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that the Indian bureau is going to
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investigate itself. What do you
think of that? Investigate itself,
the Indian bureau have a man by
the name of Mr.. Linnen as head of
this investigation. What do you
know about chat? Knowing Mr..
Linnen and knowing the part he
played in a former investigation
here. Gentlemen of the General
Council of the Chippewas of Min
nesota. would rather ask the Ger
man Kaiser for a fair play and just
treatment in this war then to .ex-
pect fair play and just treatment
at the hands of Mr.. Linnen. :"
This is my honest opinion. The
final outcome of this investigation
will probably result in the usual
white wash'' and a recommends
tion that the demoralizec ware
house system and the costly board
ing school be continued, ETC., On
previous occasions the Indian office
sent an Inspector and an Indian
agent attend this council. Did you
ever stop to think why this is done?
the Inspectors presumably
never read their instructions tous,
but my opinion is this, that they
are not sent here to promote gen
eral welfare of our council, but
rather for the purpose of fault find
ing, picking flaws and critizlng the
actions of this council, whereby
they may have some means Of OBJ
ard breaking down the
progressive efforts of the Chippe-
was of Minnesota, through their
General Council. Once upon
time l had great faith in the in
spectors and had an idea that they
we're for the betterment of the In
dian service They were good long,
long ago. Through the recommen.
dations of the Inspectors of.oId the
service was rid of dishonest and in
competent employees but the in.
spectors of to day, seems to work
only for the protection and special
interest of the Indian bureau,
white wash the true findings of
their investigation and to the eud
that dishonest and incompetent
employ ees are PERMITTED to remain
in the service with usually raise
in salary: The Indian agents of old
worked for betterment, uplift ard
progress of the Indian but, Super
intendents of to day works for per-
sonal gain and reputation great
ly to the detriment of the Indian
The government farmers of olden
times blistered their hands in actual
labor while the government farm
ers of to-day are blistering their
neck wearing white collars. =.
Whenever the Indian bureau
hears of proposed legislation tend
ing to remove restrictions from
the Indian, giving him the right Of
citizenship, etc. their great cry is
''incompetency" and, "What shalt
we do with the old Indians" etc,
this is an old game with the Indian
bureau but'it still takes we'll in
many instances and often beguile
some of our Congressman as tney
are not familiar with the real con
ditions on reservations. The Indi-
an bureau does not by any means
support these old Indians, they are
self-supportin9. Some winters they
are issued rations three or four
times during the winter months.
These rations are not enough to
support one person for q period Of
one month and are paid for, from
Chippewa tribal money, ifyou call
this helping the old Indians, l give
it up. l can only call it helping
the Chippewas to get rid of their
money in the quickest possible way
and have less money to their credit
in the Treasury of the United
States. -. e.. ...~1--. =,
The Chippewas Of Minnesota are
taking the lead Of other tribes in