The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-09-03
INDIANS WILL
GA THEIR F Or
GREAT COUNCIL
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF soCIE.
TY OF AMERICAN INDIANS WILL
BE HELD IN LAWRENCE, KAN
SAS, SEPT. %.

] NNh olhANH al SuNINlIl Illb NhNll iOl NNo
for a great council Bleeding Kan.
sas" has been chosen as the state on
which the red men will GCscend, and
Lawrence, the home of John Brown
will be the city of their visitation.
They will come subtly armed for a
fight in behalf of their national rights
and for their responsibilities as Amer.
lean men and women
Unlike the old-time councils or
raids upon settlements they Will come
as college and professional men, as
teachers, professors, congressman,
scientists, editors, clerks and stock
men. armed with facts and with intel
lectual weapons only. The scene of
their council will be Kansas Univer-
sity, where will be held the annual
conference of the Society of Ameri-
can Indians, on September 2Sth to
October 4th.
Most of the leading Indians of the
country are members of this organi
zation and with them are enrolled as
associate members hundreds of promi-
nent citizens, both men and women.
Six college presidents are "associ-
ate Indians" and editors, army men,
educators, scientists, and rlain citizens
by scores and hundreds are backing
up the Society of American Indians
in its fight for better conditions for
the red race. The society has no
connection with the Indian bureau in
Washington, although it has head
quarters in the Barrister building
Washington, where it watches the
moves of congress and other bodies
that control Indian affairs.
SO successful has the society been
in arousing the members of the In
dian race that it received the warm
commendation of eX-President Taft
and its delegations have been cor
daily received at the White House
by President Wilson
The Indians who are coming to
Lawrence at the end of September
are such men and women as: Dr.
Charles A. Eastman, the noted Sioux
writer; Rev. Sherman Coolidge, pres.
dent of the Society of American In
dians, a full-blood Arapahoe; Hon.
Charles d. Carter, congressman from /
Oklahoma, a Chickasaw; John Oski |.
son, one time associate editor of Col |
lier's, a Cherokee; Marie l.. Il. Bald- |.
win, a brilliant Chippewa lady who
is an attorney at law; Arthur c. Par
ker, secretary of the society, state
archaeologist of New York and a |
Seneca; VIM. J. Kershaw, attorney :,
and a Menominee Indian; Charles E.
Dagenett, U. S. supervisor a Peoria
and DR.. Carlos Montezuma, an Apa-
che, of Chicago. The brain of the
tsNC WI Dt a. La W 1 NbNti IhtN lbt 1
heart, for it takes time and money
and a patriotic spirit to draw togeth-
er these red men of many tribes.
Everyone pays his own expenses, un-
ike many convention delegates.
The subject of the discussion at
Lawrence will be RESPONSIBILITY of
he Red Men" The society will seek
o determine how far the Indian should
COW be responsible for his own af-
airs, and it will seek to obtain an
opinion as to what degree the gov
is responsible for the failures
If the Indian policy" and to what
,Xtent the state, government and In
lians themselves can contribute TO
lettering the conditions of the race.
There will undoubtedly he warm de-
'ates on the subjects of the "reser-
alton system" the Indian bureau"
Leasing Indian Lands" "Intemper-
nee" and the Indian School Sys.
en- Much time will be devoted to
he problem of citizenship. Oddly
nough the legal status of the Indian
S race has never been determined,
nd an Indian travelling across the
ountry may be a federal ward in
ne state, citizen in another, ward
the state in another and have no
tatus whatever in another. The In
ian at Lawrence is going to insist