People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — INDIANS TO MAKE AN EXHIBIT. [ARTICLE]

INDIANS TO MAKE AN EXHIBIT.

Miss Emma E. Sickles' Efforts to Interest Red Men in the Fair Successful. Miss Emma E. Sickles is at the Palmer house. She has just returned from the Indian territory, where she has been endeavoring to arouse interest among the Indians for a world’s lair exhibit this summer. Miss Sickles says all the Indians expressed a willingness to exhibit their present knowledge of the mechanics and fine arts and their collections of curiosities. All the leading men and women of the different nations were preparing to visit Chicago during the fair. They want a building of their own and would like to pay fop- it with their own money, and 'to that end have appointed ways and means committees to raise the amount required. The Cherokee World’s Fair association has been organized at Tahlequah. Other nations have promised to cooperate with the Cherokee nation. Miss Sickles first visited Seneca in October. There she met representatives from the Peorias, Miamis, Senecas, Wyandottes, Modoca and the Six Nations. After one week there she attended the Creek council at Okmulgee. In November she attended the Choctaw council at Tuskahoma, where resolutions were passed to hear Miss Sickles at a joint, meeting. At all these councils great interest was manifested by the Indians in Miss Sickles’ efforts to secure them proper recognition at the great fair. There is more than world's fair behind this effort to have an Indian exhibit. Miss Sickles says that unless something is done in this line to attract the attention of the nations there is certain to be an Indian war of great magnitude this summer.