Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-09-20
TO Hold INDIAN
COUNCIL IN OCT.

Denver, Colorado will be invaded in
October By five hundred Indians who
will bring with them powerful wea.
pons that civilization has produced
wit and education.
The eyes Of all Indians and friends
of the Indian Irc directed toward the
Denver council in hopes that they may
see great things accomplished for
the Red Man. This council is to be
the Third Annual Conference Of the
Society of Americans Indians. This
society was organized at Ohio State
university by one hundred Of the most
highly educated Indians in America.
The first conference which was held
in Columbus, Ohio. was attended by
some of the best friends Of the Indian
and by representatives of the great
universities OF the country.
Among the founders Of this unique
society are DR.. Charles A. Eastman,
the noted Sioux author; Angel De-
cora DeitZ, the noted Winnebago ar
fist; DR.. Carlos Montezuma, the celes
bratcd Chicago physician and an Apa.
che; DR.. Sherman Coolidge, a we'll
known Episcopal divine and an Ara
pahoe; Rev. Henry Roe-Cloud, of Yale
university and a Winnebago; Arthur
c. Parker of Harvard a Seneca Indian
and state archeologist of New York
and many other full-nlood Indians and
university graduates. The motto Of
the society Is "For the Honor Of the
IDnrn ,rI ihn r,nl oc tbo Tnnntrv
The third conference will be held
this year at the University of Den
| YER, Oct. II to 20, where a patriotic
determined band of educated men and
women will discuss the rights of the
Indian as an American in America.
Hundreds of Indians who are farmers,
stockmcn, ranchers, teachers, and la.
bOrers are members of this society
as we'll as men who have more book
training. .,.
The society IS endorsed by the hes,
thinkers in America and has as as.
sociate or white" members some Of
tho leading college presidents, all the
executive officers Of the leading
churches, besides many noted people
IN INC country.
There will be many important sub.
| jccts diseased at the confeJance,
among which will he the establish
ment of an Indian court of claims
where the guardian government will be
compelled TO determine, free Of cost
OF its wards, their legal claims. AL
ready a member of the society in con
gress, Hon. Cnas. D. Cater (Chero
keel, is on the congressional com
mittee to irveLtigatc the affairs Of
the Indian bureau and tho society vii
, have its legal aid committee appoint
SPECIAL investigators VINO will report al
Denver.
The society and its great nationa
conferences have caught the ears ant
the eyes Of the thinking public ant
associate members from New York
Boston and Philadelphia will NEE
with the active. neutrality-suspicious. O
Indian blood-and help on the tigll
more enlightment for the Red Maj
That the D4nyer meeting on Oct
ID will be a histOry-making event II
the progress of the Indian is promised
by it's secretary, A. G. Parker, Of thl
Education department, Albany, New
York. Some surprises will be sprung
by investigators and members, who
like President Coolidge, are now ir
the field studying conditions.
This society of American Indians is
not connected with the government OF
! with any brotherhood. The head
quarters is in the Bar'ister building
Washington, D. c., where the secre
tary has his official office. Here is
published the Quarterly journal Of
the "Society of American Indians"
publication produced solely by In
dams and edited by a half dozen In
dams who are university graduates
The magazine c%irculates widely on this
continent and in Europe. The current
issue contains the program Of the Den
yer conference to which all persons OF
Indian blood arc invited.
More than sixty tribes have repre-
sentatives in the society. Some OF
.1,o Erct o,op,hn,e from NOrth n1RO