Just a note to add to the "Indian Problem", my great grandmother was Cherokee. Now, these folks were supposedly assimilated into white culture many, many years ago. According to anecdotal stories, her grandfather took an, uhh, early out from the Trail of Tears (so much for assimilation) in the southern Illinois area. Years and generations passed when my parents were married in 1936. My mom told me that she got "comments" re marrying a man with Indian background. There would've been no Indian school issue in southern Illinois for sure. Anything more than a fourth grade education for whites was frowned upon as wasting time in "higher education"..!