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I blame Marc Barnes from BadCatholic for telling me about it. 
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Sitting Bull liked the French Canadians and learned to speak French, as the article states.
Fact is, after the French Indian War, as the Native Americans began to be driven off their land by English settlers, the Iroquois realized they had erred helping the British defeat the French. The saw how well the French treated the Heron Indians and how the French didn’t place themselves above Native Americans, but instead, lived among them and even learned their culture, something the British saw as savage.
In the book, “Saint Among Savages; The Life of St. Isaac Jogues” by Francis Talbot, he describes how the French helped educate the Native Americans and sought to learn about them, rather than force them to give up their culture. In fact, the French exchanged orphans with the Native Americans, in order that French children would be raised in Native American culture and learn their language, and at the same time, orphaned Native American Children were raised in French Quebec, learning how to read and write. As the children grew, they exchanged their knowledge with their fellow tribe and countrymen.
Bottom line is, the Native Americans would’ve been better served had the British lost the French Indian War.
Jim
Fact is, after the French Indian War, as the Native Americans began to be driven off their land by English settlers, the Iroquois realized they had erred helping the British defeat the French. The saw how well the French treated the Heron Indians and how the French didn’t place themselves above Native Americans, but instead, lived among them and even learned their culture, something the British saw as savage.
In the book, “Saint Among Savages; The Life of St. Isaac Jogues” by Francis Talbot, he describes how the French helped educate the Native Americans and sought to learn about them, rather than force them to give up their culture. In fact, the French exchanged orphans with the Native Americans, in order that French children would be raised in Native American culture and learn their language, and at the same time, orphaned Native American Children were raised in French Quebec, learning how to read and write. As the children grew, they exchanged their knowledge with their fellow tribe and countrymen.
Bottom line is, the Native Americans would’ve been better served had the British lost the French Indian War.
Jim
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