Among the People of British Columbia: Red, White, Yellow, and Brown |
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Agnes Ah Shune allee asked aunt band basket Bishop boat boys brass instrument British Columbia brought called camp canneries canoe CANOE RACES Chilliwack Chinamen Chinese church clothing colour cook coom crowd dance dark dressed Esquimalt eyes face father feet fire fish Fraser Fraser River girls hair half-breed hands head horses hundred Hyacks Indians ladies laughed logs looked miles Mina Mission morning mother Mount Baker muchee never o'clock oars paddled papoose passed Passion Play Phil piecee plenty poor pretty priest returned river round salmon scow seated Sechelts seemed shouted side Sisters Sockeye Sockeye salmon soon Squamish square squaw standing Stanley Park steamboat Steveston stood street talked talkee tell tent took trees tribe uncle Vancouver Victoria waggons wait walk Westminster whilst woman young
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Page 142 - They would remember the wrongs received at their hands ; the young women who had been taken from their tribes, and supposed they were the proud possessors of white husbands, only to find themselves ruthlessly put aside when occasion or fancy dictated the dastardly action, and sent back to their tribes with perhaps a large family of half-breed children for that tribe to bring up and care for in their own haphazard...
Page 42 - All the children had a British name as well as Chinese, and — strange for a Chinaman — Sing seemed as proud of his two little girls as of his boys.
Page 2 - I often used to wonder why I was not born a boy, and whose fault it was.
Page 188 - Lord, were strangely alike in face and figure ; less sturdy than their companions, but with a plaintive, loving sweetness so well suited to the character they represented.
Page 121 - He took them, and laying them in his hand turned them over and looked at them. Then he threw them as far as he could from him into the deep water.