English is from Chinese. Factual Indian language is a study of limited scientific linguistic, ethnographic, and archaeologist groups, strictly academical and theoretical in character. In practical daily life nobody bothered to study or learn anything about Indians in general, and the language in particular. Once the Indians came in contact with the new profiteers, in one way or the other, be they French, English, Portuguese or Spanish, he slowly adapted to the newcomer’ s way of life. Everybody taught them how and what to say, or to say it for them. Today Government representatives specialized in Indian affairs speak on their behalf as to how the committees understand their needs. We have mentioned the variety of their language; this alone shows us how rich and different their life was.
To refresh our memory— Canada, Ottawa, Saskatchewan and Ontario are from various Indian linguistic stock. Physiology of language is more than a convenient way of communication, it is logic of thinking, and their logic corresponded to the logic of facts. Since discovery of North America, Indian culture and civilization, we ignore their facts and overlook their logic.
ABORIGINES OF AMERICA
The aborigines of the American continent were thought to be from the islands of the Indies of eastern Asia. This acceptance of landmark and the name, Indians or Red Men, goes back to the days of Columbus( 1492). Location and description of the people has been re-evaluated.
Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and controversial venturer from whom the Americas were named, and Cabot“ discovered”, some years later, that the natives of the land now known as Newfoundland were not red because of blood line, but because they painted their bodies with okra. The popular is often kindled and thus accepted. Before 1492, the so-called pre-Columbus period, an estimate of the total aborigine population in the U. S. A. was 800,000(“ Encyclopaedia Americana and Canadiana”). The total population of North America and Canada is much more than in 1492, 200,000,000, and it is rapidly growing. At the same time the Indian population in the U. S. A. declined from 800,000 to 240,000 in 1900, but rose slightly to 400,000 in the sixties.
In Canada the total white population rose from zero in 1492 to over 20,000,000 in the late sixties, while native aborigines declined from 220,000 to 135,000, or close to this figure, in the same period. In the overall continent of South and North America around 1960, it was estimated that there was about 30,000,000 Indians of both pure and mixed origin.
Biologically the original Americans were close to the Asiatic groups, as they most resemble the Mongolians of Asia. There is no indication or evidence of sub-human nature, or type of being, as far as archaeological research can reveal today from skeleton finds. We bear the name of Homo Sapiens only, no matter how old the remains, and resemble predominantly Mongolian type or very similar to the Indians of today. We, with our many different approaches to the natives of the American continent, considered these people as savages who needed to be educated. All invaders must teach them their way of life, language, habits, social conception, medicine, art, religion, food, etc.
In the days of long ago a few higher-class Europeans actually abandoned their civilized life after being involved with the Indian way of life and had no desire to return. Adventurous persons such as agents, scouts, missionaries or go-betweens are among the few that ever thought of conforming to their way of life. There always was, and is now, prejudice against the Indians of North America. They are still under protection and they are still outsiders.
Edward S. Curtis, the writer of“ Thirty Years of Friendly Understanding”, said when asked,“ What