The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-12-23
Indians in Cities and
Towns.

: 1t appears that the present gen
), GRAFTON of Indians are leaving the
: woods and coming into the camps
: of the white people. This is not
anything new, as some would
: think. Were we to go back into
history of the first settlement of
the country, we would read Of in
. termarriages of whites and Indians.
We would read that the Mississlp
pi waa settled by the French.
They married Indian women, aid
their offspring can be traced to
the present time. The lineage Of
French and Indians are many ON
the Canadian border. In New York
state we will find families Of In
dian blood. In the south, where
Indians we're plentiful, races in
termarried with the Indians. In
the west it is common to see fami-
lies of Indian blood.
What has become of the children
who have Indian blood in them?
They are not on the reservations.
Clearly speaking, they are in cities
and towns, and are the life of
these places. You cannot detect
them as having any Indian blood
coursiug through their VEINS.
Sporadically, we see and hear of
men and women who have Indian
ancestors, but were we interested
enough for thorough investigation
we would surprise ourselves to
find millions of people in the Unit
ed States who can claim the pedi.
gree OF the red blood of America.
1t shows very plainly that in
America the Indians were the first
who were to melt into the great
melting pot of Dationalities. In
some way or another the ear
marks" of lndianism can be traced.
Then it is safe to conclude that |
our cities and towns are inhabited
by people who have Indian lineage
from way back into the past.
1t takes several generations to
lose sight of the Indian part when
intermarriuges occur with Indians.
The was a time when you could
see only black-haired children in
the Indian schools, but today you
will see children with all shades of
hair studying in the same NTH.
This is enough proof that the In
diaDs are changing by the process
of amalgamation.
You can keep person at one ,
place for q certain length of time
by hypnotism, but you cannot
keep a person at that same place
all the time. The Indian race is
tired and wish no longer the slav-
cry and prison life of the Indian
Bureau. 1t is sure death to them
to be under the yoke of the Indian
Bureau. The Indian would rather
Jake his chance in the world as
nan. He is tired of being kept
n the nursery stage that the In. t
Ian Bureau is trying to keep him s
n. (Tne sugar teet that the In
lian Bureau has been keeping in \
he mouths of the Indians is sweet
10 longer, bu: very bit1er.) The 8
Younger generation, seeing the T.
effect of this tutelage of the In +
liam Bureau, are tired of it, and G.
re trying to throw it off by sep a
rating themselves from the reser- \
'ations and going into the cities i,
nd towns. The reservation life is c.
mpty for them; it holds no more n
ttraction or incentives for the G.
Dung that it does for the old.
The old people sit, and while they
it they pray for death to take .,
hem away from the awfulness of d.
his present life; but the spirit of r
be younger generation is not dead W
ct, and it is striving with all it's m
hight to survive. Like the in- :"
ependent farmers who move into |.
he towns, so some of the Indians
O after renting. SELLING. or havinu ,