| Show GET act YOUR YOUK HAIR CUT uncle sam to establish official barbershops Barber shops on reservation and start new styles for red men the pig tail of the indian must ultimately go EO the long coarse black hair which he has worn braided down his back as far into the past as til all memory of man must div rive e way to the more stylish cut it Is ia proposed to establish official barber shops on all the indian reservations the purpose of the government Is to make short hair fashionable among the red men lists of for appointment as barbers will soon be prepared by the civil service commission it will be the aim of the government to get men who will realize that they are in the tha wilderness to perform a mission just how the indiana on the former uintah reservation will receive this innovation ji is yet to be seen As aa civilization advances many changes are forced upon the red man some of these changes he accepts without a and others he murmurs at and dont accept captain jenks and old time ute from ouray was over the other day ile he is an honest man and tries to treat his neighbor as himself ile he usually attends to his hia own business and lets leta other people attend to theirs if they will he dont talk very much when asked what he thought of the latest move on the part of the government his hia reply wui maybe so be all right that 13 I 1 all he would say ile he gave out no hint as to whether he would quietly submit or whether he would not he was asked what IF is the real significance ot of long iong hair and he replied that there is none that he knows of just a custom a custom that is as old as the ute or the mohican did you ever see an indian with any other color of hair than black the probability is that you never did the squaw wears her hair parted in the middle alwag alwa s very often when the relative of a squaw dies she goes into mourning by cutting her hair off a few inches around the bottom some years ago the destinies of the th indian bureau were in in charge of william A jones of mineral point who in time became known as get your hair cutbill cut bill it came about in this way one day and four other chippeway Chip Chipp ewas wandered into the office of the commissioner of indian affairs they were decked out in paint and feathers carried tomma hawks and wore the reddest of red blankets commissioner jones stood for the paint and the feathers and the tomma hawks and the blankets but he rose in wrath at the long hair that graced the braves away with it he cried well have an end of it get your hair cut and get it cut quick he commanded the get your hair cut order soon followed it directed agents to see that every indian on every indian reservation er should have his hia mane shorn to civilized lengths this mandate nearly caused a series of uprisings the indians were more indignant over it than the order issued a few years ago that every indian no matter how noble his hia ancestry would have to go to work for a giving |
