San Fransisco, Nov, 16.
One of the most. interesting themes in certain academic circles round the world is whether the In-Gian population of America to-day ison the increase or dserease. Charges are made from time to time that the Government of the United States dees very little for the In-chas in reservation,, and it is gen rally believed that they are rapidly.
1910 the total had reached more than fifteen rail lion, receding during. the next decade by nearly a million. Indian community life and language lure preserved in many regions in Mexico, but they are on the wane, Other Central American and South American countrioy where the Indian forms a very high percentage of the total population are Guatamala, Salvador, Honduras, Colom off. Of course, for the whol jo tio, Ecuador, Pera and ' Bolivia is Impossible t.- pro-Elsewhere, according to Mr, Spi statistics for the proportion the proportion is always.con-of Indian Mcod in the present iderable even in the case of Argen-perulation, but Mr. LI. J, Spinde ina and Chile, which fail to make the Peabody Museum at Harvat adequate returns in their censuses University, who has made exhaus-of such Indian blood as does survive tive ctadies of this important ques. #mong accultured aborigines. tion, declares categorically that SPinden summarizes, thus (always, there ove fewer Fidians to day than [5 he says, making allowance at thy coring of the Ernopeans, mixed He says that the present equivalent values) fof the Indian blood in the New North. America nort "in excess of 25,000,000) ale Contra Amea "2,800,000 Mr, Spinden contributes an, ex: tremely informative and readable odel 6,000,000 article ¢n this subject in the October issue of "The Geographical Review," quoting figures, reviewing important, factors in depopulation, in which 26,080,000 disease ranks high, and particularly In the West Indies hardly a drop dealing with the ancient " Indian of the old American bleod can now civilization north of Mexico—all of be found,—indeed, the Spaniards which should be of great interest had searcely set foot on the teeming: to all thinking Americans. He says Jands before the native population that the present Indian population melted away, in the New World is much larger Maya Civilization than most persons might imagine from their knowledge of conditions In the course of his article, Mr. north of Mexico.
Vor Greenland, Spinden, reminding us that" the Canada, Alaska and the
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