Show TRADE IN WHITE SLAVES report of awful cond eions among british columbia indians vancouver 0 the following Is an extract from a report made to the government regarding the slave trade among the british columbia indians the report being signed y J nouh superintendent of the ahll dren s aid society at cape mudge there Is a family of half breeds both men and girls showing very little of the indian in them and the elder brother being very ambitious and as unprincipled as he Is ambitious gave a spend ing some thousands of dollars and it is reported to me that the principal portion of his money has been made by the sale of girls and from this source he has become powerful and rich girls with white skins thick brown hair braided down their backs big innocent childish ees are being sold today and have been sold tor years in british columbia to the highest bidders the slave masters are the cape mudge indians the slaves are white because their grand mothers were sold before to white men and when their grandmothers wandered back to the tribe deserted and abandoned they brought baby girls with them and in course of time the male relatives of these abandoned creatures sold these baby girls too when they grew up to young girl hood |