As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.....
By evidence, I deem missionaries as great a disease as syphillis upon the Aboriginals of the world, as they offer pleasure and instead do nothing but feed of the Aboriginal body for their own survival.
In stating that, there is a bit of unknown history which should be revisited, as the subject of this is one James Evans. He was Reverend James Evans and a Protestant missionary who was with the Cree peoples. While I have no evidence that a great reformation took place due to Mr. Evans being there in Jesuit lands, there was something he did accomplish which was remarkable.
Reverend James Evans taught the Cree to read and write. Before you dismiss this as so much school marm stuff, what Mr. Evans did was create a Cree alphabet of characters numbering 36 in total, and he taught the entire race to read and write, as it was such a simple alphabet that a Cree could learn it in a day.
I desire to focus on this, because the Indians are Asians. The fact is the United States Indians all are Canadian Indians who migrated south. The Sioux were the last major transplants to America and the Chipewyan by the Great Slave Lake were the parents of the Apache of the American Southwest.
The Chipewyan also had their own script of 73 characters, and every man, woman and child as much as read and wrote as smoked.
Posts were stuck in the ground with writing on them to alert the Indians about portages, need for voyageurs and other employment. It was a simple form of communication absolutely effective.
All of this took place in 1840, when the reality is most people in Europe could not read or write, and a majority of Americans, including Indians could not read or write either.
Think of it in the English alphabet has 26 letters, and it requires years to master. The Asians in Chinese and Japanese have their character alphabet too, but it is complex and difficult. Yet Reverend James Evans was able to complete an alphabet which communicated everything that needed to be communicated, exactly like Indian sign language, and an individual could learn it in a day.
I know Indian sign, in being self taught. Except in communication with Boy Scouts there is not much use for it, but it is fun to break into rapid fire hand signals to perplex others. Yes it would be better to know how to dead sign, but I did not make a book on that, just Indian sign.
If anything should be taught in America for a language it should be the Crees Spider Script along with Indian sign, as there never was a Spanish Shakespeare or a Spanish Bach. The latin in America is not Spanish but instead an Asian cross which breeds like Asians. For that reason, there should be a revisit to this James Evans script as a fast communication, compared to the length which English requires children and adults to decipher.
That though is a reminder of a Christian who actually among the natives did more than sex little girls and treat the darker skins like their servants. James Evans literally did more than every modern missionary in uniting and advancing people by written language to expand their minds.
For that he deserves to be noted again and not forgotten.
agtG
