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4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

MERICAN Indian day comes on September 28 and indications are k that it will be more widely obk served this year than at any time since it was originated in Illinois in 1919. The purpose of American Indian day is to foster Wi more cordial relations and a better understanding between the red and white races, but more D especially to bring to the attention of the whites the many accomplishments of the Indian.

In view of that fact, the recent appearance of two books, written by Indians, is especially noteworthy, for in both “My People, the Sioux,” by Chief Standing Bear, published by Houghton Mifflin company, and “Long Lance,” by Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, published by the Cosmopolitan Book corporation, the white man can find an accurate portrayal of the Indian character, as exemplified in the life stories of these representatives of two of the finest types of North American Indians —the Sioux and the Blackfeet. For what Chief Standing Bear says in the preface to his book applies to both. He writes: The preparation of this book has not been with any idea of self-glory. It is just a message to the white race; to bring my people before their eyes in a true and authentic manner. The American Indian has been written about by hundreds of authors of white blood or possibly by an Indian of mixed blood who has spent the greater part of his life away from a reservation. These are not in a position to write accurately about the struggles and disappointments of the Indian. White men who have tried to -write stories about the Indian have either foisted on the public some blood-curdling, impossible “thriller’*; or, if they have been in sympathy with the Indian, have written from knowledge which was not accurate and reliable. No one is able to understand the Indian race like an Indian. A brief review of the career of Standing Bear will show how eminently fitted he is to interpret his people of the red race to the white race. He was born in IS6B when the Sioux were still nomads, whose proud spirit had not yet been tamed by military conquest and by being penned upon on reservations, where they came enough into contact with a certain class of white man to have their primitive virtues corrupted by that contact. As a boy he lived in the buffalo-skin tipi of the old time Plains Indians and received from his elders the spiritual and physical training which resembled that of the Spartans of ancient times; as a young man he knew the thrill of the buffalo chase and the intertribal wars 1 which developed a race of first class fighting men of whom General F. W. Benteen once said “They (the Sioux) are the greatest warriors that the sun ever shone on.” Although too young to have a part in the last stand of the Sioux against the United States government in the War of 1876-77, the fact that he was the son of an hereditary chief of the Sioux and one who was prominent in both the war and peace councils of his tribe gave Standing Bear an unusual opportunity to know the facts about some of the incidents of that last stand. And it may be noted in passing that historians of the future might well take into consideration Standing Bear's narrative before writing again of such matters as the Battle of the Little Big Horn where Custer perished, the death of Crazy Horse in the guard house at Camp Robinson, Neb., and the now famous affair at Wounded Knee which some white historians have called a “battle” but which the Sioux to this day call a “massacre.” Standing Bear’s education (in the sense in which the white man uses that term) began when he was one of the first group of Sioux children to enter the newly-established school for Indians at Carlisle, Pa., in 1879. It continued there for several years, was supplemented as an employee of John*Wanamaker at his store in Philadelphia and continued as an employee of the government on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations, as a member of Buffalo Bill’s wild west show both in

- A half century ago the Sioux warrior who thought he had a claim : against the government started out ^B with his musket and hatchet to colW l leet it from the nearest known repre^^B sentative of the White Father. But now the Sioux are more civillized and are resorting to law in an ^■attempt to obtain whatever they can ■build up as a claim from dates back ^Kps far as DUO. They are demanding ^^■terest, wh h will more than double ■Beir original claims, some of which She decidedly vague, but are put in to

this country and abroad and as a movie actor In southern California where he now lives. The distance which Standing Bear of the Sioux has covered in “following the white man’s road - ’ is nothing less than amazing. In the short space of sixty years there has been written in the history of this individual at least a thousand jears of racial history, a giant’s stride from barbarism to what we call “civilization”! Soon after Standing Bear was born his people saw for the first time a railroad train on the Union Pacific railroad, which was then being pushed west. With mixed emotions of amazement and fear they watched this great “snake” go puffing across the prairie, little realizing that it was to be one of the vital forces in bringing about the downfall of their race at the hands of a more powerful and ruthless type of civilization. The nr.iv? attitude of the Sioux toward the railroad, as well as toward many other of the things used by the white men, as reflected in the pages of this red man’s book, is the best possible commentary upon the great difference between the Standing Bear of 1868 and the Standing Bear of 1928. And reading tnis, the white man may learn how unjust he has been to the red man—not unjust in the sense that he robbed the Indian of his lands and his freedom and imposed upon him restrictions hateful to a free spirited and roving people, but unjust in his attitude toward the Indian, the attitude which made him expect the red man to adopt almost overnight a social and economic order which the white man had evolved only after centuries of painful effort. It is this fact which makes the reading of sue!, books as those written by Standing Bear and Buffalo Child Long Lance especially appropriate to the aims of American Indian day. For by doing so, the American of the present day, no mattehow indifferent he may be to the “wrongs” perpetrated upon the Indian by Americans of past generations, can come more nearly having an adequate understanding of the Indian point- of view, both past and present, and thus be able to do his share in avoiding further injustice to a brave people who still form a not inconsiderable part of the population of this country. What is true of Chief Standing Bear as an authentic Interpreter of the real Indian Is no less true of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and the history of his life is as romantic a record of transformation as is that of the Sioux chief's. What that life was is intimated by Irvin S. Cobb, who wrote In the foreword to “Long Lance” this: It was an altogether another and a different book that my friend Buffalo Child Long Lance might have written. He might have written to tell how he von scholastic and athletic honors at Carlisle and 'at Manlius; of how, while mastering the white man's tongue, he learned half a dozen tribal languages other thart his own; of how, having received a presidential awr(.rd of appointment to West Point, he threw away that most cherished dream of his—the dream of being a full-blooded Indian officer in the regular army—to cross the line in 1916, and at the first call for recruits for overseas service, to enlist in the Canadian forces: of how, going in as a private, he came out at the end of the World war as a captain of infantry, his body covered with wouhds and his breast glittering- with medals bestowed for high conduct and gallantry; of how he fought as a sn.per, as a raider, as a leader of forlorn hopes in the trenches and across No Man’s Land; of how his own people conferred upon him the chieftainship of one of the , four principal bands of the Northern Blackfeet; of how, beginning as a reporter on a western Canadian paper, he has earned for himself distinction as a writer of magazines. He might have told these things, but, being an Indian, he didn’t. And I for one am glad that he has written this one. For here, sinking his own engaging personality, his own individual achievements in the background, he depicts graphic phases of a life which has altogether vanished, of a race which . is rapidly vanishing. I know of no man better fitted than Chief Long Lance to write a true book about the true American Indian and I know of no book on the subject which better reveals the spirit of the Indian in the years that are gone and the spirit of times the like of which will never be seen again. Although Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance is a younger man than Chief Standing Bear, his recollections of his childhood are of those of a people

Sioux Tribes Sue U. S. for $500,000,000

make the government record complete. The Sioux of North and South Dakota, while fairly well off in the way of land allotments, have none of the boasted wealth which Oklahoma Indians get from the oil fields as there is no oil yet developed on the Sioux lands. But they are dreaming of wealth through their suits based on alleged acts of omission or commission by the government of the United

States for more than Sixty years. There is a total original claim of $216,881,076 for the tribe as a whole. In addition are presented claims for certain groups amounting to $4,372,294, with interest, some of this running back to 1850. With interest added the total will run to practically one-half billion dollars. The largest single claim is that for the Black Hills, which the Sioux de-

Photograph of Chief Standing Bear, courteay Houghton Mifflin company. Other photograph*, courtesy CoKmopolltan Book corporation. <2 —— as primitive as the Sioux from which Standing Bear sprang. They were the Blackfeet, called the “Tigers of the Blains,” who were the ruling tribe of a wild domain known as the northwest territories in Canada until 1905 when the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan came Into being. Go among those Blackfeet today and they will tell you of their thoughts at seeing their first white men—so lately did “civilization” touch their lives. Long Lance's first remembrance is of an intertribal battle which took place in northern Montana —perhaps on the very spot where today some automobile tourist is camping! And Chief Buffalo | Child Long Lance is scarcely thirty years of age. i Like Standing Bear lie received a Spartan training and learned “to ride, to shoot and speak the truth," and reading in their books of the qualities which this training developed in the Indian boys makes one wonder if perhaps the modern “civilized” American might not learn some profitable lessons in child-training from these “barbarians.” Although of different tribes —and tribes which were ancient and hereditary enemies—there is a striking similarity between the narratives of this Sioux and this Blackfoot. Both bring out very forcibly the qualities of honesty, generosity, true reverence and simple kindliness of the primitive Indian character before it was influenced by the white man’s ways. A typical Incident is given in Long Lance’s book in telling of a buffalo hunt. It was the Indian man's job to provide the meat forth > family by killing the buffalo and the Indian woman's job to follow the hunt and skin and dress the dead animals. Long Lance writes: Each wife knew which animals had been brought down by her husband by the arrow which had been left in it. For every Indian had his arrow painted a certain way, so that anything- he killed with it could easily be identified. If he shot a buffalo with a bullet he would circle back and hurl one of his arrows in its body, so his wife would ’enow it was his. The young son of our late medicine man. White Fog, was sitting on his pony among us boys. He was carrying on his back a quiver full of his dead father’s arrows, which his mother had given him to play with. One of the women came over to this lad,and took out one of White Dog’s arrows and walked out on the field and pulled one of her own husband’s arrows out of a buffalo buil and stuck White Dog’s arrow in the hole. She said nothing to anyone; but later we saw White Dog’s widow squatting over the buffalo, skinning it and sobbing quietly over the bloody pelt. Just as Standing Bear has written in his book some real “Indian history” from the point of view of the Sioux, so has Long Lance written the story of the relations between the white and red races from the point of view of his people, the Blackfeet. And there is no more thrilling and ’ inspiring (if a person admires pure “grit” in a man, whether he be white or red) story anywhere than his account of the epic of the Indian outlaw, Almighty Voice. Almighty Voice was the son of Sounding Sky and Spotted Calf, who were Long Lance’s foster parents, wherefore he knows whereof he writes in telling that warrior’s story. Almighty Voice became an outlaw through an unfortunate chain of circumstances. By mistake he had killed a steer belonging to the government of the Northwest Territories and he was arrested by the mounted police and lodged in jail. One of the police jokingly told him they were “going to hang him for killing that steer,” little realizing the terrible effect which this joke would have on the untutored Indian. But Almighty Voice escaped from jail and then began what was perhaps the most famous man-hunt in the history of that famous organization, noted for the fact that it “always gets its man.” It is true that the mounted police finally did get Almighty Voice but at a terrible cost. The hunt for him lasted two years. Finally they cornered him, hut it was not until artillery was brought into action and the place in which Almighty Voice and two companions were entrenched thoroughly shelled that he was finally conquered. And when he was conquered, he was no longer able to harm his attackers. For Almighty Voice had died fighting.

clare were taken from them without a proper treaty, though some such record was signed. This claim is fixed at $156,513,740, with interest from 1875. Several councils have been held between representatives of the various Sioux reservations and Ralph Case of Washington, their counsel, the last one at Rosebud, in which delegates from all of the reservations in the two Dakotas took part, and which had for its purpose the presentation of claims and evidence lacking them.—Minneapolis Journal.

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