| Show WOMANS NATIONAL INDIAN association I 1 of the twenty five department can congresses to be convened in chicag during the ibe week of the worlds world la congress of representative women may 15 1622 1522 22 the work of no one to la ampre m jre fraught with interest to americans americana than that or of the womans comans nation I 1 indian a aa so clation and yet it Is highly abl abi tout that many americans will then for cor the first time learn of the existence of such euch a body so BO difficult is it in this vast busy country lor jor us to keep in touch with the thought and worn work of our n on one day of the woman congress the indian association cia tion by request will hold meetings presided preside dover over by their own officers upon this occasion the public will have an opportunity to learn of the heroic attempts maue made by a small band of persevering women to carry on the r V s AJ work of rousing our national con science to a shamed sense ur jf our grave injustice to this race which the anglo saxon has dispossessed of its ita birthright and also at the same time to educate and build up for self support the race which we have enfeebled the first organization to call the attention of the people to these great wrongs committed by the government in the peopled name was formed in 1879 through the efforts of two women miss mary L bonney and mrs 1 aniella amelia stone quinton of philadelphia by printing and widely distributing leaflets which set met forth toe tae disgraceful facts of our governments dealing with the indians indiana by circulating petitions for the people to siga in protest these two unselfish souls gradually fired all ail other unselfish souls who heard the story and today the woman tomaas Is national indian association has branches officers s or helpers in forty states of the U union nion more than thirty missions have been established within the last nine i years and work was carried on in fifteen tribes during the last year |
