Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22
The Indian Nation.


Al indian with sioUci.e,i hat and Il
suit OF butternut got aboard the train
al htnka. lie had clear eye and fine,
open lace, as smooth as girls. although
he told me he was 81 years old. When
L asked him what he did for living, he
answered IN as good English as you will
hesr in Boston
" l farm it, sir, with little stock"
noW many acres?'
twenty-five or thirty"
Why don't you have more?"
Don't want il. can have as far as
l. can see over tho prairie, ten miles
square, but | don't want it. have all
can eat and drink and wear. What do
want more for?"
Yhe man WAS fat and sleek, and with
q 9it.ie soap would have been hand
sumo. He certainly seemed happy.
do you want the white man to
come into tho nation 2" continued.
Oh! We don't care, if they pay us
for tie privilege"
How much do they have to pay -
y mechanic or renter pays SIT a
year. a laborer or farm hand pays So.
Ii they marry squaw, they can stav
Tor nothing, and own all tue land they
can sae."
But the Indians can give no title
No-no legal title that would stand
in the white courts. But the Ii dia ns
give the land away, and no one dis.
turbs the owner"
"Iou sometimes rent land to
whites 2"
Yes. 4 white man can pay SIT and
come and reAt "a million acres of the In
dians. if he wants to-"
will it always be so?"
Certainly. The Indians own the
country. We will always own it. Ii
there IL anything to be made out of it.
we VIII make it. We will never con-
sent 10 have the Government sell our
lands 10 The whites. We cannot sell il
ourselves, but wo can always rent it,
and live Oh the rent and let the white
folks do the work."
Above Mc.Alister, in the Indian Ma.
ton, saw big prairie which they call
Heams bottom. Mr.. Keam hes ranch
OF perhaps LOCO acres. lie has good
stock, lives Ill log house, and is rails
ing family of half breeds.
How came Mr.. Keam here, and now
did lie get sucn Il large farm ?' asked
Ream is q citizen, SIR they said.
He IS Winnie Rsam's brother-Vinnie
Eeam, the sculpiress, who married
Lieuiena4: uoxie. Ream married q
squaw-Choctaw equaw. He has all
the rights of'En lnGIan now. He car
Own al! III" lini he wants"
saw ihe sluaw wife of Mr.. Ream al
the station. 1 couid hardly tell hel
from Il pune white woman. She wore q
poke bonnet with flowers in it, and 9
stylish Mister. She talked and laughed
and jOked with the white people. and
wGs AZ sharp at repartee as the besuti
full flirting Kentucky girls are. There
ere msEy educated squaws among the
Gheroxaos, Crseks aud Choctaws. lk.
Mrs. II -am; and they are being picked
up by tho whites every day.
A. Atoka Mr.. Phillips is running d
big store. Many picturesqu dressed
Indians were sitting on their ponies
around it. They did not have any
scalping knives; but they all wore
slouch hats, with big RED and yellow
feathers in them. AS Mr.. Phillips is 8
white man, / asked him how he got his
right to open II store. Is he a citizen ?
No. Phillips isn't Il citizen, but
his brother is. His brother married 6
squaw, ana Phillips does business in
the name of his brother. His brother
protects him and claims ownership"
SO you see, one white man can marry
a squaw, making him "a citizen. and
then protect = whole drove of brothers
and sisters who wish TO do business in
tho nation Muscogeo (Indian Nation
Cor Chicago Tribune.