The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-01
Indian Woman Pleads the
Cause of Unlucky People

NEW YORK. April 30.-Wiu n
woman In these modern days once
more lead and save her raCc2 Jane
Zane Gordon, American Indian ~
the Wyandotte, or Huron. tribe,
sspires to the role. She IN now IN
New York. staying at the Martha
Washington hotel.
There are $50 900 Of us Indians
all told" she said the other day.
"Of those who have profited by tho
oil on the reservation In Oklahoma
there are only the Osagcs. number
ing 2.200. And | know we'll what
their situation is. for my tribe lives
near them, across the Grand river
In Oklahoma"
Miss Gordon spoke OF the first
natives OF America who are the last
to become citizens OF the United
states" She produced a document
reading as follows.
Dept. OF the Interior. L. s. Indian
Service,
Seneca School and Quapaw Agency
Wyandotte, Okla.
To Jane Zane Gordon:
This is to certify that the records
OF this office show that YOU are Of
one half Indian blood having boon
given allotment Il on the Wvandotte
! Indian Reservation, for which land
YOU were given fee patent on Jan.
81 1918. and as a result of which you
are now a citizen of the United
States.
CARL +. MAYER Superintendent.
Miss Gordon is part white through
her father, whose name she bears,
He was descendant. she says, Of
one of the white families who were
captured many years ago by tho In
dians. among them the Xanes, the
Dawsons. the Gordons, the Longs
and the Browns. These families
when offered their freedom In 1888
by the treaty with the Indians
drawn up at Grecnville, Ohio, Miss
Gordon states. preferred To remain
with the Indians who had brought
them up since infancy. Miss Gordon
herself was born OF full-blooded
Indian mother, and raised on q
reservation. Her Indian name shows
her to be OF the Deer Clan, of the
Huron or wyandotte tribc--it II
o-shop-no, and II means, "As the
Deer Runs Her sisters name Il
ia wes-so, where the Deer Slep
Last Night"
FalI Tor tOFtufe hunttfS.
II have recently read an article.
said Miss Gordon. (which refers I,
thes condition OF the 2,2o0 Osag'
Indians as IL II represented the con
dition of all our tribes. They arr
wealthy, 1t Is true, and they haV'
automobiles and silk shirts an'
white chauffeurs. But the articl
says nothing of the white men
! the poor white trash dcspised alik
: by white and Indian--who say
! am going to the Osages to get
stake This means that they in
tend to marry an Indian girl In orde
to get some of her mney. The India
girls, just like all the other girls Il
the world. want homes of their owr
, and they are ignorant and innocent
There is no way for any girl to judg
a man before she marries him $
they marry the white men, who sta
long enough to get two or three pay
' ments from the rich oil lands an
= then leave-and the Indian girl
:. guardian gets a divorce for her ur
I der the Oklahoma law, and prett
quick along comes somebody els
II and these girls are married. som
of them five or six times before the
u arc old enough to have been marie
once.
: LAS for the Indian men, they hay
9 not profited much moro than II
. women by their wealth. The
guardians are white men, politician
: and when they have finished gettln
e all they can there is little left.
) There are 200 reservations sea
!. tered through the west, with $4,000