Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-23
THE WHITE INDIANS.
White Men Acquiring Indian Rights by
Marriage.

An intelligent Indian, recently, in re-
porting the marriage OF an Indian octo-
room TO a white man, said: " If this process
goes on, we will soon have the whitest race
of Indians you ever did see.n The accom-
plished daughter of the old missionary, DIR.
Robertson, married full blood Creek, SAYS
the Milwaukee Sentinel. Her sister has Sc
cured money at the East to establish a
seminary among the full bloods and it has
been question where the seminary could
be located to meet the object aimed at
Parties stepping from the train at Vanita
within the Cherokee Nation. the only rail
road crossing in the Indian Territory. COM
monty ask: Where are the Indians - 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
secures all the rights of Indian citizenship
The " headlight " 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
short 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 marriageable Indian females is
quite observable. They think BIZ marrying
white men they gain socially, and have u
prospect of an easier ana better career for
life. And they think rightly. In all de-
pressed civilizations women have a hard
time Of it. The Indian men do not like
tbs constant raidlng through their land
and capturing the most attractive of their
race, whom they WOO and wed, but they can
not help themselves, and retaliate by steal
ing the affections of white girls and marry
ing them. White girls entering an Indian
reservation are soon picked up not so of
ten by full-blooded Indians. but. after the
process OF intermarriage has commenced,
not so seldom by half-breeds, quadroons ard
octoroons White persons who marry into
Indian blood almost invariably remain on
Indian soil. The white man. in defense of
Indian ideas of communal interests and
Indian questions rs related to the
whites, becomes more intensely an In
dian than the Indians themselves.
think the liercest defenders of the tribal
system are white men who. by marriage,
have become Indian citizens and are max
ing money ont of it. The large crops on
Indian lands are invariably raised by whit,
men. Four-iifths of the mechanics are
white men, brothers-iu-law to the Indians
30 on both sides the process of dilutiOn of
Indian blood goes on until ii becomes very
thin, while Indian habits and Indian
characteristics still remain The common
notion among Indians is that Indian blood
never runs out, aud 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-second part Of Indian blood the
claim for his right rs an Indian is asserted
as strongly as for the full blood. A white
man has married an Indian girl, light
blonde, Of ne-thirty-second Indian blood.
His children viii be one-sixty-fourth In
dians. The family consists of five mem
beers. On account of that one-thirty-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 995 acres, or 1875 acres.