The clarion., 1886-01-06


An infeisigsht Indian recently. in re
I porting the marriage of an Indian oc
I foro0a TO white man. said: ..Tf thi,
/ process goes on. we will soon have thu
whitest race OF Indians you ever djd
see. The accomplished daughter II
the old missionary, DR.. Robertson.
married fuil-blooded Creek. Her
sister has secured money at the East IA
establish semiuarv among The fuij
bioods. and il has been Question
where the seminary could be located
to meet the OBJECT aimed at. Parties
stepping from the train at Vibtia,
within the Cherokee nation. the only
railroad crossing in tie Indian Trrri-
tory. com monty ask, where are the
Indians! Ol being tod that those
they see about them are Indians, they
repy, Mo. They are not Indians;
these are white men.
BY marrying an Indian maiden. the
white man secures all tie rights of In
dian citizenship. The ..headrightn OF
the girl helps the matrimonial con
Tract o hunters for land, those look
Tag Tor wide ranges for cattle or aqri-
culture, tie temptation IS very stroup
10 take / Is snort cut TO get an txtent
OF SOIL they could never hope to secure
IN any other way.
Inc encouragement given to the
whites on the part OF marriageable In
dian females IS quite observable. Iaey
lhnk that by marrying white men they
gam socially, aud nave a prospect for
an easier and better cared-for life. And
they thlnk rightly In al depressed
clfiiIzauons, women have a hard time
Oh Il he Indian men do not like this
constant raiding through their land
anu capturing tue most attractive of
Iheir race, whom they would WOO and
"ea' out they cannot help themselves,
ana fetaIlate by stealing he affections |
OF OF, Whlte girls aud marrying them.
w hite girls entering an Indian reser- |
Nation are very soon picked up; not so |
often by fuIl-blooded indians. but af- |
Ter the process of intermarriape has |
commenced, not so seldom by half |
breeds, quadroons and octoroous.
" hlte persons who marry into IN
ulan oiood almost invariably remain
on Indian SOIL. The white man. in de-
ienSe OF Indian ideas of communal in
-efesls anu Indian questions, as related
~ tiie whites, becomes more intensely
ihuiah than Inc Inuians themselves.
hlnk the hercest defenders of the
rloal system are white men by
marriage have become Indian citizens
ma are making money out .of it. The
arge crops on Indian lands are inyar.
;t0ty raised by white men. Four-
liths OF the mechanics are white men.
'rothers-in-law TO the Indians. So
N ooth sides the process of dilution of
hdian Oioot goes on until it becomes
cry thIn, while Indian habits and In
IAN cA"r.tctcrlstics still remain.
he common notion amono Indians
that Iadian b.ood never runs OUT.
nj that wherever the slightest trace. e
1t can be found, there the fullest
IShts OF land aud privilege follow.
or a man VINO has onc-sixteentb or
Ge-thlrty-second part of Indian blood. +
he ciium Tor his right as an indian is l
s'eftcd rs strongly as for the full
ood' a white man has married am ,
ndi"n giri, light blonde, Of one
llrty-second Indian blood. His chill
reh Will Oe One-siXty-fourth Indian. +
he famiiy consists OF five members.
u account OF that one-thirty-second Z
ldian blood, that family OF five. To-
tied on the border of the Indian
nj, Is entitled, by equal division of
c trIhai Iand, To i've tunes 9g5 acres.
4, $40 acres. -14tt10atAee Set.tylei. l