Show IllIAI Fi11ELEM PHESENTED PACTS ABOTTT THE PIVE CIVILIZED CIVI-LIZED TRIBES Injustice Done American Presidents Who Are Without Title In the Territory Indian Aristocracy For a number of years past it has been apparent that the conditions under which the five civilized tribes were established in the Indian Territory under treaty provisions pro-visions with the United States with the right of selfgovernment and the exclusion ex-clusion of all whit persons from within their borders have undergone so complete a change as to render the continuance of the system thus Inaugurated practically impossible STATISTICS The total number of the five civilized tribes as shown by the last census is 45 480 and this number has not materially increased while the white population is i estimated at from 200000 to 250000 which by permission of the Indian government has sattled in the territory MANIFEST INJUSTICE The present area of the Indian territory contains 25684504 acres much of which is very fertile land The United States citizens residing in the territory most of whom have gone thare by Invitation or With the consent of the tribal authorities have made permanent homes for them soiree Numerous towns have been built in which from 500 to 5000 white people now reside Valuable residence and business busi-ness enterprises are carried on in which vast sums of money are employed and yet there people who have invested their capital In the development of the productive produc-tive resources of the country are without the title tc the land they occupy and have no voice whatevr In the government govern-ment either of the nations or tribes Thousands of their children who were born in the territory are of school ago but the doors of the schools of the nations na-tions OTI shut against them and what education they get is by private contribution contri-bution Xo provision for the protection of the life or property of these white citizens citi-zens is made by the tribal governments and courts INDIAN ARISTOCRACY The secrDtary of the interior reports that leading Indians have absorbed great tracts of Icinl to the exclusion of the common piunio and government by an Indian aristocracy has been practically established to the detriment of the people peo-ple It has been found impossible for the United States to keep its citizens out of the territory and the executory conditions condi-tions containd in treaties with the nations na-tions have for the most part become Impossible Im-possible ftt execution and impossible for the tribal government to secure each in common with other Indians of the common com-mon property of ths nations Friends or the Indians have long believed that the best Interests of the Indiana of the five f civilized tribes would be found in Amen f can citizenship with all the rights and privileges which belong to that condition |