Evening star., 1925-03-05
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

accused of persistently encroaching
upon their territory, the boundary OF
which is underlined.
Within the last day the press dis
patches report that Panama has re-
ceded from its earlier accusation that
the American explorer Morse was the
inciter of the unrest, and has with
drawn it's order for his arrest. Ac-
cording TO Mr.. Morse, the revolt ap-
pears to be the climax Of the negroid
crowding upon the Tulean territory
and liberty.
If now the Morse project to have
the United States take over the San
Bias region and assume a mandate
over the tribe of Tule, it will enlarge
the problems of our Bureau of Indian
Affairs by adding in the one unit one
sixth as many Indians as We now
care for. There are today in the
United States approximately .3o3
Indians, divided in some 200 tribes
Each tribe is a distinct problem; the
whole Indian population cannot be
dealt with as unit, for conditions
differ widely.
Two-thirds of our Indians are now
citizens of the United States. Up
wards of 100000 have become so ad-
vanced in education and civilizatio
that they are released from guar
dianship of the Federal Government
leaving 24o,917 still as Government
wards. These have increased 13,500
in the last census decade.
1t is somewhat surprising to the
Caucasian American citizens to learn
that of the $4,000 Indian children who
are eligible to attend school-wheth-
er public schools or Government In
dian schools--6,200 are out of reach
of schools, leaving practically eligi-
BILE $500. OF this number $1,000 are
actually in schools---75 per cent of
eligible Indian pupils being in school,
as contrasted with only 65 per cent
of eligible white children in schools.
X X y
Just as each of our 200 tribes con-
stitutes a separate problem, by rea-
son of climatic and agricultural con-
ditions and tribal languages, so would
the Tule Tribe Of 10000 present a new
problem. The Tuleans are not saw
ages; they are agricultural and self
sustaining, as our present tribes
might have been self sustaining, too.
IL the Government policy had not
pampered and restricted them for
generations. SO that they largely lost
their Willingness to work, since they
knew Ino IONeTnIUenI WOulQ Ic6Q ana
protect them without work.
The Tuleans have their own customs
and their own religion. According to
Mr.. Morse, they have maintained the
purity of the race with greater strict
ness than any other known people.
There is no intermixture of blood.
Even their own whites are segregated
from the browns at the age of IL
years and forever kept apart. They
are alert and eager to learn, espe-
cially Industrial knowledge. Their
religion recognizes one supreme god,
ruler over many lesser gods-spirits
in trees and hills and various OBJ
tects. immortality of sex is punish
ed by immediate death of all con-
cerned including even the offspring.
The white Tuleans are said to be
stronger mentally than the others.
According to scientists, their Ian
guage indicates a Sanskrit deriva-
ton He attributes to the white In
dians the creation of all the civiHza-
tions that hourished in pre-Colum-
bian times, In Mexico and South
America. Tradition of the Aztecs told
of the earlier Toltecs, who were sup
posed to be white, and especially of a
white god, who taught the peoples
the arts of agriculture and industry,
and who disappeared ages ago with a
promise that he would return. When
the Spaniards came, breathing fire
from their weapons and showing such
superior intelligence. they were mis-
laken BECAUSE of their. lighter--skins
for the long promised returning white
gods.
Copyright 1925, by Paul " CoiliHs.l