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Chippewas.
Justice and Fair Dealing for
every Indian who desires to
becom a good Citizen
THE TOMAHAWK.
Official Organ of the Mionesota
B. FAIRBANKS Owner.
L. LOGAN, Editor and Publisher,
Published Weekly at
White Earth Agency, Minnesota.
Entered at the Postoflfce at White
Earth, Minn., as mail matter ot the
ecqnd class.
SUBSCRIPTIOH: $1.50 PER YEAR I I ADVANCE
Chippewa Matters
Washington.
at
ChtirniR of Senate Indian Coimittee
Fawaily Reports Steenerson Bill An-
tiorlzing a Per Capita Payment of One
Hundred toilers.
"m I NOT BEEN FOR CERTAIN
alEM&ERS OF THE TRIBE AT HOME
THE AMOUNT WOULD HAVE BEEN
INCREASED TO $200.00
Previsions of the Jill Most ho
by the Indians.
Ratified
Washington, D. C-,
(Special to THE TOMAHAWK.)
Senator Curtis, Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Indian
Affairs, has favorably reported to
the Senate the Steenerson Bill
which passed the House
dinns were
some
tfttof ago authorizing a- pereapH*
payment of $100 to tbe members
of the Chippewa tribe. The Sen
ate Committee added the following
amendment:
ProvidedrThat before any
payment is made hereunder
the Chippewa Indians of Min
nesota shall,
!in such manner
AS may be prescribed by {he
Secretary of t|ie Interior,
fatjfy tlie provisions of this
Act ipd accept the same."
Tbe amendment adopted by theIndian
Senate recognises the binding
-force and effect of the agreement
of 1880. The bill as introduced ijt
the House by Congressman Steen
erson, and as it pasaed^the House,
dealt with the trust fund AS though
it were the absolute property of
the United States, or that the
fund could be expended in any
way Congress directed. Tbe
amendment adopted by the Senate
recognizes the ownership of the
fund by the Indians and provides
for tbe per capita payment when
"the Indians give their assent. The
is the first time since 1889 that
the Congrese has recognized in its
legislation the finding force and
jfteWof the agreement 'of 1889.
wn*y be safely predicted that in
the future appropriations from
the trust funds will be submitted
to the Indians for' ratification
before the expenditure' is made.
This is one of the principles |or
which the General Qouncifh**
beenfightingfor years. 'H M^
Had* it not been for James I.
Gofrey and other members of the
so-called full-blood faction the
per capita payment would have
been for ,$200 instead 4-of
$100. But as a result of
misleading letters*/ written J^by
James I. Co#ey from. Washington,
and by T. B. Beaulifu and other*
of White Earth to various tndividi
ual embers of the so-calle^ full
blood faction, and also to members
of Congress, protesting against
increasing tbe amount of the pay
ment from $100 to 0)200, and
which letters stated that the In
unanimous in their
Defective
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desire to have $100 instead of
$200, many protests were received
Indian Hootch Saved
By Vote of Spate.
0ms, SCHOOL OPBN5 WITH
INCREASED EKBOLLMBNT.
rollment the Northwest School of
Agriculture at Crookston is busily
at work with students from 15
Vol. XVIUI. White Earth, Becker County, Minnesota, Thursday, October 27, 1921.
capitaupay- ment* Th IndiaPer Burea was
not averse to increasing the "pay
ment to $200, but when a large
number of letters were received
from the Indians protesting
against the payment being in
creased from $100 to $200 per
capita, the members of tbe Com'
mittee concluded to give the In
dians apparently what they wanted
and left the appropriation at
$100English
0er capita. This is a sample of
the dir'ty work being done by
James I. Coffey, T. B. (Cuffey)
Beaulieu, and their crowd for the
Chippewa people. With the hard
times prevailing, with many of
the Indians out of work, with
winter coming on, and with a
need for ready money seldera
before experienced by the Chip
pewas, these fellows and their
limited number of followers pro
tested against the increase in
theso
payment. How much longer they
will be able to fool the Chippewa
people time alone can answer.
The time has eom&when the Chip
pewa Indians individually and
collectively should repudiate such
so-called leadership with its dis
astrous and blighting effect
W
Peyote, sometimes called "In-
dian hootch," one of the last
survivors of the family of John
Barleycorn, was saved, at least
temporarily,,totte Amerieanln
"dian, by"the United States, Senate."
A plea by Senator pobert L.
Owen of Oklahoma, in whose
veins there is Indian blood, caused
tbe Senate to strike from a House
bill a provision authorizing the
Bureau of Indian Affairs tfi sup
press the use of peydiej a beverage,
made from the cactus' bean. $*-
atbr Qwei| told the ^enate tba) it
v?as ^sed ni^ndian r#g|9. Cfi?6
moniafs. Senator Charles Qurtis
of jRansas, another member of
descent, interjected that it
was qsed nometiipes without any
peremonials, nevertheless the Sen*
ate supported ^Senator Qwen'a
this year which will make it poVact
stble for ftbbutlJO acWitipnaf stud
ent to be. encouraged to' continue
their education. Students inter
estedjn'tbis matter may secure
|all Information by writing the
school. All present and former
students' and their'" friends a
looking torward t9,'IJovewber XU
wh&h will beTbe Northw38t School
Home Coming Day. An alumni
and fortoer student bond of. 50
pieces will furnish music. Assist
ant Secretary of State BengteoD,
formerly of the school's f*cu\ty^
will give the Memorial ^d^rea* in
eftlogy f ^el W who gave up
^e ir lives in the great ww,^
''ws- niiiiii 1 1
Verwtlle Windmill.
A wlodmlll in Europe grtofla grain
ta flour f^r a twteor and tnn mta
ood kneads lt^ to douglii"fe^^
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Held Up Your Htatf. %?&''
A pig's nos nearly alwaya la tte
ground. M-
smokinthansmoke".VOUng
attend have been cas upo yo and yo
OFFICIAL ORGAN O THE MINNESOTA CHIPPEWAS,
'Truth before Favor."
"When His Father Died,"
(By Broken Wing Bird)
An old, old Indian man, too,
lame to walk without a cane, was*
sitting far back in his tepee, smok
ing and dreaming over the past
Tnere was no one to tell the oldread
stories to, for no one would listen^
His young and somewhat foolish!
son was blating outside the tepee
in a gibberish that was'nt exactly
and. yet was far from^Jkeep bis promise.
Indian, and dancing to a white*'Contained
man's tune. His speech, his act
ions, his manner, all wei^e wholly}
wrong and out of tune with his
environment and his old father's]h
hopes for him.
The old man wiped a mist from
and think, to think hard, for with became part of the
hard thinking of other days when- -r
waste in the agent's basket.
5 The moral of this story could
be: Don't trust an Indian agent
with anything you feel is import
ant. But the moral the writer
to being out even more
than this is: Stop playing like
grasshoppers before it is too late.
youLg Indian men did'nt carry on
despisably, when, everything
and everybody were different and
better and nearer in mind to the
Great Mystery, he hoped he coufjl
crowd the-ugly picture of tils
foolish son from his mind.
"fwishes
i
But strange as it may seem, not
long after the son too was in a
serious mood. He bent downi^nd
entered his father's tepee and
walking, over to where the old!W
man pat be took a seat beside- biffl-
Not a word" passed between them,
fo severa seconds the old man
*ur i BB.mttl, BCCUUUD,. uo SM.*M MWTS. hH has MQine known as
i wvcw^uuu-, ,uv w. njjg08t:rJ2gi
haling urns. Finally*
the old man began in Indian:
"My son, I feel that I shall not
be with you much longer. 3 behealth.
it. I am ready and anxious to go,
for thro is nothing for BOj
any more, (his eyes wandered out
through the opening of his tepee
to a barren field where once had
stood a beautiful forest full of
game), all is gone! My comrades
too are all in the other world^ and
those about me I cannot even un
derstand when they speak. I am
jiving only in t$e past and, in th,e
hope of p^agefq^ dea^h,. fi^t
ygu, m$ sofl, have the present and
the future before you. Aye! but
I fear it will not be a' very Mppy
one. What will haeome ot you?
Your automobile, (the Indian word
translated being wagon that runs
on quiqk whels)r is in the daqip
heap. You have no money to buy
another* Your pony that was'nt
fast enough for you after
letter and addressed it to his
tribesmen, calling them "brothers"
And warning them of the end their
paths were leading to and telling
them to become useful citizens and
do something worth while in the
world. He sent the letter to theRines
agent with the request that it bethe
at the next council. The
agent promised that it would be
reanbefore be himself had read
the letter. After he had read it,
he knew he would'nt
The letter
some advice too good
for the Indians, he thought. It
wads
all too Be Bird
wntten,truethwhat so councild never
a
$] heard it.
Thus did the old
his eyes with the corner of hisj die, and his son, and the little way
blanket and continued to smoke he
fortt
4you got
the automobile is p!d in the joints
andtoolame to even go to the
agency store. Your allotment is
With a ten per cent increase
over any previous first week's en- gone, and all the money, and more
too, that you got for it. What
will you do? What can you do?,
All summer you baje PJajred
counties. Thru an arrangement around like a grja&^ppe?,, aever
made, credit for school expenses $ivit thou0n:t to anything but
will be extended to 'stuiien^schoo w^Q pfay. A spfltl ofnevili seem* tou
otherwise cannot
like one with the head of a,
donkey. When you talk I cannot
understand you you dancs wit ba
step never known in the oldea
days, and your face, my son, (he
takes his son's face between
wrinkled brotw^ nanda and looking
^nfe^tl^, ye sadly, into it con
tinues,) your face, my son, is weak
and sinful and disease is turning
your cheeks yellow and your dyes,
no more do they look straight into
mine, Oh, my boy, .to ha.ve, be
come sot" '""Vu^
pjd wa,n*s oreatb begati to
leave, him. The son layed his
father over gently on a pallet. In
bis foolish way he had loved his
father, even if he had'nt listened
to what his father had oft times
told him,
A week later another-grave was
dug and there was more weeping
and wailing. But before Johnny
Red Bird &e< fee wrote a
-s^
Indian father
wou W hav ^p^
..Jtk
tneir
How's This?
offer On Hundred Dollar* Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halt's Catarrh Medicine.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine-has been taken
br.caVirrh {puffererat for th part thtrty-
HOW AUTO LICENSE
MONEY IS USED.
The report of State Treasurer
on the money paid out in
month of September in the
Trunk Highway fund, which is a
correct index for the other months
of the year, shows how it is being
expended in Commissioner Bab
cock's department.
Administration, $4,788.45 con
struction, $858,874.47 main ten
ance, $287,885.57 equipment, $51,-
963.32.
The total is near a million and a
quarter dollars, and of this amount
less than five thousand dollars
goes to tbe administrative officers,
which included commissioners,
engineers and clerks. Most of
the million dollars went to labor
in building permanent highways,
building and care of other trunk
highway roads.
There seems to be an impression
that only a small part of the
money gffee into actual road work,
and the statement has been made
and repeated that only 25 cents of
every dollar is actually used for
road building. The absurdity of
this is shown by the above figures.
Less than five thousand dollars in
an expenditure of a million and a
quarter for 'overhead' is a better
showing than is made by any
business or manufacturing concern
i the country. The highway
commission is one branch of public
service that is conducted on strictly
business principles.
then
u\ remedy^^ Catarrlu Hall's
the man lO Cat*rrh,*MeUcln act thru th Blood on
the Mucous surfaces,s expelline the Poi
son from the Blood and healing the dis
eased portions.
After you have taken Hall's Catarrh
Medicine for a short time you will see a
great improvement in your general
Start taking Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine at once and get rid of catarrh. Send
itfmoniahj. free
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to secure the. welfare of the
Indians of the United States.
THE TOMAHAWK,
The Best Is
None too Good!
Years of experience In buy
ing and selling groceries has
1 taught us that the public
want the best.
Our shelves are slways full of pure, fresh and up-to date Gro-
ceries, which we give to oor customers at the lowest possible
price. OurHneof
Men's and Women's
Wearing Apparel
Boots and Shoes
is complete and up-to-date
"Buy where the buying is good."
Come in and see what great buying power
a little money wlfl have in
this up-to-date store.
The B. L. FAIRBANKS Q&
White Earth, Minnesota.
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