Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1918 — No More Cherokee Chiefs. [ARTICLE]

No More Cherokee Chiefs.

It is along the line of progress that the chieftaincy is to be dropped by the Cherokee Indian nation. The Semlnoles have already dispensed with this relic of tribal government. Thus two of the five civHlzed Indian nations will soon have abandoned a tradition that has served only to bind them to a past which had better be forgotten, ft has long- been the conviction of the Students of the Indian problem and friends of the Indian people, like Commissioner Cato Sells,

that the sooner the individual Indian is released from tribal connection and environment the better it will be for him and for the country.—Christian Science Monitor,