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Vol. XVI.
Justice and Fair Dealing for
every Indian who desires to
become a good Citizen.
THE TOMAHAWK.
Official Organ of
Chippewas.
the Minnesota
GUS H. BEAUUEU, Founder.
Edited by THE TOMAHAWK PUB. CD,
White Earth Agency, Minnesota.
Entered at^the Postoffice at White
Earth, Minn., as mail matter ot the
second class.
SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 PEB YEAR I I ADVAiiCL
Ever.v time we appropriate
money from the Chippewa tribal
fund we do so unlawfully.Hon
H. Steenerson, M. C.
The trouble with the Indian
Bureau is that there is 90 per c nt
administration and 10 per cent
civilization.Hon. W. W. Hast
ings, M. C.
For several years we have at
tempted diliigently to find out
what Indian Inspectors did, and it
seems that they were a sort of
committes that went out and
OVERLOOKED the situation, if they
went at all.Hon. H. P. Snydor,
M. C.
Inspectors are really represcn a"
tives of the Indian Office out in
the field* and they go there as
representatives of the lncfian Office
and inspect the Indian service and
make confidential.Hon. W. W.
Hastings, M. C.
AUTOCRACY.
When a temporary power comes
to that conclusion that he is God
Almighty power, and begins to
misuse and abuse his position to
satisfy his power (as the Kaiser
did), then it becomes intolerent and
a nuisancH It is better that it
should die rather than to exist t.j
mislead and destroy. The Indian
bureau stands in that same light in
relation with the Indian race Des
potically without consent of the
Indians, the Indian race was forced
into the hands of the military de
partment and political parties, as
prisoners of war and later to be
used as stool pigeons in the hands
of politics. It is a shame that
twelve million dollars is blood
money, bled out of the people un
der the name of Indian appropria
tions, when the Indians do not
even get a smell of it.
This idea of beautifying, en
larging and systemaizing Indian
schools, the un-American idea of
segregating, going away from de
mocracy, and doing for the In
dians what they ought to do for
themselves. It requires twelve
millions of dollars to pay the exexcuse
penses of those connected with the
Indian Bureau who are degrading
and using the Indian in every way
tot beneficial to the Indians.
Every branch of the Indian Bu
reau is working might and main to
keen intact the system that defies
back and harmful to the Indians.!abolished,
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reservation system be remedied?
it is as easy as rolling off a log.
Free and citizenize them all at
once. Give to each Indian what
belongs to him, and let them go to
sink or swim. This great move
must be made sooner or later, and
"Wassaja" believes the sooner the
better. When the Indians stand
on the brink of freedom and citi
zenship we hear the worn out
excuses: "Let us wait until we
can get the status of the Indians.
Do not go too fast we must not
forget Indian treaties. What
about Indian education? The Incross
dians have not enough money to
educate their children. Now, 'Moo
tezuma fad,' don't be -too hot
headed and abolish the Indian Bu
reau. We believe that the Indian
Bureau has a duty to perform in
these matters before any agitation
can be made in regard to Indian
freedom and citizenship We beplatoon
lieve in constructive and not a
destructive platform upon which
the Indians may move, have their
being, before abolishing the Indian
Bureau. Radical way of doing
things is not safe. There are ob
ligations due the Indians from the
United States before we can come
to any just consideration of abol
ishing the Indian Bureau."
These ideas are nuts to crack.
A hard nut is hard to crack, but a
false nut is easy.
The above reasons of our good
friends are false nuts.
The status of the Indians is
known, he is a WARD. The ma
chinery of the Indian Bureau
TURNS OUT WARDS AND
NOTHING ELSE. Has Indian
treaties done any good for the In
dians? Not at all. It has been as a
lead around the Indians' neck.
The pale faces have broken the
treaties and also the Indians' necks.
Far better were there no Indian
treaties. Treaties held the Indians
to one side and they were not
counted in with the people of the
country.
Now, let us touch upon the edu
cation of the Indian children?
Higher education will come after
they have finished the public
schools. The public school system
of the United States is the best
system of education in the world.
It is the cement which unites races
into one common family it is that
which has helped to conquer the
world for peace and brotherly
love. Patriotic is he who upholds
the public school system. The
Indian Bureau is a draw back to
the public schools for the Indian
children. One of the duties of the
Indian schools is to keep the In
dian children from entering the
public schools. You can see their
policy for doing so. Public schools
for the pappooses WOULD MEAN
DEATH TO THE INDIAN
SCHOOLS.
Indian schools were instituted HS
make-shift for the public schools,
as the Indian reservation were too
remote from civilization. No such
can be madeuow, for res
ervations and Indian boarding
schools are surrounded in the midst
of public schools. If public
schools had been encouraged for
Indian children by the Government
fifty years agoin two genera
tionsthis question would not at-
the rights of ma?. If there is a tract any at'ention at all. The In-
system that ke-p the Indians
dj:in children would be coming
from what is light and just, it is and going to the public school*
the Indian B.ureau. with the children of all races. The
A reservation enviroment is "Outing System" which General
everything but elevating. More Pratt originated at the
vice is introduced than high and lisle Indian School had for its
noble virtues. To keep a race object the public schools, but that you are proving upon a home-
within an inclosure without the is dead now. There is suclra thing stead, your time in the army counts
general current that makes pro 'as a resurrection. It has come to as time spent on the homestead,
gress and thriftines is a draw this, that the Indian Bureau must be
How can such a condition as the must be given their freedom andfi1.50.
and that the Indians] Read
White Earth, Becker County*
citizenship, then the Indian
THE TOMAHAWK
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF Tnt MINNESOTA CHIPPEWAS.
Truth bgftrj-e Favor."
reu will-recite in the public school
rooms of the country. Let us
pray this will come soon.*
Wassaja.
Red Lake Indian Awarded
Distinguished Service
Gross.
Soldiers' Civil Rights.
The soldier in theUunited States
service has certain rights which he
and his family should know.
When you get back from the army,
if you find that the court has ren
dered against you, do not worrj
about it. You still have a chance
to be heard if you apply ^to the
court in person or through an at
torney, within ninety days after
your discharge. The court may
stay any judgement rendered
against you or your property. If
payments on a mortgage have been
overdue, the property cannot come
forclosed until three months after
you have been discharged. Your
taxes or assessments may have
become overdue. If your family
riled a statement of the case, the
property would not be sold for
unpaid taxes. Even if such sale
took place you can redeem the
property by paying frix per cent
interest. This must be done with
in six months after the President's
proclamation that the war is over.
The Red Cross Home Service will
be glad to advise ou on thcae
matters. Debts contracted before
you went into the army are still
due, with interest, and you will,
of course pay them as soon as you
are ab'e to do so. AH our gov
ernment guarantees is that your
late Car- absence on military service will
1 not count against you in court. If
THE TOMAHAWK,
Minnesota,
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chili
The first distinguished service
awarded a Beltrami county
soldier by Geneial 'Pershing has
been won by a Red Lake agency
Indian, Sergeant Joseph La Jen
nesssee, D. company, Sixtith in
fantry, for extraordinary heroism
in action near Cuel, France, Oct.
14, 1918. Sergeant La Jennessee
retained the command of his
after he had. received a
severe gunshot wound in .the leg,minder
maintained* the organization of Lis
platoon under heavy fire, and
directed it in the overcoming of
several machine gun positions. He
consolidated bis position on thecommemorates
line held by the company, and
remained on post thirty six hours
until ordered evacuated on account
of his wqund.
We congratulate Sergeant La
Jennessee upon his achievement
on the battle field and its due
recognition by General Pershing.
In the army an Indian is recog
nized as a competent and in La
Jennessee's case signally so. As
a Red Lake Indian under the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
the only eross he ever got was Jkte^
double-cross.
And by the way has the Com
missioner himself done anything
in his field of duty that would
warrant a bestowal upon him of
any mark of distinction. Speaking
impersonally, the bureau under
his management would suffer court
martial if certain congressmen
could act as a trial board, and we
know what the result would be.
52 issue
Thursday, March 27, 1919.
The Right Kind of Min
nesota Soldiers'
Memorial.
Minnesota plans a state memorial
to its boy8 who have served in the
great war It should have a
mem-the
jiril,nd it should not stint in
ouilding it any more than its boys
have stinted their gift of service
and sacrifice at the call of their
country.
What kind of a memorial A
committee appointed by the gov
ernor to investigate andadvisc^im
and the legislature is working on
that question now, and will soon
make a report
The issue lies between a building
that will be purely a memorial,
only something to look at as a' re
of the military service of
Minnesota's sons, and a building
that will at once be a memorial
and something that, in itself, will
serve the public use, as the men it
have served.
Can tiwre be more than one
answer to that question? By all
means, the memorial should be a
building not only beautiful to look
upon, and therefore fitted to what
it commemorates, but a building
that will he of large public use
and benefit, that the people may
be reminded of what it seeks to
remind them not only by its ap
appearance, but by the service it
will yield to them as long as it
gtands.
No cold, stilted structure, tomb
like and useless no matter how
beautiful, should be bnilt as a
memorial to men who have givei?
the noblest service soldiers ever
rendered to mankind.
The memoiial should be in the
Twin Cities because they are cen
tral and because there are more
people there, of course. And the
plan suggested by the alummi of
the state university is by all odds
the best: to put the building on
university campus, and to
make it take the form of a mem
orial auditorium, for the use of
the university and the public The
university needs such a building,
and the state will soon have to
build it anyway. Moreover, placed
there it would be situated so that
rooms in it could be set apart as
headquarters for the various or
ganisations of veterans of the
great war that will be formed, and
as a meeting place for them.
All soldiers' memorials should
be something that will always be
of public service, because they are
errected to commemorate a gnat
service. In no way, we feel sure,
could Minnesota better meet this
need than by building its soldiers'
memorial on the university compus
and by making it a building that
will be of the widest possible use
to the soldiers and the public.
The fact that one-sixth of Minne
sota's soldiers in the great w:tr and
one-third of its officers were men
of the university is an additional
reason for making thisdecision.
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