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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 6, 1 June 1883, Page 23

rf;* ===== t-," 4 Tb<? New Yoi'h Sun of March 21 publishes this interesting note :—: — : - .-, " William P. Ross, the present chief of the Cherokee Indians, is a | graduate of an eastern college, remarkable for intelligence and culture, and a fine orator. The tribe occup : es a reservation of 4,000,000 y acres, bounded on the north and east by Kansas, Missouri, and .' Arkansas. The Cherokees of pure and mixed blood number 20,336, ' i one-half of whom speak the English language, which is the 'jv^fcjjr one taught in the schools. In the entire male population there }?, are' but sixteen whose occupation is given in the last census as '■. hunters and five fishermen, the great majority being farmers. There X are 107 schools supported by the nation, a male and a female semi- • nary for advanced pupils, and an orphan asylum. There is a regularly- - constituted government and an adequate administration of justice. ""£- In short, the Cherokee nation is not to be distinguished from a fron'2-'' tier State, except in the character of its inhabitants, their relations to the general Government, and their system of holding the land in * in common, wbich affords an interesting example of practical Com b i Monism."