Questions from Jens in comment section

Yesterday, Jens wrote concerning a question about why the white men would marry indian women but that he could find no evidence that indian men married white women. His question is, why? To this, Western Writer answers, there are many reasons we can explore, some can be discovered in sociology. I believe these are facts: (1) most societies want to "marry up"; in northwestern California, those white men who married Indian women were known as "buckskin men"; a slander that I will discuss in the forthcoming book about the Wailakki. (2) often, in northwestern California, the white men who married native women abandoned them when white women began to arrive in California (the first white men came alone in search of gold, land, and adventure); (3) if a white woman was to marry an Indian man, she would be "marrying down" - way down. I am adding here an observation made by a graduate student from Columbia University, when she visited the Wailakki/Lassik and other tribes at Round Valley Reservation -

[Amelia Susman visited Round Valley in 1937 wrote of the conditions there. The turn-of-the-century Dawes Act promised reservation land would be divided up and given to individual Indians, but this, too, worked against the Native people. Lots were only ten acres (five acres for a married woman) -- too small for anything but truck farming, which required equipment, credit, and lots of market savvy. Susman found many of the Indians leasing their land to whites. But as always, there was a Catch-22 for the Indians: the whites set the price of the rent.
She also found the valley as segregated as the Deep South. Reporting that whites made no secret of their claims to superiority, they told her racist tales of drunken Indians involved in "cutting scrapes." There was no mingling of the two cultures; like in the South, whites only spoke well of Indians when they were servants.]

A cousin of Western Writer obtained a plot in Round Valley in the Dawes Act era. Plots in that Valley were purposely small, so that the natives could not join their land to make a space large enough for cattle grazing or for raising large grain crops. The "rules" were set in place with the intent to marginalize the native peoples and to eventually reduce their numbers - a form of extermination. Another facet of living on the reservation was that the rez was managed by a major United States church and the natives lived under "Christian" rules or they could not stay. Indian languages were not allowed to be spoken. Indian traditions were not to be practiced. Children, when they came of a certain age, were sent away to "Indian Schools" where they were further indoctrinated in "civilized behavior" according to the Euro-American standards.

Life in the Round Valley region had not changed much for the better as of 1995, when Western Writer was living in the Wailakki home country of southern Trinity county - just to the south was Round Valley. Here, from the Albion Monitor of Mendocino County is a link to go to www.monitor.net/monitor/9-2-95/indianwars.html

I would like very much to have commentary on these facts of native american life.