Identifier: secretsof00jameindiansrich (find matches)
Title: The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Foreign influences Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Radiant Life Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t service.This comes from two things, viz., a strong, healthybody which responds willingly to any ordinary demandsupon it, and a healthy state of mind which neitherresents service nor wishes to measure every expendi-ture of energy in a monetary balance. We aremaking a grand mistake in basing our present-daycivilization upon material wealth. What is therein it for me.? should be more than a query applyingto mere cash. What is there in it of service, of help-fulness to my fellow-man, of healthfulness to myself, ofincrease of my own strength and power. The menwho are relied upon by employers and by the nationare not the men who have selfishly sought their ownmonetary gain. There is no doubt that such seekersoften seem to gain and do really gain a temporaryadvantage; but it is not a real advantage. It is anadvantage of pocket gained at a loss of manhood,physical, mental, and spiritual, and that man who isnot worth more in body, mind, and soul than his pocketcan never be much of a man. 227
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CHAPTER XXIITHE INDIAN AND SELF-RESTRAINT T^EW of the superior white race would think of look--*■ ing to the Indian for examples of self-restraint, butI can give them here one of the most marked examplesin history. Before the advent of the white man inAmerica the various aboriginal tribes roamed over theplains, the mountains, the foothills, and in the forests,and with snare and trap, gin and bow and arrowcaught or slew the game needed for food. Thesetribes were often hostile to each other; they trespassedon each others hunting-grounds, and in consequence,often fought in deadly wars which came nigh to exter-minating some of them. They were not regardful,therefore, one would think, of the rights or needs ofothers than themselves to the game they hunted; andit is absurd (so the school-books would tell us) toassume that they would be provident or careful topreserve game for the future. Hence they wouldslay ruthlessly (the same authorities would doubtlessdeclare), indifferent as to the d

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