The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-23

Mrs. II. C. Parker.
 
 humanity 10 govern the attitude of the white man toward them. They are said to be honorable, modest. and industrious. There are no half-breeds in the tribe, for any one marrying outside is ban ished The care of the old Is compulsory on the family or the tribe, and lying am stealing are severely punished. One of their chief industries for a long while was the manufacture of starch from the wild cassava or arrowroot this bring ing a good price at the white trading posts but the white and his machin- cry arc taking this branch of industry out of the hands of the patient squaws.
 The clear, shifting waters of the Ever glades are thickly set with grass that bars the way of the white man when he is curious enough to try to penetrate the mysterious country be- yond and the sinuous streams baffle him at every turn. But since the days that the great cacique, Calos, Lord of the Everglades" entertained Esealente de Fonterada, the Spanish conquistador, the Seminole Indians nave been swiftly and surely threading their way through the grasses in their light canoes, evidently in league with nature who gives the chart of her streams and currents only to them. How long they will be allow ed to remain In their natural fortress depends on the time it will take the white man to plan for the draining of this vast inland sea and so redeem 1t all to the uses of agriculture.
 Florida has another colony of odd peo- pie. They are known Minorcans to some. to others as "Turnbulrs Negroes" They are remnants of band of work men and settlers brought many years
 M Turnbull. It was possibly another peon- age case on a large scale, for while he brought them over under contract work, 1t Is claimed that he virtually made slaves of them and cast them to the level of the negroes with whom they intermarried.
 Southwest of New Orleans in the re- zion of Bayou Teche the Cajans pre- serve inviolate the traditions, manners and customs of their ancestors in Arcadia of a century and a half ago. when they lived peaceably on the shores of the Basin of Mnas and little dreamed that George of England would demand their banishment. Old flax wheels still hum and the shuttles fly in the looms to the accompaniment of eighteen century French songs, and the dress and patois of Vermllion Parish on Bayou Tigre are reminiscent of the early French settle ments in Canada.
 A handful of hopeless, unambitious red people out in the land of the setting sun is all that Is left of the once famous cannibal tribe of America, the Tonkawas. They have been for a century the pariahs of the red men and have led a troubled and troublesome life Several times the government has rounded them up on a convenient reservation and as often they have provoked neighboring tribes to anger by eating up any members who strayed their way. The last recorded cannibal feast of the tribe was in 1874, and now less than fifty under the care of an agent regretfully consume ordin- ary beef and mutton instead of human flesh. Like the Seris of Lower California, they are learning that even appetite must be governed by the powers that be.
 An interesting people that holds it's reservation under peculiar conditions is another tribe of Indians, the Pamun- keys of Virginia Their land grant ante dates the modern Indian reservation, and is held by virtue of an old feudal GUS tom by which they pay yearly tribute to the governor of the state, Formerly they gave three arrows and a deer but now the lief has been changed to three turkeys and a deer
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