reported by getting sixty-six per cent. of their living by "root-digging, bunting, and fishing; tlie Squaxin banl, in Washington Territory, as earning seventy-five per eent., and the Chippewas of Lake Superior as carning fifty per cent. in the saine way. These facts also would seem to dispose of the ac port-the White River Utes, for instance, who are the Indian Bureau accusation that the Indian will not work.

There arc abont 55,000 who never visit an ageney, over whom the Government does not pretend to have either control or earc. These 55,000 "subsist by hunting, fishing, on roots, nuts, berries, etc., and by begging and stealing;" and this also scems to dispose of the accusation that the Indian wil not "work for a living." There remains a small portion, about 31,000, that are There is not among these three hundred bands of Indians one which has not snffered eruelly at the hands cither of the Government or of white settlers. The poorer, the more insig entirely subsisted by the Government

nificant, the more helpless the band, the more certain the cru- elty and outrage to which they have been subjceted. This is especially trne of the bands on thc Pacific slope. These Indians found themselvos of a sudden snrrounded by and caught up in helpless creatures caught up in a tidal wave. There was not time for the Government to make treaties; not eren time for com The tale of the wrongs, tlhe oppres- the great influx of gold-secking settlers, as on a shore are munities to make laws. sions, the murders of the Pacific-slope Indians in the last thirty years wonld be a volame by itself, and is too monstrous to be believed

It makes little difference, however, where one opens the record of the history of the Indians; cvery page and every year has its dark stain. The story of one tribe is the story of all, varied only by differences of time and place; bat neither time nor place makes any difference in the main facts. Colorado is as greedy and unjust in 1880 as was Georgia in 1830, and Ohio