Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1883-08-17

Ahiuhi tNN lNHiNNff ihN i"ifNN'
occupants, have become rearly eN
iinel. now "rrading their doom il
lhe sitting sun. Four hundre,
yeaFs ago, the remains Of their an
eient earlhwork, were soallere,
from Mexico all along lho Missis
sippi and Ohio valleys, thence 4
the LAKE regions north. The IN
dians Of ,o-day know nothing OF
their age, purpose oF cause Of con-
stuollon, outside Ola few vague
and conflicting superstilions, they
have no well-deined tradition with
reference 10 them.
The city Of 81, Louis stands to-
day on the city Of Indian mounds,
We are told that the great Cahokia
mammoth mound os the Missis.
sippi valley could be seen forty
years ago, before the Decorating
hand Of the white man despoiled
this magnificent Indian temple, II
rose in height 80 feet; in shape il
was at the base parallelogram,
the sides at the base measuring
700x5O0 fcot. On the southwest
there was a terrace l60xSOO feet,
the top being level and constitut-
ing a platform 200 feet wide by $50
long, upon which could oongregate
thousands and thousands Of peo-
pie, at an elevation Of nearly 100
feet above the surrounding eoun-
try. The freedom ofexpansion has
worked results which is to the
Saxon Of incalculable value; to the
Iadian it is of incalculable cost.
Every five years advance Of the
white man takes in a territory as
large as some Of the kingdoms of
Europe. You are richer by hun
dreds of millions, the Indian is
poorer by large part Of the little
that he has. This growth is bring
ing imperial greatness to the
United States, to the Indian it
brings wretchedness, destitution
and beggary. Surely there are OBJ
legations found in considerations
like these, requiring the Saxon in
some way, and the best way, to
make good to these original owners
of the soil, the loss by which
they so greatly gain, Can any prin-
ciple of national morality be clear
L
er than that when the expansion
and development ofa civilized race
involves the rapid destruction of
the only means Of subsistence pos
sessed by the members of a less
fortunate race, the higheris bound, |
as a simple right, to provide for
the lower some substitute for the
means Of subsistence which it has
destroyed. You have found on the
shores Of Lake Superior copper ore
in manufactured condition, yes, in
all parts of Ohio and Mississippi
valleys, and in Mexico, Central
and South America; and in the re-
turn gulf shells and volcanic obsi-
deau and other Southern products
nave been found all along these
valleys and channels Of commerce
o the Great Lakes of the North,
.hus binding together by CONNER
'ial laws, ifnot by government, a
prosperous and widely extended
people. AS we sit and view the
citing sun, we say that no means,
,ast or prospective, has ever pro-
'osed more than temporary relief,
Where are the Algonquins? they
we're once spreadoyer all the north
rn part Of the Rocky Mountains
nd south of the st. Lawrence.
heir language was heard from the
Say of Gaspe to the valley Of the
)es Moines; from Cape Fear to the
and Of the Esquimaux; from the
river of Kentucky to
he Western banks of the Missis-
ippi. They are no more. Tbs |
istorical sketch demonstrates be-
ond question the main springs of 7
herokee civilization were, first,
le circumscribing Of their terri &
,rial domain; second, localization; I
lird, necessity of agriculture, and
astorial pursuits, instead of the
lase, as means of subsistence;
'urth, the introduction of ideas of .
roperty in things Of sale and bar j
r; fifth, from the savage to a civ : :.
lied life. Let it be remembered =
lat the history of the civilization !, !
each of the other tribes now 4,
est Of 81 deg. west longitude, in !,
! its leading features are the !
me.
We clip the following from a Ft.
NTH exchange. Arnold will be :;
membered as the man who fig Il
ed so conspicuously in Vinita N
II long ago: S
! .,41..~ = A.,.o11 NJ. 49, =. fl