. Bird-nesting in north-west Canada . s a rule,the Indians are friendly and do not molest travel-lers. The North-West mounted police have them under theircontrol. The Indians have been made to feel the majesty andblessings of law since the North-West rebellion was or four of the mounted police have been known to rideinto a camp of hundreds of armed savages and arrest on thespot, and carry ofi for trial, an armed swaggerer accused ofmurder—a signal proof of the supremacy of law—as Indiansregard a member of their band as a brother, whose case theyare bound, by ties of blood and sen
. Bird-nesting in north-west Canada . s a rule,the Indians are friendly and do not molest travel-lers. The North-West mounted police have them under theircontrol. The Indians have been made to feel the majesty andblessings of law since the North-West rebellion was or four of the mounted police have been known to rideinto a camp of hundreds of armed savages and arrest on thespot, and carry ofi for trial, an armed swaggerer accused ofmurder—a signal proof of the supremacy of law—as Indiansregard a member of their band as a brother, whose case theyare bound, by ties of blood and sentiment, to make their traders, who formerly built forts and lived at licensewhere they listed, have had their stores confiscated and driven across the boundary line, in a state of intensedisgust at the police force and British institutions exercise of authority has been more appreciated by theIndians, for they hate whiskey traders as much as they love -^^«^S25>!(^!M^*;i:inK>^-«^.-. !^. v~»J*- ^ , ^\\ if»^ ^t%£jfjSBfr-. «>s«sife,-,:- . ^;. INDIANS AND THEIR TEPEES. In North-Wfist Canada. 123 whiskey. Though the force is scattered over the country atCarlton, Battleford, Edmonton, Forts Pelly, McLeod, Res^ina,Maple Creek, and other points hundreds of miles distant fromeach other, the smallest detachment has always proved largeenough for any duty with which it has been entrusted—anevidence of moral power that could have been acquired onlyby a long course of just and considerate dealing. The Indianpolicy of the Canadian Government is sometimes declared tobe a failure, and at other times is mildly censured as expen-sive. Though by no means perfect, it may challenge compari-son with that of the United States, or of any other civilizednation towards a weaker race. Judged by its fruits—themaintenance of order without shedding blood, and the steadygrowth of a conviction among the Indians that the Govern-ment means fairly by
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