Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-31
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Of AMERICAN INDIANS
Lawrence, Kansas Will Be Scene
Of This Years Meeting
Sept. % to Oct. 4.
LEADERS 1oox FOR
BIG ATTENDANCE
Noted "Redmen' from All Parts
of Country Will Be in
Attendance.

Once again the Indians of the Unit.
ed States are gathering their forces
for a great. council. BLEEDING Kansas
has been chosen as the state on which
the red men will, descend, and Law
renee, 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 American men
and women. .I,,..,
Unlike their old time councils and
raids upon settlements they will come
as college and professional men, as
teachers, professors, congressman, far
mers,. scientists, editors, clerks and
stockmen, armed with facts and with
intellectual weapons only-. The scene
Of their council will be Kansas Uni
versity, where will be held the annual
Conference of the Society of Ameri-
can Indians. on Sept. 2Sth to Oct. 4th.
Most Of the leading Indians of the
country are members Of this organiza-
ton and with them are enrolled as
associate members hundreds of promi-
nent citizens, both men and women.
Six college presidents are associate
Indians" and editors, army men, edu.
Gators, scientists and plain citizens by
scores and hundreds are backing UP
the Society of American Indians in it's
fight for better conditions for the red
race, The society has no connection
with the Indian Bureau in Washing
ton, although il has headquarters in
the Barrister Building, Washington,
where it watches the moves OF Con-
gress and other bodies that control In,
dian affairs.
So successful has the society been
in arousing the members of the In.
dian race that it received the warn
commentator Of eX-president Taft
and it's delegations have been cor.
daily received at the White House by
President Wilson.
The Indians who are coming to Law.
renee at the end of September arc
such men and women as DR.. Charles
"A. Eastman, the noted Sioux writer;
Rev. Sherman Coolidge, president OF
the Society for American Indians, a
full blood Arapahoe; Hon. Charles D.
Carter, congressman from Oklahoma.
a Cherokee; Marie L. B. Baldwin, a
brilliant Chippewa lady who is an at
torney-at-law; Arthur c. Parker, sec
rotary of the society. state archeolo-
gist of New York, and a Seneca; VIM
j. Kershaw, attorney and a Menomi-
nee Indian; Charles E. Dagenett. U. S.
supervisor, a Peoria, and DR.. Carlos
Montezuma, an Apache. Of Chicago,
The brain Of the race will be at Law
renee and likewise it's heart, for it
takes time and money and a patriotic
spirit to draw together these red men
Of many tribes. Everyone pays his
own expenses, unlike many conven-
ton delegates.
The subject Of the discussion at
Lawrence will be Responsibility for
the Red Man" The society will seek
to determine how far the Indian
should now be responsible for his own
affairs, and it will seek to obtain an
opinion as to what degree the govern
men. is responsible for the failures OF
the "Indian policy" and to what extent
the state, government and Indians
themselves can contribute to better
ing the conditions of the race.
There will undoubtedly be warm de-
bates on the subjects of the "~reserya.
ton system" the "Indian Bureau
leasing of indian lands" intemper-
ance" and the Indian school system
J Much time will be devoted to the prob