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1 The Present Situation of Indian Affairs 1 (1912)

handle is hein.amindian/presitaf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 86.-Second Series-35ool INDIAN RIGHTs ASSOCIATION, 709 PROVIDENT BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PA. February 15, 1912. THE PRESENT SITUATION OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. For several years past the conditions under which our Indians are working their way to civilization have been such as greatly to jeopardize the success of the final issue and to give the greatest anxiety to their independent and unofficial friends among the white race. The Boston Citizenship Committee, the Indian Rights Association, and. other voluntary societies for promoting the welfare of the Indian, have always, during approximately thirty years past, been obliged to contend with various forms of official indifference, incompetency, or actual wrong-doing and corruption, in their efforts to protect the Indian in the transitory state which lies between barbarism and complete individuality and full citizenship. Living far removed from civilization, and usually surrounded by the least scrupulous of our own race, controlled on the government side by a Department, a Bureau, and agents and their subordinates whose complexion has been political rather than business-like and humanitarian, it is no wonder that the very name of the Indian service was a stench of cor- ruption in the public nostrils, in the old days when General Grant's Peace Policy first began to accustom the public mind to the thought that the Indian was something higher than a brute beast made to be taken and destroyed. But since that time great changes for the better have come about, together with a radical transformation in the con- ditions external to the Indian reservation and within the Indian himself The intelligent conscience of the citizens of this country, expressing itself through the organizations 1 Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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