The San Francisco call., 1913-08-04
piutes.H Hupas, Ioncows
and Lower Klamath
to Be Visited

Had President Wilson known when
there was to Set out an expedition
which would VISIT all the Indian tribes
in the United States, explaining to.
them that they were to be an integral
part of the development of the ma.
ton, getting their voluntary signature.
to the oath of allegiance and leaving
with them the stars and stripes to be.
their own and not the property of the
reservation agency, it is safe to say,
that he would have devoted much at
tention to the expedition in his book.
Financed by Rodman Wanamaker,!
son of John Wanamaker, and COM
missioned with authority from the.
president of the United States and the
department of the interior to visit all
Indian tribes in the United states, this
expedition left San Francisco yester-
day morning to carry its message to
Piute. Hupa, Cencow and Lower klam-
ath Indians at the Round valley and
Hoppa reservations in the northwest
ern part OF California.
PHTLADELPHIAN AT HEAD
DR. Joseph X Dixon of Philadelphia
is It's head. and he is accompanied by
Booth NJ H. Cole and Major James
Mclaughlin. who represents the depart
ment of the interior.
Perhaps the most precious possession
OF this expedition. aside from its photo
graphs, is the phonograph record of an
address by Woodrow Wilson to the In
dian citizens of the United States.
The message has been spoken in this
manner to thousands of red men
through Oklahoma, New Mexico Ari
zona and southern California, and be-
fore the party finishes it's 10000 mile
journey through the northwest all the
American tribes will have heard it.
Among the most interesting Of the
photographs is that of Chief Bacon
Rind'' of the Osages signing the oath
of allegiance in the presence of other
chieftains and the Wanamaker expedi-
tion.
RETURN THIS MONTH
Doctor Dixon and his assistants
travel in the private car signef. They
came into San Francisco over the
Southern Pacific Saturday night and
departed on the Northwestern Pacific
yesterday morning. They will return
about August II.
.sThe Indian never has had a flag. It
has meant nothing to him when he saw
it floating over the reservation agency
II
before his departure from Sans Fran
cisco NO eye ever yet has beheld
the stars and stripes floating on any
foot of land belonging to the Indian,
in all of the reservations of the United
States
A first hand account from Coronado
of his explorations in the southwest in
1910 could hardly be more interesting
than Doctor Dixons twentieth century
narrative. 1t begins with the pfan of
a national monument to the Indian at
| Fort Wadsworth, In New York harbor,
and was first inspired by the hope of
| flying over this memorial flag which
had been raised by each Indian tribe
on its own land As a permanent SOU
verir, the expedition has left behind it
| flags at each reservation, the sole
property ofsthe Indians themselves.
AvERSE TO ANY SIGNING
Through bitter years of experience
the Indian has become averse to sign
| ing anything, commented Doctor
Dixon. Usually such a signature has
meant the loss of his land by fraud, al
though treaties had previously prom
| iSed him bis acres forever. Naturally
the oath of allegiance has not been ac-