Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1916 — FANS MAKE INDIANS LAUGH [ARTICLE]

FANS MAKE INDIANS LAUGH

Zack Wheat and Chief Meyers Obliged to Talk English—One is CoahuiL la, Other Cherokee.

Chief Meyers and Zack Wheat, the noble red men with the Brooklyn club, have many good laughs at sundry fans who want to know if they don’t "talk Indian” to each other. "We have to talk plain English. Wheat and I,” chirped Meyers, “for the very good reason that I .could never understand a word of Zack’s aboriginal speech, nor could he understand anything I might say in my own language. As near as I can make out, Zack’s tribal speech and mine differ about as widely as French and Russian. I have it on Zack in one way, though; I speak three languages, English, Spanish and the Coahuiila tongue, while Zack speaks only two —English and Cherokee.”