The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-02-06
CHEROKEES' CHIEF
IS REGULAR MAN
Highly Educated With 1t
Nice Roll in Bank Gath
cred in Business World
SUCCESSOR TO ROGERS
Old Differences Buried and
All Factions and Socic-
ties Come Together

Low Grits uoVly elected onicf ~
the Chcrokrra. has a record behind
him uf official services for hia p''-
pic s. e. Lewis. Cherokee citi1ou
and attorney ful th, tribe un i''
iI,,.m,u claims said last wcol. upnu
his return from Tuhlcuuah. Vh"r'
h, had part iu the election Mon
da,. Mr Lewis has boon Tor 80
years u personal friend of tri'H VINO
hp said. began his work t"r hir req
muihrrg II years ago as uili'iI 100
trrprctcr for Judge I. =. Parker b
federal court ~ Fort smith ih'u
the rrcatost federal court west OF
Sew York
rhia position Gritts held FOR Soy.
ctal years. subsequently acting aH
,lcn. of tho FHnt district Ho waH
later authorized by his people q"
assist Senator owen and other nt-
turucya working ON the eastern imi-
grant claim iu long contest cN-
tending over a period ut nine N"htt'
This cuntou the ChcrukCos flua,y
won, money hring paid out tu thtin
uor capita In 1910. Gritts has fur ten
years acted ns Cherokee secretary
for tho kcctouWah society,
The new chief of the ChorOkrcH,
n fun .bluudcd Indian. ~ wcll cdu
cptod. speaks both the English ana
the Cherokee lhngung" flucutly Mr.
I.ryis said. aud reads aud writes
the Cherokee language az well usiut
tho Scuuuyuh characters. Ito is ~
ycars old. and with his young wife
Il number ui years his junior ana
thrcc-uunrtcrs Indian ana two small
children. hc lives In one at 1h'
incest homes I'm NuskuEcC. lie owns
"A thousand acres of Cherokee nation
land. and has &1u.OOo iu ia" bank
Nj Lewis said. FOR the last 10 years
hr has been I'm the real estate NuH.
ness.
Advice Was Valuable.
During the allotment of the ih,I'
nkcc lands. Mr Lewis added To- the
list nf services Gritts had given hit
pooplc. the Cherokee chief rendered
the Cherokee another splCndtd s"rN'
leo, helping full-hluods To- secure
lands to filc upon and number oi
them can truthfuuy say thIt thcit
fortunes. through the snhsouucnl
discovery of ul upon thnH' llnus
were secured for them through Lew
Giitts. Gritis H. woll-puatod upor
indian affairs and he has spent
turn time in Washington II
the intcrests of his people. lie is d
brother Of Ned Gritts. former deputy
marshal. now serving tor JudS'
Williams court at Muskogoo. Ne,
Gritts Is said to bc the finest sp'ci
man OF physical manhood IN ~
Cherokee nation, standing siN Tee
two and a half and accordingly W"l
uroportioucd He. like his diS
tinguishcd brother Is well INFORMED
as to Indian affairs.
.h.AT 90 4 N4t1
discussing the tribal affalrs of th'
Chcrokccs yesterday was w .
Rogers, an eighth blood from ska
took In what is now Tulsa county
who was elected August J. 90 an'
served until the time OF his death II
1917. since then the Chcrukcvs hnN'
had no chief. Tribal husiucSS ar
fairs have been looked at'ur bt ~
executive committee OF uina nom
bcrs uf which W. Tate Brady -
Tulsa ~ chairman. john G. Dan 'il
of Washington county secretary
myself local attorney and Franl
Boudcuot attorney IN WnShirgio,
working on various claims ot IN
tribe there. There were two C'h,
ORGANIZATIONS Of ChcruEcaR sine
1895; too-wah was an urglui"1
ton of full-hluod Ch"rukccS, man
OF whom lived cast of the Gran
River In the former Cherokee m
tiun. This was a patriotic soci"t!
something similar to lodge ar