The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-21
AN EXHIBIT OF REAL INDIANS.

AN EAh1BlI OF' REAL INDIANS.
 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition will have at least one exhibit that has never been seen at @ worlds fair-the American Indians There have been | Indians exhibited at every American exposition, but they have been hideous caricatures of the original article, hired to paint and pose and grunt and con- tort themselves in a dance that Red Jacket CT Pontiac would not recognize. At. St. Louis the United States Govern ment will give the Indian exhibit, and it will be the real thing
 So. says s. NJ. McGowan, superin- tendent of the Government Indian ex- hibit in an article in the Four-Track News. The Government has expended s25,000 on an exhibit building I nthis will be arranged booths for the pur- pose of showing the difference between the old Indians as they look and work at home and the Indian students as they appear and labor at the modern industries taught at the Government schools. It will show in strong contrast the older types and the younger gener- ations.
 The old Indians will bring with them the material for the realistic reproduc- ton on the grounds of their native homes with all their environments. The Apaches, for example, will construct their peculiar shacks, live in them, dress as they do at home, and use their own utensils for cooking purposes. The Wichitas will reproduce their old time grass house; the Kickapoos their bark homes the Sioux their tepees the Ma vajos their hogans, and the zunis their lpueblos.
 There will be no exaggeration, and the Indians will be selected from the tribes because of their worth as indi- viduals and as artisans in their native industries. Navajo women will weave ltheir famous blankets; Pimas will make their wonderul baskets; Pueblos will manufacture pottery, burning it from their own clay in their own kilns. The Sioux will do bead and porcupine quill work; Flandreaus will carve pipe stone; Crows will tan wild skins and make them into clothing and mocca- sins.
 The exhibit of the Indian students of the Government schools will be varied and interesting. The boys of the Chi locca Agricultural College of Oklahoma will run printing establishment, and the girls will show their skin in mod Iern domestic science by cooking, serv- ling meals in 8. model dining room, and running a laundry. Haskell girls will cut, fit, and make garments and do em- lbroidery. The Genoa (Neb.) School will lexhibit it's tailoring and harness-nak- ling departments. Fort Lewis, Col. will have complete shoemaKing depart lment There will even be kindergar- ten of little fullblood Pimas Sacaton. Ariz.
 Concerts will be given in an audite- rum where Indian students will also deliver orations produce cantatas, sing play musical instruments, and give pre- tentious concerts.
 These entertainments will show. says the superint endent, that the Indians are neither dullards nor fools, but have minds capable of great development and are possessed of ambitions and as- pirations. Tn fact, he states that h. dians are endowed with talents quite as much as white people, and that only lack of opportunity has prevented them from showing even more progress
 All of which is quite different from the old maxim that there are no good Indians but dead ones.--Chicago Inter Ocean.