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IN THE LAND OF THE GREAT SPIRIT 



Moving Up. 



In the vernacular of the settlers, it is " Manitoba," but 

 this is surely wrong. For it was named of the Indians 

 away down the ages, centuries perhaps before the 

 settler put foot in the land. To the Indian, with 

 his small ambitions, his little needs, it was a perfect 

 world. All that he could want lay there ready to his 

 hand. The birch-tree gave him bark for canoes and 

 drinking vessels, the pine-tree its roots for sewing- 

 thread and string. Everywhere were fish, deer, 

 buffalo, hare and grouse for food. From the moose 

 he got skin for clothes and moccasins, and the 

 sinew with which the squaws might sew them into 

 shape. 



It was too the land of mighty influences — the limit- 

 less prairie, the dark-hollowed forest, the lake to him 

 like an inland sea. On the waters of the Assiniboine 







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