Excerpt from The Micmac Tercentenary French Canada assumed from the outset that the gag be tween the Indian and the Frenchman was the chasm betweer a prinzitive and advanced culture which only the slow process of time could bridge - it seemed to recall the ages which had been necessary for the Frenchman himself to come up from a like aboriginal condition. At any rate what the Catholic pioneers of New France saw in the Indian and what their successors still sec is that the Indian has a soul to save. To bring him to adjust his natural religion to the more adequate conceptions of Catholicism was the purpose of the majestic and sublime sacrifices which so brilliantly illumine the pages of the old regime. Judicial mind can contemplate the results of Catholic and Protestant missionary endeavor among the American Indians and avoid the conclusion that the Catholic Indians have on the whole preserved their physical aboriginal type in greater perfection. Have kept much of their tribal culture. Possess a deeper religious conviction. Among the Protestant Indians there are many instances of individual attainment of noteworthy excellence in education, public useful ness and personal uprightness. But it is perfectly evident that the term Protestant as applied in some of the Indian tribes does not mean Christianized. So much as it implies an avowal and allegiance to a given form of religious worship, and in many cases. Little else. My own personal observation is restricted to neither class. And I believe there is good reason for saying that. Broadly. In matters of faith the Catholic Indian is a Catholic while the Protestant Indian is an Indian. It is an important fact in its historical beatings that the tribes which have been subjected to the most direct anAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.