Show DR DU JAMES JAnES I PROTESTS AGAINST SUPPRESSION INDIAN L IA DANCES The management of the Indian bureau of the United States States States' can be characterized b by one word ity It Dr George Wharton Jam James s noted authority on Indian affairs said Dr James Is s a member member member mem- mem mem mem- ber of a committee committee of t appointed by Dr Hubert Work York secretary of the interior to investigate the workings of ot the present Indian bu bu- bu reau He Ike Is t the e aut author Jr of ot forty five books booles on the Indians and is a member member member mem mem- ber by y adoption of forty Indian Indan tribes of or the southwest Dr James stated that for or the past forty years he had known pe personally personally per per- every very Indian commissioner and that all but two of them knew nothing of the mental attitude of ot the Indian In speaking of the management management management manage manage- ment of or Indian affairs he said There re has not been a single Indi Indian n I treaty made in in years that has not been wilfully broken brok brok- en by the government Many were made nade with the express intention of breaking them That years has been as the tho title of Helen Hunt Jackson's Jacksons Jacksons Jackson's Jack Jack- sons son's book A Century of Dishonor In Iii educating the Indian the government government government gov- gov gov gov- has also failed Dr James Jamus declared He stated that the present present present pres pres- ent system of or education is fundamentally fundamentally funda funda- m mentally wrong since i e It t breaks breaks' up the he Indian home The system is is built upon the principle that the that the Indian Indian In In- dian ian child removed from its parents and ind educated at a distance distan e will wil a absorb ab- ab orb the ideas and of ot the white man and af after er a lapse o of time time ime will carry them ba back k to the parents The system is basically wrong Dr James said since no Indian parent has las ever been affected ia iu the least by one of the civilized children n. n Dr James ames and a group of associates in California have wor worked ed out e plan planor for or Indian education which will be presented at the meeting of or tho the Indian Indian In- In dian ian bureau Investigation committee ommittee rr rn T e Indian is a also by bythe bythe the he present system of or tion lon of Indian Dr Ur James stated When i When an al Indian complains pi 01 vi mismanagement he s said d the the letter tte which he lie writes to W W. W Wash tIl unis un unis is sent back to the agent against whom the complaint Is made it It if I. then a simple matter for the he mi a ut I It t to write letters clearing hi ns If The Indian bets geta no redress since th- th h affair has been satisfactorily closed in the eyes of the Ind Indian m bureau Dr James also protested vehemently vehemently against the suppression of Indian Indian In In- dian dlan religious ceremonies and dances by the bureau He slated stated t that i t the Indian took his religion as a a. apart part of his life and that to attempt t to de deprive deprive him of any ny par part of or his ceremonies ceremonies ceremonies cere cere- monies would result only in ill feeling feel reel feeling ing and perhaps ps bloodshed Until the Indian bureau becomes more than ila an association of of chief clerks and their underlings Dr James said no 1 justice can can be done the India Indian In In dia dian |