Show SHANKS AND THE INDIANS shanks of indiana makes a long string of suggestions suggestion s with respect to relations with the indiana Ind lans laus some of these suggestions are very judicious and others appear to us to bo be very injudicious tle the indians should be protected iu in every practicable way from the im positions of white men and white people should be properly protected from the depredations ot indians but to dragoon indians into th the e civilization of white people would be as unreasonable as to dragoon white people into the habits of df the indians to interfere with the domestic relations of the indians or indeed with those of any people further thau than to properly punish violations ther thereof eod eor does not seem to us to lie within tiie tile legitimate jurisdiction of a federal congress to compel indians to adapt the costume of white men would bea boa be a difficult matter though many indians would wear portions of tile the clothing usually worn by whites without compulsion indians like white while men should bo be led rather than driven to drive a people to abandon their life long and bradl dional habits is a difficult and unsatisfactory undertaking but in the course of two or three generations they might be led to make such ouch a change |