The Oglala light. [volume], November 01, 1916, Image 32

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$500,000. This will be probated at
Rochester.
Davis may continue at Rosebud Indian
Agency.
Bonesteel, S. D., Nov. 4.—It is an
nonnced that Mr. Davis, who is acting
agent at the Rosebud Indian agency»
will probably continue to hold the
place. Mr. Peterson, recently ap
pointed to relieve him, has declined
to accept the appointment because of
ill health.
Cherokee* Will Sue U. S. for 130,
000,000.
Tulsa, Okla.—A meeting of the
Cherokee Indians and descendants of
Cherokees of Oklahoma will be held
in Tulsa October 3 to institute pro
ceedings against the United States
government to recover lands and
other property with an aggregate
value of approximately $30,000,000
alleged to have been wrested from
the forefathers of the present gener
a i o n o e o k e e s a e a y
prominent Tulsa attorney, is among
the most active workers in the cam
paign. Brady asserts the opinion
that Cherokees have a clear case a
gainst the government.—Muskogee
(Okla.) Phoenix.
Indians Win Fair Prize Money.
Mc Laughlin, S. D.—A survey of
the various prizes awarded at the
state fair last week reveals the fact
that South Dakota Indians received
more than their quota of coveted
honors. Nearly all the Indian schools
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annexed prizes, while a still larger
number of individual Indians were
also winners of the blue ribbon
honors. The tractor show also feat
u e e e s e v a i o n I n i a n i n
scientific farming.
At the conclusion of the fair the
various reservation superintendents
expressed themselves as being more
than pleased with the success of the
Indians.—Aberdeen (S. D.) Herald.
Mr. Sells Hears of Election.
Indian Commissioner Cato Sells fi
nally made his way to Washakie,
Wyo., to inquire how the election
went. The Indians will think just
as well of him.—Sioux City Tribute.
The Reviving Red Man.
Cato Sells, Indian Commissioner,
after a survey of the tribesmen who
are wards of the United States, re
ports that the death rate is falling off,
the birthrate increasing, that the
number of persons of Indian blood
has recently commenced to increase.
e e a s e e n s a i a i s
strange race, of superior mental at
tainment, yet possessed of no liter
ature and no enduring structures,
would have developed, in the course
of centuries, to be peers of the Cau
casians if it had been left to itself
Living in a hunter' paradise, the
Indians were slow to branch out into
agriculture and to abandon their
nomadic habits. Civilization has de
manded that they adopt a different
manner of living abruptly or perish,
and a great many have perished. It