The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 17, No. 7, Ed. 1, Saturday, July 1, 1905 Page: 2 of 34
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204 THE IND1AN ADVOCATE
The Indian.
By C. C. Conroy.
TPhe question of educating and civilizing the Indians has been
a source of contention and strife in the United States ever
since the assembling of the first congress. Soon after taking
office as President George Washington suggested that one
of the great works which lay before the government was the
task of teaching the Indian to take his place as a citizen of the
new Republic and his duties and responsibilities in regard
to himself and to his white neighbor. Thomas Jefferson thought
that the question could be definitely settled by banishing the
Indian to frontier reservations and as was generally the case
Jefferson's idea prevailed and has been ever since the cause
of much trouble to both Indian and white. The Indian popu-
lation gradually retreated westward before the march of civi-
lization and it was only after all parts of the country had been
united by the railroad and the telegraph that the more serious
side of the Indian question became apparent. The Indian re-
treated while he was able and although constantly diminish-
ing in numbers he enjoyed a certain amount of liberty until
he was finally hemmed in on every side. But long before this
took place Catholic missionaries had penetrated the mountain
fastnesses of the West and on the shores of the Pacific by the
lakes of the North on the frozen plains of Minnesota and
under the balmy skies of the Southwest communities of In-
dians were enjoying a peace and tranquillity unknown to the
roving pioneer in his never-ending search for wealth.
The stay of the wrongs praticed on the Indians; the unjust
confiscation of their lands; treaties made and broken at the
will of the whites; all these things are too well known to
require repetition. The two decades following the close of
the Civil War saw an enormous wave of emigration roll West-
ward and brought home to the government the fact that if
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