The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-19
The White Indians.
IMiIwaukee sentinel.l

An intelligent Indian recently, in re-
 porting the marriage of an Indian octo-
 room to a white man, said: "If this pro
 cess goes on. we will soon have the
 whitest race of Indians you ever did see"
 The accomplished daug hter of the old
 missionary Dr. Robertson, married full
 blood Creek. Her sister has secured
 money at the east to establish seminary
 among the full bloods, and it has been a
 question where the seminar could be To-
 cated to meet the object ain ed at. Parties
 stepping from the train at Vinita, within the Cherokee Nation, the only railroad crossing in the indian Territory, con- monlv ask: "Where are the Indians P On being told that those they see about them are Indians, they reply: "No.
 They are not Indians. They are white men,
 By marrying an Indian maiden the white man secure; all the rights of Indian citizenship. The "head,ight" of the girl helps the matrimonial contract. To hunters for land, those looking for wide ranges for cattle or agriculture, the temp. tation is very strong to take this sh )rt cut to get an extent of soil they could never hope to secure in any other way.
 The encouragement given to the whites on the part of the marriageable Indian females is quite observable. They think that by marrying white men they gain socially and have prospect of an easier and better cared for life. And they think rightly. In all depr' ssed civilizations women have hard time of it. The In. dian men do not like this constant raid ing through their land and capturing the most attractive of their race, whom they would woo and wed, but they cannot help themselves, and retaliate by stealing the affections of white girls and marrying them. White girls entering an Indian reservation are very soon picked up; not so often by full blooded Indians, but after the process of intermsrriage has com menced, not so seldom by half breeds, quadroons and oc,oroons.
 White persons who marry into Indian blood almost invariably remain on Indian soil. The white man, in defense of ln- dian ideas of communal interests and In- dian questions as related to the whites, becomes more intensely Indian tn n the Indians themselves. think the fercest defenders of the tribal system are white men who. by marriage, have become In- dian ciiiz:ns and are making money out of it. The large crops on Indian lands are invariably raised by white men. Four. hfths of the mechanics are white men. brothers-in-law to the Indians. So on both sides the process of dilution of h. dian blood goes on until it becomes very thin. while Indian habits and Indian characteristics still remain.
 The common notion among Indians is that Indian blood never runs out, and that, wherever the slightest trace of it can be found, there the fullest rights of land and privilege follow. For man who has one.sixteenth or one .thirty-sec. ond part of Indian blood the claim for his right as an Indian is asserted as strongly as for the full blood. A white man has married an Indian girl, a light blonde, of fone-,hirty-second Indian blood. | His children will be one-sixty fourth In. dian. The family consists ot five mem bers. On account of that one.thiry. second Indian blood that family of five, located on the border of the Indian land, is entitled, by equal division of the tribal land, to five times oo5 acres, or 4 o7s nrYAe >'