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the buffalo for food and clothing corn to eat with dried met Bows Arrows Knives and hoes all the implements we need for killing meat or for cultivating the ground  Now go back to the country from where you came we do not want your presents, and we do not want you to come into our country and now you find that the old chief was right The Indians was supplied with all they needed what the white man offered then was unnecessary  often it was harmfull  our forefathers was happy and contented We were doing very well in our on way But the old times is gone, and today we are few in number and we are growing [[underlined]]fewer[[/underlined]]. Their are many arguments to prove the contrary.  Three facts however are perfectly pain  first their are whole tribes who has dissipeired the Beothuks & Natchez are but too tribes which are gone  Such tribes may be numbered by scores  Their names are on record Their old locations are known  we have knowledge of their customs and ways but they are [[underlined]]dead[[/underlinedd]]. Second many tribes are rapidly dwindling. Dawson says one entilligent man told him that he could remember the time and he was not more then 30 [[underlined]]year[[/underlinedd]] ago when their was not room to launch [[underlined]]all[[/underlined]] the canoes of Queen Charlotte Island in a row the whole length of the beach when the Indians set out on their periodical trading exposition to Port Simpson Their are today less then 200 people in that Village Skidgate