Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-18

says Sh" saw In tho paper that truck
farms are very profitable and she sup
poses 1t won't be very long now be.
fore the poor horse disappears alto
rcthcr.
S~~ONoo-oO~
corps and he has invented something
that viii bring the ground up To with
IN two or three feet OF the man I'm
an aerOplanc. and what did he do
with the invention? lie did not even
permit foreign government to eX-
anime II, but he gave IL to the United
states govcrnmcnt-hs government
without cents cost. There is one
of the drunkards you speak of who
ran away from his reservation and
drunk up his allotment Inventing
and giving something that may save
the government that calls his people
drunkards
81 was addressing n meeting at
Trenton. y. j., the other evening.
when boy rose up and said he was
Sioux Indian. and said / would know
him well II he told me his Indian
name. and he did, and he was a wild
Indian TIL he was 20, and hc Is now
superintendent Of one Of the biggest
Iron foundries In the world, with a big
branch In Novia Scotia. which also is
In his charge. lie is another of your
drunkards who ran away from the
reservation and squandercd his allOt-
mcut in drink.
Don't Know Indians.
you men don't know us-our peo-
pie. They shouldn't be here They
should be out home. following the
white mans way in the world
you just give him a Chance-an
education, and proper environment,
and he will outrank any of your for
e gncrs YOU let come into this cOun-
try every day under your immiSra-
tion laws. I hope some day you Will
wake up and know us as we'll as We
know ourselves and let us progress as
We want TO, and as we have proved
We can do.
"lf you want to know who | am,
go To Amherst. Mass, and ask any
body there who Or. Charles AleXan-
der Eastman is, and they viii tell
YOU. am one of your drunkards,
according to you. but ask the people
Of Amherst"
Clapp looked at Sells, and Sells
looked at Clapp, and they adjourned
tin . o'clock in the morning.
Eastman's Career.
The remarks of Doctor Eastman so
impressed me that | investigated, and
found that his Sioux name was
"OhiySca' tThe Winncr), and that he
is a physician, surgeon ana author.
practically II full-bloOd, born and
raised wild till Is, and fled with his
patcrnal grandmother to Canada after
the Minnesota massacre in 1862. His
father. a full-blood, adopted Chris
tianlty, hunted out his son, took him
to his home in South Dakota, and
placed him in mission school at
Santee. Neb. In two years he made
such progress that he was sent to "a
school of higher learning at BelOit,
Wis. and in two years entered Knox
college at Galesburg. ILL.,, thence to
Kimball college, New Hampshire. lie
was graduated from Dartmouth in
1887, and Immediately entered the
Boston university school of medicine,
received the degree of NJ. ID. in 1890.
lie has been organizer for the Y. NJ.
G. A.; has been attorney for the Sioux
tribe. and government physician He
has written several books. among
them being Indian Boyhood" and
RED Hunters and Animal Life"
What Doctor Eastman has done for
himself and for civilization and for
his people. and for his government,
almost any Indian can do, under
proper guidance, environment and