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LEGENDS OF VANCOUVER

relative to the governing of the tribes, the
dispoul of reservation lands, the appropria-
tion of both the principal and interest of the
more than half a million dollars these tribes
hold in Government bonds at Ottawa, accum-
ulated from the sales of their lands. In short,
were every drop of blood in his royal veins
red, instead of blue, he could not be more fully
qualified as an Indian chief than he now_ is,
not even were his title one of the fifty heredi-
tary ones whose illustrious names composed
the Iroquois confederacy before the Paleface
ever set foot in America.

It was on the occasion of his first visit to
Canada in 1869, when he was little more than
a boy, that Prince Arthur received, upon his
arrival at Quebec, an address of welcome
from his Royal mother's “Indian Children”
on the Grand River Reserve, in Brant county,
Ontario. In addition to this welcome they
had a request to make of him: would he
accept the title of Chief and visit their
reserve to give them the opportunity of con-
ferring it?

One of the great secrets of England’s suc-
cess with savage races has been her consid-
eration, her respect, her almost reverence of
native customs, ceremonies and potentates.
She wishe her own customs and kings to be
honored, so she freely accords like honor to

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