The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1913-11-28
i. NeoPit, Wis, Nov. g5; 1915.
Editor Q ianah Star,
Odanah Wis. ~,

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Editor--Dr, Dixon and retuu Ii called, on
the Menominee Tribe Of indians on the AZ
and | must say the doctor had to i do his
very best in an oritorical way to. CONVINCE
the always suspicious Indians there was no
harm inswearing allegiance to there. Scoun-
Ftry's flag We. have "a j grand !: army post
here composed of Indians who. all saw ac-
tive service in the war of fifty !, years ago;
some were with Sherman in his march to
+ the sea they fought side by side win their
white brothers under the same. flag, a flag
they came, within an ace Of turning down;
just on account Of asfew men who are re-
presenting the government in teaching us
Indians how to- become expert lumbermen.
pr. Dixon is alright, we appreciate his visit
and efforts very mnch we believe he is d
friend to the Indian, perfect gentleman, a
man who we will not soon forget. He
told the Indians he knows they hasSSe:$beent
misused and abused, a long line of treaties,
had been broken on the part IF the white
man, and it was for this very same reason
those same Indians came verv near turning
against the flag that is supposed to protect
them. Those same Indians were not Sonly
abused in the past but&,are abused right
now. n read some time ago; an item in
one of the; Milwaukee papers in which il
stated the Meliominees were 4 awealthy tribe
Of Indians. s1t is very true we have wealth,
nobody can deny that but the writer of the
said item forgot TO so state that the major
itY of this tribe are in destitute circumstanL
ces. If that is wealth then we are very
rich indeed. The Menominee tribe of In
dians mades themselves wealthy by the
sweat of their brow in there own logging
operations they did in the past. The last
FIVE years, am told, the Indians logged
they earned very near million dollars we
did not own our own saw mill then. We
got very little for our timber compared to
what we get now. we used the slow going
OK to skid our logs. Now we have the
best horses money can buy. :
We hauled our logs to the river with
horses, some used Indian ponies. Now we
have two powerful locomotives. We load
ed our logs wife man and horse power, nov
we have fifteen and twenty horse power
gasoline engines. We used snow roads;
now we have ice roads. We had no black
smiths, we had to lose day or to have our
horses shod proper. During the past few
years we have been logging with all this
improved machinery under government Of
fcials they say here by people who makes it
there business to find out we are over one
million dollars the losers. Some logging is
it not. Yes, they are learning us ~:
Not long ago some of the Indians had their
white foreman looking all over town, for a
cross haul. This is the type of men Uncle
Sam sends here to teach us the fine points
of numbering. The fact is there are Indians
residing on the reservation today that has
forgot more about logging than they could
ever learn but still they are teachers Some
Of our white brothers are going to answer
for a whole lot pretty soon. If they have
logged SO cheap they will have to show us
the money. The government is alright it
is the best in the but it is the representatives
that are at fault
"KICKING HORSE"