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THE CANADIAN JOURNAL 



NEW SERIES. 



No. XXII.— JTLY, 1859. 



OP SOME OF THE SUPEESTITIONS AND CUSTOMS COM- 

 MON AMONa THE INDIANS IN THE VALLEY OF THE 

 ASSINIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN. 



BY HENET T. HIND, M.A. 



PBOFEBSOE OF CHEMISTET AND GEOIOGT, TEINITY COllEGE, TOEONTO. 



Head at the Fresidenfs Conversazione, of tJie Canadian Institute, 27t7i 



April, 1859. 



One result of the active pursuit of the fur trade for upwards of a 

 century in the valley of the Saskatchewan, is seen in the blending of 

 different tribes by intermarriage. The Crees of the Plains and the 

 Ojibways and Swampys of the Woods, although speaking different 

 languages, are often found hunting the buffalo in company and not 

 unfrequently form family connections. The Ojibways of Lake Win- 

 nipeg may now be discovered, summer and winter, near the Orand 

 Forks of the Saskatchewan, having emigrated four hundred miles west 

 of Red River, where they have permanently established themselves. 

 All the Ojibways now found west of the Lake of the Woods are 

 invaders of the country. The real home of the Ojibway is the region 

 about the south and west of Lake Superior. Their habits of life have 

 changed with the character of the country the emigrants or invaders 



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