The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-11
NOTED INDIAN AUTHOR
TALKS Of ROOSEVELT


| dent Roosevelt will never be a candi
date again for President of the United
| States" said DR.. Charles 4. Eastman
| noted Indian author, Yale and Harvar,
| lecturer and close personal friend o
Mr., Roosevelt, while stopping in siou,
City few hours on his way TO his OLD
home in Minneapolis.
The famous Indian graduate and
government official has just completed
a revision OF Indian names on the
Sioux allotment roll and has given new
surnames to 2S,200 Indians in the Sioux
nation after four years of continuous
labor.
Ine last time 1 saw the President, -
ne said, we had a long talk abn II
running for office He was in a hurry
when / was ushered into his waiting
room and as I was leaving he called
w ait. Doc, l want to talk with vo..
while. Then I told the big chief he
rushed too much and that it was al,
wrong for him TO be President any
more. Then he told me:
Doc, I shall never aim to he Pre-.
sident again. have other ambitions
which I am aching to fulfill Then We.
shook hands and parted. Four Presi-
oehts nave [ worked under, but none
Of them is like Roosevelt"
The work that DIR. Eastman, who Is
a graduate of Dartmouth College and
the Boston University and School or
Medicine, is doing is far reaching and
Of vast Importance to the Indian tribes
of the northwest. The doctor came
here from Pine Ridge, S. D., where he
has been working all summer checking
up the largest. number of Indians. 900
on any one reservation. The object
is to give them family names to pro-
tect both their land titles and the govA
ernment's.
An Indian named Rotten Pumpkin is
given the title of Robert Pampion. He
Could -Not-See Out of His Ewes is
changed tn John Blind. and the brave
who has the proud handle of He-Chas-
s-His-Enemy-By must be
content in future with Chase Lodge.
The President does not wish me to
lose the characteristic of the Indian"
went on DR.. Eastman. Instead I am
to keep to the old names as nearly as
possible and only cut down where /
can and eliminate the silly parts I
have finished my labors on the Sioux
reservations in the Dakotas. nine in
all, and these are: Sisseton- Whapeton
agency, S. D.; Yankton, s. D.; Santee
agency in Nebraska, Rosebud, s. D:
Crow Greek, S. D; Devils Lake, N. D.;
Cheyenne. s. D.; Pine Ridge, S. D."
DR.. Eastman is also a government
physician and has been practicing az
Pine Ridge for some time. He is the
author of a number of books on the
Indian in olden days, among them beA
ing: Indian Boy" Red Hunters an,.
Animal People and THE Old Indian
Days" McClure's and Harpers' are
anxious bidders for all the stories he
cares to write.
DR.. Eastman is a regular lecturer at
the Harvard Union and at Yale and is
now on his way back to Boston to
spend the winter. His idea of the
white man he graphically tells as fol,
lows:
1.-THE white man may have his he'll
on earth: he may have his heaven here,
too, but though he have both his hell
and his heaven he cannot take away
the birthright of blood IN the Amer.
lean. Human nature is in few Of the
rich men of to-day. They put on a
white collar and throw their heads il.
the air-and bah! Blood will tell. And
the only one with human nature is
Andrew Carnegie. Rogers-he is to-
Icecold: Rockefeller-he is a good man,
but his mind is always on his dollars.
But Roosevelt None are like him.
He is sure he is right first and then
he never changes. But he goes like the
wind, always in a hurry, always trying
to do more than any one else. The
President is a great man, and a great
er President. He is just, and, like me,
always demands justice, no matter
whom it hits or who is in the way.
And society! The ladies are half
dressed, always. The Indian sees the
President wrapped in his blanket, too
modest to show his body; but the
society woman-she cares not how
much she shows. The lion in the jungle
the eagle in the air, all have their fur
and their plumage covering their
nakedness and showing their magnif-
cence. Give me nature. let me go back
to my forests and the woods with my
dogs and the birds of the air, and
will be happy. But civflization-that Is
nothing but savagery. Ugh!"