WAR THOUGHTS OF RED INDIANS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 141, 4 February 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

WAR THOUGHTS OF RED INDIANS.

MAN WHO WOULD STALK THE KAISER. The manner in which the North American Indian regards the European war is described by Archdeacon Henifcon, rector of the Church of the Ascension, Hamilton, Ontario, who has just returned from a two months visit to the Indians and Eskimos of Hudson and James Bays. "The attitude of the 3500 Indians we saw in regard to the war is rather remarkable,"' .says Dr. Renison. They do not like the'idea of bayonet charges. One old Indian told me that it they sent him after the Kaiser ho would get lis Winchester and would creep up to him in the night the same way he would go after a moose. " Another old Indian at Osnaburglu who heard that there was war, and that there was fighting at Yalcartier., took his Ivrch bark canoe and started off for the interior immediately!" Dr. Renison, who speaks the Creeand Ojibway languages fluently, held a council with the Indians. " I endeavoured to talk to them about 'Kiteheoogenow George' (King. George) and the great war." said Dr. Renison. "We found an intense feeling of patriotism among the Indians. "Thev deeply appreciate the fairness, good faith, and generosity which the Canadian Governments have always shown towards them. The worldwide economic depression has affected the fur market, and the Indians are,, of course, feeling the loss of that source of revenue.

•'As one chief pointed out ; n an eloquent speech, however, the Indian is much more blest than his poor whitebrother when money is scarce, for moose are running over the swamps of the north country in unprecedented numbers, and rabbits and fish areplentiful."