Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1881 — Indian Girls’ Husbands. [ARTICLE]

Indian Girls’ Husbands.

The Indian girl who becomes educated seldom marries an Indian. She prefers a white man. If she marries an Indian, she will become a common squaw and his servant. The half-breeds in the nation are looked up to. They control the other Indians, as the mulatto controls the full black. So the educated Indian girl (and there are hundreds of college graduates in the nation) marries a white, that her children may be half-breeds. It is really unpopular to be a full-blooded Indian, and the popularity of the pure Indian is gradually fading ont of the raoe* —Chicago Tribune, -