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Show INDIANS LOOK FOR END OF HARD TIMES lead and zinc fields. They have been paid over $7,000,000 In mine royal ties and about $3,000,000 Is held in reserve and doled out In small sums Some of the Indians do not receive any dole at ail as their mining land has been turned over to them, with out supervision by the White Fa thcr at Washington. These are the young redskins who appealed for relief. re-lief. Poor at the Start. When the Quapaws first came to Oklahoma and settled on the reser vatlon they were painfully poor. In 192-1 ore was found and since ther several million dollars have been thrown away carelessly. No one can say the Indians have not doni a good Job of spending. The $25. 000 homes In the clearing, pink por celain bathtubs, walnut radio cases thick rugs, plate-glass mirrors, ant solid silver table services, to sa nothing of dozens of $5,000 motoi cars, tell tales of former hilariou prosperity. But good times will come agalt to the Quapaws, for their lands an not denuded by any means of lea and zinc. Prices of ore have risei tremendously in the last few weeks so the Indians are not so deeplx bowed in grief they cannot see p rainbow In the sky. Most of then give the White Father at Washing ton credit. . to pay more, has come down $2.50 a gallon. The price of a divorce to a white woman from an Indian man is now next to nothing, whereas a few years ago almost any old In-, dian was worth $10,000 in the alimony ali-mony racket. While the Indian spenders used to be the petted ones of richer and Miami society, now they are being thrown into jali for law violations. Only a few days ago a Quapaw speeder was placed in the Miami jail because he ran into a dump cart load of chat and upset it on the highway and went about bis fast driving. A few years ago he could have paid off and upset another load of chat On the Devil's promenade a crew of men is working on a public highway high-way and about half of them are In dians. A few years ago when the mines were all running and the Quapaws Qua-paws were drawing royalty checks every thirty days they could not be Induced to labor." Now they ' are compelled to shovel gravel for flour and meat. The Quapaws own about 7,000 acres In the heart of the PIcher Once Rich Quapaw Braves Now Work on Roads. Quapaw, Okla. Prayeis to the Great Spirit of the Happy Hunting Grounds do they get results when delivered by tribal medicine chieftains? chief-tains? Older Indians will tell you yes. Prayers to the Great White Fa ther at Washington do they bring results when sent by the younger members of the tribe? Most certainly cer-tainly they do. Quapaw Indians, living on their reservation here, are much divided over the prayer problem. These Indians In-dians have b.en In a mess of financial finan-cial trouble, and still are. The older old-er Indians prayed to the Great Spirit Spi-rit while the young men took up the matter with Franklin D. Roosevelt Roose-velt They asked for an Increase in the price of lead and zinc and for a reopening of the mines on their allotments. al-lotments. Now relief has arrived and the Indians are rejoicing. Which of the two chiefs actually is to be given credit for the aforesaid relief Is a disconcerting situation over on the Devil's promenade, where they are making ready for the annual stomp dance. Hit Them Hard. Here's just how bad things have been with the Indians: A prominent young Quapaw playboy play-boy has been reduced to riding in very small motor cars and a former wealthy Indian woman has had to forget a custom of giving birthday dinners about three or four times a year to several hundred relatives and friends. The price of liquor-due liquor-due to the inability of the redskins |