. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. settlement of the country, and thatthe half-breeds, British subjects by compulsion, not by choice, be encouraged tooccupy the purchased portion. The plan to open the Red River country to settlement, formulated in 1848,was enthusiastically received by the half-bloods, but was met in silence by theIndians, and was used by the Hudsons Bay Company as a means to prejudicethe Indians against the Americans. The opening was consummated twenty-fiveyears later. At Pembina they found Father George Anthony Joseph Belcourt, locatedabout a mil
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. settlement of the country, and thatthe half-breeds, British subjects by compulsion, not by choice, be encouraged tooccupy the purchased portion. The plan to open the Red River country to settlement, formulated in 1848,was enthusiastically received by the half-bloods, but was met in silence by theIndians, and was used by the Hudsons Bay Company as a means to prejudicethe Indians against the Americans. The opening was consummated twenty-fiveyears later. At Pembina they found Father George Anthony Joseph Belcourt, locatedabout a mile down the river from Norman W. Kittsons trading establishment atPembina, where he had been located eighteen years, and had a school for theeducation of the Chippewas and the children of the half-bloods, of whom therewere a considerable number; Kittson, as stated, placing the population along theinternational boundary at fi,ooo, and Major Woods reporting 177 families in thevicinity of Pembina, 511 males and 515 females. ■si 3 g M S O 5 tti % O o O -. H !2! O. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 149 In addition to tlie school building which was two stories in height, there wasa chapel on the grounds. Relative to the half-bloods, Father Belcourt wrote Alajor Woods:The half-breeds are mild, generous, polished in their manners, and ready todo a kindness; of great uprightness, not over anxious of becoming rich, content-ing themselves with the necessaries of life, of which they are not at all timespossessed. The greater number are no friends to labor; yet I believe this vice toproceed more from want of encouragement, and the small prices they receive fortheir products, than from laziness, and this opinion is grounded upon the factthat they are insensible to fatigue and exposure, which they endure with lightnessof heart when called upon to do so in the course of diverse occupations. Theyhave much openness of spirit, and their children manifest good capacity whentaught; still we could wish them
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