Milford chronicle., 1922-12-15
NanticOke Indian Association Held First
Annual Anniversary at River Dale Park

tatoes, certain kinds of beans
squashes, cocoa, quinine, ipecac anC
many others medicines. The Euro
about these things until it learned Of
them, from the Indians.
In exchange the white man brought
the Indian liquor, metal, tools, horses,
smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, tu-
berculosis, and other contagious dis
eases.
Professor John o. Clark, of the I'm
iversity of Pennsylvania, spoke as fol-
lows: During the past summer it was
my privilege to visit your Indian bro
theirs in South America, upon the An
dean plateau-lives the Iuichua In
dams, the direct descendants of the
famous Incas. Their language would
be a strange one to you and their re-
lations are different too, in spite of
centuries of Spanish rule; they show
their Indian even as you do your
selves. Furthermore in Ecuador
where I spent most of my time with
the Indians, they constitute over six
ty per cent of the people. In fact to-
ward the east the Indian braves are
sole masters of the land and permit no
white settlers among them. I would
like to tell you more about these in
teresting people, but this is not the
place.
The message that I want to bring to
you today, is that the Indians are not
a vanishing race, but a living, -four
ishing race, whether it be in Ecuador
or Mexico, Canada, or in the State of
Delaware. The one thing that holds |
a people together and makes them |
great is pride of race; as long as you |
have that, as long as you are justly |
proud of the blood that flows. in your |
veins, you will live and flourish. What |
is your race? You know it well. First
there is in your blood a little of the
blood of the white man. The white
man has both his faults and his vir-
tues; he is energetic, ambitious, mas
terful in all things, whether these
or qualities are good or
bad, you share them, for you have
he blood of the white man in you.
Some of your tradition speak of the
anding OF band Of Moorish Pirates
Town by LeWes, who married in with
he native tribes of the vicinity. You
nay not know so much about the his
DRY of the Moors, but we can read in
'ur histories, how they conquered
spain, which latter conquered half of
he new world. They were a cultured
'eople, the teachers of western Euro
e in mathematics and in architec-
ure.
Above all you have in your veins
he blood of the Nanticoke, your fore
athers who roamed these lands FOR
o many years in peace; you farmers
Tho work the fields, find their darts, )
tones, tools, ETC., your ancestors were !
le best arrow makers in the country;
lasters of their trade; they were Civ
q away to none. In your very barns
Ou have the corn moter which is as s
ldian as PocOhontas.- In your homes,
lie women folks practice many, many E
ldian costumes, and about your fire. q
des, you pass on Indian traditions.
on are the Red Men of the land, :
red on the land, as old as the land. 3
bove all you have reason to be proud s
your blood. My great, great grand
other, was an Indian. am only a
tie bit Indian, but I am very proud 8
it, and were I able to gather all that
Olan Dlood IN one place, L think l Oh
ould want it to be in my tongue,
mere could always speak we'll of sI
Y friends, the Nanticokes, or in my 81
art, which always beat with SYM 81
thy and best wishes for you. 81
Miss Gladys Tantaquidgeon, Of the 81
)hegan Tribe, followed in which she 81
ported the progress of her tribe in 81
'rwich, Connecticut. They are in a 81
ry thriving and prosperous condi- 81
n. She spoke on education and the
pes Of the Indians in general, and
; interest she has in all the Tribes
d in their desire to keep in touch
tn each other. At the close of the
citing DR.. Speck restored the name
the last noted chief, Chief Wyniaco, ~
IN Chief Clark.