The Tomahawk., 1916-08-24

Gil to consult with the Indian Office
regarding the distribution of the
one fourth of the general funds of
the Chippewas, with the object of
| applying the rule upon this appro.
priation, followed by the Indian
| Office in making the annual dis
oursement of the interest of the
principal funds of thu Chippewas.
Of making one payment after the
death of a member of said Indian
tribe.
This resolution was intended az
a measure of precaution, and to
secure uniform rule in the dis
bursenents of the Chippewa funds,
if the rule is not followed by the
Indian Office in making this dis
bursement, and the recent deaths
are not provided for as in the past,
in the nature of a reimbursement
for the care and expenses in the
last illness and funeral expenses of
the deceased, the loss to the party
who advanced the necessary ex-
penses, may be the direct result of
your negligence and carelessness
in your duties as the Chairman of
the committee on resolutions in
failing to present the resolutions
acted upon by that committee, this
matter will be reported to the
president of the General council as
guide for future action in his
selection of dependable and COM
petent men for that committee.
must say that l commend your
action in your attempt to protect
Mr.. Frank Piquette in the attack
upon the method under which he
has been placed upon the Rolls of
the Nett Lake Reservation, | com.
mend it because, l have been told
that he is good friend Of yours,
ard that insHVashington he fitted
into your wheel like a cog, it does
not matter to you how he was en-
tered upon the rolls of the Chip
pewas of Minnesota, so long as he
can fit like cog in a wheel that
you want to turn; therefore it
must be assumed that you want to
see he gets fair play in the investi-
cation looking into the legality
and legitimacy of his enrolment
on the Nett Lake Reservation.
But there is another view to take
of the matter Gus; and this is the
fact that you were delegate from
the White Earth Reservation,
elected for the purpose of protect
ing the general interests of all the
Chippewas of Minnesota, and when
you undertake to protect any per-
son or persons, upon your own
volition, your OVID initiative, who
are not Minnesota Chippewas and
do not pretend to have any claim
whatever as such, who are report
ed to have availed undue influence
upon Indians who are practically
ignorant, uneducated without prac-
tical responsibility to obtain re-
suit which will place upon them
selves all Of the financial aud pro-
perty benefits to which a Mime
sofa Chippewa is entitled, is in di-
rect violation of the trust imposed
upon you as delegate to the gen.
eral council in which you are ex-
pected to exercise the greatest
caution in protection of the inter-
ests of those who elected you a
delegate and sent you to the Gen
eral Council, you know Gus, that
as a matter of LAW even though
there had been a legal council and
we'll represented, upon any one
reservation, for instance the Nett
Lake Reservation in all attempt to
place this man Frank Piquette up
on the rolls of Minnesota, is not
sufficient to bind the entire band
of Chippewas in Minnesota, the
policy persued by the government
heretofore, where the common
property of the Cnippewas was in