The farmer and mechanic., 1911-02-14
chief are to look after the general
interests of the tribe.

chief are to look after the general
| interests Of the tribe.
1--WE have government schools and
| the training school at Cherokee,
which is a boarding school maintaine ed
by the Federal Government, 100 to
200 CherOkees being in attendance.
We have about 400 Of school age in
for all education. Many Of our youth
go to Carlisle We are very religious
people, with our churches, principal
| ly Ba ptist and Methodist. Our mar
riages are by clergymen of the church.
In the churches the preaching is in
the Cherokee language, and the
Testament is in Cherokee. In court
matters we appear in the State courts
/ in matters under their control Our
Ipeople are engaged principally in
farming, and we raise corn, wheat,
| oats, Vegeta bles, fruits, in our farming
using modern methods and 1mple-
ments of the farm. Our people are
| banks. We have amuSements also,
and we like baseball. Football has
played out amongst us, as we found
| it too rough.
I'VE are proud Of our race and
We have had some great men. We
| do not want any who are not Chero-
KEGS to have as their heritage that
which has come to US from our an
| cestors There is Junaluska, who
+! gave aid to the United States in the
Creek war and who by his daring
| in swimming a river and cutting loose
| the canoes Of the Creeks had them
whipped. He was given a great farm
| in the west by the State OF North
| Carolina. He was a signer OF the
treaty with the United States ana IN
| it he stipulated that as long as the
nd q
people shall remain IN North Caro-
lima In the wars OF 1872, General
jackson called on the Cherokees when
he saw defeat and they brought VIC
| tory. Sequora, a North Carolina
Cherokee, who, in 1888, went to visit
the Cherokees beyond the Mississippi
was a scientist and invented the 81
| letters of the Cherokee alphabet
pronounced by experts to be great
work SO great was his fame that
the immense trees in the Yosemite
Valley were named Sequora in his
honor Then there is Bootnock,
western Cherokee, who was great
lawyer, practicing in State and Fed
| eral courts, even in the Supreme
| Court of the United States, with sue
cess. Senator Owens, Of Oklahoma
who was raised in Virginia, is nearly
! a full-blooded Cherokee.
Some Of our tribe have gone west
Of the Mississippi. Some are in North
Carolina Georgia, Alabama and Ten
nessee By the treaty of 1885, al
were to go west of the Mississippi,
but some in western North Carolina
remembering Junaluska's stipulation
and loving their native land, fled into
the mountains where the Cherokees
were being collected in stockade for
transnortation TO the Western ReSer-
walton. There was over Sos' ap-
propriated for the transportation OF
each by the Government. In the
vears this has grown until over five
millions Of dollars was to be divided
amongst us in North Carolina VINO
had not used this. Lately there was
a division of this and there was
awarded each of us s133.1e. While
there are some 1000 Of US in west
ern North Carolina there are alto
eether about $4,000 Cherokees in this
county. and history shows that my
people have ever been frlends 70 tne
whites In the Civil war the Thomas
Legion of CherOkees followed the
Southern flag and General ROBERT r