Show TRADE IN WHITE SLAVES Report of Awful Conditions Among British Columbia Indians Vancouver B CThe following Is an extract from a report made to tho government regarding the slave trade among tho British Columbia Indians tho report being signed by C J South superintendent of tho Chil drens Aid society At Capo Mudgo there is a family of halfbrcods both men and girls showing very little of tho Indian In them and tho elder brother being very ambitious and as unprincipled as be is ambitious gave a potlach spending spend-ing some thousands of dollars and Its it-s reported to me that the principal portion of his money has been made by tho sale of girls and from this source ho has become powerful and richGirls Girls with white skins thick brown hair braided down their backs big Innocent childish eyes aro being sold today and have been sold for years in British Columbia to tho highest blddern Tho slave masters aro tho Capo Mudgo Indians Tho slaves are white because their grandmothers grand-mothers were sold before to whlto men and when their grandmothers wandered back to the tribe deserted and abandoned they brought baby girls with them and In course of tlmo tho male relatives of theso abandoned creatures sold these baby girls too when they grew up to young girlhood girl-hood |