The Detroit times., 1913-01-01
INDIANS joan
OE ARC SEEKS
FEDERATION
Mn. o. J. Kellogg VIII Visit the
Chief Cities In Effort to Es-
tabIish Industrial Union
FAMOUS ORGANIZER IS
DAUGHTER OF JISGOGO
He Was Chief Of the Iroquois
and She Is Granddaughter Of
the Famous Daniel Bread

DENVER. Dec. -r.-Mrs. o. ]. KEEL
logs. the Joan or Arc OF the Iroquois,
whose pen name Is Laura M. Cornell
ius, daughter OF Jisgogo, Chief Of the
IroQuois and granddaughter of Daniel
Bread, one OF the most famous OF
chiefs OF the Six Nations, is in Dem
YER TO enlist the support OF Alva
Adams. doomed by Colorado and the
west for the next secretary OF the in
terror, Governor-elect Ammons and
other prominent men In the organiZa-
ton or an Indian Industrial Fedora
ton.
Under Mrs. Keffoggis plan indians
In the United States and Canada are
TO be colonized In Lolomal villages
Lolomai meaning 'the beautiful the
best. Each Indian will have a ten
acre tract, which, under intersiffed
farming, Will be his means OF liveli-
hood. Industrial schools will be es-
tablished and the Indian will be taught
to be absolutely independent OF the
paleface.
Mrs. Kellogg was one Of the organ
izers or the Society Of American In
dams. In 1904 she was a counsellor
for the Indians OF Southern California
in the Warner ranch eviction case, in
which there WAS considerable hieea-
shed. When she was thirteen years
old she consecrated her life TO her
people. She had "call"
Attends Exclusive Seminary.
Her father babe her Godspeed. She
was given public school education
and then sent to the Grafton Hall
Seminary, an exclusive school for
girls at Ford du Lac, Wis. She took
postgraduate work at Leland Stan
ford, Wisconsin, and Columbia univer-
stiles, specializing in sociology End
economics In their relation to the
American Indian.
The Joan OF Arc OF the Iroquois is
tall. 1.-THE. masterful, thoroughly alive
TO her life work, a most worthy repre-
sentative OF her proud forefathers.
Il simply wish 10 restore my people
to the plane of independence she
says. by teaching him to earn his
living honestly, the Indian will one
day be freed from the bondage OF
paternalism; he will be permitted to
go his way without interference and
to work out his own salvation. In
other words, he will be given square
deal
"The greed for land has caused the
whites TO gradually become possessed
OF practically all OF Indians land. AS
a trader, as q fnancier, as business
~fnha AS one familiar with all OF the
mad race for wealth, the Indian could
not be expected to be the equal Of the
white brother
I'm the Indian Is the result OF many
generations before him who roamed
the wood, took their breakfast from
the mountain stream, who killed a
deer for dinner and picked their sup
per from the bushes and trees Of the
forest His was the life of the open,
OF the free-the ideal for health and
happiness Can any wonder, then, that
he has never taken freely TO the Gus
toms OF the paleface?
Put a white man into that same
life, put him out in the mountains and
the plains, hundreds OF miles from
railroads, electric lights. street cars.
the everlasting strife, and leave him
there for six months. Only six months
and that white man never again will
be satisfied to follow In the steps of
his brothers. He will always be
longing for the country Of magnificent
distances for the country where he
can ride fifty miles without seeing an
other person or a sign Of human life.
He may travel far and make much
money, but always. always, deep in his
mind, will be the thought of some day,
that day. when he will be back in the
life that civilized whites call wild"
Mrs. Kellogg will see prominent men
and women In Salt Lake, Portland.
Seattle and other cities through the