Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-30
THE WHITE INDIANS.
White Men Acquiring Indian Rights by
Marrying the Red Women.

From the Hlienukse Sentinel.
An intelligent Indian, recently, in re-
porting the marriage Of an Indian octo-
room to a white man. said: "It this pro-
cess goes on we will soon have the
whitest race of Indians you ever did see"
The accomplished daughter Of the old
missionary, DR.. Robertson, married full
bIooded Greek. Her sister mas secured
money a the East TO establish a seminary
among the full blOOds, and it has been a
question where the seminary could be
located 10 meet the object aimed at. Par
ties stepping from the train at Vinita,
within the Cherokee nation. the only
railroad crossing IN the Indian Territory
commonly ask, Where are the Indians -
On being 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 Indian
citizenship. The "headright" Of the girl
helps the matrimonial contract To
hunters for land, those looking for wide
ranges for cattle or agriculture, the
temptation is very strong to take this
shot 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 fe-
males is quite observable. They think
that by marrying white men they gain
socially, and have a prospect of an easier
and better-cared-for life. And they think
rightly. In all depressed civilizations
women have a hard time of it. The In.
dian 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 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 intermarriage has COM
meneed, not so seldom by half breeds,
quadroOns and OotorOOns.
W hlte 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 /as related to the whites, be-
comes more intensely an Indian than the
Indians themselves. / think the fercest
defenders or the tribal system are white
men who by marriage have become Indian
citizens and are making money out Of it.
The large crops on Indian lands are in.
variably raised by white men. F0ur-ffths
OF the mechanics are white men, brothers
in-law tn the Indians. So on both sides
the process OF dilution OF Iudian blood
| goes on until il becomes very thin, while
/ Indian habits and Indian characteristics
| still remain.
The common notion among the Indians
| is that Indian blood never runs out, Rn6
| that wherever the slightest traces of II
can be found there the fullest rights anC
/ privileges follow. For a man who hal
One-sixteenth or one-thlrty-second part O.
Indian blood, the claim for his right as al
Indian Is asserted as strongly as for the
I full blood. A white man has married Al
Indian girl, light blonde. OF One-thirty
second Indian blood. His children vii
be one-sixty-fourth Indian. The famil,
consists of five children. On account OF
that one-thirty-second Indian blood. tina
family Of five, located on the border OF Ia,
Indian land, is entitled, by equal division
OF the tribal land, to Eve times 995 acres
1 or ., 915 acres.