Adopt the Useful Ways of the White People
Document 1796Pickering advises the Indians to "adopt the useful ways of the white people." He admits that it will not be easy for them to abandon their hunting culture but warns that game is becoming scarce. To quote from the letter: "Brothers, I have often shown you what good things the white people enjoy, and explained how you might enjoy them. You have answered, that what I told you is very good, and that you were willing to adopt the useful ways of the white people, by degrees, but that you could not lay aside your own customs all at once. This was a wise answer. It will be necessary for you to continue your hunting while the game is so plenty... But you already know that the game is becoming scarce."
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