Vol. 2, No. 6 ISSUED MONTHLY September, 1917

Vol. 2, No. 6

"WA.SSAJA"

SEPTEMBER, 1917

Subacription, SO Cenh a Year

Sinsle Copiea, Sc 100 for $2,00

ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO

CARLOS MONTEZUMA, M. D.

3135 S. Park A.,., Cbicaso, lllinoia

INDIANS ARE HELD BACK BY WRONG T~AINING

Founder of Carliale School Saya Metboda ,Uaed Develop Redman'• Helpleaaneaa

Whenever the Federal Government and the Indian Miaaione attempt to deYelop the individual citizenship and uaefulneH of the American In. dian, eucceaa ia aaaured and the country at once will have plenty of deairablea from the native race. Thie ie the view expreaeed by General R. H. Pratt, United State• Army, retired, who ie in Portland on his return to Berkeley, California, after a vi11t to Alaaka. As the originator of the Government Indian School at Carlisle, Pennsyl. vania, and promoter of eimilar institutions, he is in a po&ition to apeak with authority.

"I went to Alaaka on inatigation of the Rev, Edward Maraden, a Metlakatla Indian, who ia a

graduate of Marietta College and of the Lane Theological Seminary, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and for eighteen years haa been a miHionary to the

. Indiana in the diatrict radiating from Ketchikan," aaid General Pratt, "I have known him twenty. aix yean and during that time I have kept in touch with him by correapondence and visite. He ia a remarkable and moat uaeful man for any race to claim.

"During my three weeka with Mr. Maraden we viaited many Indiana and place• where ehey were employed fiehing and in fiah canneriee. I heard him preach to Indiana, speaking onl~ the Ensli1h language, which all Southern Ala,ka Indian, ,peak freely. Hie aermona were thoroughly practical and adapted wisely to the people be­fore him. I count Mr. Marsden a fair example of what . a majority of the Indian youth of Alaska might have become under auspice• 1imilar to hie. My fifty year, of experience in handling lndi11n problem• ehow1 that the •ce everywhere in thia country hu remained tril:ial and Indian because no chance haa been given the Indian, to be­come anything else.

"The Metlakatla community, under Mr. Dun. can, i1 aimed to create only amenable Duncan Indiana and not American citizen•. I have known Mr. Duncan and his methode for thirty years. Hie personal welfare has been and ie his chief objective. Thie greed led him to become di,­loyal to the Canadian Government and hi, church at old Metlakatla. He was unfrocked a, a mis. aionary and moved his community into the United State, in 1887. Hie methode of dominating hi, people and gettins sain impelled the United State• Government to take control of the Met.

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' What Free om, Rights and -~==- --'= == Constructive Cui• ReservatroHlfe Does for · · · Citizenship. Wiff iiean ·;- . , ~ 1 • • 1 - -- -;- l-; ' - L: \ ;

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Destructiv~ Ba~ ; Copetructiv~ Baei~ 1- • his judgment. ,I ·, . 1 , i h ·j ., 1-,~J _ , .,4 ' ., < (.., 4 T

l ,, Ht! ,i,, a ,;..,a~d,iooapa• .. I He'Wfll bt!tbee tollok Reli_gio~s fr~e__d?-!n is . . ne wi~l enjoy reli~ ,, bleto·liooikafter himaeH . . ••fterhimseln'""' , , l 'ndt lh,s: ~· ~ .·; ' " 1ous freetlorn': ,S'. .lo . We is not a dtizert, , · ., 1 ·He tw!lU,.-f: a•oitizet\. , =~~ol'iaY~-.OM:1:mt~~

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ies to influence him. ' " -ulat!ions •bf 'tll-e •Indian ,. , thei\slnited '5tate'~,''8nd

1 O'lHe'isa' piiOper. He wiU•ib6''a ma111 <if

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Laws. .: ,• • • · l Helis in B,indaife' aHdl· < : He !will beHfr'ee and ,, ,, ~e is 111leqfa:11 1tY,P!n:. ~. ijp 1-w;i,J,~ -tl!! , .',U'lder a • alaveryc . ,,r A I, ( "' •.. ·1 i1_1~epeqg~ljt., · ,' ., ~X· ,.tlhF. '{ia11 ; ~otJ,i.in~ ,to " d,'j'II_I;OCfatw,. ,f q.,r I"\ ,·.0 f He is used ~olitically. When a citizen, it

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l b r d • deve o_p . He 1s. a mere teach h,m to tl.mlc. :·'. He i~ ',;o.w;leA ,a 'i.qn; I ' ~(-J~}tjf),~~;~~i}ed chifd:•,.,t ' · ,., ;, ., , ,. Is» qvTo, ~u T "·C· •

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Th'irp is, no incentive Co~pptiRp'n ~i_l_l 'be lis , living, a~ a ,.menag· , ·will .iomply -With , th b • 0 for hi~ to Wtlrk: ., II . . ... ''an ' oo~ect 'for "him to erie, a l'YC.:Oph~t. i , . ' laW1sof ,re.iipTOcity. '. n · ' ' ' · 1

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nf w1 c c-.:> ,; ' II '1 I J • • , 'v~lop"'ed aiitl ,UtHiz~a:ji . R~ l'ia'; ni rti.:r~et'to~ , ''He ~ill have I a ~ .. ,,. 'ri· 1 f "'"" '1d··-~tr ,n I ~t ' f ' ' " K.-'1' f '½"• .P , 111s,. ,,..a,f"1,P~C?., .~~ s., ,, ., e .?S 4, } S 1.ar~ _P

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~rn, , . rl.'" t , 1 ~cts.1 t 11 ' l •rt ...,( He SJ?Cnds ma hmc . He will not b~ 1qJ,c .

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· · ' • ' 1 diseases. • ' ' - ' f

· Liqtiot'i·~ a tc'~t,t'ati'on 1 ' He · w 'i 11 be 'a'thirst

· i,ncicased by _.idl'lncs11-; . ~cc king higher 'things; J . "_ ",: • • :· • :· ' he will beaatempc~atc

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h He ha1·'riot· wlrat you' , He will have w ·h at h ave'. " ,l . ·.'' '' ' ... " ybu hav~ ..

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0 d w.ill , 'be

rehc,f. " . , h .J .,i 1 .<;~rf1 for ~y lndum·s

The 'orphans arc in . The orph ans will be ·ihe 'way'.' ' ~ ' · "' .. . ,.,.,,, c'ared for by India~,.

' Interested I a W..,Y_~ r a He ~ill select his own from thelpd.ial) Bureau lawyer and pay him . arc given to him:·· '(Too ' ~ilatcraL)· ' I , • Government. p h y. a i­.cims canrfot do 1j11Sticc ·to the Indians!. . ··P., " ' wRrd· he cats ' -Ufl $i2,.000,000 of pub-t)ic tlix anrtaally. '

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• · Hb'° haii''-il'6 riihts · 'a~ 1

an Indian.

He will select his o.wn family physician and 'Pay him.

As a citizen; he will a•dd to

0thc national

wealth ·many hundred •per' cent more than he now receives by gov· crnmcnt appropriation. H; will get hia rights

as a man.

? fl' t . CT~ll.il':f fl'(DI4\.li fIS ' 'DAL'K1Ilffl '. ; \ i (', J

H Civilization .ha~ns~d ;~·.:·'ih'l, .Ind.ian · is @ bad

devil; he ie a bad man-a savage . . SC! Hc , ia unr crivilize'd, J0olc ,ou~ -for, hi.mJ· · , l , t , ,

...., An lndtantari• saly t-h'is;'b'Ut ' h6 one lclse cair. ''~ ivlHzarron, ·seeking" after something· that will kill, is ki1'fi,ng,: - i'fhb gfeat~a..-pil'atibn or ambition o f! ·whknve ·call ·civilization is ·for somcthicg' that ·Will kilt.' ·, The mo«t sought for -in\,cnlioti in ·cift­liiatton is sorrlething that ..Jill kill r< The grcatcat activity on the part of the civilized race.I is teach.. i'rig to kil l. " ' '· ' · · · •' ' • · · • , ·, ''l}e · K~i~~r .~hihk~ thaf _he ' i.s doing '."7h_at jis rt~.hf. .,,Wils<in tli1_.~~a t.hat he 18 do1~g what 1n1gi1t; l:tut ne1t_hcr 1of_t,hc~ _g1v,';! th<:, people t~c P?weraf cxprcasmg themselves art w liat tlicy thmlc 1a right. .. . '.'Qi,yi)k,atio~ ;.ppca'fs : to th,i.Qk th.at t,~~ O.Jl!Y• "'fay las gain p.qacc 1a QY lplh,ng cach,ot~~h . ., ,1

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,, INDIANS CRY FOR DEUY.ERANct , : Thr oughout 'the United States·•;Jitifill crica _!etrt

going out for the Belgians and for thosc 'acrdN i:bi ,y,atcra. . It appears as though we arc incon• liistcnt I J;'atriota. WC pa8S Oll and heed not to listen' \and act on worse conditions at home. The Indiana arc slaves, everything is taken from them, they arc paupcn, death stares them in the faC'.c, and ye~ their appeals arc unheard .

"INJUNS NO SAVVY" Indiana have peculiar, creeping feelings ·about

this war of humanity, freedom, democracy, equal rights and justice. If Sitting Bull could come to life and hear the voices rend the air, and read of patriotism, 1md ace his people in a worse con~ dition than that in which he left them, he, too, would have chills and bctwcctv'thc shakes he would irunt : "White man! Ugh-white maiff.'

4 WASSAJA (Continued from Pase I)

lakatla people. Under the bureau of education and through its school and industrial ayetema this Government soon will ,equip and emancipate the Metlakatla people into a happy and useful citizenship.

"The objective of the Indian Bureau always haa been the creation of Bureau Indiana, subservient to and u,ed for the perpetuity of the Bureau, obtaining vast eums annually from Congreu to accomplish ite purpose. Just now this Govern­ment is spending $1 2,000,000 a year on ita eervice for 300,000 Indians, and no Indian ie urged and helped to eecape the care of the Bureau. Even great numbers of capable Indians, and especially mixed bloode~ are counted to give numerical showing and create a fictitious neceuity for theae annual appropriations,"

General Pratt attended the National Education Convention last month in Portl~nd and was aur­p1iaed that in the program no opportunity ' was offered to preeent for diacuuion the subject of industrial training and educating the ,Indiana for good citizenahip.-Portland, (Ore.) Telegram.

WISCONSIN POTTAWATOMIE INDIANS Wauaaukee, Wis., Aug. 6, 1917.

Hon ... .... ...... .. .. .... . .. .. .. .... ... .. ... . . . . . . · U. S. Senator, Waahington, D. C. DEAR SIR :-

We, the unde signed members of the Wiacon­ein Band of Pottawatomie Indiana, are advised that there ie a bill before Congrees to free the Indiana by aboliahing the Indian Office. We paid taxes and voted up to about aix year• ago, when W.W. Bennett. the preaentSuperintendent, arrived at Carter, Wiaconain, and took charge of our affaire.

The bill for aboliahing the Indian Office waa introduced by Senator Harry Lane last year. We will appreciate whatever you do to secure ita puaage, 80 that we can attend to our own buaineu. Yours very respectfully,

(Thia ia a case where the Indiana were citizens, but when they placed themselves under the In­dian Office they ceailed to be citizens. Thia proves the contention of W ASSAJA that the Indian Office does not make citizen• out of the Indiana. It is clear to see now that, in order for the Indiana to become citizen•, they must first abolish the Indian Office. The object of WAS­SAJA is to have the Indian Office abolished, ao that the 1ndiana can become citizen• and a free people.-Editor.)

G.US BEAULIEU He hae taken hie part on the staee of life; the

curtain has fallen, and we aee him no more. W ASSAJA cannot realize that Gue H . Beaulieu

hu left ua to fight our own battlea. T he man who swayed "The Tomahawk" is silent ; his apirit has left us, and now, what i,hall we eay of him}

Our first meeting was in 1895, on a train in Minneaota, while recruitinii student• for the Car-

lisle Indian School. He was courteous and plea•· ant-Indian like, he was aimple and composed. The impreeeion he made on our mind was that he thoroughly believed in General Pratt'• system of education, for he had several relatives attend­ing the Carlisle School ; and that he wa• alert on Indian matter•.

The next time we met was at the Conference of the Society of American Indiana at Madi80n, Wisconsin, in 1914. He aeemed to be aurprised with the Society, but he waa in doubt whether it waa working for the beat interests of the Indiana. His idea was there were too many opinion• and not enough harmony to do any iiood.

We muat give Gua the credit of being the lint to publieh an Indian paper in this country. From the beginning, "The Tomahawk" waa a fighter. WASSAJA knows this, becauae aoon after it• firat iuue, he gave WASSAJA a hard hit : That we "had been away from the Indiana since childhood and had lived in Chicago 80 long that we were not in~ position to judge the Indian'• wants accurately.

To his keen criticism we made a reply, but it was never publiahed. No doubt he aaw hie mi•­take, for WASSAJA had been on more reaerva· tiona than Beaulieu had ever seen at that time.

On White Earth reaervation he was about the beat known man. He held poaitiona that brought him face to face with every Indian and public man of hie state. In hia last days, he was look­ing after the interest of his race, that involved millions of dollare. To do this work, he had to be in Washington moat of the time.

We Indiana do not miss a man, who has sac· rificed for us, until he leave• us and cannot do any more for ua. The Chippewas of Minnesota had put all the burden of their allaire on Gua Beaulieu'• ahouldera, thinking he would live long enough to help them in their richte. But not 10,

he is deadl The question is, who will takf! his place} It

will be hard to put a like character in his place. Some may be glad that he ia gone, but moat of us are aad to lose such a great Indian. He reached the climax of hie greatness and we shall never forget him, ·

It behooves •• Indiana to atrive on and try to fill the gap of his ideals that he had for his people.

Good-bye Gue-you have foueht a iiood fiiiht. Our apirite are with you.

THE S. A. I. CONFERENCE

Are you going to the Soci~ty of American In­diana' Conference} It is going to be held at Okla­homa City, Oklahoma, from October 9th to 13th. If you attend, you will learn much and see for youreelf what you must do to help your race. Thia ia an Indian country ; let the Indiana attend, and let the Indiana rule. Heretofore the sentiment of the Indiana has been lacking. Theorists have dominated. WASSAJA has faith in the Indiana, while othere have not.

By order of "WASSAJA," the Apache Medi­cine Man . .