Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1897 — Civilization Does Not Stick. [ARTICLE]

Civilization Does Not Stick.

Seymour Foose, an old Kansan, who now resides In Blaine Count}', Oklahoma, gives an Interesting account of how difficult it is to make civilization stick with the Indian. A number of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians have been sent from Blaine County to be educated in the white man’s ways, most of them to the school at Carlisle. On their return they will carry all of the evidence's of civilization—dress in white man’s clothes and speak English well. A few weeks’ contact with the tribe works wonders. The first indication of their return to savagery is the manner in which they let their hair grow long. Next they become reticent, and a few moutlis puts them into the blankets and The fact is, the wild Indians laugh at the educated ones and shame them into returning to the savage state. Red Bird, a chief of the Cheyennes, is a graduate of Harvard, but he wears blankets and paints his face with vermilion.—Wichita (Kan.) Eagle.