Show UNTUTORED LO or the truth about the rod red nan man as seen at close quarters the mistaken staken policy of the government and the real interest of the indians fact and fancy aro are the two forces t hat give birth to the ideas and belief tho hio world and to the student of citory ti tory fancy seems the most facun i ant aint of the two from the time in ill 1 udy antiquity when all natural i he nomona was explained by tales of mythic gods down to the indian rad s of cooper wo we find fancy weaving her roso rose tinted web in ill the brain u i nion men ponce police do leon sought the fountain of youth and cortez cortex tho the el dorado bec beckoned honed on by the same rainbow hued sprite fancy has always run toward idealization iza tion the ancients deified delfied heroes and the moderns idealize races which are disappearing or loosing 0 their tribal customs in the history of the american indian the imagination 0 has played a very important part ROMANCE AND SENTIMENT have dealt so generously with thou them that they are regarded by many as a type of humanity su superior to ourselves their morality is extolled and their physic cd til superiority widely believed the idea is also prevalent that they have been cruelly robbed and persecuted by the whites let us GLANCE ATrIE AT THEIR IR HISTORY antiquarians aro are generally of the opinion that they originally came from asia via bohring behring sea and alaska and drove out a race very much a advanced in the arts of peace and after several centuries of undisputed possession of the northern continent they had not made a single t stop in any of the arts of civilization not an a relic of architecture remains to show that they ever possessed any skill in that direction neither in art or literature did they make the least progress the rudest hieroglyphics 0 wore used to convey messages meb and their history known only by tradition is so mingled with fables and allegories that wo vi 0 can call only surmise their ori origin in and travels had the whito winged vessels of the discoverer nover never anchored in the harbors barbers of north america the indians indiana of today to day would be fewer in ill numbers than they aro are do destroying 0 each other in ill tribal wars and dying like sheep from the effect of altern alternating abing years of plenty and of famine of gluttony and star starvation Nation but the discoverer did come and tho the standard of the caucasian was planted in tho the soil of tho new world at first tho the regarded an the europeans with superstitious ao anno which the repa ropa city and the cruelty of the colonists especially those of new england turned to hate tho the indians of now new england were without doubt treated with dreadful fo ferocity rocity by the puritans as in ore also the catholics and quakers but this is the only page in our history where we need blush tor for our treatment of the indi indian an since that time tho the natural progress of civilization left only two paths open to tho the savage by which lie ho could exist one lay toward the i LAND OF THE SETTING SUN in the wilds of the west tho the other was obedience to tho the injunction by the sweat sw e at of thy brow thou earn thy broad ali thoy y thou 05 they y always havo have since tho waldorn osa and sloth occasionally I 1 hey would plunder tho the pioneers of tho din whito white race and bring brici on oil short wars but their coumbo lay constantly toward tho the west when the iho stars and stripes davd vavd d from ocean to ocean tl ti ovorn mont found tho the disposition i tho Indi indians air a difficult they filey had no central authorities with aich treaties could be mado no boundaries boundary 08 NN aich tb they cy would ros ro i and no lann la but the law of custo i u j othor other words they wore savage 0 I 1 i iu the 11 1111 of reason could shoal a olon element wilf exist in the midst of civili Alon without being restricted i next week woe h wo io will consider con tho the present policy of tho the government and eulogize 4 no ao well meaning idiots calling calli I 1 ng 0 themselves the indian indi an 0 rights right association |