The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1, Friday, February 1, 1907 Page: 3 of 33
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1HE INDiAxN ADVuCAl'b 43
almost as well known in St. Louis and Washington as he
is in Muskogee. President Roosevelt regards him as the
best posted Indian on current affairs and politics he has
ever seen. Chief Porter represents the progressive ele-
ment of his race. He is a man of high education; who has
advanced ideas and often turns off as fine a bit of rhetoric
as in these days is heard from a platform. Chief Porter
is wealthy. He has large property interests in Muskogee
and landed interests in the Creek nation.
John Brown governor of the Seminoles has furnished
the finest example of a paternal government that has been
seen in this country in the past half a century. For twenty-five
years he has absolutely dominated the nation and
controlled its affairs. And he has done it wisely. For
twenty-five years he has been the chief of the nation with
the exception of one term; when a full-blood was elected.
Hulputta Micco died and the Seminoles realizing their
mistake again called Brown to the chieftaincy. He is half
Scotch and half Indian. He is a brainy man and was the
first to realize that the disintegration of the Indian tribes
was at hand and secured the first and best treaty with the
government.
A Debate.
By W. J. Roach.
THE Indian has received from the hands of the Whites
more ill-treatment than the Negro. In studying the his-
tory ol the American Indian and the policy of the white
people in dealing with him we are confronted by some of
the most absurd yet true facts of our national life. The
absurdity shows up here: when we opened our ports and
welcomed all who came we at the same time with unlimited
cruelty were engaged in exterminating the original owner of
the soil the Indian. We placed every obstacle in the way
of his happiness and we deprived him of his land his liberty
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