Canadiana, Volume 1William White Gazette Print Company, 1889 |
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Page 26 - The poor devils were crying and imploring me to save their lives, as I was the only white man they saw. After getting an interpreter, they promised the lives of the prisoners should be saved, and would only frighten them a good deal to prevent their coming again. I made a solemn vow, if a prisoner was killed, never to go out with an Indian again.
Page 23 - ... after they kill people of our colour, leave them without hacking them to pieces, we will follow their example. They have themselves to blame. The way they treat our killed, and the remains of those that are in their graves in the west, makes our people mad when they meet the Big Knives. Whenever they get any of our people into their hands they cut them like meat into small pieces. We thought white people were Christians. They ought to show us a better example. We do not disturb their dead. What...
Page 23 - Brother, last year at Chicago and St. Joseph's the Big Knives destroyed all our corn. This was fair, but, brother, they did not allow the dead to rest. They dug up their graves, and the bones of our ancestors were thrown away and we could never find them to return them to the ground. Brother, I have listened with a good deal of attention to the wish of our father. If the Big Knives, after they kill people of our colour, leave them without hacking them to pieces, we will follow their example.
Page 24 - Humanity behind them, besides scalping and mutilating the Indians who were killed in Action, they have opened the Peaceful Graves in different parts of the Country, Exposed the Bones of the consumed & consuming Bodies, and horrid to relate have with unparalleled barbarity driven stakes through them and left them objects calling for more than human...
Page 19 - were crying and imploring me to save their lives, as I was the only white man they saw." He says that the Indians, after getting an interpreter, promised him that "the lives of the prisoners should be spared— would' only frighten them a great deal, to prevent them coming again. I made a solemn vow," he continues, " if a prisoner was killed, never to go out with an Indian again.
Page 11 - deep water," and was so called by the Northern Indians who here first encountered the profound depths of the Saguenay. There is fine fishing about the falls and the adjacent rapids (permission must be obtained, and is often granted in courtesy to strangers). The ancient Jesuit chapel and the Hudson's Bay Company's post were situated near the confluence of the two rivers, and within the chapel (which remained...
Page 27 - Eldridge, the officer who forfeited his life by firing at an Indian while a prisoner.
Page 23 - Rapids (Grand Rapids, Michigan) last spring we fought the Big Knives and we lost some of our people there. When we retired the Big Knives got some of our dead. They were not satisfied with having killed them, but cut them into small pieces. This made us very angry. My words to my people were: 'As long as the powder burnt [the fighting continued], to kill and scalp,' but those behind us came up and did mischief [by shooting the Indians after the surrender].