Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-11
Indian Relics.

Arrow Il, ads, made from flint rock,
stone hatchets, gsuges, iAHriSIs and
! pastles wrought from the hsrIes. s:oLcs,
these are among tie specimens cf rule
manufacture Of the IntlsLs vGo once
dwcit where we now live.
These curiosltiss are eagerly ,theycd
up by relic hunters and shQsA 10 s:ran-
gers with much pride, q. proof of tie
interest taken in the rude Lie Of the
early dwsl!ers on the sol! we low call
our own.
This subject opens mp an interesting
field Of study, running back through
the life of the red Indian tribes to the
mound builders, and through them to
u people to which the mound builders
were comparatively modern popula-
ton.
But there is another class OF Indian
relics TO which very little attention
seems to have bsen given, but which
touches our modern life at many points.
In early times, when white men first
took possession of this land, it not un.
frequently happened that low down
man strayed away from civilization and
took up his abode among the savages.
They adopted the Indian mode of life,
married an Indian squaw and raised
children. These half b. aeds in time
married with other low down whites,
and so inoculated the white race with a
virus that has been circulating in its
veins even down to this day.
In not few instances . cross was
effected in the other direction. 1t many
times happened that the bright face and
dark eyes of some pretty squaw, belong
ing to the family Of some friendly In
dians, won the heart Of q respectable
white man and he made her his wife.
Their children, again, made, not unfre-
quently, respectable marriages, and
thus the process of assimilation went
Ola from generation to generation. But
that Indian blood was there all the
same, floating down to one descendant
after another physical and mental
marks of the origisal savage.
Some of these marks would lie dor
mant for two or more generations-bur-
led or overwhelmed by the stronger
blood of the white race--and then sud-
denly show themselves in such persons
as were by nature best fitted to allow
their development.
This IS the class of Indian relics that
attracts the notice of the man who
studies the physical and mental traits
of the Americans of our day. Among
these. the most noticeable are certain
physical marks which were so charac'
teristic Of tho red man.
Men walk our streets to-day shown
us every time we look in their faces the
high cheek bones that upfaiiinS sign Of
the red Indian blood. Every body knows
who sees those prominent cheek RIGGS
that they could have but one origin.
They never came across the sea. so, TO,
the long jaw, the black eye, with its
quick sideways glance, as though look
ing out i0r an enemy in ambush; never
steady in its gaze, as though held to
one point by single minded brain.
The straight, black hair tells its own
story; wiry. stiff and slippery, it is
hair that will never be coaxed out of its
independent ways, nor made to yield to
any of the modern notifications sus.
gested by civilized culture.
How often, too, we SEQ q stealthy.
foxy step in some men as they walk
gait the exact connterPat! OF that OF the
ancient savage, who wandered through
these valleys in pursuit OF game, Or in
hunting ont the hiding place of Turk
ing enemy Green Mountain Free.
man.