Show INDIANS IN LAST GREAT POWWOW From All States Will Gather for Their Last Con Conference Conference Conference ference DIGNITARIES TO BE PRESENT TO GET TOGETHER FOR LAST BIG TALK TALK SAYS SAYS CHEROKEE Muskogee Okla OkIa April 9 An international International international congress of Indians to be participated participated participated In by every tribe of Indians in the United States and some from Mexico and Canada is Ia to be held In Muskogee Okla OkIa beginning June 27 21 and ending July 4 This is to be the last general conference of the aborigines of or the American con continent continent continent In the words w of Charley Grass Grassa a Cherokee We want to get together for one more talk It will ba b bour bour our last The movement was started In Musko Muskogee Muskogee Muskogee gee by the Commercial club which has asked Moty Tiger Green McCurtain Douglas H Johnson John Brown and C W Rogers the chiefs of the Creeks Choctaws Chickasaws Seminoles and Cherokees of the Five Civilized Tribes and Governor C N Haskell to Join In Inan Inan inan an official Invitation to every Indian chief in the tho United States and as many of their head men as It Is la possible for them to bring to participate In the congress It Is proposed to bring together the from Oregon the Sioux from the the Iroquois from New NewYork NewYork York the Seminoles from the everglades eve glades of Florida the kicking from southwestern Texas the Apaches from Arizona and gather into one ono vast as assemblage assemblage assemblage chiefs from all others tribes of the rapidly disappearing race of red men President Will Be Invited And there will be asked to meet them President Taft Secretary R H A Ballinger of the Interior department Robert G Valentine commissioner of Indian affairs James A Wilson secretary of the depart department department ment meat of or agriculture and many other dis distinguished distinguished distinguished citizens of the United States who are interested in the welfare of the Indian Including Colonel Roosevelt This is not entirely a new Idea A simi similar similar similar lar congress was held in Muskogee in 1878 ISiS At that time Indians attended They came to that congress from the Dakotas New York and Florida The western were then uncivilized end and did not participate The most distinguished rep representative representative representative of the government present at that congress was wag Carl arl Schurz at that time secretary of the interior and his commissioner of Indian affairs The object of this congress is purely an educational one for the Indian with a aview aview aview view to giving him an object lesson In Inthe Inthe inthe the new order of things for the Indian It Is desired to assemble the Indians and a d let them meet in person the government officials whose province It Is to govern the Indian and whose duty dut it is to teach him how to take up the burden that civilization civilization civilization Is ls thrusting upon him It Is desired to have Secretary Wilson explain in person to these Indians why and how that department of the govern government government government ment is endeavoring to teach the In Indian Indian InClan dian Clan how to make his land productive and have Secretary Ballinger Bailinger explain to them the necessity ne for Indian regulations a thing which few of t the Indians under understand understand understand stand or approve And It Is desired to bring the less civilized Indians into close touch with the Indian politicians and the Indian educators of the Five Civilized Tribes In Oklahoma as an object lesson of the proper sphere of or usefulness of the educated Indian IndianA A committee to take charge of the ar arrangements arrangements arrangements for the congress and to en eni entertain the Indians will wl l be largely com corn composed composed posed of Indians It will include Senator Robert Rob rt L Owen of Oklahoma Senator Senat r rCharles Charles Curtis of Kansas Representative Charles D Carter of Oklahoma all alI In Indians Indians Indiana diana the five Indian chiefs of the civi civilized tribes and many other distinguished Indian citizens from various sections of the United States Large Assemblage Grounds s sAn An area of land probably forty acres will be secured and In the center of this will be erected a large circus tent in which will be held the big powwows The Indians Indiana will be urged to pitch their tepees around this tent and to consider themselves on friendly ground No effort will be mado made to entertain the Indians in inthe inthe inthe the white mans way except to furnish t speakers on subjects of vital Importance to too the th Indian his property rights and nd his future They will be allowed to tu tt powwow po among themselves and to follow their own Inclinations Muskogee is 18 considered a particularly fitting place to hold such sueh a congress It Is In an Indian country It is headquarters he for the government officers who deal with tho the Indians The Union Indian agency hero Is the largest in the United States The Th commissioner to the Five Tribes here conducted the greatest allot allotting allotting allotting ting work that was ever undertaken by bythe bythe bythe the United States government Muskogee Is headquarters for tor all business of the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes whose members embrace more than one half hal of the entire Indian population of ot the United States It Is proposed to make this the tho great greatest greatest est assembly of Indians that has ever been got together In lathe the world |