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Show Kcd Cloud's True Indian Ideas. Washington, Sept. 18. Leedom, who was in charge of the Holman Indian Committee, oomes back to the city with various novel views of the Indian race. Red Cloud he believes to be a loafer and a constitutional dead beat, who is the only one of all the chiefs the committee has visited that steadily stead-ily refused to allow his children to attend school and take on the ways of civilization. Red Cloud tells his people ;that as long as the Great Father knows they are unable to support themselves they will be provided with rations, but if they become self -supporting they will receive . no more help. When it was suggested to him that his men should learn to f arm, he said: "Our farmer" (their instructor in agriculture) "is not of the right kind. He comes here and wants us warriors to work. What we want is for the Great Father to send us white men to plant our corn, hoe it; reap it and put it in barns, which they should build for us. We are warriors and don't work. Squaws work." Mr Leedom says the committee has a number num-ber of reforms in the Indian government to recommend. The general tenor of them all will be, to treat the Indians like children and govern them accordingly ; to teach them to farm and earn their own living, but in the mean time to care for them when they are unable to do so themselves. |