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      Modern influences have taken away much of the romance, picturesque appearance and exotic atmosphere from Indian camps, as seen on the reserves and more easily accessible areas of the wilderness. The exploitation and subsequent degeneration of some bands has sapped their racial pride, so that destitute and hopeless they no longer have the ambition to keep up the old traditions and methods, so that the home life is slipshod and wretched, and national integrity is falling into decay. Attempts at living in a poor imitation of the white man's way without the means and training have not resulted in gaining for the Indian a reputation for cleanliness. Only those of them having a long experience and good opportunities have succeeded in conforming themselves to the limitations of a wooden house, as the ill-kept, not always clean establishments of the more or less mendicant Indians near the railroad plainly indicate. Yet in the cramped quarters of a tent or a teepee they are able to conduct their household affairs with cleanliness and system, where a whole family used to living in a house would speedily become involved in hope less confusion. Many of the shack-living type of Indians have lost the art of camping as an all-year-round method of living, and the traveler has to journey far beyond the regular line of bush travel to find a band of Indians living a in a primitive but highly efficient manner that has been evolved by centuries of adaptation and elimination.
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