 | Penny Petrone - History - 1983 - 258 pages
...attitude that civilizing the Indian was possible only through Christianity and education. Brothers We have too long been children; the time has come...exchange the gun and the spear for the axe and the plow, and learn to get our living out of the ground, like our white brethren. Brothers Many summers... | |
 | Jean Barman, Yvonne Hébert, Don McCaskill - Education - 2011 - 181 pages
...labour is fast eating away the forest, whilst the sound of his Axe in summer and his Bells in winter is driving the game far away from their old haunts; it will soon be all gone.36 Maitland's plan to put Indians in village settlements had been a move in the right direction,... | |
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... enable us to stand on the same ground as the white man. Let us then sound the shell, and summon every red man from the woods ; let us give up the chase of the deer and the beaver ; it is unprofitable : the white man's labour is fast eating away the... 