| Summary: | Labrador Indians cling to old laws. - Columbia anthropoligist finds white man's influence on native culture is slight. - 'Invasion' is resented. - Canadian government to support further research for their welfare and development. - "Despite the fact that the white man has influenced the native culture of Labrador to a certain extent, the old legal institutions and rules are still observed by the Indians of that part of the North American continent," Julius E. Lips, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, said in an interview upon his recent return from a scientific expedition, during which he investigated the very low primitive law of the Northeastern Algonquins. They form a part of that population which inhabits the whole peninsula of Labrador from the Eastern Atlantic coast to Hudson Bay.
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