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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
Chippewas.
GUS H. BEAULIEU, Founder.
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White Earth Agency, Minnesota.
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BOLSHIViSM.
In the Pioneer Press issue of
Friday, March 28, there was
printed rather an elaborate aiticle
concerning the visit, to the Capital,
of George Walters and William
Lufkins, of this reservation. The
article represented that those two
individuals posed as "representa
tives or delegates" of the Chippe
was of Minnesota and as such
pleaded with the Governor and
members of the State Legislature
to assist them in memorializing
Congress to appropriate $100,000
from the Chippewa tribal funds to
continue the existence of the Gov
crnmont Indian boarding schools,
etc. In fact their importunities
were of so impressive a nature
that Senator H.McGa.r.s, of
Walker, promised them that he
_*,would introduce a resolution in
the Legislature, memorializing
Congress to appropriate, from the
Minnesota Chippewa tribal fund,
$100,000 for the purposes noed
above.
On the receipt of the above
intelligence, some of the progres
sive leaders of the Chippewas,
immediately took up the matter
with Senator John II. Baldwin and
others, informing them to efftct
that George Walters and William
Lufkins were not, in any sense,
representatives of the affairs of
the Minnesota Chippewas that the
tribal affairs of the said Chippewas
were vested in a General Council
that the said Council or the Presi
dent thereof "appointed different
committees to look after the
proper management of the differ
ent functions of said Council,
among them the Legislative Com
mittee which looked after the
matters of appropriations general
ly and tlrat the said Walters and
Lufkins were absolutely without
authority to act iu any capacity
whatever as representatives of the
General Council. Concerning the
matter of funds for the mainte
nance of Indian boarding schools
this branch of the Chippewa In
di.in service is amply provided for
in the legislation of 188J) and .is
not in present need of funds.
Furthermore, the State Senate,
Minnesota Legislature, went on
record last December in memoral
izing Congress against the further
appropriation of money from the
Caippewa tribal funds and, logical
ly speaking, it is not probable that
t'lat body will knowingly reverse
its action in the premises.
George Walters or Gah gon
da ish, and William Lufkia-, the
fjrmer's occupation for many
years being thai of a grotesque
the Legislative Committee, General
Council, Minnesota Chippewas, in
their efforts to restrain the Indian
Bureau from securing unlimited
and prodigal appropriations from
the Chippewa tribal funds and the
enacting of remedial legislation for
the progressive welfare of the
said Chippewas generally, and this
opposition is apparently with the
knowledge and sanction of the
Indian Office.
The Great Joy Ride.
They are gonegone or going
the old familiar faces. Sir Josephus,
N. C. is sailing the ocean blue.
The gifted Baker is to follow soon.
Mr. Lansing is already there. The
President and his annex- House are
on the mind matching campus.
Arid all of them with their suits,
their sisters and their cousins and
their aunts, to say nothing of their
wives and daughters and son-in
law. I 19 stupendous. W have
had eleemosynary junkets galore
charged up in the past to the ever
genial tax-payer But they are as
nothingmere cheap round-trip
excursions compared with this one.
They were of the effete days when
we counted our money only by the
tens of millions. But in these bil
lion dollar days we have ceased to
be pikers.
Of course, the little bill will
have to be met. But the tax-payer
is a patient soul. He doesn't care.
It is only another item in his high
cost of li\ing. It will teach him to
be thrifty. will HAVE to be
thrifty. If you are going to have
your who'e Administration family
making a splash in foreign capitals
you must make up your mind to
pay for it. Such frills naturally
are expensive. Added to the bil
lions required to keep the home
fires burning in Washington, no
matter how quiet it may be on the
Potomac with the Administration
population on their travels, the
whole foots up to a figure which
should have a properly steadying
effect on the tax-payer when he
digs down in his clothes for the
wherewithal to meet it. Serves him
right Let him cut down on his
own gaddings about. Let him cut
down on his food. eats too
much anyway.
But when so many arc on the
grand tour, why are any left be
hind? There is liedtield, for in
stance. How gladly we could part
with Kedfield! How fondly he'd be
missed! And that pious patriarch
of multitudinous families, the
virtuous and somewhat reverend
Herron, where is, he hiding his coy
blushes? Is be adorning the chaste
festivities of Montmartre, or is he
plink-plunking his soulful guitar
uuder the Seraglio windows of
Istamboul? And there is our Sec
retary of Labor, Mr. Wilson.
Why is he not among those preent
Surely his zealous bolshevistic
understudy, Mr. Post, could keep
the red flag flj ing in his absence!
And then there is Burleson! If
we cannot have a permanent de
liverance from Burleson, why can
we not, oh, why "ma we not
have a Burleson vacation? Take
him to Paris, take him to Timbuc
too, take him anywhere so it's a
long way back! I would be money
in the tax payer's pocket keep
Burleson perennially on his travels.
And, in addition to all these,
there is the Att rne General and
curio attached to a traveling patent
nedicine show, and the latter, his suite and his and their families
bearing the notorious reputation of and friends! Why are they left
an outlaw blind pigger and tin- out of the Paris Jo Ride? Wh
horn gamb'er, are part and discriminate? Why is Mr. Glass
pa-c 1 ff the James I. ffey!
gin/, servi'e henchmen of the!the entire Administration outfit
Indian Bureau, whose sole occupa- and all their families while we are
tion i.- to oppose the members of about it and ship them to France
overlooked Why not roundup,
THE TOMAHAWK
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TH-^ MINNESOTA CHIPP^WAS.
Truth betor* Favor."
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in regiments and divisions? Then
we could all join cheerily in the
rollicking doughboy chorus:
"Hail! Hail! the gang's all there1
What the hell do we care! What
the hell dp we care!"
But why, oh why, did the creel
come creeling back?Harvey's
Weekly.
The Chippewa Indians of Min
nesota are, in many respects, very
much like "th ever genial tax
payer" (most of them pay taxes)
but when it comes for a demand
for big appropriations from the
Chippewa tribal funds the Indian
is not asked, not even consulted,
"to dig down into his clothes or
leggings for the wherewithall to
meet it," oh no, "wrapped in the
impregnable arrogance of over
weening egotism," the Indian Bu
reau assumes autocratic authority
and does the digging and digs long
and deep. In this way the Indian
Bureau has "digged" away and
squandered about $6,000,000* of
the Chippewa Indian tribal funds
within the past twenty six years. ,|i
Yes, and in addition to thef^
"Administration outfit and all
their families" be sure nd don't
forget to include Cato Sells and
his Indian Bureau entourage, and
thereby give the Indians, especially
the Minnesota Chippewas, a taste
of the Constitutional prerogative
of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
of Happiness," and verify in a
small degree the stunted "Justin*
cation" of "relief and civilization."
By all means give the Indian Bu
reau a vacation also, take them to*
Paris, take them to Hellena, take
them anywhere so its a long, lor^^^
way back.
A Communication.
Editor, TOMAHAWK.
Senator Norris of Nebraska is
certainly a bird that has flown high
into the empyrean region of hypo
thesis: It has been recently given
out by the press that he gave out
iu Washington a "carefully pre
pared statement." He guesses from
on high that Canada "sometime in
the future will demand her in
dependence." From his balloon
he looks down and southwardly
and invests Brazil with ambitions
born from "greatness," and in or
der to substantiate his speculation
he has to invert a theory that
brings England and Brazil into a
clash of war.
And here is where he makes
Canada come into her own for,
"seeing her opportunity," she will
join Brazil in her war against
England. There you have it.
Canada and Brazil, the one with
Anglo-Saxon traditions and genius,
and Brazil with hers of Latin
character, will eich forget inherit
ance of type and join lioly(?) hands
and thus obtaiu realization of am
bitions at the behest of a Xebraskan,
"Upon what meat hath this our
Ceasar fed that he has grown so
groat."
Maternally upon sage-bush hens,
and spiritually upon his views
ancnt the League of NationsHe
lets the cat out of the bag when he
tells us that "if we join the League
of Nations we will be compelled to
fight Canada and Brazil, and be
cause of affection for our Canadian
cousins, we would have a revolu
tion in our own country if we
undertook to earn out the compact
White Earth, Becker County, 'Minnesota, Thursday, April 3, 1919.
of the league."
Mr. Norris is trying to conjure
up a bugaboo to bolster up his
views upon the proposed league.
Is he so afraid that the actualities
are not sufficient to sustain his
view, that he has to have recourse
to suppositions upon what Canada
and Brazil might do against the
England he seems to hate so deep-
4 Ask any student of the relations
between England and Canada, and
be will tell you that both are sat
isfied with present relations, and
that it is almost a certainty that if
Canada should desire complete
independence in the future, Eng
land might say, "daughter go in
peace."
Canada has now such a degree
of independence that the link
binding her to the mother country
is gossamer-thread-like and not
one of iron-like character.
And as to Brazil, what is there
now, or what could arise between
tier and England to bring on war?
been eating
razil nuts) and
acquired an indigestion whose
effects have mounted to his brain?
Mr. Norris reminds one of the old
lady with a present largo and pros
perous family, and who worried
over the funerals that were to
come.
a8n Mi\ Norris
quirre foo d(Braz
And in the present case, for all
a sane person can see, "there hain't
goin' to be no funeral" with Eng
land as the corpse, done to death
by a daughter and a dark com
plexioned lady far away.
Cheer up Mr. Norris and look
in tb
norma i
way, and while you're about it,
come down to the solid earth, and
revise your "statement."
C. II. Beaulieu.
Le Sueur, Mmu.
In Regard to Attorneys
for Indians.
Congress should repeal the bill
that no Indian or tribe can procure
an attorney without the approval
of the Indian Office and Secretary
of the Interior.
The greatest fight is coming for
the Indians. It will be a legi.l
battle between the Indians and the
Indian Bureau.
The Indian Bureau is an inter
ested party and should not ap
prove or disapprove the Indian's
attorney to defend the Indian
against the Indian Bureau. In
legal matters it is not considered
legal to have an interested pariy
to select an attorney against, the
will of the second party, or have
the second party's attrne ap
proved by the iirst party when
the first party is an interested
party. It is the same as if "A"
sues "B." "A" cannot get a
lawyer to take charge of his case
without the approval of and
X."
If Christ was selected by the
Indians as their attorney, the In
dian Bureau would disapprove of
Him. Why? Because He would
bo against the Indian Office. Any
one who has a heart interest iu the
Indians, whether he be a lawyer
or not, the Indian Office and the
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Shortest Railroad.
You have heard of shortest railroads
before. Always they're the most ab
breviated over. But off-hand one
would pianl the prize to Missoula,
Mont. It has a railroad only 100 feet
long. It connects the Northern Pacific
with the C. M. & St. P., and is used
as a transfer. It has no equipment,
no employes, and no stations, yet the
company that owns it sets 50 cents
for every car I hat passes over its rails.
Sixteen thousand have done so thus
far. Think of it.Popular Science
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