Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1916 — MANY INDIANS NOW BUY AUTOS [ARTICLE]

MANY INDIANS NOW BUY AUTOS

Money Secured From Sale of Lands Put Into Cars Wheeler, S. D.—Many Indians who recently participated in the ceremonies at Yankton Indian agency Attendant upon deeds to goverment land being turned over to them by Secretary Franklin K. Lane in person, now are busy spending their wealth for automobiles. The money with which they now are provided was received from the sale of their farms to white purchasers after hey had received the deeds from the government In the past ten days more than Ifty of these Indians have purchased automobiles from dealers between Platte and Dante. They believe that to be the owner of a buzzwagon is far ahead cf being the owner of a farm. As the Government has no control over the sale of the lands since the deeds were transferred to the Indians themselves, Government officials can do nothing toward preventing the red men from investing their money in the white man’s “devil wagons.”