DCHP-3

Red Children

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†n.

the Indians of Canada considered as wards of the Crown.

Quotations

1814
Listen. Open your eyes to your Children, to your Red Children that are in the West.
1871
She wishes her Red Children, as well as her White people, to be happy and contented.
2n.

the Indians in Rupert's Land considered as wards of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Quotations

1896
Then the whole story would be repeated--how the Company had always looked after its red children and fed them when the fishery failed, how they brought them goods when others could not, and goods of a quality far superior to those of the opposition, which was not going to be in the country another year anyway.