Garland Globe | 1906-04-14 | Page 5 | Indian Soon to be a Memory

1 INDIAN SOON TO BE A MEMORY. The Epic of the American Red Man Has Closed. Llko tho Moorish king Abu Abdnl-lah Abdnl-lah looking mournfully backward nt his lost Granada, Geronlmo from Fort Sill gnzes westward across prairies and hills to tho Arizona of his great days which ho will not seq again. Up at Pino Rldgo agency tho Sioux nonogcnnrlan Red Cloud, tho most famous of living Indian wnrrlors, who could tell as many mnrvels as Aeneas told to Dido, refuses to accept tho government's offer of an allotment of land and goes down llko Dickens' Stccrforth In the storm at Yarmouth, waving his hands defiantly In tho faco of destiny. Most of Hercules' labors looked light compared with the task which tho late Henry L. Dawes undertook- when ho and tho commission crated under tho law of 1893 started out to Induce the Choctaws, tho Creeks and their neighbors to allot their lands to tholr members as Individuals, In-dividuals, to abolish their tribal government gov-ernment nnd to merge thcmsolves in tho mass of tho country's citizenship. That work has been grandly finished. The Inst councils of the Flvo Tribes havo been held. Tho oplc of tho American Indian has closed. Atlantic Monthly,