Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1878 — Not Dying Out. [ARTICLE]

Not Dying Out.

The ettrrent notion that the American Indians were gradually fading awty before fne onward progress of the white men has, of late, .received several rude shocks. Not the least forcible of these as* the arguments advanced by Col. Mallory. He shows tost official returns of the birth and -death rates of a large number of the tribes over which, in accordance with treaty, the United States Government exercises some measure of oanteol, indioata an excess of births, and this has gone on for a long period, so that some Indians, the Sioux confederacy for instance, have quadrupled According to this authority, and it cannot be demed that he has made an exhaustive wad imjpgtitt study of the subject, there are if not quite, as many Indians living on this continent north.of the Mexioan border now as there wire living in the same territory at thO time pC Columbus; while if thosewho.hatwa mined but partially Indian ancestfV Were taKOn into account, tie jHii*>er%6uM bje OonsideraMy larger now than it' Was 408 years ago. CoL Mallery estimate# the number of Inmans north of the Bio Grande River at jfcO.OOO souls, and states that toil, amount a liberal computation evenlfor preqolonial days. * At toat tima tjp red men were not found scattered: over districts of toe country ; on tos#)nf|ry, they were s|mH| rehSaved from the seaboard, the great lakes and toe principalrivers. The rest opthls continent seems to hate been jvhmly uninhabited; but travelers ants ffolonists met Indians when traversing 'those water-routes, and inferred from this that the land lying baok dffheto was equally well inhabited. If Col. Mallery’s deductions eswittswtre: terrible effsot of cmlization upon the Indian has been the subject of more poetic and sympathetic regret than ahy other phase iq our history.— N. T. Timet.