New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-21

thousand Others "noncitzensn lived in the Cherokee
country The proportion of other plood b Is cnnra
NO GOVERNMENT OF THE cHERoKEES BY
CHERoKEES.
II will not do 10 say that the mixed Dioous are
Cherokees They and the adopted whites arc I'D Iao'
citizens of the United States The united Sl"'o,
statute, enacting recognized law declares tn"
persons born in the United States eNoiuulns iu',
not taxed and all children whose fathers were cl~o
who had resided IN the United states arc %
the United States. The citizen OF the oHi'ou So,
therefore who married a Cherokee woman oiu "o'
cease 10 he citizen and his children by that
were also citizens Of the United states INC u.
States Courts at Fort Smith and Musoogeo h"1 o.'o'
SO stated the law. The CheroKees' howoNo' toho
. frcrohoa anv white man who marres Cher ronc
He and his sons vote and hold otse aThs
them and by their Plumbers inelngenco Tho nrrsent
~ aSsoutcly control the Cheroheei. lhc pr ~
G HS% seyeeShs white his ProdeccsSor was the Ss
least three fourhs Whit anq oS SO Years OF the three
tuSgeS Of their court one pure wn hite blood
most white and the iob V 'f those mixed bloods
The bder the rule are Unsd states nv ehero
There Is no SSSernmfeceSa ceased to exist years The
Gbcroees arr now governed by ciheni States There
staes Su local government over the n ns
Just there Is over any f bs G GT States national
rIt e nor is there any other national tncuoh I'''
by me S heSeeN Nation has ceased TO exist me
Inc acting with Intelligent honesty, sn -
Uoai,n tbc fact It's commission shouu Hou L.
,,afnS as 70 the rights of the CherokecS VIII VIM
800 ttc own citizens who hold the chief oilctS do',S
~ 'Cberohpes Those officers, owing alFEldu're
IL limited states cannot represent an du 49,
,ation N a treaty between the two Inc lST Wy
,n,H he 10 recognize the fact that thc Sheiohcn
Not,on has ceased 70 exist, and that the utf 20 az
10 lands has already reverted under me patea', ~
.be T'nitod States Then Jet the Government ulS
,-hutn among the ChcrOkees the funds ana anhulue1
se bcretoforc giving 10 the full bloods each Itn
sbaTc and 10 the mixed blOods such proportion Oh
shan as eouak their proportion OF Cherohec piooa
II is obviously unfair that person having oncesnln
re- Cherokee blood should get by inner, dhct
as much Of the Cherokee property as one wholly Oh
Cherokee blood =, u...os ,o,r
The permanent home should not he aAottd now;
I'M, the nroportionate share of each Cherokee shouu
Re fixed now SO that the new blood so rapidly uelng
introduced should not further diminish the shaie OF
the full blood Cherokee. The permanent hoIne, ,iT
600 10 700 acres, and to each mixed blood IN pro
norton 10 his Cherokee blood The 0uilet Iteg
Should be compensated for on the liberal pass t IND
Government pTopOsed-S1 % per acre-aId ihe Iuuu
should be divided full share % each fuu oip p,
and to the mixed hoOds In proportion 10 Hetr
Chcrokoe blood. This would give probably StOo 10
5000 10 each full blood Our white people adopttd
through Kindness by the Cheroees should nOi desgg
or be permitted 10 repay that Kindness by tahg lI
shares of the Cherokee pattmony. II is as WIonS
FOR them 10 absorb tho Cherokee property piecteal
as It would be for the Government to take IL N
lump. ooo !" - 80