Native Races of the British Empire

THE NATIVE RACES OF
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA

BY

W. D. HAMBLY, F.R.A.I., B.Sc.
(RESEARCH DEGREE, OXON.)

OXFORD DIPLOMA IN ANTHROPOLOGY
ASSISTANT ANATOMIST IN THE WELLCOME RESEARCH EXPEDITION
TO THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN, 1913-14

HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW
TORONTO, MELBOURNE, CAPE TOWN, BOMBAY
1920

During recent years there has been a very happy tendency to change thenature of geographical teaching from a monotonous memorising of thenames of natural features to a subject of living interest.

In the endeavour to effect this change there has been a seriousomission in our failure to appeal to natural interests of children bymaking the human element a central feature of geographical work.

A study of the picturesque lives of native races of the BritishEmpire is an absolute essential if the teacher wishes to impart theappropriate colour and setting to a subsequent course of economic,regional, and political geography.

The sharp contrast between European beliefs and customs and those ofprimitive people is in itself an incentive to study and interest.In addition to this, a sympathetic understanding of the many nativeraces who are controlled by English statesmanship is necessary for thematerial and moral progress of dominions in the British Empire.

W. D. HAMBLY.