Show 35 Tribes Seek Billion From U S as Payment for Land k kt t Chief or of tIC the Ila tic l tribe Charleston ton n a stance few terms rr Ir om cm the fix Noto Ih tho squaws nr Dr CHARLES P r STE STET T l 1 NKA NEA A S Sen r Ice k-e Writer WASHINGTON Sept Just 30 30 how much It if anything the iho States owes tho the American Indians for taking their continent away from them never will ba bo settled ot of course but this much Is certain certain certain tain The Indians have claims pend pend- pendIng pending In ing for an unpaid balance of ap- ap approximately ap approximately proximately a 0 billion and a Quarter quarter quarter ter of dollars principal and interest In- In Interest In Interest terest It seems It a a modest sum for all allot or of North America between the oceans east cast and west and from the Canada lino In the north to Mexico and the Gulf In u II south south- southerly southerly southerly erly direction W WAMPUM Ill AND om OIt Something has been paid on ac- ac account account ac account I count to be sure In wampum In i reservations and oil lands In e edu- edu education edu education cation and in civilizing influences Still Inca the wampum wasn't worth an anything the and the oil lands lan ls were the tho Indians In tho the first place and the education lion tion and Influences were forced down their throats much mucho o 1 their lr will perhaps their demand Isn't alto alto- altogether altogether gether unreasonable The United l States of justice has been footing up the tho tb figures ures l recently Nobody can sue ue the tho United Stat s a without the governments government's own permission but has granted It in these claims in be- be behalf behalf be behalf half of or 35 85 5 tribes tribe Some Som of these have havo been tryl trying lg- lg for more that than a century to get let what they say Bay Is due lue them from from the pale pile faces The earliest claimants are re ro the Creeks Creek ot of Georgia who accuse no no noless noless less a IP p persona G th than n Andrew Jackson of o depriving them of o tb l lands In 18 1813 without just jUt c cOn com compensation m- m mp p They want Theare The Sioux Nation redskins how how- however however however ever ever are the tho prize arts Tilt TU c Sioux are arc after lifter which they contend they the were ped out of following the Custer massacre Sentiment they represent lIt was wasA A against them At nt the tho time those time were tho the lays days d T when no Indian was w I regarded ld as a good rood Indian buta but IL dead one Black Hills sold geld was such euch a temptation to the tha whites that It Is to h have o over over- overridden overridden Js ridden All II sense sense of o justice onlie on the lie laUer's latter's part It Is charged that just after Civil war the tho ho Government seized sel e I the tho opportunity to close Its ac- ac accounts count He-count counts with the Delaware Del in III de- de depreciated deprecated de depreciated greenbacks when It should shoud h have vo done so o in geld coina coin coina a 11 a claim Donation by congress ot or mu- mu mil million lions lion of acres of land to railroads and white whito homesteaders without I regard for th the orIginal Indian owners ners rights la Is I another ground roundo ot of complaint |