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Show Timely Topics THI 80UAYV EMERGED. ' Tha Canadian government's row with the Six Natlona" Indiana on the Ontario reservations, a dispute originally conrernad with land grants, has unexpectedly linked Itaelf with modern feminine emancipation ny producing a tlernaiul for political recognition of tha long submerged aqua at Una of tha government's' communications addressed lo the Indians was flatly rejected by the chiefs on the Intrrrwtlng ground that It waa technically faulty. It waa adtlieseed to the "men of tha Hlx Natlona." while the chief hold It ahould have been addresaed to tha "men and women." Pharaa of Porahnntna! Since when la sex equality rampant among tha Indiana? For rentura the red woman has been the meekest and moat Incnneplruoue of all women, humbly mindful of her household duties and i r.ctlrally a 'iv (a her lord and master. Occasionally romance anatrhed her from obscurity and celebrated h.-r In nun aiu stury. butvwhn ever heard of Squaws Intruding themselves Into, a powwoer or aspiring to a footing of equality with ths men In the council" of ths tribe? If ever there was ' man-made social order in which Man with a capital M was everyUiing and womaa nothing, It was the' hunter a,nd warrior organisation of the red man, from time Immemorial. Milwaukee Sentinel. Sen-tinel. . |