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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
Cbippewas.
B. FAIRBANKS ESTATE, Owners.
"Therp tomes', my friends, in the
history it all people some point of
time that "may properly be termed
the utmost crisis, the highest bil
low in that people's earthly life a
p.nt of time where very life is at
stake a point of time where it
would seem, only God remains is
the black dispair of a people.
"Then it is when quick, able,
decisive, practical action by that
people's leaders and guardians and
well wigtafVis demanded for very
|r*L existence sake. The question for
jf alt such is one of vital importance:
I** jx sink or to swim, to survive or
perish. Tjiis, we believe fo be
^,A the fact "tfWj reference to the In
j)ian peqpje of this, oqr country.
A crisis in their a$airs as men. and
ff'-^fts human beings has been reached.
1.' Life and death is in thfe balance.
The race is becoming extinct. The
time is come when the Indians
have God alone to save them, it
would seem, if quick, able, decis
ive, practical, energetic, sympa
thetic and effective action be net
taken and if it has not been fated
by Divinity that the Indian race
is to perish from the face of the
earth.
"Here a stand most be taken
for the American Indians, a last
st*ocj pejfraps, my friends, but a
?2 stand nevertheless-rta stand basepV
00 those eternal principles of (rod,
justice and righteousness to men
lion not charity and generosity a
stand practical and. effective to
save the main part of a rapidly
TA&iahJflg rape now nearly nttexly
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L06AN, Effltr anil Publisher,
Published Weekly at
White EnH. Agency, Minnesota.
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A Plea for the Indian.
(Excerpts from an article by Dr.
Carlos Montezuma, of Chicago,
published in the Arimat, Lamoni,
la., forJOecemberc 1921.)
"Slowly and laboriously, from
*fif8 jjqyo'nd momory, amid suffer
ing and devastating revolution.
Humanity, ever full of hope,. has
been reaching out toward a reign
of the Rig^t of Man.
/'Yesterday, that same expectant
humanity we saw making its
^Stfpreme effort on the blood
reeking battlefields of France, of
Italy and of Poland and e'en
awhile poppies blew in Flander's
Fields, the*men of the earth were
battling mightly fa save from
selfish, autocratic hinds, that
precious liberty, fullest and freest,
that mankind has been craving.
Yesterday, we witnessed the
crowning endeavor of the ages in
jtggrftn^i^ment of man when these,
dawned effulgently on* the- people
of the world that day Of the Liberty
of Man. Whole races of people
thrilled for the first time since
Creation with the pulsating beat
Of clean, free heart. At last that
day of days wfofeh great minds
and great hearts dreamed of in the
long struggle of centuries that
have passed had come to poor,
ever-hopeful, enslaved Humanity,
the day of liberation of the
world from tyranny and the aus
picious day of the true rale of the
Rights of Af&n.
Vol. Willi. White Earth, Becker County,
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corrupted bv Bureau slavery.
Failing in our stand, the noble
Indian peoplethe Red racewill
disappear from God's earth to live
only in the sullen pages of history
and in the bitter memories of
man.
"No greater cause than this can
be imagined, my friends, in all
this wide world's fight for right,
this cause that involves human
lives and those certain inalienable
rights of all mankind without
distinction of race- or color the
rights of life, liberty and the.
common pursuit of "happiness. Do
you wish these principles applied
to your Red brother? This is our
cause, and it is sacred in our eyes.
"How nations will suffer and
sacrifice*to sustain these Godly
axioms! ^Vhat Heaven-sent prin
ciples!- Witness the World War.
To make in practice all men equal,
to guard the^weak and helpless
from the monstrous tyranny of the
unscrupulous strong, thousands
upon thousands of the bravest
youths of alf civilized lands have
perished by cannon shot and bul
fc&and poison gas and bayonet,
and thousands upon thousands of
mothers, worn weary from wait
ing, sit at home, happy in tears,
mayhap that they, too, made a
supreme sacrifice for the world's
"welfare and for the perpetuation
of Christian principles. Indeed,
we witness the spectacle of the
whole world giving up the choicest
members of its best families, that
Humanity mighc reach the pin
nacle of God's righteousness where
naught but justice, pure and un
defined, reigns and where God is
glorified by Justice and Right.
"LejLjis pause audi-puh the*
curtain aside and. see what part
the first Americans played in this
great and tragic drama so 'lately
enacted when the world's happi
ness end civilization itself was jn(
jeopardy.
"Twenty-five millions of dol
lars in liberty Bonds was our
share of the nation's tremenduou*
burden besides the millions we
have donated to Red Cross and
various other war drives, ^But,
mark you, this is but saw-dust to
gold when I tell you* that 17,300
Indian sons willingly gav,e their
service for America. The* Indian
fought side by side with big white
brother pn Europe's bloody battle
fields in almost every passage* of
arms. His people at noma saved
and planned and-gave and helped
in every way possible with never
a murmnr, with never a thought
of slacking- And how,-too, must
those Indian mothers silently have
wept when across the broad AX*
lantic flashed the death message of
many an Indian boy to some all
too lonely tepee in our great
Western country where lives the
forlorn remnants of our vanishing
Indian tribes. Indian mothers,
too, did-their share and.{ndiah
mothers tc o, gave their. 9.9ns for
American jiap^ines a.nd for
America's future. At tjjis day,
many a mouldering j,eap covers ip
France some dead Indian soldier's
last remains."
Careful ef ftpsteh.
"Is the faculty of your college well
iM-ganized?" "Very. We haven't a
single professor who would daro to
make a statement of fact without first
having it approved by a trust magnate
a corporation lawyer."Life.
''Hlgh _8Undar4.^
*T hope I can support her. 1JJ the'
style she is accustomed (p.". ?gt
wise to that style t^otigb, before fOV
marry herl 1 never knew .my wife's
peopRvlmt to bear her talk yontf think
she was raised In a palace,"
Advertise tn THE
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TH^MINNESOTA CHIPPEWAS.
Truth before favor."
Per Capita Payment to
baMade Sometime This
Month.
Since the ratification of the act/
authorizing the per capita pay meDt
of $100 to the Minnesota Chippe
was, we ha've received many in
quiries from different sources as
to when the payment would take
place. All we are able'to say at
this time however is that we have
been informed by agency officials
here that they will start paying
this month. It must be* borne in
mind by the anxious ones that in
making a payment of this chartcter
many preliminaries are necessary
before it can be carried out ar
ranging of the bonds of the dis
bursing agents the printing of
as
forever a|l my
right, title, and Interest in and to
that portion of the principal fund
of the Chippewa'~Indians of Minne
sota arising under the Act of Jan
uary 14, 1889, which has been or
shall be distributed per capita to
said Indians under the Act of
November 19, 1921, to the extent
of $100.00.
Red River Valley
Essay Contest.
The Red River Valley Winter
Shows, which will be held at
Crookston, February 610, 1922,
will carry out the essay contest
again this year. This contest is
open to all school students up to
and including the eights grade.
The subject should be of special
interest: "Tfce,* f^re pf ttys
l&d River Y&HeV*"' Tbi8
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II, S, Indians Scalped
Germans, Says Ger
man Press.
Berlin, Dec. 31.The first snow
of the winter is falling in Berlin,
but nevertheless the pan Germans
W are acting as if they were
ajffected by the heat. "The
putsches Abenblatt," the organ
f{ the famous Count Revcntlow,
prints a news dispatch stating that
.American Indians scalped 378
Germans during the war.
"."German mothers," says an edi
torial commenting on the dispatch,
"^ill you continue to present to
your 'children books about the
-wild west? Boys and girls, your
fathers were perhaps scalped by
redskins, will you continue to
checks, etc., all of which takes no read about the wild west? How
little time. However t&ie"t*0$ciai
here are doing all in their power
to hasten the payment and we are
assured that payment will com
mence, this month, probably about
the 15th or 20th.
We are of the opinion that
when payment is commenced itf^sent?"Ex.
will progress rather slowly, owing
to the fact that the form, printed
below, will have to be signed by
a,ll as they receive their checks.
While this procedure is right and
proper, and does not obligate the
members &t the tribe in any way
only as regards the $100 they will
receive, nevertheless there will no
doubt have to be much explaining
by disbursing agents as to its
meaning. The form referred tor
ij^joria^dj^elttwi ^-f-sr-*^-
In consideration of the pay-/
ment represented by check No.._
dated ^_192 I
hereby release and quitclaim uqto
the United States1
many blonde and brown, light and
dark German scalps are hanging
jan the belts and hats of the In
dians who honored Marshal Foch?"
"There were 21,000 American
tndians in France during the war
how many scalps do they repre-
As t&er* la a worldly happlnssfl
fhich God perceives to be no mors
titan disguised misery as there art
worldly honors which in his estima
t|oa are reproach, fo there is a world-I
It wiidr'Jh whlefcjn bis sight la fo*l.
ttbness. Of tW worldly wJadbm the!
JL*_~.... .M.I i *hm
Portion
q? our country is fcnawn, world*
wide. \%\& a ye only 1 the
uegjnojng pf ifcg development but
has possibilities that one can
realise only after some study.
Participation on the part of
school ohildren will serve a double
purposeU* enlighten them on
some of the facts of this wonderful
valley, and to offer material for
language work. A committee was
appointed by the Mortbwestern
Minnesota Educational- association
to have this matter in charge,
consisting of Supt. S. 'A. Aas,
Fertile,^!inn. Supt. Jos. Ham re,
Erskine, Minn. /and qp,t. )av$
Jfphnsop, Warren, Minn. They
have sent the rules and regulations
to all schools in this distriot,
Teachers would do welt to get
their pupils to work on this sub
ject. Write to the Northwest
Experiment Station at Crookston
for material.
B.L
MTi-.^-ra?^ 7^:4.
Hlfhesota, Thursday, January 5, 1922, No. 37
The. Red Lake
Drainage Scheme.
(From Minneapolis Journal
To the Editor of The Journal:
I saw in your paper a letter from
L. \J. Euger on the lowering of
Red Lake and the drainage of the
swamp north. 1 will have been
dead and buried many seasons ere
that swamp will be needed for
agriculture. Then why waste
taxpayers' money in these strin
gent times on a drainage game,
especially when we have millions
of acres of well drained prairie
lend that is within reasonable dis
lance of railroads now The
clearing of this swamp land would
cost more than the stuff is worth,
to say nothing of wbattbe drain
age would cost. Since 1914 I have
been over quite a portion of the
territory from Lake of the Woods
to Red Lake, and each trip con
vinced me more'than ever of the
waste of the^xpayers' money in
the Red Lake drainage scheme.
And 1 have arrived at the conclu
sion that those who are asking for
the drainage are "chump" holders,
(Continued on 4th page.)
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cared
by local applications, aa they cannot reacb
the diaeaaed portion of tho ear. Thar* la
only one way to euro catarrhal deaineia,
and that ia by a constitutional remedy.
Catarrhal Deafneaa la cauaad by an In
flamed condition of the. mucoua lining of
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube la
Inflamed youhave a rumbling- sound or Im
perfect hearing, and when it i antlraly
urif'HM eloaad, Oeafnes* lae the raault Unlea* thee SBaraeterS ST* glV0U a the Scrlpttiret., inflammation can reduced and thl a tub
restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be deatroyed forever. Many cases at
deafneaa are cauaed by catarrh, which la
an Inflamed condition of the mucous sur
Hall's Catarrh Medicine acta thru
the on the mucosa aurfaces of the
ayatem.
We will glye One Hundred Pollara for
Catarrhal oesfneu that canhot
JV& -vCalntt* Madteln*.?r
fr**f A\t Druggist*, T* i
W, I. CHBNBT CO.. Talado. O.
uid placed tn contrast with, those cf
Ihe wisdom which is from above. Tna
4$e is the wisdom of the crafty, tb
fiber that of the upright thw onefacesblood
inates In selfishness, the other ia
rity the one Is full of strife and
rvryjftf*v th otfc*r -yf ^tttW
hdf.of good fruit*-"Blair
OotRWhite
Yuletlde Greetings
ANOTHER Tear has rolled away and, tho
M\ with its passing our ranks have been thinned
and our hearts made heavy by (he loss of one
whom we held most dear, the burden has been
lightened to a great extent by the continued and
unceasing loyalty of our patrons and friends.
'N the true spirit of the occasion we desire to
thank those loyal friends and patrons for the
consideration shown us during the past year, It
It is impossible in these few lines for us to prop
erly express to you our feeling of appreciation
and gratitude, suffice it to say that during the
coming year you will be accorded the same
courteous treatment and fair dealing that has
characterized our dealings with you in the past.
Tuletide thoughts go out to the people
Earth and the Reservation public
and our thanks are due our patrons and friends
who have given us their support and extended
their encouragement during the past year.
WITH the above few words of appreciation and
thanks, we wish you one and all a
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Published in behalf of, and
to seoure the welfare of the
Indians of the United States.
Fairbanks Co.
The Society
Of
AMERICAN INDIANS.
A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OFJ
AMERICANS
Organized mt Ohio State University.",
APRIL, 1911.
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Washington, D. C.
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