Show 1 4 b it or Ft Ai r. r i 1 It i l. l J Pt J I Jl it i j RENAMING THE SIOUX SOME FIVE TWENTY THOUSAND D INDIANS ARE AIlE RE IU Ci CHRISTIAN NAMES Educated Indian Tribesmen Selected elected d by the Great Father 10 to o 1 1 christen tailed Braves tailed Bob Coyote e Becomes Robert T. T Wolf Uncle Sam has recently inaugurated Inaugurated a unique and Ingenious project In connection connection connection con con- with his Indian or wards wards or at least the most populous division of them This Is nothing less Jess than a n scheme for renaming e ever every ery chief and brave every squaw and papoose of the Sioux tribe The object of this wholesale Is to Insure the right descent of property something that has been attended with much difficulty under the old condition of affairs when the Sioux had no family name and each redskin could be Identified only by his own Individual ludi fanciful name a cognomen which most likely had hal not the slightest resemblance resemblance lance to those of any of h hs s relatives The renaming of the members members members mem mem- bers of the Sioux Indian tribe was ordered or or- ordered dered by President Roosevelt on the advice of Hamlin Garland Garand and George Bird Grinnell well wen known authors and other persons who have made malle a study of the needs of the Indians To 10 decide upon the r naming was however an easy matter in comparison to the actual carrying out of the strange undertaking SUSPICIONS OF THE TilE INDIANS The President and his advisors real- real I led from the outset that It would be ne neone one thing to give the Indians new names and quite another to Induce the sons and daughters of the forest forest- ever suspicious of the white men men to to accept and use these new names However the Great Father at Washington Washing Washing- ton was fortunate enough to enlist the thc cooperation of Dr Charles Alexander Eastman a highly educated physician and clergyman who is a full-blooded full Sioux and who came into national prominence some time since when he marrIed narried Elane EJane Goodale the talented young New England poetess At the Presidents President's solicitation Dr Eastman who Is Is' considered the best educated ted Indian In the World orId agreed to personally personally person person- ally all undertake the task of ot Inducing his people pe-ople to adopt the system of ot family names desire by the government Just what this responsIbility meant wIll bo ho better understood when It Is eh tz astman ast- ast man to visit all ull the Indian villages sa of ofie the tho ie Sioux tribe and personally bestow names but he be must also devise or Invent Invent In In- invent vent the new names Just imagine selecting electing given glyen names for persons persons per- per sons ons of both sexes and apportioning perhaps half as ml many or one third as many different family names in addition ad ad- In this portion of his bis novel missionary missionary mission mission- ary work for Uncle Sam the Name Giver Gher as the Sioux now term their educated tribesman has bas displayed rare judgment and a n fine regard for Jor family history amour amon the Sioux a a s that has bas done much to win the good will of these Intelligent ent but conservative In Indians lans for lor the new project Whenever possible possIble possible pos pos- sible he has perpetuated an Indians Indian's old name in his new one For instance Eagle becomes Mr rr Higheagle Bobtailed Dob Bob tailed Coyote was changed to Robert T. T Wolf and Rotten Hotten Pumpkin has aas been transformed Into Robert Dr Eastman has been making around a around around round of all the Sioux reservations reservation's which are located for Cor the most partIn part in the Dakotas and elsewhere In the thc 1 Northwest When he arrives at a a branch agency or tribal headquarters for or the thc purpose of or the Inhabitants his first move Is to have havea a conference with the chief men or counselors of the place They In turn I r A Av v q Mfr lit II I A AI EAGLE TRAGIC TRACIe BLACK THUNDER I send end out a herald or town crier to summon nil all the tho people to a sort of mass meeting and at this the Name Giver explains the Presidents President's wishes at t length THROUGH INDIAN SU SUBTLETY At th the outs outset t many of the a assembled Indians may be bo prone to grumble against tho the new system but gradually gradually grad grad- Dr Eastman will win them over o and in his labors thus far he has not encountered more than halt half a d dozen zen I Indians who have steadfastly refused to change their names However hundreds of the Indians have confided confided con con- tided to him that they would accept the new system of or names only because they had the assurance of ot a fellow tribesman Dr Eastman that it was wasa a good plan and that they would never have tolerated it had bad a whiteman white whiteman whiteman man come among them and broached broach d the tho scheme Although the renaming of the Sioux I Inot Is not yet completed It has already f t. t 1 f Jr l 1 been proven that the the new system of ot names will viii be of tOe the greatest t benefit and value in insuring the correct correct correct cor cor- descent of Government allotments allot allot- ments of land from Crom generation to gen gen- Incidentally It may b be noted that even thus early this untangling of lines of descent has won Avon for Cor some Indians valuable property rights previously pre pre- denied dented them As s a case in point It may be cited that only a few Cew weeks ago Dr Eastman was waa mental In iii securing for a young squaw HO lO acres of ot rich land of ot high value which had hall been temporary temporarily lost to her tier owing to her s separation from her own tribe and which an unscrupulous relative e was on the point of selling when President Roosevelt's special commissioner stepped in and set things right |