| Show A MESSAGE OF PEACE it was wae an interesting incident at the Worl worlds dis fair on thursday wh when 10 the princess eulalia eulaila represent representative adiv of the royal house bouse that provided columbus with the means of discovering the new world witnessed at the dedication services of the nebraska state buil buildings diDge descendants of the race which greeted on americas shores the illustrious voyageur voyage ur mingling in the joyous with civilized man from the old world A number of ol 01 indian cli lefe principally sioux bioux were present on the occasion and attract ed qually as much attention though less of homage than old aid the spanish princess princ eee yet their presence there under such circumstances indicate the peaceful relations relation so frequently severed which may exist between the aborigine and the race that now bears beam rule the situation is of an occurrence at the time of the dedication services tit at the fair grounds in october last it was on the of the month while the hallelujah chorus was pouring forth its strains of joy that a man of strongly marked indian features clad in the attire of civilization oivi liza approached hon T W palmer who was presiding over the ceremonies and presented a number of documents one prepared by himself stated that he was the bearer of a message from indian tribes of far north america another contained instructions to him arm the chief of the indian federation which he represented and still another was the message from the indians to the white race this message read as follow brothers of the white race in memory of our fathers who years ago gave welcome to yours the metis and their allied indian tribes renew to you that greeting and offer of friendship this thia we do neither as an subjects nor as but as a race which has done its work for men while yu you have done youre and for which there is ie yet a work to d dp today you are rejoicing in your numbers num bere in your inventions in your possession a your numbers have often meant op pree eion to up ue your inventions invent lona have often destroyed us your taking possession has baa often left no room fr for us up yet even you are ar as aa unhappy in spirit as we are dil in body why then should we either hate you or submit ourselves entirely to you are we not all brothers brot bers and ma may y we not learn from each other the things which we lack surely each of us was made for a purpose and each of us has hae some truth and good for men you and your fathers have chosen to live at ease in settled dwell dwellings ingo there fore you have looked more closely into the mother the earth and have found nd out her hidden secrets accrete you have increased the power of men and through your knowledge many men can live on small tracts of land we and our fathers have chosen to roam and face the dangers of unknown lands therefore we have studied the face of our mother and have learned the wisdom of forest and stream and sky we have made ready the earth for settled peoples and by our knowledge men can live ii ia wild and barsen barren lands land where your fathers found none of ours oure there they perished where your arts have acme there more of us can live you and your lathers through your knowledge of the substance of the earth have made for yourselves many things which are now considered by h you but which for their making require the skill slid and labor of many men in many different arts thus each of you depends upon many other and so you have invented rules by which the freedom of each isles for the sake of greater liberty to all we and our fathers through our wanderings have kept the simple habits and natural ways of me by which each of us is in able to live with out the labor of others thus none of us can te enslaved by others and aid so go we have remembered that all men are brothers and that the gifts of nature are for all I 1 where our principles are there none are slaves where your order Is there many can have comfort we acknowledge the usefulness 0 f your jour and we admit that necessary to your mode of lile ille we ask you to remember our good deeds to men mein and to recognize the justice of our principles the coming days are bright before up af let us enjoy them in peace together you as the gi given vera of new powers to men we as the aboriginal people to whom all climes are home and who as a common bond alt k your j eople together both as lovers of justice and aind of our follow fellow men THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OV OF THIS THIM METIS OF OB jhb I 1 HE NORTHWEST MICHEL DUMAS president HONORE JOSEPH JAXON JASON becy sceau bdeau du conseil national des metia du nord quest |
