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Justice and Fair Dealing for every Indian who desires to become a good Citizen. THE TOMAHAWK. Official Organ of the Minnesota Chippewas. B. L. FAIRBANKS Owner. L. LOGAN, Editor and Publisher, Published Weekly at White Earth Agency, Minnesota. Entered ai the Postoffice at White Earth, .Minn., as mail matter oi the econd class. SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE CHIPPEWA AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. N Washington, D. C. .Jan. 15, 1920. Special to THE TOMAHAWK.) Mr. John G. MorrisoD, Presi dent of the Chippewa General Council, and Messrs B. L. Fair banks, Edward L. Rogers and Paul H. Beaulieu, members of the Legislative Committee of the Gen eral Council, arrived in Washing ton last Saturday. The Committee immediately went into session and considered the work done by Mr. B. J. Warren, member of the (Legislative Committee who has been in Washington, and Webster Ballinger, attorney for the Council. The items ofv appropriations for the next fiscal year were consider ed with care, likewise the Steener son Drainage Bill and the bill for the winding up of the affairs of the Chippewa people. As a re sult of the meeting of the Commit tee the following items were ap proved by the committee relative to appropriations for the. Chip pewas during the next fiscal year: $15,000 for the support of old and indigent members of the tribe. Last year the department' used a little over $8,000 for this purpose. Complaint had been made that there was suffering among the old members of the tribe, and the committee decided to increase the amount this year to |15,000, or so much thereof as mayfbe necessary. |20,000 is appropriate^ for fche hospitals a Vh,it Ea/th, I$ed ^ake, and Fond du Lac. This is |wjce the amount used last year by $he department* but as the Secre tory is authorised to use only so much of the 120,000 as may be necessary, the committee deemed it best to increase the amount to $20,000 particularly as many com plaints had been received about the closing of the hospitals at Fond du Lac and White Earth. $20 000 is appropriated for the. establishment, construction and equipment oi additional public school houses to be operated under tne control of the State Public gph^ol System. This is a ngw ap propriation and is intended to pro Vide public schools at the homes of many Indian children now in the (government Boarding schools. When these schools areequipped they will be maiptaiued by the State at no expense to the tribe. The $20,000 represents less than one year's expense of maintaining 70 children in boarding schools, and will, provide public school facilities for probably 200 or 25,0 Indian children, resulting jn a saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars in future years to the tribe. The regular appropriation of $10,000 for the council was agreed upon. $10,000 for the construction of roads on the Bed Lake Reser vation, 'v^tEkJi $5,000 to be paid from the proceeds of Indian labor, Red Lake Agency. $1,400, to be paid from the proceeds of Indian labor, White Earth Agency. These items were submitted to the Indian Bureau, with the re quest that any appropriation made for the agencies, that is for the pay and expenses of agency em ployees, should ^be made out of the Public Treasury and not out of the trust funds of the tribe. The Indian Bureau insisted upon an appropriation of 45.000- for agency expenses and insisted that this 'should be paid out of the trust funds. The delegation ob jected to this, but btated that it was helpless to prevent the ap propriation from the trust funds if the Department and Congress in sisted upon it but that if the ap propriation was made from the trust funds the tribe expected to recover the amount back from the Government with 'interest when ever the claims of the tribe against the Government were referred to the Court of Claims. Accordingly the Department and'the Commit tee included an item of $45,000 to cover all agency expenses at the Leech Lake, White Earth and Red Lake Agencies out of the trust funds. All the other items insist ed upon by the council were ap proved by the Department and appear in the Indian Bill. The Committee inadvertently overlooked* the item of $1,000 for the White Earth celebration. This has been called to the attention of the Committee and the delegation ib assured that the item will be inserted in the brtl when it comes up for consideration on the floor of the House. The appropriation of 4,000 made out of the Public Treasury under the Treaty of 1867, will be used to aid the public school at White Earth and other pnblic schools in the Chippewa country. This year for the first^ time in all the history of appropriations for the Chippewas the appropria tions are separated and limited to express uses. For instance, not a dollar of the, money appropriated for the hospitals, the support of the old and indigent Indians can be used for agency expenses, ^phe same applies to every item in the hUJ. ^hp Coinmjttee decided" with reference to the Red Lake L)rain,- age Bill iutrqduged by Qoogresis* man Steenerson to insist upon amendments th^fc will protect the Red Lake Indians as well as the owners of property to be drained. The bill as introduced protects neither the Indians nor the set tlers. Senator Nelson has intro duced a drainage bill in the Senate which has been referred to the Department and upon which hear ings will be had. The Legislative, Committee will then present the case of the Red I^ake Indiana and of the settlers. The bill $o w}nd up ^he ajfairs^ of thft Chippewa Indians, ha^ pgen, held up until tb,e rgtqr.n of Assist ant Commissioner Meritt. He has been ill and it was necessary for him tp take a "*r YmjitfiQH- $P excepted bac|$ ($${ tyoBftaft t which fi#te it is expected an agree ment can be reached with the De partment upon this' much needed legislation. The department |n e,rder to. legale if possible the previous illegal expenditures from the trust funds of the Indian?, drafted a provision of law authorising a per capita payment of bw* t3.ooo.000 to tub Chippewas, and reserving "$1,000,000 oi the principal fund for expenses of administration, THE TOMAHAWK education and other* purposes." The Chippewa people have at all times objected to the use of their money for "administrative pur poses"-. The Department now proposes to withhold $1,000,000 of the principal fund to pay agency employees in Minnesota for years to come. If this is per mitted then practically all the money that may be recovered in the future from the United States, or from the sale of the remaining property can be used bj the De partment foty administrative and other expensed and it is doubtful whether the Chippewa Indians would ever receive another nickle from the estate. The General Council will not sanction this scheme. The Council is in favor of a payment to the Indians of the principal fund, but they will not consent to a large part of the fund and all the money that may be received rn the future being with held for the use of the Department. The department did not, when it pre pared the bill authorizing the per capita payment of $5,000,000, ex pect that it would be enacted into law, but offered this provision as a bait to the Indians, knowing that the General Council and the Chip pewa Indians when they under stood it would oppose the pro vision on account of the reserva tions to the Department. Even if the Council should surrender the rights of the Chippewa people there is no probability that Con gress would enact the provision into law as drawn by the Depart ment, as it would immediately lay the Government liable for millions of dollars in claims. Be Cautious, Be Careful, (By Leta V. Meyers.) The Indian race today, as all through the past, is without a leader and in about the same straits as a herd of buffalo ready to plunge over a precipice and dash themselves to destruction, because they have no leader to guide them. This is sad too because the Indian race was once a powerful nation and we would hate to, lose tb,e last of then} int (ibis tragic, manner-. Pierhaps oqr leader hasn't been born yet perhaps he is already here hut is jqst waiting a proper stage Q| development, or a certain recognition, on the part of bis people.. We eannot succeed and do any thing worth while unless we or ganize and select a strong and respected leader, and a leader of our own kind. For who ever heard of a wolf or a bear being the leader of a herd of buffalo? Did the Irish people go to Burma to find a leader? No, they looked around at home an$ found a man of their, own blood, a good man, and elected him to the Presidency Order Limiting Time to File Claims and for Hearing Tb,erAn/ (Ja,n/ %-m $ta^g pi Minnesota, County of Beg&eK In Probate Court. In the Matter of the Estate of O- my-ah-wah-cumig, Decedent. Letters of administration thia 'day having been granted, to Prank. D. Beaujjeu, 0f OFFICIAL ORGAN O THE IVIINNESOTA CHIPPEWAS* Truth before Favor." Vol. XVIII. White Earth, Becker County, Minnesota, Thursday, January 20, *00i fgf No. 39 Wfijte Jfoffch, Minn., It 4$ pr4ered that the time within whjcn all creditors of the above named decedent may present claims, against his estate in this courts bt and the same hereby is, limited Jfttyffee months from and atfto* &te nereofr and that Mp^qaj-, the 4th day of P$vM. to tfejock a. v, fa ft* rohate Cpurt Rooms at th$ Cw*rt House at the city of ItetV0itt in sa.fc$ County, he, aad the same hereby i fixed an appointed as %b& time and place for hearing upon an$ amination.a^s.tment***'* Pf av suchclaim*** -\jr, .-**}1?ZV2% within tit*- aiiall be presented wunra u* um aforesaidgiven _cu notice hereof be by the publication of this order in The Tom ahawk, a weekly newspaper printed and published in said county as pro vided by law. Dated Jan. 3rd., 1921. E. O. HANSON, (SEAL) Judge of Probate. A mmmHmim of their "Republic". I've no doubt though that before they did there were ra lot of hot-headed Irishmen who spoke up and said, "Me, me, I want to be the leader, ^he President of the Irish Repub lie. I am a lawyer I'm a politi cian I'm a professor, or I'm a thoroughbred Irishman." And suopose there was a great deal of difficulty in convincing these Irishmen that it would be impos sibJe to have four Presidents, but only one who was all of the **four- in-one." Now, my dear friends, isn't there a good Indian some where in this great country who can lead his people to victory? Of course there is, only j*ou must not take such a long time to convince your self of this fact. From the North where he has made one of the best records an Indian ever made, comes a strong young fellow whose heaJ is high and whose heart is right. Fate has kept him from goiug to Congress and later from becoming the Secretary of his State, perhaps she was saving him to make him the leader of his people, the next Commissioner of Indian Affairs. But this young man will no doubt have a hard time, as there is a great deal of fiction to live down. As I was told in the office of the Chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs, "Indiaus are mean. They are jealous of one another they don't like one another, and if this Indian man were appointed Com missioner arid he did something that another tribe other than his own did not like, the other tribe wbuld lay it to the fact that it was 44feeatree he was of the tribe he Hardware, etc., White Earth, -"*&_ -*&&, mmm was." Indeed a great deal of fiction to live down, for is the argument any more reasonab'e that to say of a white man Com missioner when he displeases us that it is because he is a white man and doesn't care anything about the Indians or understand what is best for them? Is it? "Do you know, or do you want to know," I said to the old gentle man who told me he was tl Chairman's secretary, and who is quoted above, "that the peace pipe has been smoked, "and the toma hawk buried? Do you know that an Osage is glad to shake hards with a Chippewa, or a Crow to shake hands with a black feet? Woll, they are, and all this talk about it being a position that could not and should not be filled by an Indian is all nonsense. On the contrary it is a position that should be tilled by an Indian in preference to a white man. We could have an Indian Com missioner we should have an In dian Commissioner we will have and Indian Commissioner if we all get together ar.d pull hard for him. He will be our first Indian Com missioner, and maybe our last Commissioner, Indian or other wise, and what a wonderful thing it would be for our citizenship and freedom to come through our own blood. But we must be cautious and careful and choose the right man we must stop this dillydallying if we would have any voice nt all in the naming of our next Commis sioner. January Clearance Sale Our big annual Clearance Sale will start Friday, JANUARY 7, and continue during the entire month. All merchandise in our store will be offered to the public during this month at prices that defy competition. Our entire stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Shoes, Clothing, will be sacrificed during this Ja nuary Sale. A call at our store during this month will convince you that we mean business. The B. L. FAIRBANKS COMPANY. i' Published in behalf of, and to secure the we/fare of the Indians of the United States. INVESTIGATOR INDORSES NEAR EAST RELIEF During the Peace Conference In Par la the American Commission to Nego tiate Peace, appreciating the impor tance of accurate, first hand Informa tion about the Armenian situation, sent Capt. 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