The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-10
THE wHITEINDIANS.
White Men Acquiring Indian Rights
by Marrying the Red Women.

White Men Acquiring inuiisn tAish
| by Marrying the Red Women
| Milwaukee Sentinel
| An intelligent Indian, recently, IN re-
porting the marriage of an Indian octo-
r3on to white man, said: eff this pro-
cess goes on much longer we will soon
have the whitest race of Indians you ev-
er did see." The accomplished daught-
er of the old missionary, DR.. Robertson,
mari ied fulI-blOoded Greek. Her sis
ter has secured money at the east to es-
tablish seminary among the fuitbloods,
and it has been question where the
seminary could be located To meet the
object aimed at Parties stepping from
the train at Vinita, within the Cherokee
nation, the only railroad crossing in the
Indian Territory, commonly ask, where
are the Indiaps?" On beiaL told that
those they see about them are Indians,
they reply, 80, they are not Indians.
These are white men"
BY marrying al Indian maiden, the
white man secures all the rights Of In
dian citizenship. The Thea bright" of
the girl helps the matrimonial contract
To hunters Cor land. those looking Cor
wide ranges fer cattle or agriculture. the
temptation is very strong to take this
short cut to get an extent OF sol they
could never hope to secure in any other
way.
The encouraE aEemeI.t given 70 the
whites on the paI OF mario geable Indian
femqIes is quite oLscl vable. They thin!;
that by marrying white men they gam
socially, and have a prospect of an e9sler
:ud bettpr-careG-ror life. And they
think rightly. - dI depressed civili-a-
tiors women have a hard time of it.
The Indian men DO not like this constant
raiding through their land, and captur-
ing the most attractive Of their race,
whom they would WOO and wed, but
they cannot hep themselves, and retail
ate by stealing the affections of white
girls and marrying them. The white en-
tering an Indian reservation are soon
picl,ed up. not SO often by full-blOOdtd
Indians. but after the process OF inter
marriage has commenced, not so seldom
by half breeds, quadroons and octo-
rooms
The white persons who marry into In
dian blood almost invariably remain on
Indian soil. The white. man. in defense
OF Indian ideas Of communal interests /
and Indian quest ;ons as related to the |
whites. become more intensely an Indian |
then The Ind avs themselves. | think |
the fierce5t defenders Of the tribal sys-
tenn are white men Who by marriage |
ave become Indian citizens and are |
making money out Of it. Tie large |
crops on Indian lands are invariably |
1a;sed bv white mon. FcurGfths Of the |
mechanics ate white men. brothars-in-
law TO he indians. so on 10Th sides
the process Of diiution of i'stian blood |
goes on until il teconas very thin, while |
Indian hab'ts and Indian characteristics
still remain.
The common notion among tire Iudi-
ans is that Indian blood never runs out,
and that wherever the slightest traces of
it can he found there the fullest rjgh s
and privileges follow. For a man who
has oLe-si;,teenth GER oue-thirtv- second
part Of Indian blood, the claim Tor his
right ds IN Indian is asserted as strongly
as for the full-blood. \ white man has
married an Indian 2jrl. 4 light blonde,
Of one .r;y-aecond blood. His child
rem Will be one-sixiy-cou Ill Indian.
The family consists of five children. Ga
account of that one thir,y second Indian
blood, that family Of five, located on the
border of the In6ian land, is entitled, by
equal division Of the hal land. to five
times 99J acres, or 2, 9.5 aces