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CHEROKEE PHOENIX AND INDIANS' ADVOCATE
Wednesday April 8, 1829
Volume 2 No. 4
Page 2 Col. 2b

We hear with satisfaction, that great good is doing among the Indians in the Upper Province.  It was stated in the public meeting lately held in York, that upwards of a thousand from those red men have renounced their former habits of intemperance, and are wishing to be instructed in the cultivation of the soil and i the useful arts of life.- Montreal Herald.



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