Show onn i AN APACHE ff INDIAN AND AN IRISHMAN N c 2 Bin lit trim nj ui Dr I r Carlo Carlon Montezuma a n graduate of at atthe I the University of ot Illinois and of or Chlea Chico go Medical college IB is a tull lood Indian the th Corn Com om lie He was 1111 captured In early childhood by b Indians of ot another tribe anti sold by his hili captors to 4 white man mun munI who I ho gave him an nn education In a are re rerun run address before o a II mens club In Chicago he raid PRill that environment Is II Isn isa n a far inore more nore potent force than heredity In making men mon and to Illustrate his point tout told the following story Three Thrle years tRIS ago I t visited d Fort Furt Apache school Arizona I had to have hare an nn Interpreter to talk with my roy myown own IlIn people who cams came to see aee the white Indian One morning while white talking through the tho Interpreter with a II group of ot Apaches my was W 8 caught by tho the queer appearance of it man mon ap Ip approaching us UA Who ho Is itt that Indian I asked the Interpreter Indicating the approaching man loan Mickey MI ko I Mickey Ho JIo must bi b an nn Irishman I He lie is III said reid the Interpreter Its has hns rich relatives somewhere in India Indiana na no and they the havo written often orton for tor hint him I to come bark to them he was wai captured by the Iho Apaches over thirty years ago ngo and has hall been bun living lucre heri herler ever er sine since nn dont want lInt ant to go ga heck bade to 10 the tho t whites In u it Hash my mind went vent bock back to n my childhood when I lived here I ni ri 1 I Mickey as fiC a II boy Iroy of ot whom I tho the Indians were fond antI on account of ot hh hl red hair hull I 1 spoke of ot my m recollection and the Interpreter raid eaRl That Is tho the same boy hoy Mickey came up and shook hands with me mil I a n white mans salutation of ot How now do tio you do tin nut lint ho gave gass n a grunt And then Ihen he h sat eat down upon the ground We Wo looked upon each ooh other with mutual curiosity His 1111 long ioni Ion gray hair hall hung about lout his hiM should shoulders ers his hie lace face was as painted In Indian fashion ho had a 1 band bard about his head a 1 string of at bends beads round his hi nerk and a highly colored shawl round his waist He lie II soro Indian leggings and mocca moccasin moccasins sins sin lInt and was ae more mare filthy and tottered tattered then than the Indian Indians When hr he to me It WAR wan through the Inter Interpreter preter for tor he had entirely forgotten his hili mother tongue And Arid I well I stood there with not nota notH a II single Ingle characteristic In common with my own people I It too had har forgotten my native tongue I was morn more con anti and better beller dressed than tin th white whit I men there and my m ways thoughts and characteristics were sere of at n a 1 white while man mn manIn manIn In one ono generation s a I white man Imd luul turned Indian and anti an nn Indian had hlll turned white man under the Influence of ot environment Dr story tory had It Il come earlier might well have he b been en tho the germ of Mr story of or Poole Doola the Irishman who became nn nil Indian Indian In the land of the th Ilin dun dU |