Winter Brothers
“My occupation is pretty regular every day, he reports on the sixth of February of 1865. As soon as I get up, which is from half past 6 to 7, the Indians begin to come for medical treatment. Some who want prescriptions only I serve before breakfast but others who have sores to be dressed have to wait till I have done eating. Then it is dressing scrofulous sores, syringing out sore ears, bathing sore eyes and bandaging up wounds. Then round to visit patients. By this time it is eleven oclock & I ...then sit down to write, or if any children come in, try to teach them. And with the exception of a walk to Jones or Jordans, keep in the house all the time so as to be ready either as teacher or physician.
Of these eithers, the Makahs plainly preferred Swan as physician, and logical choice it was. Mending an ill was welcome enough; changing the tongues of the tribe’s children was not. For rickety and fumbling though it may have been, this new white men’s governance of Cape Flattery, with the plow and schoolhouse as its cutting machines, meant rip after rip through the Makah way of life.MoreLess
Of these eithers, the Makahs plainly preferred Swan as physician, and logical choice it was. Mending an ill was welcome enough; changing the tongues of the tribe’s children was not. For rickety and fumbling though it may have been, this new white men’s governance of Cape Flattery, with the plow and schoolhouse as its cutting machines, meant rip after rip through the Makah way of life.MoreLess
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