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Ochipewa, written also Ojibbeivay, or Chippeway * ; 

 and the more northerly division, who name them- 

 selves Nathe-wywithin-yu, are the Crees of the 

 traders, and Knistenaux of French writers. In 

 a subsequent chapter I shall speak more parti- 

 cularly of the place which this people hold among 

 the aboriginal nations. At present, I wish merely 

 to point out some of the circumstances which have 

 tended to work out a diiference in the moral cha- 

 racter of these two tribes, essentially the same 

 people in language and manners. The Crees have 

 now for more than twenty-six years been under 

 the undivided control and paternal government 

 of the Hudson's Bay Company, and are wholly 

 dependent on them for ammunition, European 

 clothing, and other things which have become 

 necessaries. No spirituous liquors are distributed 

 to them, and schoolmasters and missionaries are 

 encouraged and aided by the Company, to intro- 

 duce among them the elements of religion and 

 civilization. One village has been established near 

 the depot at Norway House, and another at the 

 Pas on the Saskatchewan, each having a church, 

 and school-house, and a considerable space of cul- 

 tivated ground. The conduct of the people is 

 quiet and inoffensive ; war is unknown in the Cree 



* They are the Smdeurs or Saulteaux of the Canadians, and 

 Sotoos of the fur traders. 



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