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Show GOLVILIE INDIANS STARVING Failure of Crops and Withdrawal of Credit Leaves Red Men of Washington Wash-ington In Sad Plight. Spokane, Wash. "Many Indians on the Colvllle reservation In northern Washington are now at the point of starvation," asserts Interpreter William Wil-liam Nolan, who has Just returned from that region. "Unless the government gov-ernment pays them the money which has long been due them for their lands, great suffering Is certain to re suit. "For two years there has been almost al-most a total crop failure on the reservation. res-ervation. Merchants at Die trading posts bavo ceased to give the Indians credit. There are many old men among the Colvlllea, no longer able to earn their own living. They are a constant drain on the younger ones and many of them are actually starving starv-ing to death." |