grain, animals, etc., and the salaries of officisls, The Indian Fund now reaches about three and a half millions of dollars, and consists of moneys accrued from annuities secured under treaty, and the sales of land, timber, stone, etc., surrendered by the Indians to the Government. The interest of this large fund is ueed annual'y, together with the generous Government grant, in the manner just stated.
It had always been said that the Indian was destined to complet» extinction in a comparatively few years; that he was un- able to stand the modes of civilized life; that consumption was making terrible rav- ages in his ranks; that, indeed, as a provi ot all this, each decennial census return showed a marked numerical decrease. The same impressions we found to prevail among the white settlers of the Territories. But it is, we are satisfied, none the less a false im pression. Certainly the physical robust- ness of the Indians we met, compared more than favorably with that remarked among the whites, and especially was this notice- able with these who had ceased to live pre- cariously and were devoting their energies to the farm. The family is as large as ever it was and the children in general pictures of health. Consumption has gained a footing in some tribes or gentes, but not to a great- er extent than is to be remarked in certain phases of our own society. The census re- turns, too, are badly belied. Instead of registering the decrease spoken of, we read in the last report that ‘‘it is quite certain that the number of Indians in Canada is now much larger than in 1881,” a statement
backed up by a convincing array of figures. Although, as a result of intermarriage and _ irregular lives,
some branches of a tribe situsted usually neat a town, were found to be physically or mentally below the general standard, still as a whole, covering all the conditions in which we found them, from the pompa- doured dude, who assists a popular Island civil servant in the Department of Indian affairs at Ottawa, down to the rudest nomad to be encountered on either side of the mountains, we would be inclined to say that the aborigines of this country are no more doomed to complete and speedy extinction than the heathen - Chinee, whose chances of standing the test of ages nobody questions. Nearly three hundred years ago it was computed that the eight grand families of Indians which then occupied North America, comprised a population of 180,000 souls. The three grand tribes of Canada would proportion- ately muster about 22,000 souls. Joncaire, reporting to Paris in 1736, estimated the warrior Indians from Quebec to Lousiana at 18,000. Taking into consideration, then,
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the terrible wars almost incessantly waged in these early days, the ravages of small- pox, which according to our historiana, wiped out whole tribes in one single epi- demic, and the other adverse causes, it must be considered remarkable that we bave in Canada to-day 130,000 Ladians, while with those of the United States instead of the 180,000 of three centuries ago, America maintains about 400,000 red-mev. The greater causes of decimation removed, the presence of the Indian may naturally be counted on for many ceutaries, if he be not swallowed up like the other races pouring into the country in 8 homogeneous America.
The present system of the Government which requires a knowledge on the part of the factors of the where- abouts of every ladian receiving rations and assistance, tends greatly to prevent roving, and thus prevents also the crimes attendant upon this kind of life so common in the past. To visit his children in the schools, his friends on snother reserve, to make « journey on any business whatever over the country, the written permission of the proper officerjis required, and in it is specified the cause of absence, number of days accorded and the designation pro- posed. This permit thus becomes a kind of character to the holder, who, should he abuse any of its conditions, for- feita the right to rations temporarily or permanently as the case may be. The mounted police are immediately apprised of any case of delinquency and it is promptly dealt with. The system works like a charm,
Besides being rationed and encouraged in every way to become producers in the Northwest,many splendid industrial schools have been established by the Indian De- partment wherein a devoted band of cleryymen and sisters train Indian children in the tradea, in letters and in the ways of civilization. Four thousand children are thus instructed in the Territories alone; in all Canada about seven thousand. Those children make apt pupils. At High River Institute we saw young lads but recently from the wilds manifesting al] the skill and application of our best youths in carpenter- ing, shoemaking, tailoring, baking and general agriculture. Iu the classrooms they showed a proficiency quite equal to the pupils of our own schools. They sang beau- tifully, too, and maintained a first-class band. Indeed, the nature and extent of their acquirements, considering their pre- sent opportunities and the utter want of any home preparation, was simply wonder- ful. Those children were Crees, Bloods and Biackfeet, the brightest of the Indian
| tribes of the West,
The ethnology of the American Indian has long been a study of deep interest. That all the tribes traced their origin to the same source, possibly Asiatic, most people were inclined to _ believe. It is now well demonstrated, how- ever, that the Pacitic tribes are a people distinct and apart from those on this side of the Rockies. The racial divi sion is as marked as that of any other fam- ilies. There can be little doubt but that they are of Mongolian origin. Study them side by side with the ubiquitous Chinese, and you are immediately struck by their perfect resemblance. The self-same char- acteristics of the one are found in the other. They are short in stature and com. pactly built, the hair, eyes, mouth and other facial traits are alike; neither is more successful in the matter of whiskers than the ordinary sophomore, and in the general movements of the body the Indian is the counterpart of the Chinee. Cut off pig-tail, dress him in poor Lo’s habili- ments and John Chinaman’s identity is merged most successfully in that of the British Columbia Indian. The phonetic resemblance in speech is not so marked, but since it has been declared by scientists that cli- matic influence has much to do with the ex pression of language, we must not push the analogy too far. The pro- nunciation of a people whose organs of speech have been affected for genera- tions by continual colds and catarrhs, thickening the mucuous membrane and obstructing the air passages, could not be expected to be as soft and sweet as that of dwellers under Italian skies; on the con-
trary, such an influence must ren- der it harsh and inarticulate. The Chinook tribe, north of the Columbia,
occupying as they do one of the rainiest re- gions of the earth are as hoarse and gut turalin speech asa Terradel Fuegian. From personal observation there, we are inclined to believe that in great Montagnais,or Mon utemery, the tribe of the West came to America either by regular migration through Asiatic Russia over the Behring Straits, a distance of only 40 miles, or were cast on our shores by some tempest in early ages. The fact that «a Japan ese craft, blown off her own coas!, was wrecked at the mouth of the Fraser River some ninety odd years ago without loss of life, lends color to the latter hypothesis. And there is a tradition among those peo- ple that they have come from a land far beyond a great sea.
It is much more difficult to trace the tribes of the great prairies and middle lands back to their source. The theory which pleases us best pute them down as European in origin. Chey are a different race altogether from the Orientals. The Esquimaux are easily traces able to Lapland and Greenland. Now that the question of the discovery of this continent by navigators from the Old World, long before the time of Columbus is receiving much attention, the probability of Kuropeans having been cast on our eastern shores, either by design or accident, gains strength daily and tends to clear up what otherwise must remain the ethnologists’ difficulty.
Of the religious manners and customs of the Indians there is no space to speak. Only haif those of British Columbia are Christians. The pagans are debased wretches without sense of honor or shame. They openly traffic in the virtue of their wives and daughters. The Christians, on the contrary, are industrious; like the Mongolian, prudent and virtuous.
Despite the labors and sacrifices of the mis- siouaries both here and in the Northwest, however, virtue is slow of growth in many
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tribes. TWere are many good [odians in tiie Northwest it is true, but there are also very many bad ones. To the gross immorality of the white man, the absence of morality and the renee of vive is largely chargeable. Money
a8 & greater effect on the Indian than anyy- thing else. He is willing to ba anything al- most for a present. The Blackfeet had for the first time decided shortly before we passed through Alberta to work for missionaries. Father LaCombe, the renowned apostle of the indians, went to their country to establish one. He eloquently urged them in their own language—of which he is a master—to embrace the Christian religion, live like Christians and obey their Black-Robe in everything spiritual. Presenting their new father to them he asked them in conclusion to be good to him. Imagine his disgust to have the Chief break in quite assuringly: “‘We be much good to him, he give much presents!" And so it is every- where; they want the presents before you gain theirear We were told of a model governor whom they designated ‘Father of the big body but small heart,” because he. tircd of their welcoming demonstration at Battleford, and was inclined to send them home empty-hand- ed Still grasping all they can get from the white man, they are the soul of generosity among themselves, and their feaste and tea- dances are of frequent ocourrenc>. It is cons fidently hoped by the authorities that those rude sons of the prairie may at no very dis tant day be so transformed socially as to put for ever in the shade even the Chesterfield we met in the Indian Department. All this, of ovurse, will fit well into Bellamy’s social picture of the year 2,000.
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