Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-28
WHITE INDIANS.
whites Acquiring Indian Rights by Marry.
Inc Red W,m.,

whites Acquiring Indian Rights BY Marry.
ting Red Women.
An intelligent Indian recently, 10
reporting the marriage of an Indian
octoroOn 80 a ~nIte man. said: III
this process goes on. We viii soon have
the whitest race Of Indians Won ever
Id see. The accomplished daughter
II the old miss onary. Dr. Robertson,
married full bloodrd Creek. Her
lister has secured money ut the East to
establish seminary among the full
| bloods. and it has been question
where the seminary could be located
to meet the object aimed at Parties
stopping from the train at Vinta.
within the Cherokee Nation. the only
railroad crossing in the Indian Terri
tory. commonly ask: w here are the
lndians?" On be ng told that those
they see about them are Indians, they
reply: mo. They are not Indians.
These are white men"
BY marrying an Indian maiden, the
! white man secures all the rights of In
| dian citizenship. The "hcadright" Of
the girl helps the matrimonial con-
tract. To hunters for land. those look
ing for wide ranges for cattle or agri-
culture, the temptation 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 In
| dian females is quite observable. They
think that by marrying white men they
| gam socially. and have 4 prospect of
an easier and better cared for life.
And they think rightly. In all de-
pressed civilizations, women have &
| hard time of it, The Ind an men do
! not ike this constant raiding through
their land and capturing the most
/ attractive of their race. whom they
would WOO and wed. but they can
not help themselves. and retaliate by
| stealing the affections of the white girls
and marrying them. White girls en-
| tering an Ind an reservation are very
soon picked up; not so often by full
blooded Indians: but after the process
of intermarriage has commenced. not
so seldom by half-breedS, quadroons
and octoroons.
White persons who marry into In
! dian blood almost invariably remain on
| Indian soil. The white man, in de-
| fense of Indian ideas of communal in
! terests and Indian questions as related
, to the whites, becomes more intensely
/ an Indian than the Indians themselves.
| | think the tiercest defenders of tn
| tribal system are white men who by
marriage have become Indian citizens
/ and are mak'Sg money out Of it The
large crops on Indian lands are invari-
iably raised BY white men. Four-fifths
of the mechanics are white men. bro
I thers-in-law to the Indians. So on
| both sides the process of dilution of In
| dian blood goes on until it becomes
very thin. VIII lie Indian habits and In
! dian 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 a man who has one-siXteenth or
one-th irty-second part of Indian blood.
the claim for his right as an Indian is
asserted as for the full-blood. A white
man has married an Indian girl. a light
blonde. of one-thirty- second Indian
blood. His children will be one-sixty-
fourth Indian. The family consists OF
live members. 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 divls-
| ion of the tr bal land. to five times nine
| hundred and ninety-five acres, or four
thousand nine hundred and seventy-fys
| .crcs. - Toledo Blade.