The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-03
SAC AND FOX DID
NOT LIKE INDIAN
LAND AT FIRST
Paleface Stories Not Ex-
actly True, but They
Remained
WEARY OF STRIFE
Aged Councilman Warned
Warriors Not to Brook Ire
of White Men
WEALTH COMES TO TRIBE
Oil Derricks Point Dirty
Noses Into Heavens on
Their Land
WEARY Or SlRltt
WEALTH COMES TO TRIBE
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lENDRICK. Sept 2.-Accordlng
~ Sar and Fox indian tribe the
~ the sac and Fox indian tribe tne
-, fo,,rDey from their old reserNa-
.t,s ,1s ., the Marais deg Cygnes river
t, Kansas was made just % years
ago this fall .,..s .t,ot. NOW
O,,,abona reservation they were
,,roo,iy disappointed, old Indians say.
e.. ,bs white men who made the new
tCa,,v With them had assured theV
,bat this new country was huhtel
taradise and they had expected 70
md vast herds of buffalo on every
hand. when they arrived the pulla'S
we're not to be found but deer ahu
other small game were apunuaht a..
,hc time. which went long way
.n-,ord reconclling them with their
itw home.
2 Warriors Were Blue.
few days after the arrival or
the tribe the chief called meeting
Of his councilmen. We have always
referred to the Indian as the reu
man" but Il was a lot or blue men
tssat sat far into the night arouhu
tft council fire. They were home
,be now reservation. They longed
for n land untouched by the destruc'
live hand OF the pale face where
thew could follow the trail or the
buffalo in their own way.
The council fire burned low, was
klndled and rekindled but not one or
The counc!lmon seemed to haSs
MAN or any advice 10 offer. Then
along about the hour of midnight ali
were brought TO attention by the
rising of Konetokama, the most aged
of the circle of councilmen, and in
the course of his ringing speech ne
said;
I'VE have come to a new home.
1t might be better. but 1t could be
worse. Though things are not what
we expected no use to think OF
rightlng the wrong gone us by war
White men are as many as the trees
of the valley. We are few"
Then in dramatic pose he
pointed toward their old home, in
far off Wisconsin, and continues:
Graves Marked Trail.
Il could start from this council
fire tonight and safely reach our
old hunting grounds by following the
graves of our dead. 1t is a plain
train of graves. There has been too
much war The time has come when
indian must bury the tomahawk for
ever and prepare for the new days
which are coming. The time has
come when Indian must settle and /
hope the Great Father may grant
that we may live in peace from now
on and that this may be the last
move OF the SAC and Fox"
The eloquent speech OF Koneto-
kama marked the turning point in
the life of the Sac and Fox Indians
and 1t was largely through his in
fluence that the tribe settled down
on the new reservation with a de-
termination to prepare for the new
day.
Looking back over a span OF a
haltaa century Wa realize that the
sacNnd Fox Indians have indeed
made good. At the time the tribe
moved to what is now Oklahoma.
they we're clothed in blankets and
moccasins from the youngest to the
oldest. Today we see them in the
full dress OF civilization, erect, with
high ideals in life and model farmers
I md citizens.
NS Little did old Konetokama dream
NAT half Gentry from the time that
g!s eloquent speech broke the deep
FNillness of the night that the day
~ the little mustang pony would be
iNsone and that his people would be
riding on a graded highway, in n
horseless carriage. He could not
know that the prairie upon which
The deer grazed at will would be
tiled by his people and forced to
bring forth bountous yields of cot
ton and grain. He never dreamed
that the day OF the old tepee would
pass away and that site where &
stood would be covered by an oil
derrick and that his people would
attain wealth and power.