The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-03-20

tory there has grown up race nOta-
HE for the beauty and grace Of its
vomen. The girls Of the Indian Ter
,;torv are no more the wild, untamable.
dusky beauties Of early Indian fiction
than they arc the wretched creatures
foupd among some of the tribes to-
day. They are to all intents and ppr.
noses on the same plane with white
women of education aud refinement,
except that the strain of wild, strong
Indian blood in their values gives
Them .iugo Of richer ooior, brighter
eve. more lissome grace than their
white sisters possess.
Reckoned in fractions Of blood.
these Indian beauties are more Cau-
casian than aboriginal American. All
Of them, ho. ever, are Indians, politi-
cally and socially; they hold firmly to
their membership in the tribes. Many
oe them ere one-anarte- c. cns-e;shth
or even one-sixteenth or one-thirty-
second Indian; but the red strain is
.hs stronger sad shows, If notin some
lingering richness Of color or in the
moulding Of the face, at least in an ell
but indefuable fascination aud gracs,
the heritage Of forest people.
Among them one may find perfect
blondes, with the Indian strain still
salient and paipable. And although
they have suooumbed to the corset Of
civilization, in almost all cases they
have their trammelled ancestress to
thank for the blessing Of well-nigh
perfect figure. And one other Of wo
mans best gifts they possess: clear
and low voices, with not trace Of the
cultural information which is common
to original Indian tongues. Raised
amid scenes Of the bloodless conquest
Of their race by the whites, they look
without concern upon the destruction
Of tribal customs, and the thinning
and dying out of the old blood. To
this last they even contribute, for 80
seldom does one Of them marry an In
dian that such an event is commented
upon in the Territory as remarkable.
Before the middle of the last CEN
tury Cherokee woman one day met
a hunter in the forest. She was
frightened at his white skin and fed,
thinking him an evil spirit. But he
was fascinated by her beauty and pur-
sued her into camp where he learned
that she was Shs daughter of o fr end
ly chief. The hunter laid siege to the
heart Of the dusky belle and finally
gained her consent to marry him ac-
eording to tribal custom then in vogue.
This hunter and his squaw raised
hslf-bred child who was great curl
osity to the redskins. As years sped
BY other hunters invaded che domain
Of the Five Tribes of the Indian Ter
ritory and married other dark skinned
BEAUTIES, Intermarriage in the Chero-
Tee, Greek, Choetaw and Seminole
aibes has fourished to such an extent
) sithin the last quarter century that
the full-blood element is now on the
verge Of extinction. The old men Of
the tribes are becoming alarmed and
have passed laws against intermar
I mage. Some Of these laws are very
severe, almost prohibitive, in fact.
The young Indian women object to
4 these laws, because they do not want,
1a rule, to marry the men Of their
sVn tribes.
The Chiokasaws are the strictest re-
q safding utermsrriage. A lew recent
3R placed on their statute books re-
4 auires any white man applying for q
= license to marry Chickasaw girl,
Iarst, to produce evidence that he has
resided in the Chickasaw nation two
years, next TO furnish credentials as
Ato his good character, and .hird, 20
lpay $1,000 FOR the marriage license.
Vi course, the girl has and sometimes
takes the privilege Of eloping, at the.
cost Of losing her right in the tribal
ands and money, and Of disgraoing
herself in the eyes Of her relatives.
her head-right is something worth;
d d s'usidering. A rightin the Chicka-
.sw nation is valued at from Eve TO
.sn thousand dollars, aud in the
cherokee, Creek aud Choosaw nation
y from Eve 70 eight thonsand dollars.
10e intermarriage laws Of all;the four
aaslons named are about the same, ex-
epsing that che Csickasaw nation
'Aarges 91 900 Cor . licenso while the
81 'saera only ask $40.
!, There is good :2skson 9orstheso laws.
aany foreuSs hunters, saltraoted by
sae veslsh IA AiaA y - ssiisss. S,,a
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