The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-27


of Indians, aboriginal Americans, in
the country from the earliest records
and vet not OF II. have Joined in COM
mon protest against being impressed
into citizenship. Many Immigrants
are kept out by a law qf percentages
which congress has imposed. and
the Indians want to remain apart.
under their treaty rights and they
fear congress Will conscript them
and break their tribal entity. under
a show of largess, known as AN Act
20 Confer Citizenship" introduced by
Representative Carter of Oklahoma
ana scheduled in tho records as
blouse Bin 49," They have girded
themselves to fight this measure, bo-
Heylug that II will carry a death
sentence for the Indian tribes.
George L. Decker OF Rochester
has been retained by the Six Nations
90 advocate their cause. The Carter
bill passed the house m the last ses-
sion and was not reached in the sem
ate. Anticipating fresh effort to
enact It in the coming winter, Mr..
Decker has prepared a brief with
which he will come TO Washington
as soon as the forces behind the bill
get into action. In his view the pro-
fesscd regard OF the league of ma
tiuns for the interests OF small peo-
pies IS pertinent to this issue, and
American sincerity In the principle
OF self-determination Is now to bo
put to actual home test.
stop and Consider"
Political assimilation of the In
dians living between Canada and
Mexico" Mr., Decker says, whose
domains are outside the proper
bounds Of the United States, is no
doubt contemplated by many as an
act Of benevolence. The program is
advocated by high officials who
deem the Indians still children and
in their charge, but may be ma
turod politically by stroke of the
presidential pen. II is also adyo-
Gated by all sorts of proselyteers and
uplifters, disappointed in their own
particular endeavors with these non
resident aliens. In it's essence the
scheme is designed to apply TO small
peoples surrounded by us and unable
Of themselves to resist any treat
ment committed for execution to the
legion Of administrative and judicial
officials of the United States.
Before political subjugation is
accomplished over the 100000 souls
not yet exterminated as tribesmen,
. the people of the United States
should stop and consider lest a deed
beyond their recall, the total oblit-
Grafton of the native American. be
committed in their name,
Citizenship means thejopenlng OF
all Indian lands to the real estate
markets. the commingling of Indians
with the European millions now
here, and the early extinction OF the
red race. Enforcement OF citizenship
led to the recent Tri;5s!on Of Chief
Deskaheh to London on behalf of the
SIX Nation people who live across the
border.
The charge Of resort 10 force
through the Carter measure will be
denied. True. the army has not been
used TO enforce citizenship laws, but
that is a deceptive fact. Indians TO
the number of zoo 900 have already
been victims of force bills. There is
no competent proof that single
adult consented TO the wreckins or
his tribe. The reason the single In
dian was not permitted TO come In
alone, IL he would, was because,
coming in alone, he could bring no
share OF tribal territory with him.
Congress did not keep the door
closed, for similar reason, against
the countless Europeans, coming in
and leaving all Europe behind for
me rest Of the Europeans SO much
for the claim that the program
- Is mere measure of justice to such
Individual Indians as wish to become
white men politically.
All the Indians upon whom the
status OF citizenship has been forced
or conferred, as Congr
Garter would prefer to say--are to
De held in respect to their property
IN subsection for some years 10 the
indian office with its army of as
SlsIants. This field force takes care
mat guardians are provided hy tu-
ulclal appointment for the infant
eltizens To collect rentals under
leases OF oil lands. The new citizens
40 not control that patronage
Nhte men, expert in matters OF
guardianship, Of accountings and of
allowances TO guardians and counsel
nave Joined the population of the
OHla homa oil country TO perform
'hat fnnction.
Among the tribes to whom this
mperlaiistic paternalisin has not
Set been applied are the Six Nations.
descendants of the people by whose
ad and strong arm, given TO the
nHtlsh colonies in 1859. France was
prevented from driving from these
hAAN i~4ir tlHii lpuIlhH
srs OF The United States. The Carter
Wil is a challenge to the manhood
Nad womanhood OF the Six Nations,
Whatever n few red men holding Of
ace IN Washington and whatever
our Would-be uplifters and other
egeople may say or think about 1t. the
/, SSC Regis, the Onondagas. the
ohe'das, the Cayugas, the Senecas
tuo the Tuscaroras do not desire 10
9 forced en- masse into citizenship
WIN their neighbors.
~-zhnship cannot arise lawfully
adoption without mutual consent
n. lI' person and the new sovereign,
t,llaal was once the doctrine OF the
,Seoded states. II was formulated in
o9S, when the United States de-
~"sec that the imperial govern
,bht recognize the right. whit 1t
tsn sn disputed, OF German horn ma
sU,is iUG'ais TO 'reQounce at their free will
s,slanCe to Germany. The United
S's,.es ,es then resisted impressment on
$50 70 the fatherland of German
ssn h travellers who had become citi-
- 80 OF the United States: congress
~ lated that doctrine into its domes-
Jaw Tor better protection Of the
bAliess aliens who had from choice
I,Uo'ne Is adopted citizens That