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Show BELIEVES ORIGIN OF AMERICAN' INDIAN TO I5E DISCLOSED SOO (From Columbus, (Nebr.) Telegram) "The American Indian has been the greatest racial mystery of the age -"I believe we are approaching the solution of his origin and development." develop-ment." This was the declaration made in Columbus yesterday by Whitir-m Furrier, Chicago, writer and historian of French-Indian descent, with the blood of the Sioux coursing throueu his veins. Mr. Furrier, intensely interested in the researches of E. E. Blackmail Lincoln, curator for the Nebraska state historical society, made near Genoa this summer, and expressing his hope that further excavations might be made between the Loup and the Elkhorn valleys during the coming com-ing spring and summer, passed through Columbus by rail yesterdav returning from a vacation trip to Wyoming. In the brief stop here, the Chicago newspaper man, who has been keeping in touch with all of Mr. Blackmail's researches, declared: "The discovery of the French manuscript man-uscript brings us to the period of the decadence of the great city of Hare-hay. Hare-hay. It was an Indian settlement of more than a million population, according ac-cording to tradition and earlier records, rec-ords, and spread from the- Loup to the Elkhorn. "If we can find out how the Spanish Span-ish learned of this city that source material will reveal other discoveries. Present records I have found at the University of Chicago and in the city library there (the third largest library li-brary in the world) all point out that the Indians that settled America came from the middle western section. "Mr. Blackman's disclosures indicate indi-cate that the ruins in the valley here carry us to a period of transition between be-tween the time of the mound builders build-ers and that of the Indians. "There are university professors who insist that they were all the same people and merely a decadent race then. If further investigation can connect up these two races as one, the mystery of the Indian origin will have been solved. - "Mormon" Views "If it is solved in that way, it will disclose to a certainty that the Indian is a member of the white race of the same branch from which the Teutons sprung. "If that is true, they did come from the gentile tribes of Israel. (The tribes of Judah and Benjamin were the only ones that were distinctly members of the Judaistic religion.) Then the Mormon theory of Indian origin will have been proven correct. "I hate to see that proven, for one reason. It would re-open Mormon religious claims that have been closed clos-ed for half a century and bring back a lot of religious controversy. "I was born and raised in Holt county. I kept and preserved the manuscripts I wrote when a youngster, youngs-ter, old Indian traditions, which I tried to sell to publishers who always kindly returned them with thanks. My mother and my grandmother remembered re-membered tales from the old days. "One of the reasons that biologists have classed the Indians as white is that they are the only race wher6 children coming from intermarriage with whites or Anglo-Saxons are never nev-er marked with throw-backs. The red or copper race will eventually disappear disap-pear in such a union. In the intermarriage inter-marriage of whites with any other race always the children in the future will present the contrasting racial characeristics of their ancestors. Will Complete Chain "Mr. Blackmail is finding the resolution reso-lution to the question of Indian origin, orig-in, I believe. If he connects the mound builders and the Indians the racial chain is complete. We know where the mound builders came from. They were white. We know their ancestors came from Carthage." Mr. Furrier says he is now in touch with various Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota organizations interested interest-ed in Indian research. He says there is one newspaper corporation that is willing to aid Mr. Blackmail in financing the work should the state legislature turn it down and he is hastening to inform Mr. Blackmail of the fact.. This newspaper syndicate, not yet prepared to officially announce its intentions, in-tentions, is willing to take the work up through the entire region as soon as spring opens. Mr. Furrier was going to Lincoln to spend a day with Mr. Blackman before returning to Chicago. |