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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.
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