It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.