European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Are no Custer crude Bridge links Indian Pueblo at Taos , with White Man s by John Reese staff writer Rree vanishing americans 1 Are no longer vanishing. The american indians Are in fact a and Are ejected to number about 875,000 by 1990.nobody knows just How Many in a Liana there were in what is now thess by a St when the Tost Whites name to North America. But it is sate to assume that there were several million. With the increasing flood of White settlers and their relentless push West Ward dung the 18th and 19th centuries Rhein world shrank steadily an the Indian population along with it. The dutch colonist Peter Stuyvesant you ardently set the precedent when hem Manhattan Island from some indians for a handful of beads. No that land is probably the most valuable piece of real estate in the worlds America expanded the indians battled fiercely and tenaciously to in Tain their land. In the Battle of the Little big Horn the Sioux wiped out a Large detach ment of Gen. George Custer s 7th cavalry. And the depredations of face Fronimo the implacable Apache chief f the. Southwest have been Many of Century the tons to eke out an existence under government supervision. As late As 1960the year of thelast official census-472 000, out of a total of 523,600 . Indians lived on All the indians herded onto reservations led lives of poverty. In the Early 1900s Oil was discovered on in Dian lands in Oklahoma ringing vast wealth to some indians mainly Osage. But Here again countless indians urn surrounding Palm Springs Are some300,000 acres of arid land thought to be almost valueless when turned Overto to indians in Exchange for mor Fertile More valuable land. With the development of the desert area around Palm Springs the value of the Indian land has skyrocketed. Red men had been herded on to Reserva we promising real estate in Indian hands. Oklahoma Indian tribes vement to -. Indian America. The map indicate the original homelands of some of them a tribes thai a re Rew led whew. To airfare not Only with whiles but among themselves was a Way of we for most Indian tribes. Some tribe were More peaceable than others by the majority of Indian men attained social stature Only j1T.,War. The men fought and hunted and the women performed most of the a so it was Little wonder that the White Man coming to the new would encountered a fearsome adversary nth Indian Warrior who had Heen Hamelin stealth hardship cruel y and ski with weapons. The Western Plain medians Sioux cheyennes Shoshoni blackfeet and Arapahoe have Bee described As the greatest Light cavalry in the world.". For hundreds of years jgj1g wars and other pressures Over Laid a Indian population with a pattern disruption and movement. The Huron who originally Eastern great laes area eventually Ings they move to Quebec ant there or descendants in the Wutti Century Jeff indians inhabited Usi Miles of the great Uli included the in wrap 10 th6 stars and stripes on sunday
