Thompson Ferrier
Published: 2015-07-09
Total Pages: 50
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Excerpt from Indian Education in the North West How long the Indian has been in this country is a question that no one is prepared to answer. Dr. J. C. Nott is authority for saying that the 16,000,000 at the time the Mayflower discharged on Plymouth Rock have dwindled down to 2,000,000. He says the race is running out like sand in Time's hour-glass. Our relation to our Indian friends is peculiar, and so also is their relation to us. Before our time they were self-supporting. Their education was sufficiently profound to make them masters of the situation. They asked no odds from friend or foe. Civilization stepped in and wantonly destroyed their means of support. By destroying their means it made their knowledge useless. They had to begin anew when civilization, eager, ambitions, cruel, drove the game from the land and encompassed the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
