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Show i Redskin Maids Stop Here on Tour Across Continent ISS DORA STA1KE and Miss M Grace Rone, Indian girls of the Osage tribe of Pawhuska, Okla., who have been made wealthy through oil being discovered dis-covered on the land of their ancestors, ances-tors, stopped over yesterday Salt Dake on a transcontinental journey, under the chapcronage of Miss Mollie Ragsdale, a teacher at the Pawhuska Indian boarding school. The girls say they are greatly enjoying their western west-ern trip. They have just returned from a trip through Yellowstone park and are now on their way home. In telling the. story of how fortune smiled on the 2000 members of the Osage tribe. Miss Staike said: "For years our forefathers owned what is now called Osage county. With the coming of the white men we still retained our c.aim. the government gov-ernment later assisting us with tribal schools and agricultural education. Then fortune came to us when oil and gas were discovered on our possessions. posses-sions. 1 "The land was distributed in strips of about (5-J0 acres to each member of the tribe, unci the government acts as the good father, who manages our affairs. af-fairs. Each month we receive royalties royal-ties from our lands, which amount on the nil alone to about $500. "This sudden coming of wealth has not turned tho heads of the Indians, however, for we are anxious to gain education and become proficient in the white man's ways. "Though members of the tribe have erected modern homes, bought the latest models of automobiles and sought education at the highest universities, uni-versities, we h:ive not forgotten our ancestors, but still honor them as the first settlers of America. "Desiring to see the western land of our fathers, we made this trip, chiefly for pleasure and information. We have lallen in love with Salt Lake. "Membeis of our tribe are also lie- coming known in musical circles. Re- ' cent'.y Miss Angela Gownifui. an In- I dian girl, sang at the Metropolitan ,ope i b.oue in New York. Our aim. I like he white people, is to progress." I |