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Early Detroit
He urged very strenuously upon the Colonial Minister the establishment of a seminary for the education of the Indian children with those of the French. He also proposed the organization of military companies among the Indians, to be equipped and disciplined like French soldiers, allowing them, however, a much larger liberty than belonged to the latter. He sought to encourage permanent settlement by the French, and the granting of land titles to them; but in this he was greatly thwarted by the Company of the Colony, who had the exclusive monopoly of the fur trade, and who were
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