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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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.There is reason to believe that the future ofsome of the South American countries will beas much in the hands of the Indians as in thoseof the whites. In Mexico, parts of Central.\merica, Colombia, Peru, and Chile, the strainof Indian blood represents able and intellectualaboriginal peoples. In certain parts of SouthAmerica, and, sporadically in northeastern NorthAmerica, intermingling of Indians and negroeshas occurred, giving rise to the so-called Ca-fusos, etc., of Brazil, and a few other smallgroups. The mixture of white-Indian-negro isalso found here and there. In some of theSpanish-American countries there is a specialvocabular) to designate the numerous degrees ofmetissage. In the Canadian Northwest the half-breeds have taken a prominent part in the de-velopment of the country (one noted metis, Nor-quay, was premier of the province of Manitoba),and they are likewise noteworthy in the annalsof the northwestern United States. In Mexicoand Central America, not alone the metis but
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STONY INDIANS %vp;ARIN(; RICH OTTER AND KkMlNK TRoIIlIKS INDIANS the Indians themselves have produced cclehralcdmen. Juarez, the Uberator of Mexico, a reallygreat man, was a full-blood Zapotec, and Presi-dent Barrios of Guatemala a Cakchiquel (Mayanstock). Treatment by Whites.—Thit ill treatment ofthe American Indian by the whites has oftenbeen such as to stamp with eternal dishonor theconquering race. l\Iassacres, broken treaties,land-robbing, commercial swindles, etc., markthe path of advancing civilization,* — English,Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish have allbeen guilty at some lime or other. The Englishin Newfoundland, the Americans in the West,the Castilians in northern Mexico and Yucatan,have exterminated or sought to exterminatewhole tribes. We must, however, believe thatthe accounts of the early chroniclers concern-ing the millions* of Indians slaughtered by theSpaniards, were the customary exaggerations ofthose who sing the victors deeds. Peru andMexico, for example

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