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Show Indian Won't Give Up His Shack for Riches Little Neck, N. Y. Another of the many last stands of the Red man in the United States w-as discovered here and, as usual, it was a losing struggle for the Indians. In a poison ivy patch directly in the path of a road-widening project here lie a score or more graves. They contain con-tain the bodies of Narragansett Indians In-dians who came to Long Island when it was wild and untilled. Their last remaining representative here is Jim Waters, known as Wild Pigeon, and his two sisters. Over the protests of Waters the road-making work gees on. Over the protests, of real estate agents in this part of Long Island the Waters continue con-tinue to live in a squalid shack across the street from their graveyard. The shack and its surrounding plot of ground would sell for $173. 000. or thereabouts, it was estimated here. There are buyers. Jim Waters won't sanction the sale, and without his sanction Jim's sisters will not sell. Jim believes others should help him protect the graveyard. He says that white persons are buried there, too. If so, the names and circumstances of the dead long have been forgotten. Even the inscriptions have been worn away from most of the headstones. Kor Waters and his sisters there is no temptation in the prospect of plenty and comfort in exchange for poverty and discomfort. It would be an easy matter to achieve the transformation trans-formation by selling the Waters' homestead. The graveyard nmt he sold, anyway, any-way, to meet demands of road makers. But Jim Waters ami 1 is sisters, who take in was'iing frr their livelihood, won't sell. |
