Not Such a Savage Idea.— A Choctaw Indian chief recently stated to a writer in an American journal that at their start for a civilised life they made a great mistake j —they only sent boys to school. Their hoyßcame home intelligent men, but they married uneducated and uncivilised wives; j and the uniform result was, the children were all like their mothers. The father I soon lost all his interest both in wife and children. "And now," said he, "if we oould educ.'ifr but one class of our children we would rlioose the girls ; for when tiny become mothers they educate their eons."
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3191, 5 May 1871, Page 2
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