St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-04

die together in ranches or colonies. In
the summer. or as soon as the season
opens, they spread and each band fol-
the fish migrate to, the Indian follows,
catching and living on the shores. stor-
ing his fish and diSpO5ing of them to the
canning houses. Salmon. canned by
the Indians themselves, as some OF the
most Intelligent do sells for higher
price in the market than any other
packing. This is owing to their
UNIQUE, CAREFUL AND NOVEL WAY
of laying and packing the meat of the
salmon in the cans. In this they are
eXtrely clever and dainty.
''Their morals are lax, and the gov
eminent can do nothing better than to
educate them in the arts and Industries
as we'll as the rudimentSOf Christianity:
While there is now $4,000 appropriated
for the education of the Indian in
Alaska, there should be double that
amount, and the time will soon come
resources, will be the pride of our gov
eminent. They are dangerously SIM.
pie and uncouth in their marriage cere-
mony. The average squaw. however, Is
as true and faithful to her lord as the
white, but the white man i'll that
country unhappily possesses a charm,
for the dusky wives of the red man.
which has caused and promises to cause
great deal of trouble between the In
dian and the white. The miners, a very
reckless set of men, are generally the
principals in such domestic descriptions.
The dance-hOuSeS are the usual Satur-
day night haunts of the miner, who,
whenever opportunity affords. induces
the unSuspecting -squaw to accompany
him to the scene of the hilarious feStiv-
ity. Once in the glare of the dance
room, and OH the outside of a mug or
two of bad whisky, the hilarious spirit
takes possession of the savage breast
and she becomes the companion in COM
mon of the INSCRIPTIONS miner; follows
him to his lodge to bar the door against
her husband forever. She is given bet
ter clothes to wear, whisky to drink and
the feStiyity of the uproariOus dance.
The outraged Indian dOns his war
paint and feather and seeks the gore of
the destroyer of his lodge. When sew
eral Indians are thus treaden upon and
their families cruelty and villainously
broken up, they organize against the
miners and continual
WARFARE IS CARRIED ON.
''While we held council at Juneau an
Indian came to us and poured out most
pitiful story of how white villain had
run away with his squaw. While listen
ing to his tale of woe we were Informed
from another source that our pleader
had just bought the daughter OF another
Indian for thirty blankets. We asked
him if he thought it worse for white
man to buy SQuaw at her own sacri-
flee than his purchase of fellows six
teen-year-oid daughter for blankets.
But that is our CUSTOM he replied.
we buys our wives when we can't get
them on trust
''As to the sensational reports pub.
lished in the press some time ago, of
the Outrages by the traders and whites
upon Indian women and children, we
find no evidence that such practices
ever occurred. The Indian complains
of nothing save that he is not making
money as fast as he would like to. They
also demand that the United States
give them title to the lands they have
wintered upon gOOi many, years.
They think that they should have the
title because of their possession and
improvement. 1t is a startling fact that
of all the people in Alaska, there are
but tWenty-One titles to land. and these
accompanied the old Russian grant.
pIdIly VI sUllC lHuldito llOW liTiHS III
Alaska are from British Columbia, from
where the Canadian government drove
them, when it granted their property
to the railroad. The Indians
have not forgotten nor forgiven this i'll
justice, and they now ask to be made
American subjects. This they ask with
a fervOr, and the most intelligent say
that it is the dream of the tribe. When
DR.. Duncan, the Presbyterian minister
first undertook to ChristianiZe the
Alaska Indians he found them ferocious
cannibals. Cannibalism was actually
practIced to disastrous degree. Since
his Iabors were inaugurated he has
lifted that race
OUT OF BARBARISM, e.. ~ *
and pushed it on toward civilization to
such an extent that churches and
school houses are now teaching the In
dian where formerly the massacred
heap lay for the wolf. There has been
a vast Improvement in that country.
and our recommendations to con-
gress will be for funds with which
to educate those people in the trades
and mechanics and substantial assist
ance toward the forming of companies
and industries in which they themselves
can take hand, and work to the devel-
opment of the man and the country"