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1984 MAY 19,

CRUSADE FOR RED INDIANS ON VERGE OF SUCCESS

NEW GLEAN OF HOPE TO DISILLUSIONED RACE

END OF MISRULE HERALDED

BY RODNEY DUTCHER

The dirtiest, meanest chapter of American history. soon may be rewritten.

The American Indians-cheated, robbed, starved, slaughtered, deceived and demoralized for many decades -suddenly find their best friends in positions of ad- ministrative power.

A programme for racial rehabilitation now is before Congross. If adopted, tho Indian of the reservations may get acquainted with the Indian on the nickel.

But the numerous whites of this country, in their attitude to- ward the onco quite noble red man, are divided into three groups:

1. The few who burn with In

dignation at the wrongs inflicted Ickes and Solicitor Nathan Mar- upon him and now demand an In-gold of the Interior Department, dian New Deal.

two other veteran champions of the Bloux, the Pueblos, the Crows, the Arapahoes, the Blackfeet, the Choy. ennca, the Navajos, the Cherokees, and all the rest.

2. The hundred million or more who recall the Indian vaguely as a romantic historical character, but Imow nothing of his present plight and don't care,

3. The few who have fattened on plundering the Indians and who want to keep right on doing that until they got the last Indian's last

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FIGHT FOR RIGHTS.

The first and third groups now are at grips on Capitol Hill, for and against the Wheeler-Howard bill, which would restore and con- serve both lands and tribal govern- ment for Indians, train Indians in administration of their own affairs, and end the czaristic rule of the Indian Bureau, which has left them a largely pauperized, bewildered group unable to cope with the proc cases of white civilization.

The two forces are fighting to persuade the 300,000 Indians, too. For this is an administration bill and the tribesmen, on the basis of long experience, distrust any pro- posal that comes out of Washing

ton.

White men who lease their land, who seek their timber, minerals, and other proporties are telling them It's just one more step In their ruination.

Washington never knew a more vigorous, effective crusader than this small, spectacled, single-pur- posed Collier. He became the In-

Representatives of a down-trodden, disillusioned race, these Indian loaders came to the Rapid City, S. D. congruia fired with hone of a new deal. · Left to right, they are Four Souls, of the Gros Ventron, Montana; Luke Big Turnip, Sioux, Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakotar Good Thunder, Rosebud reservation, South Dakota, and Drags Wolf, Crow, Montana.

A crusader mests those whose cause he champions ... John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs, flanked by Blackfoot 'chinfa at the great Indian con. grase in Rapid City,

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PHIPPS seen

A WHALE HOISTED

It provides for buying new land, so that eventually all desirous In- We are accustomed to seeing the dians will have some land for their British workman putting up a own use, rather than for leasing.house, but to appreciate kie vor- It permits Indians to organize into

self-governing communities under satility you want to see him put- federal supervision, with extension ting up a whale.

of responsibility as Indians show capacity for self-rule. It would train and encourago Indians for the Indian service.

"Easy, Jim-and don't let im- awing. Now then-to you from me, and mind the flippor,

It would make administrative

If that not quite verbatim for savings sufficient to cover the costs of new land. It would create n give me. One doesn't often see a Court of Indians affaire which whale strung up to the celling as if would reduce the present absolute - It were just a big ham. power of the Indian Bureau.

MIXED WITH WHITES.

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You mustn't imagino na Indian reservation as a block of territory which only Indiana dwell. White men bought Manhattan Is lond for $24 and the present allot- ment law has permitted them to buy up reservation land in the samo manker.

Thus, your reservation shows a checkerboard of white-owned and Indian-owned land which indientes the difficulty of over solidifying the Indians again.

The ceremony took place the other day at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, S.W It was a moving ceremony, But before I describe it I had better explain the circumstances--and the

whale

On Wednesday, March 25, 1892, Mr. Edward Wickham, an Irish fisherman living at Wexford Har bour, noticed a commotion in the water near the harbour mouth. Mr. Wickham jumped into his boat and examined the commotion from, It was easy for white land-grab a respectful distance, and at once bors to propagandize among In- perceived it to be something that: dians against the Collier bill. They would make even the

"Angler's spread word that Indian land-own-Rest" sit up and think...... ere were to have their land taken and distributed among landless In- diane.

They said the programme was "communistle and socialistic," since it permitted Indians to organize for their own protection and develop

to respect Indian religious and so-ment. cial customs.

He staffed the bureau here with ́| able, sympathetic men and began weeding out crooks and incompe- tents in the field. Ho undertook to revive Indian tribal councils and give Indians a voice in their affairs.

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"ASYLUM" IS ABOLISHED.

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MAKES SPECTACULAR MOVE.

Collier quickly answered that propaganda by calling a spectacu- far and unprecedented serios of congresses of Indians, at which the red men would be told about the bill and allowed to give their own opinions on it. He said he

You've guessed It. It was 6 blue whale, alias Sibbald's Rorqual, alias Balaenoptera. Sibbaidli. And it was a whale of a whale, It was A sandbank, and at stranded on first definitely resented Mr. Wick

ham

By the next day, however, it had lost so much vitality in its efforts to leave Ireland that Mr. Wickham was able to sail up and puncture it with an improvised.

(What a night that "Angler's Rest"!)

harpoon. was at the

Subsequently the British Museum authorities acquired the skeleton.. which was called for, wrapped up, and brought home.

He began to put the boarding | would abide by their decision, schools out of business and obtain- He left for the west-and hat ed $3,000,000 of PWA money to reports were that the great ma build Indian day schools. Ho abol-jority of Indians favoured the prin-

Unfortunately the whale was 82 lehed the scandalous asylum for in- ciples of his bill.

feet in length, and although, of Indians at Canton, 3. D.,, Unofficial supporters of the muca-

course, there is a Whale Hall at where many patients weren't in- sure are headed by the American

South Kensington, the authorities sane at all."

Indian Defense Association, under diana' first real champion 11 years | ROBBED OF LAND.

trol; there were huge wastes in

He organized emergency conser Allen G. Harper, Colller founded hadn't got a vacancy that size. ago, when he led representatives of

federal expenses chiefly on board-vation work for Indians, especially the A.ID.A, and as its executive So for 42 years the bonca have When Collier took office, the In-ing schools, which removed chil- trying to developing Indian leaders.secretary carried on his unrelant been lying, so to speak, en cua- The Indian cause in America for the 17 Pueblos of New Mexico to

dian Bureau record showed Д dren from their parents; wholesale But he regards the bill as years has consisted principally of Washington and beat Secretary Al John Collier, And Collier has been bert B. Fail's Bursum bill, which shrinkage in Indias lands since graft and exploitation end a con- Without it, he believes, the Ing warfare against the tactics and sorolc, in the basement store-rooms how- policies of the bureau which he at the museum. Recently, 1887 of from 113,000,000 to 47,000,-tinuous disinheriting process under will continue on the path of pau- now commands.

ever, the completion of the new 000 acres shrinkage representing the allotment system which had perization to miserable extinction: Congress may prove apathetle at building has created more whale. the best lands; tribal funds dis-left 100,000 homeless Indians just as a race. The measure consoli- this session. But Collfer, a white room, and

now the Wexford sipated from $500,000,000 in that squatting around wherever anyone dates Indian-owned land inte tribal man, will keep right on fighting for Wanderer, beautifully pieced to your to $12,000,000, and $3 per cent. would let them stay:

or community ownership while re- the restoration of that self-respect-gether with Iron and papier mache, of tribal income belag used for bu-

to an exalted reau maintenance.

Collier, in office, prohibited saletaining ludividual use thereof anding, self-governing Indian civiliza has been holated of Indian lands.Ho ordered roser Inheritance rights, but prohibits tion which other white men have position eight feet from the roof

taken away.

of the new hall. Politicians were in complete con-vation and agency superintendente sale thereof."

made Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The bill is Collier's an- swer to the Indian problem. The Indians trust him more than any other white man.

COLLIER GREAT CRUSADER.

Behind Collier aro Secretary

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would have confirmed aquatters on Indian land and wiped out the Pueblo religious rites.

Exposing one scandal after an other, he promoted and directed the Senate Investigation which drove a commissioner and an assistant commissioner from office.

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