The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-19
A MODERN cHERoKEE 4cHIEF.,

rivals Brooklyn Times.
 A MODERN CHEROKEE "CHIEF."
 An interesting figure at the Hotel Raleigh is J. Henry Dick, of the Chero- kees, "big Injun" physically poli- cally, and mentally. He doesn't wear moccasins and feathers, and thus far the hotel management hasn't heard any war whoops from the second floor, where the chief and his friends are quartered, yet his is nevertheless q full-blooded brave, with every appear ance of it except that he wears the garments of his white brother and doesn't pick his teeth with bowie knife.
 Chief Dick holds his position, to which he was elected by the Ketoowah, during his lifetime and it is his place to look out for the interests of his tribe and see that they follow the rulings of the Great Spirit and hold fast to the doctrines of government as laid down in the Constitution, which wa sdrafted in September 1889, and which resenb- les in structure that of the States.
 The history of the Cherokees is an interesting one as told by their chief and it is concerning this hostory, in part, that the Indian is in the East to- day to claim some money which is due his people,
 According to the treaties of 1928 and 1885, the Cherokee tribe of Indians, who formerly occupied a tract in Georgia, were, during the Administra- ton of Martin Van Buren, granted the present tract held by them west of the Mississippi for money consideration of $5,0O0,O9O, and then, under the guid- ance of Gen Winfield Scott, were moved to this grant of land. Many of them had to be rounded up and taken by force at that time as the treaty did not agree with their sentiments, but they were finally taken under the wing of Gen, Scott, and in the winter be- gan the march westward. It was a march of many hardships, and many died during the trip, but they were at last guided to the strip of land laid out for them, and which they have since occupied secure in the though that they are it's sole possessors.
 One agreement on the part of the Government was that the trip should be taken at the expense of the Govern ment, but poor To got the little end of the deal, as was, not unusual for the redskin of the early days, and the Government expense account was withheld. Wise to the ways of the white man some years later, the willy savage instituted suit against the powers that were of the Land of the Free, and last April he received all most $5,OO0,000, which represented the money due him, with the interest of the years gone by. But before this money was received, the Indian, with the money which he had in hand began to build houses and schools, until to- day in the Indian Territory there are schools and houses and business blocks and churches, with all of the convent ences of modern civilization, except the highball and the cockta1I These may follow the flag, but so lar they haven't followed the Cherokee, except under a blanket or on the hip of his white brother, and then at the bearers risk of a fine of $500 or a weary year in the penitentiary.
 Tt is education we want out there, '' said MT. Dick in an interview, and we do not intend to let tirewater and the evils of civilization interfere with this. Already most of our people are we'll educated, and we now have a high school for Indian girls and another for Indian boys. Besides these, there are about 140 schools for all classes, and the churches number close to 2,000. We have the Bible translated into our own language, and we are the only Indian Ination to-day which has a language of it's own.
 Another character of the early days is the outlaw No longer does he prey on stage. coach and train, but the few of him left are languishing behind cold stone walls of the penitentiary Shoot ing. too, is almost lost art, at least where the targets are human beings | Of course, once in a while a little fra Cas occurs where guns play llu8res but the wild and woody element is eli minated, and practice games between man and man are rare. We have too much to do to indulge in such af. | fairs as these, and too much at stake Ito tolerate them among our citizens and, knowing this, the hot heads leave their guns at home when attending lparlor entertainments, or else they
 bring them with the hammers tieC
 down. We are a people who are striv'
 ing to be good and great living simply
 tending our crops with our heads turn
 cd toward the rising, instead of the set
 ting, sun, and the day is comins
 when we are going to figure promin
 ently in the welfare of this great anC
 growing land' Baltimore News.