Show THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- R ' ' " " Only 300000 " r — m ifow Organized Grafters Prey on Oar Rich Redskins ffoa an —-"- A XJ "T"erT-£- MONT L r iiWTii Sezperoee 1200 in Idaho Omaha 110O in Nebraska Oneida 2200 in Wisoonsin and Onondaga 375 in Bew YorkOsage 2200 in" Oklahoma Ottawa 2700 in Michigan Paiute 4000 in Kevada and Papago 4000 in Oregon Fawee 700 in Arizona is another of the series fHlS o articles in which Hardie i famous Washington correspondent explains to the taxpayers how the Government spends their money Today for this newspaper ha takes yovt behind the ' scenes at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tells you how Uncle Sam has turned protector of his forAnother article mer enemies of this series will follow soon I I U&nAUW Jtmr T? scendants of Immlerrants they naturally have the voting rights The statute books and records show some 37Q treaties and 2000 specif ic I laws relating to Indians In addition there are hundreds of State laws and court decisions be- NiHi I £Sf sides alls the rule and regulations for the administration of Indian affairs I arising out ol Congressional enactments decisions of the Comptroller General opinions of the Attorney General executive orders of the President and orders from the Secretary of the Interior directly! to charge of Indian wel By HARD IE MEAKIN TNCLE SA11 now hae abou I 6000 agents working on the facing The solution Is made more difficult by the fact that many of the 800000 uncivilized millionaires are guided by a childish mentality but nave the physical desires and reactions of maturity A typical case of the dangers which beset them is that of Jack son Barnett It was claimed in court that "Crazy Jack" as this richest Indian is fare California J V:: : I v- a- J A- r f fT THE INDIAN OP TODAY Left: at Above Diagram Map of the United States Showing the Present Location of the Remnants of the Great Tribes Every State in the Union Has Some Indian Citizens 1 t- - !yWeibf L If 7 J f The Government has a definitely outlined policy — that of training A FADING RACE The Drawing and Photo Abort Show the Indian As He Was and As He Is Today — Merely a Shadow Left The Indian Population Is About h of What It worth of motor cars It was brought out In court that by the use of guns bombs knives and poison an entire Osage family with ail its heirs was killed to concentrate the millions on one girl who had married a white man This is what Uncle Sam Is trying to prevent Reports of the agents show the difficulties which must be overcome The Indians are emerging from s state of higher barbarism into what is termed modern civilization the Caucasians This fradually absorbing isthem on going cmb fore our eves although noticed by the general public! and mheeded by the Indians them selves There are now approximately 1800000 of the Red race left but this Includes those whites who have Indian blood running in their veins Some 240000 are wards ox Uncla Sam who is caring for them attempting to educate " themill nursand ing them when they are their of as legal guardian acting Three-Fourt- r j i! property It is the only like condition anywhere In the world As citizens of the United States the Indians are as free as any of as ex-lsti- but as Federal wards of Uncle Sam Some have they are restricted succeeded In fitting themselves into the new scheme of things but there are thousands who stubbornly cling to their old ways stoically refusing to go further along the white man's traiL They will live and die— Just Indians The last report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shows a d Indian population of 175333 which is but 20 per cent of the 846000 estimated population when Columbus landed This according to scientists ol the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution which is regarded as the highest author 90-year-- known was visited at midnight by a young white woman who persuaded him to go to Coffeyville Kansas with her There they were married They went to Washington where it was charged she induced him to make a settlement of his fortune which includes some of the most valuable oil property in the world Another instance which came to light recently was in the Osae tribe The Osages number about 2700 and have a total wealth of 551608139 consisting chiefly of mining and oil lands in Oklahoma Their homes are valued at and they own $1300000 $3-0000- " i Landed i -- York! 5000 in Arizona Potawatomt 2400 in Kansas and Wisconsin Pueblo 6000 in Eew Mexloo Shawnee 1300 in Oklahoma Shoshoni 3800 in Wyoming and Idaho Sioux 20000 in North and South Dakota Seminole 1500 in Oklahoma and Florida! Sanaca 2900 in New York and Oklahoma: Tusoarora a"bout 400 In New York Ute 2200 in Utah Wiiuiebago 1800 in Nebraska and Wisoonsin Yakima' 1200 in Washington p Zuni 1600 in Pew Uexioo America When (Columbus complicated problem ol the Indian but as yet no final solution has presented itself History holds From the time of at) precedent the Stone Age man on op through the centuries there is no other record to show where a conquered people became so wealthy they needed the protection of the victors The 846000 Indians who sought to scalp the first settlers have decreased from generation to generation until now they number' only about 300000 The settlers have Increased until now they are With the well over 120000000 tables turned and the Red men be- ' come millionaires Uncle Sam is tireless in his efforts to protect those who were his enemies Cold figures present the Indians numbers and wealth but only an understanding Imagination can picture their plight The bold warriors always more or less simple children of the forests have not kept abreast of adthey vancing civilization Today civilized are 300000 uneducated half people with the average menchild Give tality of a 800000 youngsters a million dollars each and turn them loose unprotected and unadvised Before many moons the millions would be In the hands of crooks and criminals That In a general way is the Indian problem' Uncle Sam is New Pima North V ' 4 - ilNDIANS in r - H 1 f 846000 Them TI 31 I - ihnairas Mi a krapaho iviuivMKr him iji 6000 in Arisona Eew Mexico"" and Oklahoma 1400 in Wyoming 'eiackfeet ?Piegan) 3S0t) in Uontana Cayuga less than 100 and scattered i Cheyenne 3ooo in aontana ana uxianoma ' North Carolina Cherokee 30000 in Cklahona and 'Chickasaw 4000 in Oklahoma ' Chootav 15000 in Oklahoma and Mississippi comanohe lioo in Oklahoma Chippeva 20000 in Michigan Mlnnssota and tTisoonsin Craak 7000 In Oklahoma crow 1700 in Montana fiopi 2200 In Arizona Eansa 250 in Kansas Kloira 1300 in Oklahoma 'Menominee 1400 in WisconsinMohawk about 3S0 in Saw York and Arisona uohave 1000 in California Kavajo 30000 in Arisona and few Uexlco Apaohe there were Protect Meakin -i-w- Indians full-bloo- 00 the Indian for the best type of American possible citizenship With this goes an endeavor to give lheir children the same educational advantages accorded all children of this! country no matter what their color In the earliest days the War Department had charge of the Indian administration On March 3 1849 when the Department of the Interior was created the Bureau of Indian Affairs was transferred there from the War Department with a split made to cover the work in Washington and the field service Uncle Sam is finding he has quite some job on his hands as the Indians guardian Some of resourceful the most skillful crooks in the country are constantly endeavoring to beat the Government's efforta The files of the Indian Off ice are filled with records that tell of the successes and defeats1 of the white grafters There are now 95 agencies throughout the country solely I a 4 it' V v jOopTrteht Was When Columbus Landed ity on Indian archeology andd ethnology is an estimated decrease of 670661 over a period of 400 years Most of this falling off has come since Colonial ays There are now about 280 tribes sub-triband bands of Indians in V rthe United States Some of them are on the verge of extinction while others have a tribal men r bership running up from 10000 to 80000 Every tribe has its own v '4 name and Its own tongue Every State has some Indians in tts population but most of the Redmen live west of the Mississippi 1 River The story of the Indians tribal migrations known to every school boy is as dramatic a tale as ever told It is the history of a race 1 desperately fighting the invading multitude of a By the stronger people time Uncle Sam held his head ap as a nation most of the Indians along "the 'J Atlantic seaboard had been vs pretty thoroughly subjugated Tribes had moved out of New England to Canada those along the '3 coast had been diminished in numbers and the Indian map was changing rapidly Now that the race has been thoroughly conducted Uncle Sam turns protector V: His work along these lines at present Is confined to 24 Not all of the States Indians tn these boundaries are wards of the Government: In many Instances any number may be found that are full citizens of the FRIENDS OF THE REDMAN United States exercising their right to vote Since Genera and Mrs Scott Are Shown Carrying on e Conversation with Princess J ha they are the only citizens Guiding ptar and a Mountain Chief Through an Interpreter Indian Belong to the Black feet Tribe and Are Worth Millions here not immigrants or de full-bloo- I es : li' i! uv l -- atlMtlo Tote annrloal INDIAN BEAUTY Cloud the Indian Prince of the Iroquois Is Con sidered One of the Most Beautiful Women In America' and is Called "The Original American Beauty J? Miss Floating U ' V patients at Toledo Iowa It Is estimated that the Indians own more than 35 billion feet board measure of timber which has a ready market and which has a value of more than 83 million dollars Their land exceeds 87 million acres and has on it oil wells of inestimable value Under the allotment system in most instances the individual Indian received from 50 to 100 acres of grazing land or 10 to 40 acre3 of Irrigable land or 80 to 160 acres of agricultural land The natural skin color of Indiana Is brown There never has been a red Indian In some tribes the coloring is so light as to be almost yellow while In others it is so dark as to be a full chocolate Nevertheless the popular "Redskin' fallacy has been accepted as a fact for so long a time that "Redman1 has become a dictionary word si synonym for Indian The Indians call themselves "Redmen' and their people the "Red race The name "Indian" was given the original Americans by the first explorers Christopher Columbus made a bad guess when he thought he had discovered India the pnn cipal objective of his first voyage Quite naturally he called the aborigines he meti"Indios' or In dians By the time later explorers had learned that the two Americas lay between Europe and Asia and could not be India the nickname "Indios" had become so firmly fixed in the minds of Europeans as the rightful designation of the natives of the New World that the error has persisted to the presents tubercular "BIG WHITE CHIEF" Coolidge Known to the Indians as "Big White Chief" Is an Hon-orar- y Member of the Sioux Tribe His Official Title Is "Chief Leading ' I Eagle ' functioning to4 help the Redmen To carry on this work there are about 5000 employes In the Indian service of whom approximate ly 2000 are of Indian blood The1 payroll runs to nearly $4500000 annually or as average salary to each employe of about $715 a year The Washington office has about 250 workers with an annual payroll of about $350000! An agency carries on the work of one reservation or more Each has a genera) superintendent and a head for the schools and hospitals In addition to this there are other "units" such as 18 large Indian boarding schools known as schools a hospital for insane Indians at Canton South Dakota and a hospital for n non-reservati- on How "New" Glands Made a Boy Grow Four Inches and a Woman Lose 99 Pounds are two amazing HERE Itonishing people are patients at the Good Samaritan Clinic in At of changes in the human body — a little boy who! grew four Inches in four months and a woman who reduced V'J pounds in '1! i woman was overweight before being treated because those strange lttle glands in their bodies were These two as A The deficiency was remedied at the clinic by feeding them or Injecting Into their bodies extracts of the gland substances i they lacked Ductless glands also called the endocrine glands were unknown to science until recent times Then lanta which specializes (In the treatment of ductless glands that do not function normally' The little boy was undersized and the less than a year & deficient cai in business or the professions if our ductless glands faif us If you are of a certain type timid forceful vacillating or melancholy your erlands are probably responsible The doctors call people whose glands fail to function normally endocrines Berman the scientiest says that Napoleon was an endo crine and that "the rise and fall of Napoleon followed the rise and fall of his pituitary gland" The boy at the Good Samaritan Clinic who gained four inches was f j ' ' in 'r W 1 : J Is l r I THYROID 1 1 r s " J"' - 'J 4 " - ? & 5 " they-contro- : ! " they began to be talked about and quite suddenly within the last few rears they have become famous l Now scientists tell us that our weight height hair We can't be and dispositions hp successful happy and w " '- - 1 Bf Y MM Mil Measuring the Patient at the Atlanta Clinic Thi Is One of the First Steps in Examination of All Case for Glandular Treatment "' ' Line Drawing Shows How the Fifteen Year-Ol- d 4-- 5 Measuring SS Inches Reached 59 Inches in Height ia 4 Months CopnUb f Affects Growth and Play an Important Part in Stimulating the Brain Heart and Liver MH IJteraitimJ feUon ScrrUw Iax Gnat ailttla j Mea suriag Boars! of the Good Samaritan Clinle ia Atlanta - f Jl t I - How the Woman Patient Lost 89 Pounds Gland Treatment Brought Her Weight Down from 276 to 177 Pound in the Short Period of 9 Months BlgMs ' $ A Boy Patient Being Before the j Chart Showing the Important Little Thyroid Gland Which Often r 'S :lf Boy r-- &tk1 known as ease 845 He was fifteen years old but looked only eleven when he began treatment He was undersized because his pituitary gland had what the doctors called a dysfunction The fat woman case 455 Is SO years old and weighed 276 pounds when she came to the hospital In nine months Ehe was down to 177 pounds which is slim for her She was only' one of a number of abnormally fat patients treated successfully at the clinic |