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tin gjj|ifii||ll"Mggji VOL. J. The TOMAHAWK. 0U H. BEAUL1EU Publisher. White Earth Agency, Minn. $&"A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER de \voted to the interests of the WJnte Earth Reservation and gen e*i thwe8fernNews. Publish ed m$ .managed by members of ttbjB Reservation. Subscription rates: $1.50 per Annum. For the convenience of tthose who may feel unable to pay Ifor $he tpajier yearly or who wish ito tftke jit on tniftl, subeeription limvy beenttufor six and three (months at the yearly rates. AH jsums sent to us should be .fqrward *ed by registered Jester to insure safety* Address all xjoramunica tions to. *CHE TOMAHA'WK WHITE EARTH, MINN. RESERVATION LANDS W9 LEASE 100,000 acres of first class term lands on White Earth Reservation, in ttracts of 80 acres .And aaore, by .ALLOTTEES. INDIAN PROTEGTIVf Association 2 00 Bond Building Washington a C. Dan'l B. Henderson, Att'y. Indian claims against the Unit- ed States a speciality* -i^ ft. S. AUIRCfllSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LATE LAW CLERK, LAND DIVISION, INDIAN OFFICE. DEPARTMENT PRACTICE A SPECIALTY, LOAN AND TRUST BLD'O. WASHINGTON D. C. ftftiHotel LeecyJ^ White Earth, Minn. The Largest and Host Commodious Hotel on the Reservation. Table always bountifully supplied with everything that the market affords, including game and fish in season* A large Mid comfortable, Feed and Livery stable in connection with Hotel* JOHN LEECY Prop. Selam Fairbanks, dealer in DRY QOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE and Lumbermen Supplies. Market price paid for Ginsing Snake Boot and Furs. Orders for pure Maple-Syrup, and wild rice promptly attended to. BEAULIEU MIHN. "the Tomahawk." ISCHIAL Subscriptions. 8 months 40 Gents 6 months 75 Cents Defective Page iW*fWLi..y.i I..I^. 1 mill in.im unit illnn uii i nun, iiu BRIGHT PROSPECTS AHEAD. rr There is every indication that the prevailing dullness on this re servation will soon disappear, and that we will have more than good' times here" in the near future., This will be^brought about by the* building of railroads through thisj reservation, the consequent acti-J vity in the sale of inherited In-J dian lands and the employment of, ail those who wish to work in the! sawmill that will manufacturei he| lumber for the use of the Mille Lac Indians that are going to remove? here, and also in the building of] houses for the use of these In dians. It will take at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to re move all the Mille Lac and other Indians that will vemove here, and almost all of this amount would be required to properly provide for them after they arrive here, .and more than half could be used in the payment of labor- If the xiemovals are employed the saw'] mill that will manufacture the lumber for their houses and build ing the same, they will easilybe cone reconciled to theiT changes of residence from Mille Lac to this reservation. Agent Miehelet has expressed a proper view of the manner in which he is going to secure the removal of the Mille Lac Indians, and of his intention to keep them employed after they arrive here and we sincerely hope he will be allowed by the government to carry |Mit these views, not only for t35e interests of the. Indians concerned but also for the bust* ness prosperity of this reserva tion. RIGHTS UNDER CITIZENSHIP/ It frequently happens that dis cussions, regarding the extent of, our rights under our citizenship acquired by receiving allotments of land in severalty, have arisen, and, strange to say, many of our most intelligent men take views adverse to these rights and they go so far as to take the position that the rules of the interior de partment are paramount in then application to us regardless of this citizenship* We do not, as a rule, agree with this view, for the United States courts have fre quently held that there is no abridgment in the citizenship of Indians, and that there are no re strictions placed upon them by the laws except the right to pur chase intoxicants. Congress passed the law prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to any In dian, mixed or fullblood, who has received an allotment^ but we have never heard whether the con stitutionality of this question has ever been passed upon by the Supreme Court of the United States or not. Citizenship is not usually given with a string on it, and there are many questions that have come up which have practically de prived us of the rights we claim under OUT citizenship. It is time that all these Questions should be settled, for as long as we remain in ignorance of our correct status we will continue to resent all the applications to us of the rules of the department. One of the principal questions with which we have to contend is whether we are under the exclu sive jurisdiction of the United States, or whether the courts of the State of Minnesota have juris diction over us. In order to learn our status de finately we should raise a fund by subscription or otherwise and bring test cases into the courts. AN ABOMINABLE PRACTICE. Steps Should Ta1' i Stop it. We have always favored non~, reservation schools for Indianj children, for it removes'the 'latttr. from the home influences of their uncivilized parents, andthey tlms,, by constant and exclusive contact? with civilizing influences, become! imbued Tvith civilized custom^ But there is one very great objeeJ tion to these schools, *nd this '& the practice of plaoing Indian ft children in jail 'for the slightest infraction of school rules Several instances of this kittdj have come to our notice "recently, and we think it is time that some steps should be taken *o put A stop to the practice. Even Indian children cannot bi imprisoned without -due process of law, and every superintendent' of an Indian -school that ignores1 this lays himseW liable to punisn ment. By imprisoning Indian boys inj the jails of n-reservatien Indian,: schools for any offense against* school discipline, they become in different, reckless and accustomed to this kind punishment, and when they return to their homo, they have lost all, or fcearly all, sense of the (disgrace attached to a person who is punished for an offense by being imprisoned, and 'jthey therefore regard this punish ment as of no consequence, be-' come indifferent to law and order, and instead of being good citi^ns Jftay feeoome^yagabonds. Whenever Indian children are placed Hinder the care of the super intendents of Indian schools, the parents of these children expect these superintendents to take their1 places in the faithful care and: protection of the interests and welfare of the dhildren, and do not expect to have them treated as common criminals for the slightest infraction of school rules. White parents would not for a moment tolerate the imprison ment of their children by the school superintendents of public schools, and the practice by In dian school superintendents is re garded as abominable by Indian parents. It should be stopped at all haz zards if not by invoking the aid of the courts by appealing to Congress. The Indian Right and Wrong. We hold these truths to be self evident that ALI* MEN are created equal that they are endowed by theh Creator with ceitain unalienable rights that among these, are LIFE, LIBERTY, AND TUB PUBSUIT OF HAP PINBSS"Declaration of Independence July 4th, 1776. AFTER KO-ZI-Pi'S LAND. Unique Cas Involves the Title to Indian Land Allotments. Watertown, S. D., July 30.More than 150 Indian braves with their fam ilies are camped in tepees at Lake Kampeska. They came from the Sis* seton arid Wahpeton agency to attend the big land contest case now being held before the register ana receiver of the United States land office. The case is one to be determine whether Ko-zi-pi and members of his family are entitled to certain alloted land in the Sisseton reservation. The princi ple involves quite a percentage of al lottee land* in various portions of the state. The case is one of the most important ever before the United States land office in this city. The contestant is David Wolff, a merchant of Sisseton. The value of the land involved amounts to $30,000, Je*3*' fe"*3B*ltoV- MT,/-.-P-WBT-B -T-^T Hra'BARm. BECKBRCOIUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, J903. iNO. 19. asNS&sei^l move-cases.against the cliil-j (Tien of Ko-ii-pi depend upon the outw come of this one. The Indians have? secuied United States Senatoi Kit-1 tredge as counsel. It is alleged that Ko-zi-pittendt a Sisseton Sioux, but aunember of the, tions. It is expected that Xa-ke-was-f band of Indian who fought againstf It would seem from the fore goingthat the Indians will never be free frorti contests as long as the. have a foot of land that a white, man wants, even though it may' have*feee allotted to the m. Whenever a tract of lartcl is ot any value whatever there is bound to be a content arise dga)lt& the Indian holder of it, and most fro-, quently upon tJhc slightest tech nicalities. Whenever any of these contests' arise $he interior department is} always too prone to take *advan-[ tage of any technicality that is presented and for which it is fre quently responsible, and to string the matter along until the iln^ian, out of sheer dis&usfaftdl the lack of means, gives up the fight. The Lydick case is a fair exam ple of what we may expect in the' future. Thefe was no more grounds for, a contest against Mrs. Lydicl than there Wottld be to contest th right of any other White Oak[ Point Chippewa to an allotment where he ntnv is. Yet this was done and Mr, IAvdick has pro bably expended nearly as nUich money to maintain his wife's rights as the land is Worth. We have alwayJ insisted 'that the interior, department a caused the allotments of the Pil lager and White Oak Point Chip pewas to be made contrary to the act of l88Ds under which they are receiving these allotments, in a majority of instances. Indian agents have been instructed *to make the allotments regardless of the pro\ isions of the act which directs that they shall be made under the supervision of the Chip pewa Commission. {Secretary Hitchcock abolished the Chippewa Commission and has thus ignored the plain pro\ 1- sions of the law in relation there to, notwithstanding that Congress continues to make provisions for the pay and expenses of the com missioner. We venture to predict that the Chippewa will be made to suffer, sometime in the future,, for the manner in which the act of 1889, is being set aside With regard to ''Ifuth before Pave*." I sociti Y. it is anege a tna i KO-zi-pimn a ,T CHARGED WITH MURDER Crow Cieek'nand of Sisseton Sioux, Tail band dt Villager Chlppewas and disqualified from holding the on this'reservation, who is charged tracts which aie now in his name on? with the irittffier df *I-en-dub, an-* the Sisseton and Wahpeton lesenaj 3 dllote of the land in question The affidiivitt states,, howevei, ut man, ouuu Coldman,onU niatcd xi Xa-ke-w&s-te-ste is one of the hostile th the governmen,s in 1862 in the NewT _*= Ulm Indian massacie, 'being takenj him. prisoner and brought to^Ciow Creek, Although the where he was held uhtil he escaped to| 10,%1 TVT,J Gow-we-tau-way-weduag a othe membo i i i_*f ,L _uiJ! te-ste,anotheiIndfcn)wil appeal lii l^k Rapids last Week was brought ~r V^^o"^"^" tbfe the case as a Sisseton .and the original' to the Agency Mondaymibrningj Chippd** ^vatlons this -lotee of the land in question. from Pine Poirit by Indian police-) state to cift Imd 'rentovO it tlten The affidavi states howevei, thau John placeu in' is authorized'by the existifogiruh* x. _^ *v._ __* Agc'hcy jail pending ah inves tigation (Jt the *cmt*ge agams tha r.d, th Canada. Later he appealed at the^ Sisseton -agency, but subsequent to, 1.1.11 .m theallotmantsiin Question T*e*indl come to his death by afcdidont, the in disputes gieat value, of itf agency authorities decided ^hat a1 qi^.*^ being in villagf settlements.most Pioneer Pi ess. -St. Paul es cemryi the manner in which their allot ments should be made. fore tire 16th, day of August 1903. Any person, or persons, found guilty of shooting any of said chickens before the 15th, day of Agust, will have their guns and dogs confiscated. Advertised Letters. The following letters uncalled for, remain at the postoftlce at White Earth, Minn. July 31st 1902: Mrs. Mary Belland, JRobcit Howard, Miss Madaline Belland, Oscar Hag gland, Mrs. Angeline Bitty, Moses Le &ard, Mrs. Jane Beaulieu, J. A. McGlynn, Peter Douglas, Miss Rosa Rock, William Dudley, Mrs. John Shaver. Persons asking for any one of these letters will please state the date of advertisement. All letters remaining unclaimed after 30 days, will be returned to the Dead Letter Office. JAMES VANWEBT P. M. White Earth, Minn. Coleman, who, lias had change of the mve.stiga-1 tion of the matter are as ollows:| Several yowngTiadians weite drink-] mg at an JfeoYmn *amp near Park' Rapids, tttftortg which was the de ceased, and the latter upon thei m\ itation of another Indian was1 having a lunch when the accused] came along and reached into the tent and entwining his harkls in a| handkerchief that was tred around I-en-db's neck pulled hhnoirt of1 (here. No blows were .struck,and] when the totter was-released an, examination showed that Ite was' dead. Gow^Ve-t^^'Way-wexhiril, the] acciised riays he was too drunk to have any recollection of what took place. He says that he and the deceased were the most inti mate friends and inseperable com panions: that they never had any trou'fole, and Were around togethoi the day on which his death oc curred that he, John Martin, Num-aince and the deceased were in a boat together, ind that after they got out he remembers noth ing that weeured Until After t-en dub wart dead. Under the circumstances the ac cused also says that he is entirely in the hands of those who were present and saw him pull the de ceased out of the tent, and that he will be unable to put in any de jfonsfc. Noticel White Earth Agency, Mmn. July 31, 1903. In accordance with instructions from the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Aflairs, to prevent the killing of prairie chickens on the White Earth Indian Rescnation until ii chickens have grown to proper -size, and to entoicesUch penalty for the violation of De partmental orders as may be no i hereby notify all persons nof. tQ w]o0 pra jReservatio MINNESOTA HISTOFflCAL 0t ml n*f J..1 that band, near t)f tn Cdroner jury, in the tnatt neara tne evidence in wi hea id nce A ease decided theev deceased had thoiough investigation of tllemat-l ter HvtfiMd be made before it is dropped entirely. The facts as near as Could be ascertained 4from3ftfc. the Whit]e Earthj be-lfack from the effects of which he died several hours lateri By the death of Mr. Strtpet the Chippewa*? have lost a true friend* who ha always advocated fair and honest treatment towards them* During the outbreak among the Pillagers in 1898, Mr\ Street warm* ly esiouse their cause, and severe8 ly criticised the treatment they had received at the hands of the government and the lumbermen*, he took the position that this treat* TJie TOMAHAWK will be mailed 0 cl,)Ckens on SIMON MICHKLET, United States Indian Agent. to any address in the United States, Canada, Cuba and the Philipines. raent m^mu^mtH^'l FDR TKEJMHANS FOR LUMBERMEN? Several members of Congtessaiifl some of the newspapers, -continue to agitate the ^subject of givirtg more time to he probable pur ht chasers of thelpine timber of the intepjop department. No'plausible argument in avoir I of the Hh&itth interests Httve y& I been advanced wliy the 'retervtt tlm i sol year should not be cuA and rel- medwte rn4 a re- moved from the reservations im yLVo^erirsltgo, When Mhfe ^Mo rrs \iti was under consideration by Congress, the strongest kind of arguments were made by some of the influences that now advo cate a postpondment of the cut ting of the tirhbeVthHttHo Indian* were losing 'tlldrisands of dollar* annually'by tfhe'destruction'of their timber by fordst tyire^, and to postporld its sale and 'cutting any longer would hicirr a &reaft to them. What hafc charig&l the con* ditions "srn^G -ttheni Are timbet fires less likely to r'tin, 6r ^re the purchasers x)f the timber going tib reimburse tire Indiana ^f an$ timber that maV te decayed b^ these ^fiiw iltitin^ t*lieVirnc that its removal ns toeing delayed How does Congressman Buck man or any one else know how many Arffer'ent "purchasers ther6 will b6, arid what Weans ttiey may have of removing the tim"ber. if only two or three firms Were go ing to purchase the timber ther$ might be some excuse for deemr ing to delay removal Oft tlfe grouifds that it courd Wot *be pro perly handled, dr if a limited amount of it was going to be sold, this year. But we see no benefflj to the Indians by a postpone! nrentyindnothing but loss to thenr. It is our opinion that the prosi tion to ptfstponol *tW6 'cutting of the timber to fo th'e 1n^fi of the purchasers and not befcAuBe the In1 dians would be benefited thereby-. It is possible that a secretary of the Intel ior less honest than the present secretary may succeed him before thtj tsfcpthrttoH & & years, and the ind&rft tttoy H*Ve to undergo their former experi ences regai ding their timber mat ters if a postpondment is granted. THE DEATH OF W.F.STMEL- Was a Friend of the Chippewa Indians* W. F. Street, the prominent ate torney, townsite promoter and newspaper man of Bemidji, was accidently killed by His lirotherdn* lav\ Ijouih Bland, last Thursday. Young Bland, who is only fifteen yeais of ages was following Mn Street through the brush when his g\}n Was discharged accidently* and the charge entered the latter'a was responsible for the outv break. Mr. Steet was an enterprising gentleman of the most excellent qualities and character,and by hi* death bemidji has lst one of its best citizens.