Show J Sf i V r n By CHARLES P NEA Writer WASHINGTON March farch 21 24 4 Chain Chains are being being- worn again this season euon This fashion note comes cornu from I the Fort Peck Mont Sioux In- In Indian Indian In Indian dian reservation It Its It's on the authority of ot a a couple o oZ the tho tribesmen Meade tribesmen Meade Steele and Rufus who Bicker Ricker who are here as the tho Indians representatives I trying to protect their right rights In congre congress Steele brought one ot the chains along to show how bow the style look looks ll Its It's no new style tle however Ever since Ince Indians have lived on reser reser- reser- reser reservations It Its It's prevailed pre Nor did the Indians Indian Introduce It It The whites did that for tor the rOds benefit Far some reason or other otheL the tho Indians Indian are unapprecIative For an out-and-out out dangerous crIminal Steele and Ricker admIt admit a good strong trong Jo log chain firmly riveted on perhaps with lIh an Iron ball attached may be ba all right But they dont don't think It to be wished onto a Indian at at an agency ency superintendents superintendent's whim for tor to breaking some ome rule that that he would woul not think as as a white man nan ot of paying the least attention to To be sure the sentences are passed by Indian Judges of ot the reservation courts of ot Indian ot- ot of tenses tene but the superintendent appoInts the Judges and can to- to remove re remove move more them when he likes There are SO 80 such uch courts In let the country The jU Judges res get 10 a month each For Instance take the case ease ot of Benjamin Thunder Kills-Thunder of ot the Fort ort Peck reservation Benjamin cam earn back from school chool where hed he'd bad had a- a a taste ot Of white men mens men's ways and agency restrictions restriction on his personal lib lib- liberty lIb erty Irked him lIe He had some ome business to attend to oft ott the reservation and nd attended to It It was as all right except that hed he'd neglected d to get a permit What he h did get tor for this over over- oversight oversight sight was 30 20 da days and one of those jut Just chains Just for tor being A A AW W 0 O L I Jacob Jcob Has now a medical student In Philadelphia ran away awa from a reservation school In South Dakota once H He shouldn't have done It It It Iwas was truancy He deserved to be punished But he be was wu only J 10 0 years old He Ic was punished okeh lIe He had to do two weeks eek work with a ball and chain on his leg leg- leg aged aged 10 mind This Va was some ume time ago but buthe the reservation courts court are still at atIt atit aIt It it and now a bill bills bill's pending In congress to Increase their powers On the other hand Congress Congress- Congressman Congressman Congressman man Frear of ot Wisconsin has In- In Introduced Introduced Introduced a resolution to gate the Indian bureau and end en what he ho call calls Its Ita Spanish guardianship The worst wort of ot our clo des say says Rabbi Stephen S S Wise ot of Secretary of the Interior Work Works Work's committee of ot to on Indian In lan affairs Is thione the be beono theone ono one which nominally ha has kept the Indian In tutelage but actually has stood between the AmerIcan people and anil what would have been theIr Juster and more moro generous reaction to thi th the Indian problem The The chains chain and shackles hackles I have here says Mea Meade Meado e Stet Steele Ie were purchased with money approprIated appropriated by congress probably from trIbal funds to support and ilze the Indians |