Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-07-21


christcn Braves -Bob-taiiSo SoroNS
Becomes Robert I. Wolf
/ Uncle sam has recently inauGurateu .
\ n unique and ingenious project ia con
i noctiou with his Indian wards-or .
M least the most populous DIVISION .
OF them. This is nothing less tlah .
/ scheme Tor remaining every chiet am H
brave. every squaw and papooSe OF .
49, sioux tribe The object OF TINS .
Wholesale notwithstanding is 20 insure the /
.ri-ht descent OF property, somethinS
thar has been attended with much
'aifBcultv under the old condition OF
|afairs when the Sioux had 10 FANNY
name. and each rcdskin could De-
Identified only 10y his own individual
fanciful name. a coguomcu when MOST
IlikeIy had not the slightest reseino-
. lance 10 those OF any OF his relatives
. The remaining Of the 1000 mem
? hers of the Sioux Indian tribe was or
dered bv President Roosevelt on the
, advice OF Hamlin Garland and George
4 Dird Crfnnel. well known authors
- o-d ofhcr persons who have made
. study Of the needs of the Indians
To decide upon the naming vas
b. however an easy matter I'm comparison
= 10 the actual carrying out OF the
* strange undertaking. ..-..
IL Suspicious OF THE INDIANS.
The President and his advisors real-
lied from the outset that 10 Would ne
one thing 10 give the Indians new
names and quite another 20 induce the
SONS and daughters OF the Forest
- ever suspicious Of the white m'n-l0
aceept and use these new names
- However. the Great Father NJ Washing
-. tor was fortunate enough 10 enlist t"'
~. co.neration OF Dr. Charles AleNande
= Eastman. n highly educated physician
~ and clorgvman. who is a fulihloode'
80 sioux. and who came into natioua
~, prominence some time since Wheh Ia
married ELAINE GoOdale. the talcnte
a., Young New England poetcSS- Al ln
~ Presidents solicitation Dr. Eastman
v-bo ~ considered the best educate
- Indian inn the world. agreed 20 perso'
80. am, undertake the task OF inducing n
49, paople To- adopt the system 81 famll
- mines desired hy the government.
Srl Inst what This responsibility meal
M will De-. better understood when ~
.M explafucd that not only was llr. Ea'
wv imam To visit all the Indian villages
VA the Sioux tribe and personally besto
HH4 names but he must also devise OF
Wa vent the new names. Just imagi
JgA selecting given names for 2AuNp ~
III 4 sons OF both sexes and apporuoni
'DIA Ipcrhaps half as many or one third
II'8 many different family names IN q
- ldlton.
~ In this portion 81 his novel missh
< arv work Tor Uncle sam the Na
~ IGfver. ass the Sioux now term IN
- educated tribesman. has displayed r.
h HN Judgment and a fuc regard Tor Tan
MIN history and tradition among the ~
AM4 IA hourhtfulncSs that has d
INV much 10 win the good viii OF On
MINI Intelligent but conservative lnui
MW Tor the new project. Whenever
NNM / Snle be has pcrpctuated an indN
INA Told name ia his new one. For inSta
Mta High Eagle becomes Mt. HiShea
III lBob-tailed Coyote was chaueed
~ Robert r. Wolf. aud Rotten PUN
- has been transformed into 10
Pumpian
Dr. Eastman has been maxim
.olice- round OF all the Sioux rcScrNa'
WAS which are located for the most
= and in the Dakotas and elsewhere II
Northwest When hc arrives
r son branch agency. or tribal headQuar
cave for the purpose OF notwithstanding
, AMI inhabitants his first move - 90
IA on 4 conference with the chief me
p knee cOuuselors OF the place. They, IN