Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-01 | Page 27 | Indians of U. S. Gain in Number

JANS x OF OFU U. U s. s tG lN IN N and Total Tote 1 I t Flourishes Flout Idles ace e is T That Ration Equa Equals of f C Columbus Columbus' Day flay Jan 31 Dc Despite 31 Despite pHo ton forced d ir force to c Ebe belief that the tho white m man meo means 9 his s by b the n North Amerl- Amerl extinction Unction tho the 11 aate rc I from a no Ion long long- Po Pod poIn poor po- po d Indian shown such sub sub- has ence od or of de population In iii rc- rc o In n PoD al reel probablY I. I s he that nt sears rears than v when hen Colum- Colum America E dl assertion mo may be to toI toa Startling as this American forta for for- I Nho bo havO bavo pictured I a as swarm swarm- ta In the discoverers eov freely treely advanced Is la It red ltd 4 men with g Indian governments government's e r D sets of ot f tho the JC If fl that tho the Indian maintain n re au who exceedingly scant 1 formed ormed ProbablY nn an at no period D which f seeded the Ue total o of at by tho the bureau for last reported re fl ns tar Called Error a r o ular Delft Belief be Is to longer Ibe Indian as a no dying raco declared bt o ot i ou V. w. White nn au Indian authe aub au- au r 1 In support of or the bureau b ot of it t Is necessary in the hat Slice went the public mind mindE E rJ athe ihl t. t tradition to disabuse handed Mourn down wn b by dis- dis ls- ls K tithe the early artY colonists that AmerE Amer- Amer velars r. r M and E fo their day swarmed with fo fOn its ts II in tan CAn As Afi of or the red man mm c dusky n kV figure die be Indian ne neglected agrIculture almost he be t it t Is highly high improbable that try considering Its latitude bu country than several d more supported support r ud ld have W thousand thousand of oC his race race racen Sn the other hand Dr White con- con 1 Q n the tho Indian at present after atter perl pc- pc followIng as S a. a decrease following rl 1 of ot sharp sudden contact with I reaction to civilization of oC the white man Is Isa the H area a n to be bo making substantial gains In I I y 1 Gain Made lade In La t SO 0 Year Yean I n- n hough many manly estimates or guesses rUie 1 the Indian population were made In fn Inthe the l last t century said Dr White trans Ing t from less than to W a 3 the first trustworthy census wa wade was s de by the Indian bureau In fn 1870 hen rhen benthe the population was placed at m. m So figures demonstrate that in th the tho e rut nut fitly fifty years the Indian population n made ks a a. substantial net gain sain Pouting Pointing to statistics which show a an of Ct 1522 births over deaths In 1916 ltd Jd almost as great an nn excess In n 11 1917 i. i normal years ears which were not affected j iy by Sy Ill uy epidemic Dr White declared declare d t these figures fully re reflected the genro gen- gen t ro of ot a a. government that has In- In ased Us its Indian health appropriation from in 1911 to 1 17 and subsequent years The They I he said that with the h hospitals and other advantages ad apr provided for him the tho Indian b be beI I tribesman or freeman Is not a a. dr dy- dy dy W C r race but rather a 3 flourishing one fid he be been treated as other nations m V. V re treated savage tribes Dr White Whit e there thero probably would not b be e vestige of the race raco within our re regU re- re bile gU today