Show Indians Dont Want to Be Citizens IKfm I a W T US F9 I Ar > t N Harjo who Is the representative repre-sentative In Washington of the four tribes of Indians In Oklahoma laIn la-In Washington trying to Induce congress con-gress to take some action to protect the Cblckasaws Cherokees Creeks and Choctaw Indians In Oklahoma from the operation ot Oklahoma laws which make tho Indians citizens of the state Mr Harjo declares that his people do not want to bo citizens Ha say they want to continue to be wards 6f the governmont Ho says The red man Is not fitted for citizenship citi-zenship This government takes for more care to guard tho rights of the negro than it does those of the Indians In-dians Surely the Indians have as nuch If not more claim on the United totes than the negro We want the United States to live up to the treaty s of 1823 which guaranteed that the Indians In-dians should be wards of tho government + govern-ment and bo taken care of as long as i grass grows water runs or the sun chinos meaning forever The government gov-ernment la not living up to that treaty with the Oklahoma Indians Mr Harjo hits Indian education 1 It now stands somo hard knocks He says The education of tho Indian i Is a farce Schools accomplish nothing s noth-ing All we ask Is our rights under the treaty of 1823 ty i Mr Harjo being an Indian and like all the other wards of the government govern-ment dead sure of clothes and food while the Indians are wards of the f government much prefers for that condition of things to stand It Is a heap easier to draw annuities from the government to live upon than It Is to get out and hustle and that has been one of the chief faults of the treatment of the Indians In this coum try t |