Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-06
ENLISTED BY CRAZY SNAKE
ARMED BANDS SAID TO BE
FORMING IN OKLAHOMA.
Appeal Comes From Eufaula Harjo
Representative of the Four
Civilized Tribes.

That trouble is brewing in that part of
Oklahoma that was formerly Indian ter
ritory is evidenced in a statement received
at the White House today from Eufaula
Harjo orator OF the Creeks. Cherokees.
Chickasaws and Choctaws.
Accompanying the statement was an ap-
pea! TO President Roosevelt from the four
tribes which has been forwarded to Oys-
ter Bay The matter was brought to the
attention of the Interior Department to-
day.
In telegram received by an officer of
the Indian Protective Association here
last night from Harjo it was stated that
many of the negroes, under the lead OF
Crazy Snake. were armed and were dis
turbing the full-blood Indians.
Eufaula Harjo says that an Indian
named Chitto Harjo. or Crazy Snake, who
Oklahoma. has called the Indians and ne
grOes to assemble at what they call H1ck-
Dry Ground. near Sonora, Okla, there to
hold council for seven months.
It is added by Eufaula Harjo that said
council Is to prepare to call foreign
government to come over to this country
and remove all the intruders out OF this
country. We noticed that those who are
going TO attend said council were carry
ing weapons along. We know not what
that is for. but believe they are trying to
work against our government, and also
against us, because we are the full-blood
Indians OF this country, who are begging
for our rights from the government Of the
United States, in peace, to restore our
original rights under the treaty of 1882"
Harjo Appeals for Protection.
Eufaula Harjo therefore expresses the
hope that the officials here will interpose
and stop the proceedings of the Crazy
Snake faction at once, because we be-
lieve 1t is wrong to tell the people to do
what is not right" He adds: THAT is
not the way to get our rights from the
government.
In closing he asserts that Crazy Snake
is not the leader of the Indians, as he
claims.
Eufaula Harjo. accompanied by several
representatives. of the four civilized tribes
of Oklahoma. was in Washington last
winter requesting Congress and the exec
u;ive branch of the government to give
his people a square deal in the matter of
land apportionment and urging that the
terms of the treaty made with the Indians
in 1852 be respected and fits terms COM
piled with. as the treaty, they claimed
had never been annulled.
They also asserted that since the new
state Of Oklahom had been created many
of the Indians had fallen victims to land
grabbers and other INSCRIPTIONS persons;
that some of them had been dispossessed
of their property and others thrown into
jail. While here they appealed to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. and he. in a talk to a
delegation of citizens OF Oklahoma. re-
auested the people of the new state to
treat the Indians fairly, as the Indians
were the real Americans and were here
long before the white man set foot on this
continent
The Indian Protective Association, re-
Gently formed in this city, Is endeayoring
la see that the red men, in the advance Of
civilization and the march Of improve
ments over and beyond their former
hunting grounds, are treated honestly and
fairly.
Ii is said a delegation of representatives
az the four great tribes may go to Oyster
Bay To see the President in person and
request him to have the proper protection
extended to them.