Show LEAV THEM LEAVE THEM INDIA INDIANS S t COMMISSIONER LEUPP OF INDIAN AFFAIRS A AGAINST HIGHER EDUCATION The Red Man is 15 Orl Original and Should not be Considered Merely White With a Du Dusky ky Skin Highly InterestIng Interest Interest- t. t In log Ing Resort The Indian should be an Indian and nothing more So says Commissioner of Indian Affairs Affairs Af At- fairs Francis E. E Leupp in his annual report He does not believe the In Indian ian should be educated for higher professions professions professions in the great colleges of the country country coun coun- try to the neglect of his sound and practical learning His report is beyond any doubt the most interesting one ever received from the Indian Office Over Made-Over Indians Useless The over made-over Indian he says is bound to be like Uke the Navajo blanket from which all the Navajo has been expurgated neither expurgated neither one thing tiling nor the other I like the Indian for what is Indian in him I want him to retain all his old contempt for hunger thirst cold and danger when he has anything to do I love the spirit of manly independence in in- independence dependence which moved a copper col ored sage once to beg that I would intercede Intercede In in- with the Great Father and throttle a proposal to send rations to his people because it would pauperize their young men and make them slaves to the whites Mr Leupp declares that the common mistake of w white ite men dealing with In Iii I Ji i tr COMMISSIONER CO F E. E LEUPP is that they proceed upon the idea that the red man Is merely a whiteman whiteman white whiteman man with a dusky skin Another mistake mistake mistake mis mis- take is to class the Indian with the colored man Lead Him Back Since he became Indian Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- Mr Leupp has appointed in several several sev sev- eral of the schools a teacher who supervises supervises su suo the study of native music The duties of ot this teacher are to lead leaa the Indian back to the sublime and patriotic thoughts of his forefathers The Indian is a natural warrior a natural logician a natural artist We have room for all three In ou out highly organized social system Let us not make the mistake in the process of absorbing absorbing absorbing ab ab- them of washing out of ot them whatever is distinctly Indian Our aboriginal aboriginal aboriginal ab ab- original brother brings as his contribution contri contri- to the common store of character character char char- acter a great deal which is admirable bl and which needs only to be developed along the right line Our proper work worl with him is improvement not trans formation |