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of used to be, and is yet in a minor degree, taken as the 

 dreamer's totem. The medicine-man has gone, but has 

 left the old superstitions and the pronounced fatalism, 

 which the missionaries have not succeeded in destroying. 



They conform to the ceremonies of religion, but little 

 of true Christianity has been developed. It has been a 



THE BELLE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY 



change of method rather than of heart. Formerly female 

 babies were killed on birth ; now they live to become 

 beasts of burden. Parents used to be strangled when 

 they grew too old to seek a living ; now they are left to 

 slowly starve to death. In days gone by men openly ex- 

 changed wives for a shorter or longer period ; now the 



