Identifier: webofempirediary00wall (find matches)
Title: The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, ill Martino, Eduardo de, d. 1912
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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68. [Chief Joe Samson, Cree, Hobbema, Alberta.] THE HEAD-CHIEF OF THE CREE INDIANS (Joseph Samson by name) ADDRESSING HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. The speeches of White Pup, Running Rabbit, Iron Shield, all the Blackfeet Tribe, Crop-ear Wolf of the Bloods, Running Wolf of the Piegans, Bull's Head of the Sarcees, and Jacob Bear's Paw of the Stonies, are all shorter, and confined to wo welcome and the •on of a hope that they may have plenty of land food. Referring to the latter subject, the spealnally adopt a half-querulous tone, and Iunder ordinary circumstances the ailgrie: the most prominent subject of pow- The officials say that there is nothingIndian enjoys so much as speaking by the hour grievances, real or imaginary ; and it is not surprising that he should be a laudator temporis acti Tn the* mm aHT no mmo-tO-hs 4FOIH J A J theiut a quarter of ad the terms offered us by they f Canada, and surrendered our lands by treaty to Her late Majesty Queen Vterms have been fairly obc Canadian Government h the Re a rea^ and But withsarily And rations in limited ; orge h tent nove fc /ards ? Evt SOD
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xi CANADA : WESTWARD JOURNEY 393 though he knows that he will have to starve for the next six days. As to the practical result of the benevolent efforts of the Government the most competent authorities are not agreed. Some declare that the Indians of the reserves are rapidly accommodating themselves to the conditions of civilised life, and there is no doubt that individual cases can be cited in support of this view. On the other hand, some well-informed people shake their heads ominously and remark : The Red Man is gradually disappearing ; it is only a question of time. The Chiefs, after shaking hands once or twice with their Royal Highnesses, go back to their places, and the Duke makes an appropriate speech, which is translated, sentence by sentence, by an interpreter, and repeated by a native orator with sonorous voice and rhetorical gestures. A musical accompaniment to the oratory is supplied by the tinkling sleigh-bells on the horse-trappings of the mounted braves, who advance inline from the

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