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Justice and Fair Dealing for
every Indian who desires to
become a good Citizen.
Vol. XVIII.
THE TOMAHAWK.
Official Organ of theV Minnesota
Chippewas.
8. FAIRBANKS Owner.
L. L06AM, Editor wd Publisher,
Published Weekly at
White Earth Agency. Minnesota,
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Entered at the Poetofflce at White
Jtarth, Minn., as mail matter ot the
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SVISCRIMIQI: S1.WrEs TEil II 10UICI
A number of self appointed
women have assigned to themselves
the task of defeating a bill de
signed to increase the membership
of the state board of control to
four1
members so as to permit the
appointment of a woman. This
would at the same time permit the
reappointment of Dr. Hilbert of
Stearns county, whose term ex
pires shortly. The fight seems to
be directed at Dr. Hilbert person
ally and friends have rallied to his
rescue.
The sudden death last. week of
State Senator H. Nord of Inter-
'i! national Falls following a stroke
of paralysis was a decided shock
toiuf collegues. He bad been HI
preceding the sessiop/tut showed
much improvement and was quite
active In a legislative way. Sen
ator Nord was one of thfc leading
^V XJ- figures in the i&ovement, for the
adoption of the good roads amend-
mentC ^Itsis not known whether a
y* special election *will be heidVto
,^Mwne a auCoesaor. There has been
lf^tiBii8delbJeiUneaaaboutth^ leg
islative halls thie session. Senator
Baldwin of Frazee is now under a
physician's carer. Senator Madi
gan of Wright Ocuoty ia now i
{ftre^ospital
wit
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teen years of agitation for
on
inflamatory rheumatism, and Rep
-resenUtivc' Frank Kimocks of
Minneapolis has been ""confined to
his room for the past week
With the voters of tfie state fed
up on the beauties of a tonnage tax
and the legislative erchieves filled
to overflowing with arguments pro
and con on the subject the present
reluctant attitude of the house and
senate'may seem remarkable, but
it is easily explained. In the fif-
this.
particular infliction on iron ore as
mined in Minnesota this is the first
time that the constitutionality of
the proposed act has been passed
upon and while the answer is in
the affirmativethat is if levied as
"Occupation*' or business tax
doubt is apparent in every line of
the attorney general's findings.
No two lawyers are agreed on the
proposition while to add to the
complication is the new idea of a
tax oo occupations. To enact a
tonnage tax bill with such as the
foremost featora would be to es
tablish a precedent out of which
might come endless litigation and
political turmoil and this the aver
age member very much desires to
avoid. However, there are the
members constituents and the bulk
of them through the activities of
the Nonpartisan League and other
radical organizations .believe that
the tax is a necessity* True the
largest number of them are in the
^southern part of the state which
makes the fight more or less sec
tional, but to theircredit many of
their members are giving the sub
ject serious thought and*whatever
the verdict is it will not be entirely
swaued by bias. There is a grow
ing feeling that the subject is too
big a one for off hand considera
tion or solution and nd one would
be aoprised if the whole thing
resolved itwlf into an interim
commisaioa proposition.
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KELLY ON THE INDIAN
BUREAU.
Representative M. Clyde Kelly
"was speaking on the Indian ap
propriations the other day in the
House and here are some of the
things he said:
Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania.
Mr Chairman, I move to strike
out the last word. I think that
probably members of the commit
tee may get an idea from the num
ber of items stricken from this
bill that any bill of this kind
might.be dynamited in the same
way by points of order. However,
the Committee on Indian Affairs
has been working for some 18
months and has learned facts re
garding the Bureau of Indian
Affairs that gives a very good
idea of how this bureau has grown
up. There is no agency of the
Government quite like the Bureau
of Indian Affairs. It is an empire
within an empire it is a United
States within the United States. I
have had in my office within the
last week 60 volumes of reports of
commissioners on Indian affairs,
and have noted that they contin
ually recommended legislation and
never secured it, but at the same
time in every appropriation bill,
provision wis made for new ac
tivities, entirely unauthorized.
They have built up a great irriga
tion service by yearly accretion of
funds. Our committee has re
cently brought in a bill to put
that division into the Reclamation
Service. They have secured
$415,000 a year for an Indian
Health Service, largely duplicating
durgeberaTFiiblic Heafth"&rvice
They Built'an entire new depart
ment in this fashion. We have
brought in legislation "transferring
that work to the United States
Public Health Service. Then
they have "a forestry division
which does exactly what the
Forestry Service of the Depart
ment of Agriculture does, dupli
cating.the same kind of work. We
have ju8t: covered that in a bill,
also, by transferring, these activi
ties to the Forestry Service.
From 1850 down to the present
time new activities have been en
gaged in by this bureau without
any shadow of law through pro
visions on appropriation bills. In
1850
wce
spent about $800,000 for
span auuu ^vw i
ealin
wit ^foe Indians of the
United States, and that continued
for some years. Often the com
missioners requested that half a
million dollars or more be trans
ferred back to the General Treas
ury, because they could not use
the amounts appropriated. Then
began the policy of extension.
Year after year, decade after de
cade, new appropriations were
asked for until we have a bill here
now in 1921 carrying $12,000,000.
When the bureau was founded in
1832 the proponents of the meas
ure said that within 25 years every.
Indian would be out of the juris
diction of the Indian Bureau and
that the bureau would be discon
tinued. Witness the growth of
this bureau'from year to year to
this date, almost 90 years later. 1
think the gentleman from New
York (Mr. Snyder) has done a
service today in that he has shown
how a great department was built
up here, without warrant of law,
alwaysr^through appropriation
bills/* When it comes to a test we
have a $12,000,000 measure, the
greater part of which was never
authorized by Congress and would
never have been authorized by
if specific authority bad been up
for decision. Therefore this bill
is on a different basis from almost
any. other appropriation bill
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can be brought.in and points
order are more
effective- ih' itI
consideration than on perhaps any
other appropriation bill. (Ap-
plause.) v
Mr. Chairman, it would be
difficult to put joore
irony and mockery into words
than are contained in this
vision: "For the support and
civilization of the Indians of the
Umatilla agency, Oreg., $8,000."
There are 20 more like it in this
bill, and each and every one vio
lates every fundamental of Ameri
can ideals.
lems as free meno,--'
There i* but one reason for such
a policy, and that is that the In
dian Bureau cannot exist without
the Indians. It is time now, after
ninety years of bureaucracy, to
raise the old cry of Moses to the
taskmaster in Egypt, "Let this
people go." (Applause.) f'
When^ Bridgeport, Conn., was
founded and a few hundred souls
settled around the month of the
Pequonnock river, a tribe of
friendly Indians lived on Golden
Hill, now. the center of the city
and occupied by ih court house.
That was not so long ago, not
earlier than. 1790. Gradually the
Indians became unable to support
themselves. In 1802, the general
assembly of Connecticut appro
priatec the* income of $5,000 to
care for them, and appointed' an
Indian agent to administer the
fund.
By later legislation, the fund
and the position connection with
it passed to. the clerk of the su
perior court of Fairfield county,
and today Fred W. Tracy, clerk,
of the court, has $38.13 which
still remains to relieve needy In
dians. Clerk Tracy was hot
aware of his trust until recently
when in examining some old files,
he discovered an ancient bank
book.
The last survivor of the tribe of
Indiana $0 receive aid was Will*
iam Sherman, an individual of 300
pounds and more, who passed to
bis happy hunting grounds in
1885. No trace of living survivors
can be found. ,s.
Careful of Speech.
"Is the faculty of your college well
organized?" "Very. We haven't a
single professor who would dare to
make a. statement of fact without first
having It approved by a trust magnate
",e a corporation lawyer/*-Life.
iHiali StandareY**^
1 Tiope 1 can support her la the
style she is accustomed to." "Get
wise to that style, though, before yon
marry her. I nerer knew niy wMe*a
people, but to hear her talk yoaM tfcdak
she waa raised in a palace.*
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Advertise in THB TOMAHAWK
that i* brings results. .&/&_*&,
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE MINNESOTA CHIPPEWAS.
Truth before Favor.**
White'Earth, Becker County, Minnesota, Thursday, March 17, 1921.
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This $3,000 goes, every cent of
ife, for the pay of employees of the
Indian Bureau. This reservation
lias been allotted, the Indians have
their own farms and homes in a
rich and fertile territory. r^A.11
they need for "civilization and
support" is to be made members
of America and given the rights
of American citizenship. Better
than all this hothouse protection
and orphan-asylum methods are
liberty and law.
But this appropriation servea
the purpose of keeping these
original Americans under the In-,
dian Bureau. It enables this self
perpetuating agency to restrict
and repress those who should, in
all justice, be facing
thei|r
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Governor Prevs Takes up
Land Claims.
**Gbvernor J. A. O. Preus re-
o? turned recently from Washington,
where he witnessed the inaugural
pro- ceremonies and took up with de
partment officials three important
quastiona. One was the final
settlement of land claims between
Minnesota and the federal govern
ment.
Governor Preus announced that
he is unwilling to settle on the
terms proposed by the land de
partment. It is up to him to
recommend final settlement, if a
satisfactory agreement is reached,
for ratification by the legislature.
"The proposal made by the de
partment deprives Minnesota of
about 33|000 acres to which it is
entitled," he said. "I shall take
the matter upon again with the
department when it has been re
organized, hoping for a more
favorable proposal. Opinion in
the department now is divided.
It .offers to patent 25,000 acres if
the state will release its claim to
some 33,000 acres the White
Earth and other Indian reserva
tions. The department insists on
this because the^itate received
some 465,000 acres of the Red
Lake reservation lands by mistake
some years ago, but that is a
closed incident and the lands'
have been sold to settlers and
are on the tax rolls. Minn
esota is entitled to the 33,-
000 acres and I would not yield
claim to them unless the state is
allowed to select other lands in
lieu of them. Much of the land
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has been disposed of by the Indian
Bureau and the title is clouded, so
Minnesota is asked to yield claim."
The above which is taken from
the Minneapolis Journal of March
9th, is self explanatory and sets
forth in no uncertain terms the
stand taken by the state officials in
regard to the swamp land question,
which involves a million acres or
more on the Chippewa reserva
tions in Minnesota and is of vital
interest to all Chippewas in Min
nesota. It might be well for those
members of the Chippewa tribe
who have been soliciting the aid of
the state officials in reaching a
settlement of their affairs with the
federal government, to take notice
of the state officials' stand in the
swamp land matter printed above,
for it is evident that the Chippe
was will not receive any material
aid from this source.
Forget It
The time wasted In complaining be
cause the Job la hard would often be
more than sufficient to pat that job
on the list of "ooeaeens."
Reaches the. Apex.
Any man who refuses to argue with
a woman possesses the Solomon braal
of wisdom.Idaho Statesman.
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local application* aa ttuy cannot reach
tha Alaaaaad portio,n of tha oar,
only ona way to
id that
The Store of
Quality
White Earth,
Published In behalf of, and
to seoure the welfare of the
Indiansofthe United States.
Thor a a
cura catarrhal deafness.
U'br a constitutional remedy.
Catarrhal Deafness to caused by an In
flamed condition of the mucoue Unlnjr of
tha Boatachian Tuba. When this tub* la
Inflamed you have a rumbllae sound or 1m-
peTESt heeJlnT. and wheS^lt to entirely
closed. Dotfneaa to tho^reault. Vnlsss the
Inflammation can bo reduced and this tube
restored to tta normal condition, hearlnt
will bo destroyed forever. Mjjr cases ol
deafnesa are caused br catarrh, which to
an Inflamed condition of the mucous our
faeee. Ball's. CaUrrh Medicine acts thru
tha blood on tha mucous surfaces of the
system.
Wo will eivo Ona Hundred DoUars tor
any case of Catarrhal Deafness Chat cannot
be cured by Ball's Catarrh Medicine. Cir
culars free, ail Orvttttt*. lie.
F. J. CHNT a CO.. Toledo, a
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buying anything e/se--/t
pays to buy the best
Our shelves are always filled with fresh and up-to-date
Groceries, which we offer to our customers at the lowest
possible price. ..r
Our line of Dry Goods, .Shoes, etc., is also one of
^v the best and most complete in the northwest, and our
if,' :i piices in this line are always, right.
fi Hardware, Feed, etc.
foil line always on band.
If you don't see what you want, ask for it
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