300 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
The control of his interests is erected into a separate bureau which has no organic 
union nor necessary interdependence with the life and general civil interests of 
the country. On the contrary, its dealings with the Indians have in not a few 
instances been so conducted as to bring their interests into apparently direct 
conflict with the general interests of the community. In fine, the Indian bureau 
has come to be spoken of and is systematically treated as a most undesirable 
public burden Instead of there being any well organized and sustained effort 
to identify the Indian with, or to prepare him for entrance into the body politic 
as a useful vital force, the general tendency of our present system is to keep him 
distinctly and emphatically debarred from most of its special privileges and 
immunities. And not only is this true as related to the direct work of the 
government with the Indians, but in practice the spirit of its policy has paralyzed 
nearly every effort from other sources (as charitable societies) in their behalf. 
The material surroundings and conditions in which they are kept by the govern- 
ment will not admit of nor sustain the Indians’ essential moral elevation. 
Whether a reorganization of our Indian policy is practicable, as public affairs. 
are now administered, is a grave question; if not, it isa vital weakness. What 
is required is a system which shall have as its only aim the fitting of the Indian 
for an early investiture with the full rights of citizenship, and the moment he 
becomes such, that he comes to realize that he has a rightful place as part of the 
State, it is not consonant with the laws of human nature that he should continue 
to decline. To fully discuss this phase of the Indian question would require a 
volume. My only desire here is to mark it as having been an element in hasten- 
ing the Indians’ decay. 
Il. This is a most important factor in the consideration of our subject; yet 
it is one that is difficult of a proper presentation. I do not flatter myself, more- 
over, that it will at first blush secure any very extended acceptation. The 
measure here suggested is to be gathered from the last cause assigned for their 
decay. If it is undeniable that Indian blood has become corrupt by the admix- 
ture of a vitiated blood from whatever source, then it is physiologically a most 
natural method that it might be reinvigorated by the infusion of a new, untainted 
element, and the problem becomes much simpler if the strain thus engrafted is 
from a superior stock. Historically it may be accepted as demonstrated that the 
sturdiest and most persistent types of the human family have often sprung from 
the union of two differentiated stocks, the one of which presents the highly 
organized, intense element, while the other affords the heavier physical stamina. 
Fortunately we have afforded,us excellent and abundant illustration of this very 
phenomenon in Indian history. The old voyageurs, the courteurs des bois, and 
even the more unadventurous of the French pioneers of Canada, who chose the 
prosaic life of farmers, in considerable numbers formed alliances with native 
women. From this diverse parentage has sprung a large portion of the present 
population of Canada. Even in the older and more densely settled districts of 
the Dominion the greater part of the population (excluding recent immigration) 
