The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-01
SIOUX INDIAN Ms
DEMANDL0YALTY
OF FOSTER SONS.
Believing Teaching of Any Ian.
guage Other Than English
Should Cease
ALIEN POWER CENsURED
Condemn Foreign Propaganda
and Building Up of Colonies
of FOreignness

Real Americans to the number o
As, members of the Teton Dakotal
tribe at Fort Yates, united with Eu
gene Bears Heart in petition filet
with the house of representatives yes
terday in deAanding an America TO
Americans. The memorial, addressed
to Rep. W. L. Caddell and made a par
Of the house record, follows:
1--WE, the undersigned citizens O
Sioux county, North Dakota, respect
fully request that you present tn
following petition to the next ses
sion of the state legislature and ust
your utmost eEdeavor to have AIDE
lation thereto:
Whereas there are many people
Of foreign birth residing in the state
Of North Dakota who have never be
come citizens and who have never
learned the language Of our country
and
Whereas these people have shown
Il disposition for years to band to
gether in colonies and preserve the
institutions Of the countries from
which they came, continuing to speak
the language of those countries III
their churches, schools. homes anu
in their daily intercourse with one
another, and
Whereas these people have persist
emily refused to send their children
to our public schools where they can
learn the American language and be
come familiar with American instltu
tions, and have maintained private
and parochial schools in which some
foreign language was taught and in
which no effort or thought was given
to the inculcation of the purpose OF
American institutions or the history
of our country, and
Whereas large numbers of such
neople of German birth or German
descent have throughout the present
war with Germany not only shown
their lack of understanding OF Amer
lean institutions but have either open
~ or secretly espoused the cause OF
Germany, although having enjoyed
the privileges Of American institutions
for many years, or even all their
lives, being given the privilege to
acquire property and vote the same
as other citizens;
wherefore, we respectfully petition
and demand that such legislation DC
enacted at the next session OF the
North Dakota legislature as will for,
ever abolish this pernicious condi
ton.
First, we demand that the law per
hitting declarants to vote be repeal
cd ana that an act be enacted which
shall specifically provide that no per.
son except citizen of the United
States shall have the right to vote
in the state! of North Dakota. lars.
Second, we demand that insofar
as compatible with the treaties OF
the United States, that laws De en-.
acted prohibiting the holding of prop
erty by aliens. "a
Third, we demand that a law De
enacted providing for a strict super
vision of all parochial schools in the
state of North Dakota and forbidding
the teaching of the German language
or any other foreign language in
such schools and requiring that wher.
ever parochial schols are maintained
they shall follow the state course OF
study as followed in public schools. In
this connection we believe that more
stress should be laid upon the teach
ing of the principles OF American
government and of American history
and that particular attention should
be given by competent state board
to see that no propaganda OF any for
eign powers is ever again allowed to
be incorporated in text books in the
public schools Of our country. ~
Fourth we demand that the present
law forbidding the use Of German
language in public meetings or public
places should be extended after the
close Of the war and that this law
be made to apply 10 all foreign lang
uages.
Fifth, We demand the passage OF
a law prohibiting the formation OF
foreign societies or organizations OF
foreign people, either of secret or
open nature for any purpose what
ever, believing that the only way for
these foreign peoples to become
is for them to forever
abandon their former practices and
to live and act just as other Ameri-
can citizens should live and act.
"The reason for these demands are
SO apparent and are so well known
that no argument is necessary here.
We leave it to the good sense of
yourself and other member of the
legislature to find way to put these
into effect.
eugene Bears Heart and As Others.
The Teton Dakotahs of Standing
Rock reservation, from whom these
resolutions come, established during