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Show What Will Indians Do With $500,000.00? DULUTH. :iilppcwn Indians on the Net Lake Indian reservation la northwestern Minnesota, who recently rec-ently received approximately $.T0OO0O for timber sold from their reservation, Will mnke good wu- of the money. Instead of disposing of their fortune tor blanket), IhiuIs, tolmcco nud pos tlbly whisky, ns tho Indian of old did, these Chlppcwas will build schools and bomes, outllt their farms with modern mod-ern mnelifnery and stock, and nn doubtedly made rapid advancement from conditions which have gained for them the name nf tho most primitive primi-tive of the Chippewa nation. So bclle;es Chief Wn-nn bo-t.lio, Carlisle grmlnnte, niul licttnr known as Joe Nortlirtip, who Is devoting his ft! me to helping the Indians become I better civilized and to encourage legislation which would release to the Chtppcwnn millions of dollars Bald to be- rightly theirs, which Is bolug held In reserve by the government Indian bureau. Living In what Chief Wn-nn-bo-sho describe as "wretched, conditions," the Net Lake tribe of the Chlppewas gnlned fame In recent yoars by their primitive habits. Many of the older chiefs and squaws of the Chlppowa nation retired to the Net Lake reservation reser-vation several years ago nnd practically prac-tically became outcasts from their nn-tlon. nn-tlon. They refused to recognize the trIWs general council and In the pant, according- to Wn-nn-bo-sho, they have repeatedly turned down offers of ns-slstuncn ns-slstuncn from thcln fellow tribesmen. This situation was brought aboat, Wn-nn-bo-sho believe., becnase tho Indians In-dians were destitute. He believes the. Net Lake Chipped as will now Join their fellow trlbv.smon in the upward trend to the mndorn mode of living. Rarly In June contracts with the Chlppcwan nnd tho Northwestern Paper Pa-per company, Cloquct, Minn., -wore signed, whereby the lumbermen wilt pay the Indians approximately 00O,-000 00O,-000 for' from 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 feet nf saw tlmlinrlmid pulp wood In the vicinity of Net Inke. |