THE UNTUTORED INDIAN
SUPERSTITION AND DEATH VANCOUVER, Oct. 26. A strange story of Indian superstition comes from Northern Ontario, where 28 Crop. Indians are said to have perished at the hands of their god, Wondigo. White trappers received the details from the sole survivor, picked up by a ship, who reported that his fellow-tribesmen invaded new country. 500 miles north of Moonsonce, to establish new trap lines for the winter. There they incurred Hie animosity of Wondigo. Traps were barren, meat ran out and they suffered persecutions of a spirit nature, until they were forced slowly northward by their superstitution until, one by one, they perished.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 10
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106THE UNTUTORED INDIAN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 10
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