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Show I SAYS INDIANS NOT A VANISHING RACE That the American Indians are a vanishing race has frequently been asserted of late. In only one sense is this true, according to statistics. As a race proper, the Indians are assimilating assimilat-ing the ideas, teachings and mode of life of the white man and so losing their identity, but as a matter of fact they are increasing in numbers, are more prosperous, healthier as a result of education in sanitation, more industrious indus-trious than they have ever been before be-fore and are better cared for by the government, through the office of Indian In-dian affairs, than at any time in the history of the red man in the United ' States. Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs Af-fairs Abbott speaking of the Indian situation says: "The Indian race is vanishing only in the sense that modern standards and habits of civilization are displacing displac-ing those of a former day and applying apply-ing those qualities In the Indian, al- ways virile, noble and worthy, to the new and modern industrial mode of life. "The work of the Indian bureau in caring for the Indian's interests is increasing in-creasing and must continue to increase for years to come." |