The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-20
> long line Of Festful and amlable anoes-
SLIGO a bottle. All druggists.

a long line Of restfm and amiable ances-
try.
Unlike the Pope article, our noble red
men somewhat bleached, to be surel,
are neither poor nor untutored.
The more thrifty of them have large
farms in q state Of high cultiva ZION
with substantial up-to-6ate amorove-
ments thereon. From these landed es-
/ ta.tes, leased to white tenants theY 6e-
/ rive a handsome revue. Few there are
/ among them who can neither read nor
write
1t is true that the average American
citizen has had in his boyh6od large
/ amount Of prejudice injected into his
system by buff bound, gore-cooked liter
ature from which tho kindly libel law
has protected the character Of poor
/ 'Lo."
The lurid impressions Of the waller
back" are largely supplemented by
those obtained from 'eWnd West shows.
comic papers and press reports of the
rather eccentric performances Of reSer-
'ation Indians in the west and north
west Again with almost criminal ir.ius-
tice, the school-book writer's, ehe moe
to elorify in the minds Of the rising ger
GRAFTON the heroism Of our wilton roast
ing. Misunderstanding ancestors. nar-ate
only the hardships and perils under
which the early settlers wrested the
northern portion Of the country from
warlike savages Of the Pequods and Al
gonqu'us. and ssy little oe how those &C
the sunny southland peacefully propelled
westward; not b. the bullet, hu- by
treaty. and cash purchases from the very
first
What school child has been taught that
for many years anterior 20 the eStab
lishmene OF this government the Indians
whose lieneal descendants now CONSTITUTES
the FIVE civilized nations Of the p. J.
To were a peace-loving and in q print
tive sense an agricultural psople-"ua-
wniske ed grangeas
In Soto round them in 15H. and from
the ep-Hest the South Atlantic coast col
onies never treated them as savages but
as a rational and reasonable people. easy
to swindle anda heap thirsty" When.
classifying the American Indians intos
eight great families" the anthrop-
graphists grouped the Choctaws. Chick
ashaws, Creeks and saminoles together,
and named them "Mobilians,r for their
placidity Of temper and pursuits.
At the earliest settlement Of America.
they, together with the Cherokees. occu-
pied practically all the country east Of
the Mississippi river and south Of the
present states of Kentucky and Virginia
except the coast belt Of the Carolinas. /
The Cberckees. who, though not "sav-
age" were less mobile" than The other
four tribes. were 70 themselves, with
fairly we'll defined lines. covering near
~ all Of what is now the state Of Ten
nessee, the northern portions of Alabama
and Georgia and the western part of
the Carolinas. The "1fobHan" quartette
-Choctaws. Chickashaws. Creeks and
Seminolas-had the western portion of
Kentucky and Tennessee and all of Ms
sissippi Alabama, Georgia end Florida, 4
except, as stated the Cherokees had for /
q hunting ground North Georgia and /
Alabama, and the Natchaz Indians had (
a small range in Mississippi and some
inferior tribe had "Tom Fuller truck .
patch in the Goober state. The Semin- .
oIes struck pretty close to the coral pen
Ursula, but the Chickashaws and Chloe +
laws were pretty chick" together in the I
rest az the southern country. Not I'M
ike Grover The Great. this artless folk 4
were much given to hunting and fish
ing. and. Co this day their descendants
have NOT lost their fondness for the
sport or ats suake-poison accompani-
ment
While orr red-sldnned aEricultura1ists
had no department reports. no self-bind-
srs but their belts no politicians TO kiss
their babies and SIT on The top rail and
tell them that the country was going to
the ''demnit7n b7w-w3ws' If thew di3
not change heir circulating medium from
,oon-slins rs rahbir pefs yet In the
sweat az their orows with true hucolie
simplicity. arae5 with rude implements
1f industry they Scared The face 81 the
earth long tHfore O1r fora-dadaies hal
fairly eot To r hands I'm az craamatins
-abby ed Gins an3 dueking che queens
q sewing cireles at Che end Oh lons
pole without gec-ing iheir own evfremi-
es wet These gentle children 81 th
Forest from theIr tepces in the serene
southland must have witnessed many
nurual blood spIinss between members
e different Caucasian nati nal-ies ana
bodies. who. sctuatad hv greed
# eol3 or elry. t-ouzht the 'snsr~
vor'5" not Sarge enough r1r ail but cat
sch others Threats tnr kinev rsr ~
denamlnasfonsl clergy Wid1e the New
7nglan5ers were having merry haaes
tha Arronrulns and the frfskv T~o-
,uo's these sI7w-hleode3 -AFnoGiansr
slu'v flo5 .halr msiz aarged theig