Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-22
WHITE Man Gets
HOT ROAST FROM
FAIR LECTURER
Miss Fletcher Doesn't Think
He Stacks Up Well With Lo,
and Says So in Address to
Summer School,
I.rse,.. 0,srAreW 70 pos.ua ,ouar.,l

ESPECIAL DISPATCH 70 MORNING JovRN<li
Santa Fe, Aug. 21.-The comparison
of the Caucasian and the Indian II
the lecture today of Miss Alice c
Fletcher, was not altogether favorable
10 the pale faces; I'm fact, 1t was {
terrific indictment of the white mans
attitude toward the red man. Thu
lecturer dwclt upon the unity of th'
human race and especially Of the In
dams from physiological and psychic
logical standpoints. still there were
many divisions and wide differences
in language among the Indians. geo
graphical environment modifying cul
lures while climatic conditions modi
fled avocations. However the funda
mental religious ideas based on OBJ
servation of nature were general ant
the Indian mind was characteristic
cally reverent and poetic. Symbolism
was to him the natural form of ex
preston and the same symbols, sucf
as the cross appertaining to the foul
life-giving winds, are found through
out North America. other symbols
on the other hand, belonged to GER
tain localities.
The Indian was by nature hospitabl'
and the first words that greeted th'
English on landing upon the New
England coast. were those from AZ
Indian who shouted: Welcome Eng
lishman,' phrase he had learned
further south. II is a sad story. tn,
history of the first century of con
tact between white man and Indian
The Indian did not regard land al
property, as little as he regarded tn,
air I'm the sense of proprietorship
Hence the slow recognition by the In
dian of the white mans claim TO prop
erty in land. Miss Fletcher described
how the English colonies purchased
land from the Indians and the confu
sion that ensued because of the In
dams ignorance of the white mans
attitude regarding land.
Indian Crowded Back.
The Indian had no king or arbi
trary ruler. His was representative
government only. Miss Fletcher ther
described patheticalIy how the Indiar
was gradually crowded back: how hi
domain was disintegrated by frontier
posts and rights of way to those post
and how finally the reservation WA
evolved. the white man going SO Ia
as to place chiefs arbitrarily ovel
them. these chiefs being called pa
per- chiefs by the Indians.
The iniquitous Influence offtfadcrl
was outlined. how they debased thu
hunt from religious ceremony 10 {
pursuit for gain, how the white manu-
facturers killed off the native handi
crafts, how the white man turned hi
worst side toward the indian. The In
dian. on the other hand, was fightin'
for his home, for his very existence
The devastation wrought by the intro
duction of liquor was wildly described
The white mans greed and the Whit
mans immortality caused the Indiar
to regard the white man with distrus
and disdain.
Then came the great change ovel
the country. The buffalo disappeared
there was loss of vegetation and ami
NAL life, making existence more diff
cult for the Indian. Miss Fletcher
traced the movements for the educa
ton Of the Indian down to the found
ing of the school at Carlisle. which
she declared did even more for thu
education of the white man than l
accomplished for the Indian. Thu
change in the government policy o.
dealing with the individual rathel
than the tribe and its beneficent in
fluence, we're reviewed. However, thu
laws for the allotment OF lands ant
for the Indians owning their property
in severalty are not suitable to thu
southwest. The problem Of the Pu
eblo and the Navajo is separate on
and in some respects the most Difficult
with which the government has We
had to deal
Should Learn English.
II is Ct primary Importance that thu
Indian learn to speak English. wal
Miss Fletcher's admonition, in THU
country only one language must 81
used for only in that manner cal
pubic opinion become an educated
opinion. The treasure house of Eng
lish literature and history must be un
locked to the Indian so that he ma,
understand the American viewpoint
One Of the chief factors Of mlsun
Outstanding between whites and In
uians has been the Interpreter VIII
neither understood the Indian tongue
perfectly nor had an adequate knowl
edge of English and thus frequent.
misinterpreted the thoughts. Of eaci
race to the ether
It was, perhaps. the finest of thu
series of six lectures which Mis-
Fletcher. the greatest living authorit.
on the American Indian. has given be
Tore the summer school and the audi
ences that have come out to hear he
at an carly hour each morning, testi
lied to the great interest in ethnolos.
that she has aroused.