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Show COMPLETE COLOSSAL STATUE OF INDIAN CHICAGO, June Lorado Taft'a eoloaaal. atatua of an Indian which atanda on a blnff above Rock river near Oregon, 111. haa been completed and will be unveiled next Saturday. " Among those who will make ad-dreaaee ad-dreaaee at the unveiling are Mias Laura Miram Corneliua of Seymour. Wis., a granddaughter of Daniel Bread, and herself the laat full blood prineese of Oneida, and Dr. Charles Eastman, who is alao a full blood Indian. Misa Cornelius Cor-nelius whose Indian name ia " Wyn no-gene, no-gene, " or Ray of Light, will tell of the work ahe ia doing in behalf of her race. Mr. Taft haa been at work on the statue- for the laat three years. Ita facial lineementa are those of Black Hawk, the celebrated chief of the Iro-qoois, Iro-qoois, but it was the eeulptor idea to make the etatne typical of the vanishing vanish-ing race of North American Indiana. |