Among the Northwestern Indians particularly, the labor of supplying a family with food is excessive.

Day after day is spent by the hunter without success, and during this interval his family must subsist upon bark or roots, or perish.

Want and misery are around them and among them.

Many die every winter from actual starvation." The Indians will not live as Europeans live, and yet they can neither subsist without them, nor exactly after the fashion of their fathers.
This is demonstrated by a fact which I likewise give upon official authority.

Some Indians of a tribe on the banks of Lake Superior had killed a European; the American government interdicted all traffic with the tribe to which the guilty parties belonged, until they were delivered up to justice.