| Show INDIANS TOO RICH TO WORK sorry plight of who are plainly retrograde ng the pottawattamie shawnee and kickapoo kapoo indians of oklahoma are suffering from too much ready cash according cording Fc to the report of charles H dickson supervisor of indian schools the indians like the average citizens do not work for the joy of it says the washington post and having means to enable them to live in idle ness are rapidly becoming worthless in the course of a report to the in gerior department supervisor dick son says under this agency according to allotment rolls there are 1655 1655 citizen ottamies att amies absentee shaw nees and mexican Kicka a total of 2 the condition of these indians has been one of retrogression for several years it is not more than thai ten or twelve years since these in deans were industrious contented and happy they had their own homes their horses chickens and pigs and the drinking of intoxicants was al most unknown among them since the curse of leasing their landa lands has been inaugurated little by little the the indians have been leasing their allotments disposing of their personal property and gradually falling into habits babits of idleness and vice from habits of industry and thrift these indians or most of them have become idlers and vagrants on the face of the earth the best friends of the indians are those who are in favor of compelling them to work work Is the salvation of these indians and their only salvation the leasing of lands has proved to be a great ca for a majority of them thena i 6 ua would be a thousand times better them if the leasing of lands was pre vented and the proposition presented to them glatly to work or starve officials of the indian bureau do not question the complete accuracy of mr dickson Dick sons s reports the indians have more land than they can farm and they are leased for good rentals the indian has nothing to do but 6 pend his rent roll in gambling and drunk enness |
