March 16. On this date in 1969, the NSA of Canada wrote a Foreword to it publication of 'Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum's "Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'í of the Western Hemisphere."

March 16. On this date in 1969, the NSA of Canada wrote a Foreword to it publication of 'Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum's "Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'í of the Western Hemisphere."

FOREWORD
The writer of this letter, 'Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum has served the Faith of Baha'u'lllah with great distinction for many years. She was born of a distinguished Canadian Baha'i family and raised in Montreal. In 1937 she had the great honour of being chosen as his wife by Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith. In more recent years, Ruhiyyih Khanum has served with the rank of a Hand of the Cause, and in the course of her world-wide travels has visited various tribes of Indian people throughout the Western Hemisphere. In Canada, one tribe, the Blackfoot, conferred upon her the name of "Blessed Mother".
In the letter printed here, Ruhiyyih Khanum speaks of the assurance given in the Baha'i Writings that the future of the Indian Eskimo people is very great. She explains that the Indian and Eskimo believers can themselves best help to fulfill these promises by taking the Faith of Baha'u'llah to their own people.
It is with a great sense of happiness and privilege that Canada's National Spiritual Assembly is able to reproduce for wider distribution this inspiring letter which Ruhiyyih Khanum has written to those whom she regards as her "especially loved Brothers and Sisters".
National Spiritual Assembly
of the Baha'is of Canada
Haifa
March 16, 1969