Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-02-02 | Page 7 | American Indian Soon to Disappear

-oo AMERICAN INDIAN SOON TO DISAPPEAR Washington, Feb. 2. The prediction predic-tion that the Tullblooded American Indian will have disappeared in a half century was made here today by Victor M. Locke, governor of the Choctaw nation, ono of the five civilized civ-ilized tribes. He estimates that there are 100,000 fullbloods living today. Governor Locke attributes the enormous enor-mous death rate among tho fullblood-ed fullblood-ed Indians in the last few years to pneumonia and other diseases of the lungs. "It is not strange, however, when one thinks about it," he Baid. "Half- VW breeds and quarterbreeds are perhaps naturally not so hardy a race as tho fullblood, but the latter are not adapt- . ed to the new manner of living which the government has prescribed for them. The mixed bloods are. WMj "Give the old Indian the opportun- IH ity to rove the plains again, let him IH hunt for his food and he will con-tinue con-tinue to live for many years." nn H