"INDIAN SUMMER"
“So this is your Indian Summer,” commented an overseas tourist in the course of conversation one day last week.
“ Indian summer ?” I queried
“ Well, you probably have your name for it out here but this is how the term originated. In Canada there are big Indian settlements which operate entirely for tourist profit. The Indian inhabitants live in their weird tepees and their gay feathered costumes. Every year thousands of tourists visit these camps and buy native costumes and handiwork. But this rush is only for a limited period and when it slackens off it is usually approaching the winter months. Well, it is then the Indian inhabitants take their holidays and go to the cities in their latest model autos dressed just like you or I. In days gone by the Indian would do little work in summer months, but now their “ summer ” is advanced. So you could say that as your tourist trade is quietening down, that this would be your Indian Summer/’
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Lake County Mail, Issue 47, 28 April 1948, Page 6
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167"INDIAN SUMMER" Lake County Mail, Issue 47, 28 April 1948, Page 6
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