The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-04-14
.BEMIDJI ARTIST
STUDIES INDIANS
Work Of N. I. Hakkerup Featured in
Minneapolis Journal Story of
Chippewa Tribe Told
ARE WIDELY SCATTERED RACE
"Hak" Spoken of as Man Who Has
Captured the Modern Indian With
A Modern Weapon

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A Modern Weapon
Indian studies, the work of a Be-
midji artist, N, l.. Hakkerup, which
recently have become famous because
Of the manner in which they record
the type of Minnesota Indian, are
prominently featured in an addition
of the Minneapolis Journal, in which
is given the history of the Chippewa
Indian. -
In the article Mr.. Hakkerup is
highly complimented and his work is
approved by experts as being the
most striking series of Indian pho
tOgraphs in existence.
Speaks of Hakkerup
Concerning Mr.. Hakkerup the
Journal item says: Fast disappear
ing though they are, among the Min
nesota Chippewas are striking exam
Piles of the old race of warriors.
Armed with a camera instead of a
paint brush Minnesota photogra-
pher has tra|iled the modern Indians
to their modern homes and has re-
corded what he found on print paper
rather than on canvas -
-"N. l.. yHakkerup, a Dane, is the
man who has captured the modern
Indian with a modernSweapon. Mr..
Hakkerup lives in Bemidji and his
series of photographic studies of the
northern Minnesota Chippewas is said
by experts to be the most striking
series of Indian photographs in ex-
istence. H.
Long, Hard Task.
For years mr.. Hakkerup has been
taking Indian pictures as a hobby.
He has spent his vacations among the
Indians and he had not displayed his
work. Hundreds of pictures have
been taken and hundreds have been
destroyed by the man who took them
finally Mr.. Hakkerup has produced
seven pictures which he lis willing to
show his friends. The pictures are
copyrighted. - ~, ~ Isl.
Among the Indian studies for the
seven pictures is John Smith Of Mud
lake, near Bena, undoubtedly the old
est living man in Minnesota. John
Smiths name and exact age it not
known. Smith, who upto last fall
was mentally alert, declares that he
is 1877 years Old. Students who have
visited him and who have examined
his records of age, say that he was
undoubtedly born in the eighteenth
century and has lived in three cen
turtles.
Beautiful Indian Girl s..
''In his studies of the Indians Mr..
Hakkerup has found an Indian girl
whom he declares the most beauti-
full woman of her race. Other pic
tureh show squaw, an Indian youth
and two warrior braves. The pic
lures are on exhibition in Minneapo-
lis at the Beard art gallery.
I'm studying the Chippewas Mr..
Hakkerup has been studying one of
the most interesting of the northwest
ern Indian tribes. -..
Then follows the story of the
Chippewa Indian, which is in part
here printed:
Story of the Tribe
"Chippewa is but an English cor
ruption of the Indian word Ojibwa,
the derivation of which is doubtful.
The French Voyageurs called them
Saulteurs Or Leapers because they
had their homes about the Sault Ste
Marie and for the same reason the
Sioux called them Hah-ha-tonwans
or Dwellers by the Leaping Waters
1T is somewhat strange that al.
though the Sioux are regarded as the
most ferocious and most intractable
of the Indians the Chippewas not
only never feared them, hut time at
ter time defeated them in large and
small BATTLES and drove them out Of
a veritable paradise, the forests OF
Minnesota
''For these forests, teeming with
fish, all manner of game and al
kinds of fur-bearing animals, YIELD
rich harvests of wild rice, cranberries
and eblueberries, the Sioux received
the great plains with scant animal
and plant life.
War by Strategy.
1T often is asserted that the Chip.
pewas are much more clever in ever,
way than the Sioux, more alert men
tal1V more inf al kioent more "a damf