ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT LVII 
grounded recognition of the principles of justice and right on 
the part of both peoples; it becomes equally clear that the 
weaker people have suffered the more from the contact simply 
because they are the weaker, and it becomes still more clearly 
evident that the recognition of the rights of the aboriginal 
land-holders has grown stronger and firmer with the passing of 
generations from the first settlement to the present, that the 
Sympathy for the weaker race has increased with mutual 
understanding, and that the justice shown the red man is more 
richly tempered with mercy today than during any earlier 
decade. 
While the primary purpose of the research maturing in this 
memoir was strictly ethnologic, and while it was carried for- 
ward with the chief object of elucidating aboriginal character- 
istics, it is thought that the memoir will be practically useful 
to historians, students of civilized institutions, and other classes 
of citizens, including especially those makers and interpreters 
of our laws more directly concerned with proprietary rights 
and tenures. 
18 ETH——Vy 
