The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-02-14
NOW SOMEWHERE
+" ACROSS THE WATER >
Assert | hatRepOtred Death
and Burial is Purely
a Hoax
snaeIal % nallr Leadar

Special to Daily Leader
Eufaula. Okla. Feb. Declaring
that Pleasant Porter. exchief of the
Greeks is not dead. but that his re-
ported death and burial is a hoax and
that the chief Us now somewhere
across the water the Snake Indians
refuse to recognize Nioty Tiger as the
chief of the Creek Nation ard main
tain separate organization of their
own and ignoring the Regular doltga-
tion selected by the Creek council to
represent the nation in Washir ion.
have sent another delegation ne,ded
by Crazy Snake himself, to Washing.
ton TO look after their interests.
The Snakes claim that Chief Porter
became involved in som townsite
matters and, burdened with more
debts ihan he could pay quietly dis
appeared They say that instead Of
his body being sent to Wealaka, the
old chiefs country home, FOR burial an
eiiigy was sent and that the chief
Went south TO the great water and
CROSSED over TO some other land
The Snakes never liked Chief por-
ter Neither do they like his success
sor Moty Tiger Shey have always
bitterly opposed amy chief or party
I representing progress along the line
OF a division OF lands. or any measure
proposing a change from their old GUS
toms They look upon the crafty
Crazy Snake as the embodiment of
wisdom and follow his teachings blind
ly and implicitly regardless of the re-
peated failures and promises that nave
been made by him and his henchmen
who are undoubtedly misled and mis-
informed by certain gmfters in Wash
! ington, ID O., who for years have mule
ted these Indians out of large sums of
money by representing to them that
| they have influence in Washington
which they are using In behalf of the
full-bloOd Indian Every year sees "a
delegation Of these Indians in Wash.
ington and it costs money to send aud
keep them there This money rs made
possible by the blind confidence in the
ignorant Indians and the socialistic
tendencies of their lives
The Indian is the original socialist.
Every Snake community in the Creek
Nation has its common patch. There
urc between fifteen and twenty of
these common plots IN cultivation by
the Snakes every year The members
of community meet in the spring and
plow and plant the cotton or corn OF
the communal sofky patch and dur
ing the season it Is cultivated in com
mon In the fall the crop is gathered
and sold, and all OF the money IS tur-
ned over 20 the'flnd which the Snakes
ldraw upon to keep lobbyists and law
yers paid for alleged services at Wash.
ington trying 70 get the indians back
10 the old tribal basis The Snakes
| are loyal aud even though they may
be almost starved, they viii contribute
their last mite 20 such cause
For years this grating has been 80
ing on. but the faith of the ignorant
Indians Is not shaken By Keeping
them constantly agitated and the fires
of hatred burning against the govern
ment and its plans Of ndividuaiizine
the Indian and his possessions these
walking delegates manage 10 aX
lract money from what would seem an
absolutely sterile source TO anyone
else.
Another theory that has been taught
these ladians Is that old Oklahoma
was never really purchased from them
hut 1hat IL was simply leased by the
white men for " years and that
time expires an oi the land turned
over TO the whites will be turned bach
Go the Indians TO do with a. theS
I please.