The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-08
TINE INDIAN As A CI7IzEM
The Progress Already Made Toward Re.
ceivlnE Him Into Our colitlcnl system.


The Progress Already Made Toward TIE.
ceivinT Hin Into Our Political System.
WARRINGTON. Feb. 7--Tho resolution which
has been adopted by the Senate looking to the
abandonment Of some Of the Indian agencies
Is based not solely on economy. but. as It's
language shows. on the steps taken BY many
OF the red men toward citizenship.
The advance lately accomplished In this
direction is indeed remarkable. and forms one
OF tho leading subjects Of discussion In Com
missioner Morgan's recent review OF his years
work. The possibility of absorbing the abo-
rhymes Into our body politio has always been
kepti mind. Even those who used to look upon
determination as the doom Of the race may
have meant II In tho sense that what was dis
tinctly Indian would disappear or DO radically
modified. Since accurate statistics have be-
gun to DO taken. we have learned that the
Indians are In fact not decreasing materially
In numbers. II at all. At any rate. for eighty
years our treaties and agreements with them
have made provisions for ultimately taking
them into citizenship.
After the civil war. when three famous amend
ments to the Constitution were adopted. one
OF them declared that "all persons born
or naturalized in the United States. and SUBJ
ject to tho jurisdiction thereof. are citizens Of
the United States and Of tho state wherein
they reside" It has been seriously question:
ed whether Indians were not included within
this description OF citizens. at least whenever
they should put themselves within the juris-
diction Of the United States by renouncing
their tribal allegiance and relations. But the
supreme Court. In case cited by Commits
sioner Morgan. declared that the alien and de-
pendent condition OF members OF Indian tribos
could not be put OF at their own will. without
the consent Of tho United States. and that this
consent could not be inferred merely from the
Fourteenth Amendment 1t would require
specific treaties or statutes for the purpose.
such rs had been made for giving tile Chero-
KEGS and the Choctaws the privilege Of citi-
zenshin The qualifications In the phrase
quent naturalization would be required in the
case o. persons not owing allegiance to the
United States:
vnsis It. e Il. r and
fs9s,HDS,s4' ;s1 e.:
ne
within q hs aoan Of
SSoyern%,en, or the children born WITHIN ths United
foreign nationa
same amendment proceeds to apportion Rep.
that also. the act OF 1888 for carrying out this
United States and not subject to any t foreign i'm
f fee sd. t. b. citizens The Sntsa
S9qS It esss Whsa
followed by actually paying taxes. would
Excluded s9e fsdSns th nSs
shnsss to
powers BY an act passed IN 1871. Which do.
clarsd that mo Indian nation or tribe within
knowledged or recognized as an independents
patton. tribe. or power. with whom the United
sa.ss Ss een tSat an
iPs sss xSS
that the q The nea States Goart IN
the case Of the Indian who Killed Lieut. Casey
retain their status OF quasi. independen S ma ma
WI the United sts!ss* TRis i tic in,ersnes
pear to DO warranted. The Indian VAS indcted
t1r murder, and On 4cgutttal was directed on
ntea @ Bat sS0lns en IH
goes to show that an Indian thus obeyinG the
fr TIL 81 mtary nTthGHrtes around him could
ties against the Government. creating 40 genu-
could not be treated as mere assassins, and yet
al the time the Governmept might regard
ITS
hl However: the Indians have practically net
seyeTalsy Alignment s act passed Just aye years
we're Admitted to full c I'll
in section 4 Of that act: " '''' 40 " ~ ''0l'O
the United States to whom shall have been
NJ under ths Of this act Or under INV
y%sa STATE. Ia. s ii!i sssen
asIs: ~
prSSilIsgSss ana ipmanes Of such citizens whether
sn The
nnrsS or or the limited states in any I'm
indian tribal or other property SA' VI any 'u'n
sa In d Hnons t. found M that o72
and treaties ppevousy Seco on spee eitze aMs
5ridsssi Wyandotte; fo!tswstSmie.A Ottawa fsSa
the st oi 1887 land patents have been Issued ID
fhs te s9pST It s n 99e Il
had then been made 70 1866 others. Who viii
have the rights Of citizens as soon as their
total Of Willie nrns,se e %nksa
may have Increased It above 2O1Oo..
Of our 9borigines Is no longer q mere dream Of
TACT; anu this TACT Is the basia OF tho Senate's
resolution OF inquiry. Mr.. Harrison suggested
to Congress- In his last annual message step
OF. this subject. BY recommending that com.
mission should DO sent out to the iye civilized
tribes who now. under the act Of 1880. consti-
tute. together with the small tribe Of the
SuapaW Agency. our new Indian Territory
the western part of the old Territory having
been set or to tho jurisdiction OF Oklahoma
Section 43 OF the Oklahoma act specially pro.
yldcs for, admitting the members Of these
tribes, and nations in the new Indian, Territory
States Court therein: md. With sneciaI consid.
GRAFTON. it provides that such Indlnns shall not
forfeit or lose any rights or privileges they
enioyor arc entitled to as memhers Of the tribe
or nation to which they belong" But Mr.. Har-
terms to be agreed upon by tho Commlssion-
ers: Should this policy proye 81 ccessful. nenr-
~ u.s. 600 Indians in that Territory and S27S
Pueblo indlans IN New Mexico could be added
to tho 10000 red men already numbered or
about to be- numbered among our American
citizens.
LLOYD 1EVIS lREsIGN&