Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-09
INDIANS Want
4 RESERVATION
CHER0KEEs ASSERT HEY
ARE BEING PREYED UP.
j ON BY CHAPTERS,
REGISTER COMPLAINT
Don't Want White Mans Relig-
ion Forced Upon Them, Say.
Kes-Doo-Wha, Spokesman.

Washington, ID. c., July S.-FOul
Indians, representatives Of a faction
of the Kee-DoorW ha Society, which
tlourishes among the members of the
Cherokee nation In Oklahoma, have
brought to Washington what their
friends here call Il spitiful story Of "a
last stand Of the red man against the
white man." They hope to be re
ceived at the white House by Presi
dent Wilson, and to ha able to tell
him in person of their needs. They
expect to be able to persuade the gov.
eminent to establish their faction oil
the Kee-D00-W VIVA society, which In.
cludes $500 members, on q reserva,
ti0n of Its own In Oklahoma, and to
have the government Gee to 1t that
their form of religious, worship, which
includes the fi~re-sacrifice of game
birds, isj not interfered with.
The Indians say they realize tina;
the government cannot order mission.
aries under the laws, to retain from
attempting to proselyte among their
numbers, but they claim that ii they
are segregated on a reservation, AZ
they desire, they can themselves
make laws on such q reservation
which will prevent the activity Of
missionaries among them. They say
one denomination is especially active
In this respect, that their young men
and young women are being weaned
away from them, and that they face
extinction. s.@.
Prsyed Upon BY crafters.
They charge that since statehood
In Oklahoma their members are the
prey of. .swildlers. sharpers and 9TH
er "grafters," that they are separ.
ated and scattered to the four winds,
and that this separation and scatter
Ing means that they are daily ibecoE.
ing more unresisting to the inroads
the white race is making. on the red.
The Indians have come here at this
time, deeming 1t a psychological one,
because Congress recently dissolved
the Cherokee Nation as such, leaving
to the Indian commissioner the date
when the dissolution should go into
eject. the latter having set the date
as Of July l. Included in the little
band of pleaders for q reservation
are Chief Redbird Smith, Oslo Hog
shooter, secretary Of the Kee-Doo-
VIVA society; John r.. Smith, inter
prefer and translator for the party,
and James Wickliff, member OF the
grand council Of the Kee-Doo-Wh
society.
The Indians hope to be received
at the White House as the result Of
negotiations now going op with 8ena,
tor Stone OF Missouri, chairman >of
the Indian affairs committee Of the
Senate; Representative John H.
Stephens Of Texas, chairman of the
Indian affairs committee OF the
House; Representative John A. Key
of Ohio. acting chairman of the
house committee on pensions, and
Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian
affairs. They are living at the
George Washington Hotel, and last
night were guests at the home of
Capt. ]. Walter Mitchell, 1898 18th
street northwest, he having been
their representative here for q mum,
Der of years. Il. i
All, four speak. English, and have
no difficulty in making themselves
understood, although John r.. Smith,
who is the son Of Chief Redbird
Smith, is the spokesman for the
party. Describing the object of the
party in Washington he said last
night: .