Excerpt from The New York Indian Complex and How to Solve It A certain English critic of American progress recently said, America has long boasted that She is the melting pot of the world, but for the past fifty years the racial elements in America have refused to melt. However true or untrue this may be of the immigrant groups from Europe, it is to a large extent true of the Indians of New York state. Within our state there are more than tribal Indians living on reservations. While to all outward appearances they are ...
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Excerpt from The New York Indian Complex and How to Solve It A certain English critic of American progress recently said, America has long boasted that She is the melting pot of the world, but for the past fifty years the racial elements in America have refused to melt. However true or untrue this may be of the immigrant groups from Europe, it is to a large extent true of the Indians of New York state. Within our state there are more than tribal Indians living on reservations. While to all outward appearances they are civilized, these tribal Indians yet retain a certain tribal independence and are self-governing. The Onondaga nation and the Seneca nation of Indians go so far as to assert that they still live on their ancestral land and that while the State of New York has grown up around them they are yet not in the State of New York. Ea'ch claims to be a nation and living under the protection of certain treaty rights that guarantee to them their sovereignty. Indeed some of the other tribes make this claim under the treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, proclaimed on' January 21st, 1795, asserting that article 2 of this treaty promised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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