Show INDIANS ARE responsible although not citizens the red men must keep their contracts guthrie okla judge cayari T II alner sitting in the united states district court at Paw bufka has haa decided that its hh lack of dees not relieve an indian from paying his debts or carrying fairyl ng out any contract into which lie be has entered in the case casa at issue a white while man had done some bonia work for an indian and the latter le ie fused to pay claiming that na as lie he was wan an indian no ral power was tested nested lu in him that ie he could riot dot bo forced to pay the debt as he was waa in the same legal state as an infant the fourt held after a full fall hearing that hat with the exception of contractor contract relating to lands and annuities the he indiana although tu staining tribal relations can contract and sue and be that it was the policy of the to educate tho the indiana and to teach them to transact business and become self sustaining and to hold otherwise would be contrary to public policy lie he faither held that were la Is no act of congress con giess which forbids eidl nor nan contracts being entered into by an indian arid and their enforcement cn in the courts of the united states |