. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. THE NORTHLAND INDIAN AS HE IS 95 worthy as the other. Generally speaking, neither the men nor the women are good to look upon ; but of course there are exceptions to every rule, and I think the exceptions in this case are more often Cree. The half-breeds are gener- ally more agreeable to the eye; some of the women are even good-looking; and one of them, a daughter of Mi- chael Manderville, the interpreter at Great Slave Lake, has excellent features, a sweet expression, and is
. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. THE NORTHLAND INDIAN AS HE IS 95 worthy as the other. Generally speaking, neither the men nor the women are good to look upon ; but of course there are exceptions to every rule, and I think the exceptions in this case are more often Cree. The half-breeds are gener- ally more agreeable to the eye; some of the women are even good-looking; and one of them, a daughter of Mi- chael Manderville, the interpreter at Great Slave Lake, has excellent features, a sweet expression, and is quite the belle of the north country, though the wives of Spencer and of Chipewyan Frangois press her very closely for the honor. As to philological differences, they are too intricate to understand without long study, and too many for exploita- tion here. It will answer our purpose to know that the Cree nation is one of the largest of the Lenni-Lennappe family, itself the most widely distributed of the three great divisions—Floridean, Iroquois, and Lenni-Lennappe. M. PAPPOOSE IN ITS MOSS BAG The Cree is really a plains Indian, and as such superior to the few of the family in the Northland who are called Wood Cree. The Tenti, or Montagnaise, is the great nation which spreads between the Rocky Mountains and Hudson's. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Whitney, Caspar, 1862?-1929. New York : Harper
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