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Red Indians—1937flow the Indians of Canada play the game in the matter of hunting as opposed to some white trappers, and how the Red Man earns his living and receives his pensions, and how he now has such blessings of civilisation ai*eset out in the annual report of the Department of Indian Affairs which lias just been published.The people of the Indian reserves, estimated at 112,519, earn over six million dollars a year. In addition, the Dominion holds something like fourteen million dollars In trust on their behalf, while schooling and numerous other services are given free.Fifty thousand of the Indians, too, receive pensions under the terms of various treaties. The payment of these annuities, which amount to four or five dollars a head a year, is always made the subject of a definite ritual.Treaty Trip by Air,As an example of what a treaty trip Involves, it may be of interest to follow one of the annuity parties, say, for Treaty Nine, which goes out to New Ontario in the charge of an official from headquarters at Ottaw'a. This party makes use of two seaplanes. A doctor and a paying officer are al* ways included in these parties.This treaty trip extends over 4000 miles. In addition to making the payments there are questions regarding education, relief, and so on, to be investigated, and numerous difficulties to bo adjusted among the Indians. The doctor, too, is kept busy vaccinating, inoculating, examining and treating patients.On the Treaty Nine trip 17,000 dollars is provided by the Government.Hereditary Hunting Grounds.Indian families, In most cases, are permanent residents, and their hunting grounds are recognised among themselves and handed down from one generation to another, whereas white trappers are frequently destructivewanderers.'Latterly there has been an alarming increase in the number of white trappers who are encroaching upon hunting grounds in the northern part of the various provinces formerly used by Indians only. White trappers are using poison extensively, and this illegal and vicious practice is becoming a serious menace to game conservation.
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Cromwell Argus
Cromwell, Otago, NZ
Mon, Sep 13, 1937
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