| Show SPEAKING OF THE INDIANS San Francisco Call CallOn Cal CallOn On tho the fourth day da of or this month th the Independence of the North orth American ax tnt IR tribal organizations passed 11 W cu rc no longer to 10 mako trea treaties ties Hen tel und and an nir with them as 01 t though they thc vero Iero sovereign foreign powers TOI en but bul they the uro aro Iro now subject to nit all ni i tho ho privileges and penalties of the tM Unit cd ed et States State law It Il is a I historical event of or considerable Importance this title thud Inal merging of the tIme most mO t picturesque of o nil all ni savage Mogo races into hum complete American I citizenship and ethnologist will watch the th result with much ouch Interest Will Wi this thin race die out Olt In the pen cp n und and unrestricted competition with wih the lie whites or II will thu 1111 stimulus of ot living freely trelly under tutu tin conditions of or cur shah tal ns as ni the time whites no o develop their energies ner and capacities that they will wi become among tho the racial factors that go to make up our conglomerate civili civilization Manchester ler Union fly Ily virtue of o an un agreement which went ent Into tuito effect March 4 the organization of thu th Cherokee Choctaw reek Chickasaw und aund Seminole luau Indi Indiana aol ana was dissolved 1 oled and arid time the member of ot thos five nu tribes became BO so many 11 luman factors In lit American citizenship This Thil dissolution of the tribes was vas os the cul cui culmination of ot apparently chimerical plan laid haitI tin its far back ua ItS fl when a law mw wan passed with wih this thin Ihl end In view and Henry HenryL L ti Dawes Dawell now oW dead with Ith the commis commission storm sion created under the new now law lat started out to 10 Induce the Choctaws the time Creeks and their neighbors neighbor to 10 allot their lands to theIr ns as RI Individuals to abolish h their hots tribal government gOt and to merge merle themselves In the amass maun of ot the thC citizenship The rho task was Herculean but It has hU been accomplished and another paragraph line has hn been beon added to the closing chapter of the story stony of or the American Indian C M r Harvey lLer In the tho March Atlantic Like th the Moorish king Abu Abdullah looking inciting mournfully backward at mit his lost lost Geronimo from Fort Fori Sill Si gazes ZIS westward across tIme the prairies and Ind hills hils to the Arizona of ot his hi great da 8 a which he ht will wi not see sen lIet again Up tip at nt Pipe Ridge l enc the tho Sioux nonagenarian Ked Cloud Clout the Ih he most 10 t famous of or living Indian who could tell tel as 1 many marvels ns as a Aeneas told to Dido re refuses refuses fuses to accept the governments offer of an UI allotment of ot land hand and goes down like hIke In tho the storm nt at Yarmouth waving his big hand defiantly In time the face Cace of destiny I I Most oat of ot Her Hercules ler cules labors labor looked light compared with the th task which the lato late Henry I J L Dawe undertook when ho Ito and the commission lon created under antler the law In of ot started d doul out to Induce the Choctaws the time Creeks and their neighbors to allot their lands to their an nit 01 Individuals to tu abolish their tribal government anti and to merge morge themselves In the lie mass ma 8 of the lie citizenship That work has hal been grandly finished The last Hit coun councils counelis elis Ills of ot the tho rive Five rh Tribes bus hu been held The Tho epic of the time American Indian has hums closed Portland Oregonian Something over Vet two yearn nars no GiO an On representative visited vl led tins the west vest coast of Vancouver Island 1 and after a II study of nt the tho th local Indian ques question question ues tion ventured tho opinion that tha tho him white mans mons religIon had accomplished nothing for the tIme vest c t coast coant Indian In Iii tutu thu way of mind or mural morals lorl It I was waft also pointed out Olt that In III many re respects religion had proved l n a positive detriment to tho thin simple children of or tim the forest The Th article of or course cou e provoked criticism ni an aim 11 attempt was made ma o to 1 show In iii contradiction that i 11 lon had tone done much for the th Isolated reel red men amen menThe menThe amenThe The extent to the tho white titans mana re rp religion ligion has haH affected them U Is I disclosed In Inan infill an fill fn Intel interview view In yesterdays Oregonian with Hev II CharUs Moier Moser Mo er a ti I Benedictine missionary front lo luot In discuss discussIng Ing In the tho Valencia wreck hn he a states lutes that thattie the tie Indians Indian could have reached those tho e In s If It inducements Indu hurl hue been b cn made Inde He lie te further states that when the tho Indians Indiana learned that tha US was being offered for far time the recovery of or n a body mUI of them oUt In II their ca CR canoes canoes noes TO S and brought in tho time dead In the time opinion of or thIs minister Of O the gospel ospel It would have been better bettor had time tho In Indiana diana been bel offered 50 for every overy pas passenger pa palen len lr rescued but bill no one made the offer and the Indians remained at Ih r homes hOIs This brutal Indifference to th time fate of nf helpless women wOlen ant children may inn Indicate a religious training but hut It I Itis IB is I nothing that thol can be tie le pointed to with wih any nu great degree of o pride |
