The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-05
Cherokee Indian Maid,
Highly Talented Singer,
Aspires to Grand Opera

entertainment section. Then I went
homo 90 say farewell 20 my family.
"Camo tho word the entertain
mcnt section must Furnish its own
transportation to tho front I did
not want 20 ask father, himself
sorcly pressed by the demands of his
people, for the money ' had taken
up shorthand ana HtcnoEraphy while
iu college as an emergency measure.
Hero was an opportunity 90 make
use Of II. ! enlisted In the business
womcn's section and went over ns
y. NJ. g. A. secretary. NV entertain
ment enlistment was uill pending,
30 when ! reached tho other side
they used mo alternately az show
girl and HH stcuoEraphcr | oven
baked apple pies Tor the boys, hun
drcds OF thom, and liked doing H.
Upon being mustered out. al tho
close of tho war. I returned TO my
music. I have been doing Cumhlnu-
| tlon lectures and concerts for hiH-
| torlcaI. educational. iorcnnizatlon
/ societies The New YOfk city board
| ~ education employs mo TO carry
| Indian folk lore. Indian conditions
/ today, 10 students. ! had tho honor
| OF being summoned 90 Washington
/ during the disarmament conference
| 10 sing Indian songs ana repeat In
\ dian legends for our foreign visitors.
Soon l will Doe singing tho leading
role I'm an Indian opera which I be-
| llcve presents my big opportunity.
not only 10 sound tho values OF my
own voice. but TO carry the message
OF my people 10 the world that docs
not know or understand them"
Tho loyal Cherokee maid. with all
tho pride OF Il daughter OF n chief III
] a. A .Isaf.H In
dian OF today ls far along tho road
to progress. IIo has taken up In
tenslvo sanitation. IIo is enger foi
education. Ho farms or raises stock
along scientific lines, through learn
ing cleaned from agricultural col
loges.
; "The Indian girls nre most versa
. tile I'm the world" So the opinion o
, one Of the quickest OF them. The
take naturally to the arts. In Wash
ington five friends OF mine work II
tho department Of tho interior. Al
I have an avochtion hs we'll Ms n vo
, cation --- music, painting, som
branch of the arts My roommate
! n member OF tho Sioux tribe, straigh
. from tho reservation in South ia
:. kota. IL n student at tho school &
I applied design"
NoHEN NtblNNs
Wistfully, with n mist In her stl
o black eyes, Iva Josephine Ride
a spoke of tho home OF Atlae Unkn
n lunt In tho foothills OF the zarh
= OF Oklahoma. whore 1--WE go out an
. gather all kinds OF Wild greens fC
!. tho table, and Wild fruita-strnwbol
q ries, plums, Rrnpcs-aud there ~
u trout flashing ia the streams fC
e breakfast. and pheasant, and far u
i tho valley fathers herds OF catt
. grazing on tho range.
Atluo Unkalunt. from TINT cabll
90 ed home which has now, by add
~ tion OF n room every little whil
~ rambled over the ranch YARD IN
an Is compartment country ma
wv sion, puts to shame many girl
~ the hour whose ancestry dntea bat
TO turretod castles of earliest Eglai
W and the continent
~ She In beautiful. gracious, grac
~ '.,i ful, wise. clever. talented, gentle. >
w has n voice that stirB the heart. WI
ns a hand and eye capable of mat
ar riallzng dreams OF nature Dn ranN
~ with far above the average skill,
~, mind trained 20 business, Fymr
40 thy and understanding with all ma
NJ kind, ana the ultimate fine womaI
a. nmhition--a home.
- career ~ not All, IL tno Nuy
ng puts IL h'po w ,,''No -, a,,o
but deeper there IL that greater a
n bltlon, tho birthright of every wo
m an-a omo and all that no
m means"
an Here IL the answer TO the OF
ale grave question. "Cnn the II
al Americans be nssimilated?"
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