Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1889 — CANNIBALISM AMONG INDIANS. [ARTICLE]

CANNIBALISM AMONG INDIANS.

A Woman Kill* and Devours Her SisterStarvation in the Far North. A Winnipeg dispatch says: Archdeacon Reeves, who has labored in the far north for twenty years, is here and brings a terrible tale of suffering among the Indians. Archdeacon Reeves said: “Twomonths ago thirty died from starvation. Last winter a large number died, owing to privations and failure to procure game. There was .great scarcity of food. It wasnot so much the general lack of subsistence, but the rabbits were a complete failure. ” Reeves told of a case of cannibalism three months ago on the Peace river, the only one he heard of, where one woman killed another. He had seen the woman at Fort Vermilion. She had killed her sister in order to procure enough meatto keep herself alive. Sometimes the fish in the waters failed, and intense suffering resulted.