The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1907-09-19
PLEASANT P0RTER'S
RACE TO GO.
In An Interview Given a Year
Ago He Said, indians Will
+ Soon be an Extinct Race.


& Soon be an Extinct Race.
Ksnsss City Star. %
Pleasant Porter was principalchiei
OF the Creek nation. which Is made
up OF 10000 Creek Indians and ne
groe freedmen. Chief Porter was well
educated and talked fiuently. He
dressed as q business man. In an
interview he said:
"One hundred years from now my
race will be extinct. The American
Indian win be a lost race and be-
lieve l know enough about the hu-
man family to know that at the end
OF that time our descendants will be
prating and boassing Of our blood.
II will have q tenor Of legend and ro-
nance then. II is not 90 now, how
ever. There is very little reverence
for the Indian. It's q mad race TO
beat him out Of his land and his
home.
I'm evolution the Indian is far be-
hind the mark Of 200 years ago, and
this In spite Of the kind efforts OF the
government and the Caucasion to
give him go called civilization. Still,
he's more enlightened. He's been
taught to steal and rob his brother,
just as the white man does. and he's
been schooled in the art Of ialsehood
and deceit. Two hundred years ago
my race lived In It's own cities and
had It's own government. The red
men prepared and maintaineda q gov
ernment to keep peace within and
repel invasion from without. l don't
see but that they did II as veil as
any other race on the globe. And
now, now-well, they're denied the
privilege"
"You are educated. fully civilized
and live es q white man. You are
speaking for yourself or your racer
he was asked.
"For myself" was the quick re-
sponse. 81 am an Indian and l am
true to my blood and race. It's
natural that I should be bitter
against the encroachments upon our
land, isn't Il? Do you know what II
means. 1t means the extinction oi
our race eventually.
"Years and years ago We were liv-
Ing in Mississippi, Alabama and
Georgia. The United States govern
ment sent the white man to treat
with us and We agreed to the treaty
exchanges which gave rs land in the
Indian Territory for our home. The
government promised % We might
live there, owning our lands In COM
mon and governing ourselves, so
long as water runs end grass grows.
"Then what happsnedf In 1893
the government created q commits
sion composed Of five men who came
into our lands to treat again. It
was decided, the White mans de-
cision, mind you, that We should no
longer hold our lands In common
and that We should prepare to go
out Of existence ss 9 government
and become q state. The red men,
instead Of roaming over the lands,
were taught to cutit mp ntosquares,
each to own q share which is called
an allotment. Nov come the graft
or and the land shark TO pounce up
on the Indian and get his land. They
outnumber us ten 10 one andagainst
such odds, even 4 We vsrs - smart
and crafty a. they, ws couldn't hope
TO hold our own. Tho passlng Of the
Indian y Inevitable. Hls yeazs ars
numbered. :
"pm the chief Of . nation, sup-
posed governor. I'm at The hsad Of
'Ae e6etitious Iodian government ]
govern only byrssolutiou and that's
3 regular play govsRnmsnt." |"
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