Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-25 | Page 4 | Other Points of View

j I Other Points of View l INDIAN IS NOT OT Despite Despie popular belief that the civilization forced upon him by the white white- whiteman man means his ultimate extinction the tho North orth American Indian reviving re from a a long long period of oC decadence has shown n such substantial increase in population lation atlon laton in recent years ears that ho probably Is scarcely less numerous today toda than when Columbus discovered America Startling Starting as this assertion ma may be to those who have pictured American forests in the discoverers discoverer's time as as swarming with wih red men it is freely advanced by bp of or the governments government's governments government's Indian bureau who maintain that the Indian necessarily p formed an exceedingly scant population which at no period materially exceeded exceed cd tho total of Indians reported b by the bureau for last year car The rho Indian no longer longer is to tC bo thought of ot as a din dying race declared Dr Lawrence W. W White an Indian authority author author- i ity of ot the bureau In Iii support of ot that statement it is Ie necessary sar- sar sarIn In tho the first place to- to te disabuse the public mind of oJ the tradition handed down b by discoverers discoverer and early carl colonists that American forests In their day dar swarmed with wih tho lie dusky dusl figures of oC the red man As the Indian neglected agriculture almost completely it Is highly Improbable that this country countr considering it I Its latitude could havo have supported II more than several hundred thousand o of or his race On tho the other hand Dr White continued tho the Indian In Inthe Inthe I I Ithe I the present da day p after periods of sharp decrease following follow follow- in lug ing as a natural reaction to sudden contact with the civilI civil civil- I I irLon of the tho whito man man Is seen to bo be making substantial gains In population While many Ues or guesses of ot the Indian population population tion ton were made during the past century century said aid Dr pr White ranging rangIng from u than to the first re reliable reliable re- re liable lable census was w-s made mado b by the Indian bureau In 1870 when tho population as v as placed at Sr So figures demonstrate demon strato strate that In the tho l last t CC fifty years tho the Indian cemon- cemon has made mado a substantial gain gala Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Eagle