Show CHIEF OF SIX NATIONS Harriet Maxwell Converse Ioiaenei Horn Ion t + n I-on of n lllgh Character v x1 r There are very few people even In New York who lenow that one woman who moves prominently nmong them In society is ft chief of six nations of Indians Indi-ans This woman Is Mrs Harriet Maxwell Max-well Converse daughter of Thomas Maxwell of Elmira Mho is prominent In art circles a shining light among literary lit-erary people and an active club woman In 1801 Mrs Maxwells father for some act of bravery was admitted into the Deer clan of tho Scnccas and later his daughter was invited to attend tho death council held in Buffalo at tho re interment of the remains of Red Jacket and five chiefs of tho Iroquois Till UAEIUKT MAXWELL COHVEnSB certmony was under tho auspices of the Buffalo Historical society In token of I the Indian friendship for her she was immediately thereafter adopted into I the family of the chief Tho nose wa n descendant of Red Jacket From tho time I was adopted until pe present day said Mrs Converse to a reporter recently I have jealously watched over their rights and Interests and when summoned not long ngo to appear before them at their government i council house in Allegheny as n reward re-ward I was taken into the Senora nation na-tion and given the name of YaJgwa noh Our Watcher I was YII assigned as-signed to a rightful place in thjjKun ells of the Scneea Indians Tho S onto cas you know are subject to the authority of the Onondagas because tho Onondagas have been tho lawmakers law-makers of tho Iroquois from the traditional tradi-tional beginning of tho league Lately I was called before tho Onondagas at their reservation near Syracuse and there received the distinguished title of honorary member of the six nations j Tho apartment that Mrs Converse calls her den in her handsome New York house is a most interesting museum muse-um The walls are covered with Indigi fm relics and the cases are filled wit fill kinds of curios Of the two JmndreCr brooches owned by her ono Is a badgo I fit the secret medicine society and is the i only ono of its kind now ia existence It contains sixteen symbols all leno to ttio members ot this soot 1 44 uU posed to be very nnclenfc oJ of her desk hangs n tobacco nouj knife scabbard that once beloHgem v9 Bed Jacket They are irnado of buck f Llb and sewed with deerskin sinew = |