The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-11-07

would De heIpeo towards neaitnIuI
living, useful and gainful occupa-
tons, freed from the mismanage-
ment and sometimes cruel treat
ment of officials who do not under
stand the Indian, have no sym
pathy with him, ard are set over
him because they are politicians or
the friends of politicians who must
somehow or other be rewarded.
Model villages would form a big
part of Mrs. Kellogg's plan. She
has the details all worked out. In
fact, she will. offer her model viii
lage plan to France. She knows
conditions there and believes: that
her plan will fit admirably into the
reconstruction work Of the French.
4 people for whom Mrs. Kellogg
has the highest admiration. She
has travelled extensively in Europe
aud everywhere received encour:
agement and pledges of help in
her work for the salvation of the
remnant of her people remaining
in the United States.
Mrs. Kellogg feels very deeply
the great wrongs which have been
done her people. The older In
dams all feel this too, but many of
the younger people, lost to the
Indian ways of their forebears and
still not wholly absorbed in the
white mans modes of life, are in
different. Hopelessness seized up
on many modern descendants of
the original Americans, when they
see the dismal conditions under
which their spirits, rebel. but which,
they have been unable to success
fully overcome. Therefore many
of them see in the Lolomi plan
the means of realizing their high
est hopes for the future of their
race in America.-Appleton, Wis.
Crescent. 49,.
The ToMAHAwK admires the
ideal efforts of Mrs. Laura Cor
nelius Kellogg in behalf of her
people, the Indians of the United
States, but regrets that it finds no
concrete evidence resulting from a
century of ''segregation policy"
in the Governments dealings with
the Indians generally. In the
main this segregation paternal-
ism" has resulted in depressing
progressive efforts toward self
support and decentralization of the
race generally. Only such Indians
who have the courage, in the face
of the most decided disadvantages,
to insist in absolute freedom from
Indisn bureau dominance, in their
fearless demands for equal rights
as American citizens and the man
agement of their own affairs,
socially, politically and otherwise,
and the final breaking down of all
''segrexated'' barriers, as the
Minnesota Chippewas, some A.
600 in numbers, have accomplish
ed, will ever succeed in being
moulded and modelled out of the
Ipreat American national melting
pot" fit element of industry and
progress, tempered aid purified
and worthy of = place in the ranks
of sturdy American manhood. OF
course conditions may, in some
cases, deal liberslly with the
'Lolomi Plan,' - a. in the case OF
the Navajos, but generally speak
ing, we must candidly admit our
positive conviction in the fact that
we consider professional and in
dustrial pursuits or occupation, for
any race of people, paramount to
the pursuit Of superficial or med
liaeval craft or art; we believe that
1.-The citizen who can properly cult
vate an acre of ground aud make
lit yield grain and garden truck OF
the citizen who can fill an artizan
position of far more consequence
and value 10 the country In gener'
/, al than the product of Segregated
limits" We believe that no man,
whatever his race, creed or previ'