relations.

From their infancy they are taught to be kind and attentive to aged
persons, and never let them suffer for want of necessaries and comforts.
The parents spare no pains to impress upon the minds of their children
the conviction that they would draw down upon themselves the anger of
the Great Spirit, were they to neglect those whom in his goodness he had
permitted to attain such an advanced age. It is a sacred principle among
the Indians, that the Great Spirit made it the duty of parents to
maintain and take care of their children until they should be able to
provide for themselves, and that, having while weak and helpless
received the benefits of maintenance, education, and protection, they
are bound to repay them by a similar care of those who are labouring
under the infirmities of old age. They do not confine themselves to acts
of absolute necessity; it is not enough that the old are not suffered to
starve with hunger or perish with cold, but they must be made as much as
possible to share in the pleasures and comforts of life.(_Heck. 152,
153_.) He goes on to remark that they are frequently carried to the
chase on a horse, or in a canoe, that their spirits may be revived by
the sight of a sport in which they can no longer participate. 153. "At
home the old are as well treated, and taken care of, as if they were
favourite children. They are cherished, and even caressed, indulged in
health, and nursed in sickness, and all their wishes and wants attended
to. Their company is sought by the young, to whom their conversation is
considered an honour. Their advice is asked on all occasions, their
words are listened to as oracles, and their occasional garrulity, nay
even the second childhood often attendant on extreme old age, is never
with the Indians a subject of ridicule or laughter."

Age is every where much respected, for, according to their ideas, long
life and wisdom are always connected together.

Young Indians endeavour by presents to gain instruction from the aged,
and to learn from them how to attain to old age. _Loskiel_, part I, p.
15

Age seemed to be an object of great veneration among these people, for
they carried an old woman by turns on their backs, who was quite blind
and infirm, from the very advanced period of her life. _Mackenzie_, 293.

(7) _God of War_.--p. 8.

The terms, Great Spirit and God of War, are synonimous with many of the
Indian tribes, but not with all. The Hurons call him