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Show INDIANS IN UNITED STATES How the Red Man Is "Turning Defeat Into Tridmph" Increasing Attendance Attend-ance Shown at Schools. No longer can ft be said that the only good Indian is a dead Indian. That statement, born of ignorance of the real character of the Indian, Is now definitely eliminated from the list of epigrams by a report of the census bureau on the present Indian population popula-tion in the United States. While the report shows a much lower low-er rate of growth for the Indian population popu-lation than for the white, an increasing increas-ing mixture of white blood, and decreasing de-creasing vitality of full-blood Indians, indicating a tendency to disappear altogether, al-together, it also shows Increasing attendance at-tendance at school and decreasing illiteracy, il-literacy, an increase in the percentage percent-age of the self-supporting and a decrease de-crease in the number of reservation Indians. While the report shows that there were 265,683 Indians in the United States, exclusive of Alaska, in 1910, an increase of 17,430, or 7 per cent over the number reported in 1890 there are about 300,000 Indians in this country at the present time. Among them are to be found manufacturers .bankers, United States officials, me chanlcal engineers, locomotive engi neers, telegraph operators, actors artists, clergymen, college professors physicians, surgeons and lawyers. Th( Indian has turned defeat into triumph He has played the game according tc the rules laid down by civilizatioi and has won. |