Andrew McDermott knew all the Indians as they drew near with curiosity, to see the settlers and to speculate upon the object of their coming.

The Indian despises the man who uses the hoe, and when the Colonists sought thus to gain a sustenance from the fertile soil of the field, they were laughed at by the Indians who caught the French word "Jardiniers," or gardeners, and applied it to them.
The Colonists were certainly a puzzle to the Red man.

To the banks of the Red River and to the east of Lake Winnipeg had come many of the Chippewas.

They were known on the Red River as Sauteurs, or Saulteaux, or Bungays, because they had come to the West from Sault Ste.

Marie, thinking nothing of the hundreds of miles of travel along the streams.
They were sometimes considered to be the gypsies of the Red men.