The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-16


Mole Teuuop" is on the job. The air
does not resound with the horrid war
whoop nor is the horizon shadowed
with the figures of redskins brandish-
ing tomahawks. Mole Tequop
known sometimes as Colonel Hugh l..
Scott, United States army, has been
assigned to the task of Modifying the
Hopis known also as the Mods, and
all is we'll in Arizona.
There is no doubt that Colonel
Scott ranks with Carnegie, Roosevelt
Mead. Trueblood, Mcdowell and Bar
tholdt as an American peacemaker,
although by profession he is a man of
war. If the Nobel prize for peace
making we're awarded for actual
achievements in the soothing of an
cry spirits perhaps Colonel Scott
would be adding the income from the
$4,000 award to the salary which he
draws from the war department. \
summary Of his story" would run
about as follows:
4 report of trouble between In
dams and whites reaches Washing
ton. Colonel Scott is sent to the seat
of possible war There is no more
trouble. Colonel Scott returns to his
army duties until tn etomahawk IS
dug up again somewhere in Uncle
Sans western domains.
Colonel SCOTS latest task is the
pacifying of the Hopi or MoH In
dams of Arizona. The government
maintains schools for Indian children
in the territory which has been trying
so hard to get into the Union, but the
adult Indians for some reason or 9th
err do not like the schools. Result
! they have been refusing to send their
children to be instructed in white
mems lore in spite of the protests of
! the governments agents. The schools
are run by the interior department,
which has charge of the governments
relations with the Indians. But Sec
rotary Fishers people have been UNI
able to make the grownup Mokis see
the light of reason as it is shed in
Washington, and they have called on
the war department for aid
Now, shooting Indians because they
happened to disagree with white
folks in matters of opinion went out
of fashion some years ago, and the
government thinks letting daylight
into the bodies of adult Indians as =
means of permitting instruction 10
reach the minds of papooses will not
be approved nowadays by the whites
of the country, however much that
course might have been applauded in
the darker ages of our history. So
the authorities have cast about for
an intermediary, and the choice natur.
ally has fallen on Colonel Scott. He
is the champion of the country in
mediating between whites and In
dams. The Indians trust him and be.
! lieve what he says, paying to him
thus a measure of respect which they
have failed conspicuously to accord in
| the past to some other whites sent
| to negotiate with them From the
Rainy River of Minnesota to the Rio
Grande and from the Missouri to the
! Columbia and the Colorado, Colonel
/ Scott is known as a man who has an
! insight into Indian ways and minds
and as man whose word needs no
affirmation or witness. His Indian
name, mentioned before, is Mole TIE.
quop," which means He talks with
| his hands" He talks also from his
heart when he tells the aborigines
/ that that he has their welfare slowed
away inside his chest. They believe
him, and with his arrival trouble van
ishes.
The Indian name given to Colonel
Scott indicates that he knows the
/ sign language in use throughout the
Indian country. BY means of this
/ species of talk Indians from one part
/ of the country are able to converse
without understanding one another's
spoken words. Few men, if any, in
the history of the country have had