The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-22
WAY OF LIVING
TO BRING END
OF j. S. RACE
Sioux Indian Declares Wild
Scramble for Dollars and
Disregard of Nature Will
Cause Degeneration.

AttlreQ In the 1ull costume OF
Sioux Indian chief. DIR. Charles East
man, q full blood Indian, delivered his
lecture on THE Real Indian" to an
unusually large crowd at the chautau-
qua yesterday afternoon. DIR. East
man Is real Sioux and lived the
life of the Indian until fifteen years
OF age. His address surprised his
hearers by it's exalted idealism and by
the genuine and sincere fervor OF 1t.
He spoke from his heart the message
of the red man. the original American.
to the white man.
You people do not know the real
Indian" he said. you know only the
rebelhous Indian of the fourth and
fifth generation after the white man
had given him fire arms and fire
water. The Indian that you know to-
day is IA degenerate. The fine nature
of the real InAian has been degenerate
ed by your .Qsfstoms.
THE earnest explorers knew the
real Indian. They all spoke of him as
trustworthy. He lived the life of
child of nature. He recognized the
spirit of the Creator in the smallest
thing. To the snake he said Brother.
To the bird he said Brother. To
every tiny living thing he said
Brother He did not know of one
creature that he could sneer at.
Whites Bring War.
You should have seen him at his
worship At the sunrise, he would
stand In the forest and watch the
without a word 1t was his prayer to
the great Mystery which shines
through the sun and toward that Mys.
terry he had child's attitude.
THE warfares of the real Indian
were not like the warfares of today
They didn't fight for property. Their
battles were little more than college
football. The Indians of a victorious
band would mourn thirty days for the
enemies they had killed in their fight.
ing. War as we know it was brought
by the white man.
The real Indian was the highest
physically, morally and spiritually
When he found town was growing
too large. ne cut it up into a smaller
community. He discovered long be-
fore you white men came here that
large towns breed disease and crime
THE real Indian of the earlier days
had developed very real Socialism
His tribes were divided into clans
the clans were divided into separate
communities of twelve or fifteen fam
lies. Each woman was permitted to
have only five children. The Indian
woman had to be as strong physically
10 her husband. She was the height
and base o. the Indians existence.
Race Will Degenerate.
The Indians have only touched the
borders of the white mans world
Yet today the Indians are just like
you-Jews and Irish and Scotch and
presbyterians. You can't trust us
now any more than you can trust a
white man. There are few real
Indians left
You folks are killing yourselves
trying to live. You are destroying
your own bodies. You are like in
cubated chickens. When l was com
Ing through Chicago with the chiefs
on their way to Washington, one Of
them said to me. after we had walked
through the streets of Chicago sew
eral minutes, 'Umph!' l said. What is
the matter, brother?' He said, L have
been watching these people running
back and forth like mad. What vol
is behind them? l says, Brother
there isn't any wolf behind them
There is a dollar in front of them
'If you white people do not learr
TO live as the great Mother Nature
taught you to live, you will become as
extinct as the people that built the
Pyramids. Americans will degenerate
and suffer the same fate as the ole
nations If she doesn't learn how tt
take care of her body"