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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perience in this kind ofthing than you have. Dont you think it wiser for youto add a little more silence to your possessions ? He was, as I have said, a royal-hearted fellow, andhe took my rebuke in a manly. Christian way, for afew moments reflection showed him that what I saidwas wisdom. Now, while these wild and foolish suggestions werebeing made to the Indian, what did he do ? It wasmost interesting to me to watch him. Instead ofreplying and arguing with a lot of vehement words,he smiled quietly, looked at me to see if I approved ofthe suggestion, and when he saw my absolutely impas-sive face, went on following his own course. Had hebeen a white man — or like most white men — hewould have shouted back that he was going someother way, or called his adviser a fool, or informed him, 219 THE INDIAN AND MENTAL POISE that he know his business, or some other equallyagreeable thini)j. This serenity of mind in the Indian is often calledimpassiveness or stolidity. It shows how little the
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IN THE iJOATS, I\ THE KAIN, OX OUU WAV TO THE SALTUN iSEA. critics have known of the Indian to speak thus. Theyare as sensitive as children, morbidly so sometimes,but they have the self-control not to show it, and inmatters like this, where they are sure their knowledge 220 THE INDIAN AND MENTAL POISE is superior to that of their adviser, they go on with aproud disregard of criticism or censure. This calmness was also shown in the face of danger.Several times we came to places where there was bothdifficulty and danger. We had three boats. In thefirst were Jim (the Indian) and myself, seeking outthe way; in the second, Indian Joe and Mr. LouisFrancis Brown (business manager of the BurtonHolmes lectures); and in the third his reverence andtwo others. When we came to the thrilling places,Jim soon learned that he was to take the responsi-bility, save where there was time and opportunity todiscuss matters with me, and with a dignified self-reliance he made his choice, and then awaited re-s

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