The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-04

She cana down here to rsss up attsr
long spree. Tbs Tribes just had feast
20 celebrate the chiefs marriage. md they
all got pretty sick on white mans nrewater.
They don't understand the art Of mixing
cocktails yet
Most Of the new style Diggers. how
ever, have severed all relations with their
barbarian relatives and give their blankcted
tribesmen scant courtesy.
The Alaska Indians also have shown
a remarkable tendency to adopt civilized
ways within the last ten years. In Cali
fornia there are many full-bloods from
Alaska tribes studying in the public schools.
and several have entered tho State Uni
versity. where they have shown remark
able intelligence.
ASwedish trader named Sandalin has been
instrumental in sending down to San Fran
cisco numbers OF children OF prominent
chiefs. all Of whom have become cultivated
citizens Of this country. Others have como
Of their own volition and have returned
to spread enlightenment among their own
people, and now the Indians nd Fort
Wrangel, Kadiak and Sitka are any
thing but barbarous. and the traveller
in the Far North sees whole communities
of red men who wear the garb Of Western
civilization with the ease OF the Occidental
himself.
Like their far-away brothers in Alaska.
the full-blooded red mon OF southern Cali
fornia also are fast acquiring now ways.
These Indians were Christianized q
century ago by the Spanish padres. Father
Junipero Sierra was especially active In
converting the red heather. But convert
ing them to Christianity and bringing them
into state Of slavery meant about tho
same thing with him.
Thus, the poems Of the early missions
were civilized only In that they were not
hostile to white men. They titled the soil
for the monks a. the villeins OF medieval
times did for their baronial masters, but
education did not enter into tho contract.
On the contrary, it was avoided as danger
GUS.
It was left to the Americans within the
last two decades to teach the southern
California Indians real civilization, which
they did by throwing open schools and
colleges to them, and now these Indians
form part Of the population worthy Of
respect and consideration. Most Of these
civilized poems are ranohers and fruit
raisers.
From their old Spanish masters they
took Spanish names, 80 many are known
by such names as Rodriguez. Vallejo. Rarni-
rez and Sanchez, which gives the superficial
tourist the impression that these puro
red men are the children Of old Spanish
settlers. They are not 80 energetic or
partial to academic studies as the reformed
Diggers up State. but in their own way
they are just as thoroughly civilized.
In Arizona, New Mexico and parts Of
Colorado another phase Of Indian civiliza-
ton is visible. Here the bucks still go to
home life that the change is most apparent.
They live in comfortable wooden houses,
farm the land by white methods, have
the latest patented kind Of ploughs, har-
rows, sewers, and reapers, drive about in
modern farm wagons behind spans Of mules,
harnessed according to Eastern methods,
and keep themselves informed Of tho rise
and fall OF the markets. When working on
their farms they dress In the ordinary
overalls and Jumpers Of the American
farmland.
These are few examples Of the evolution
OF the new Indian. So widespread has been
this change from tho old to the new that
when the promoters Of che Indian shows
to be given at the St. Louis exhibition
made their contracts with the Indians
they stipulated in the agreements that
the noble red nan should appear exclusively
In the garb that is inseparably connected
with the Indian, and not in frock coats and
ton hats