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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: and traps. Among the Northwestern Indians particularly, the labor
of supplying a family with food is excessive. Day after day is
spent by the hunter without success, and during this interval his
family must subsist upon bark or roots, or perish. Want and
misery are around them and among them. Many die every winter
from actual starvation."
The Indians will not live as Europeans live, and yet they
can neither subsist without them, nor exactly after the fashion
of their fathers. This is demonstrated by a fact which I
likewise give upon official authority. Some Indians of a tribe on
the banks of Lake Superior had killed a European; the American
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