Show BLANKET REDSKINS I IMAY MAY ESCAPE DRAFT i I H. H Hundreds of American Indians Indians In In- However Will Fight for U. U S. S By ay United Press Preas WASHINGTON Aug 9 9 The The only real Americans the Americans the blanket Indians probablY Indians probably never will have a chance to go over the top of ofa ofa ofa a European trench after Americas America's enemy 0 Government officials question the advisability of trying to put reservation reservation reserva tion redskins in drafted uniforms uni uni- forms They feel that while the Indians I were great fighters in their day and andin I in their own way that day and way are past This applies of course only onty to blanket Indians subject to the draft There are hundreds of ot Americanized Indians in Uncle Sams Sam's fighting forces And even if the government t decided de Ce e. e to draft the blanketed youths they would be exempt if they so desired desired de de- de sired as they are wards of the gor go eminent not citizens The following list shows to what small numbers the blanket Indians have shrunk since the days when great tribes of them roamed the hills hillsand hillsand hillsand I and plains of the WestIn West In Arizona there are only Navajos Navajos Navajos Nava- Nava jos 1459 Moguls 1 and 1223 Colorado River Indians 1813 Apaches once the terror of the Western Western Western West West- ern plains 64 and 1072 San In Minnesota there are only Red Lake Indians on the reservation reserva tion In Nevada there are only Walker River Indians Indians' in New Mex Mexico leo ico leo Pueblos and San Juans On the New York reservation there are only Onondagas In North Dakota th there rc are only Indians on reservation Oklahoma's Oklahoma's Okla Okla- th the Devils Devil's Lake I homas homa's Kiowa reservation lists only redskins On the South Dakota Sisseton and I Wahpeton reservation there are but 1480 and on the Tulalip reservation in Washington only There is no question of their I willingness to fight said a government government govern ment official today but they have 1 clung to their old ways and their blankets They probably would not fit in with the highly specialized and aud rigidly routine system of fighting in France Prance |