Show ART INDIAN WOMAN s LIA ST CYR OF WINNEBAGO TRIBE IS ONLY LAWYER ently Acquitted at Omaha of ChargIng Charg-Ing Aged Squaw an Excessive 8 I pension FeeHas Large Practice Omaha NcbTho only Indian worn lawyer In the United States Julia cyr a member of the Wlnnobago 03p ite was before the United States sey urt In Omaha recently where its trough a white attorney she defend 1 herself against a charge of having epted too large a foe as a pension u torney from an aged squaw whoso rt jsband had been a scout under Shpr BO So well did sho direct her at 11 mey In her defense that the Jury Hind for her on the first ballot i During tho trial Miss St Cyr shed a ell tears at a critical moment Dut ivlng departed from tho customary tOlldlty of tho Indian character long o jIHaough to make her Impression on the MlMymcn she returned to tho Impas V6 mask of tho red man and when e verdict was announced she said nil tho greatest Indifference Well I know It would be that way PO Miss St Cyr did not attempt to hank the Jury for Its verdict but with a1 ead erect stalked out of tho court Ip Mm PI Sho Is a woman of Intellectual at ss s ilnruents and Is well known among wit lie Wlnnobago and Omaha tribes I h01 Vhen an Indian of either of these rlbes gets into trouble he runs to I iss St Cyr for advice and so much ifluence has she over them that very ew of the cases ever reach a court flaw but are settled by her out oft of-t court Her word is very near law 1e n the reservation CD Although educated at Hampton Va So Iud later placed In charge of an In Jan school on tho Kickapoo reserva t don Miss St Cyr has persistently roused 1 ro-used to adopt the customs of the A fY l Ai ti fo I i Jll1L1vT 012 r b white people and at the tribal ceremonies d cere-monies sho always takes an active Ii i part dressed in beads and moccasins n as her people hove always dressed d She has never been licensed to practice prac-tice before the United States court and In the present case was compelled to employ a white lawyer to do her talking but all during the trial she sat with her attorney whom she coached directing the case herself in every way Miss St Cyr gets her French name from her father a halfbreed French o t Indian who in turn Inherited it from his ancestor Louis St Cyra French nobleman a noble-man who was banished by the first Napoleon and who came to Now Orleans Or-leans Then ho came north along the Mississippi and Missouri and together to-gether with other Frenchmen married mar-ried Into the Wlnnebago tribe The descendants of those old Frenchmen have kept the language pure and probably the French of those red Indians In-dians is as near tho court language of the French monarchs as can be found in Paris at the present time When Miss St Cyr wds placed on trial several Indians were in the room ts witnesses When she so transcended transcend-ed Indian customs as to shed tears 4 those Indians in disgust put on their broadbrimmed hats and left tho courtroom Miss St Cyr is the only Indian woman wom-an In the country who has entered upon tho practice of law and Is one of the very few who have taken up any professional or business life I |