The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-26
Woman Elected Queen of
The KaiUS Is Model Wife,
Mates Folks We're Pilgrims

Tough. tull-bloods. Billie Cooper.
Freeman Winslow, Rachael Gross
Payne and Dolby pinniston. halt.
bluods.
The kaws have not been a thrifty
people Originally they owned
reservation located IS to 90 miles
northeast OF Pouca city. which was
i2 hy II miles iu extent. Later the
land was allotted. each Kaw ON the
rolls getting 400 acres. Now there
are about 25O living ot those who
were then on the rolls and a ma
jorlty ot these have dissipated their
holdings. sold all their lands and
are really in very had financial
condition. Their reservation adjoins
tho Usage Indian reservation on tho
northwest and although the Usage
Is rich in oil, the kaw country has
not yet producing we'll, notwith-
staNiing the fact that numerous
tests have been drilled to find oil
or gas All indications are. however
that the kaw country viii some day
yield oil. as the geology Of that
district is very favorable In II num-
ber OF instances.
Ihicy Was n Trained Nurse
Lucy Tayiah, the present chief
was sent to the Haskell Indian
school by old chief WashunEa, after
she had completed the lower grades
in the tribal schools and she was
graduated few years later a
trained nurse OF exceptional ability
she went TO New York City and fol.
lowed her profession for several
years, eventually returning to her
tribe and marrying John II. Eads,
then young business man, Her
father was a blood kaw and
her mother q full-hlood kaw- pott8-
watomie, the two tribes being neigh
bors I'm Kansas. From her mother.
who was on the Pottawatomie rolls.
| she has inherited a quarter-section
| land allotment near Shawnee, okla,
| which she still owns. Her only Nv
| ing relative, Emmett TaNah. n
brother. and educated, lives near
! Washunga also.
AS husband Of the chief I am
! nothing" was the response Of John
| II Eads. 4 know that Lucy under
! stands her tribes affairs and viii
! do everything possible to help solve
! them. ] know she is an excellent
wife, a fine mother and the best
| trained nurse living"
The father of the chiefs husband
| was cousin OF James Buchanan
! Eads, the noted engineer who built
| the Eads bridge over the Mississippi
| river at st. Louis and his family tree
| shows that the original Eads IN
| America came over on the May
| flower to Plymouth Rock. To
| Oklahoma, however, the family
came from Virginia, stopping long
| enough in Tennessee for It to be-
! come tho native state of John II
| Eads, who admits quickly that ho
| is proud of his wife's position and
| ability.
Claim for $4,000, 200.
For 20 years the Kaw Indians
! through their attorneys have been
working out their claim against the
| United States government for APP
| proximately 100000. II would
seem that they have Just claim
! basing this on their contention
| that when they sold their old reser-
walton in Kansas IN 1873 they were
to receive the appraised value OF
tl.25 an acre. They maintain that
there was then collected 10 cents
an acre, which went TO buy theii
| present land in Oklahoma and tha'
there Is still due them n total O
s1.15 per acre, with interest. Th'
| Kansas. and east and north TO To
peka and along the Kaw river ever
as far as Kansas City.
The Kaws also maintain that 80
| far as their oil and gas rights are
! concerned their treaty provisions
with the government are the same
rs the Usage Indians enjoy, that
| these oil and gas rights are held in
! common by the Kaws and that al
/ oil and gas found on any portion
| OF the old, Kaw reservation, even
/ that sold 10 whites belong to the
! Kaws; that the whites bought the
] g,trfagn Of Ia. In n a nDlyg This fYAafV
| the Kaws maintain, is still In exist
| ence, with full force and effect, and
/ they will make every effort TO have
| It's provisions carried out.
The Usage Indians aB rule are
| very friendly to the Kaws and are
now Offering to loan the Kaws a
/ sufficient sum to send delegation
! TO Washington, ID. G. in order tC
| press the tribes claims. Both Bacor
| Rind. former Usage chief, and
| Charles whip, another prominent
! Usage, have been meeting and coun-
| cling with the Kaws and the Offer
| Of financial aid come from these
two.
All kaw Indians possess n French
strain Of blood, derived from the
fur traders and voyaRers who came
! among them and took Indian wives
the same being true with the Usage
! pHWnee, OtOe and several other
tribes. Among the Kaws are found
today numerous Fronkiers, Cleyliers
DeLanos, Bellmores. ChOteaus, pap
pans and others, all Of whom trace
their licaFc back to men who were
fitted out ~ quebec and who par
| ticipated with Marquette, LaSallf
and other early French leaders fl
| America. They favored the French
in war and sent an army back TO the
| Monongaheia 20 take part in thu
| French and Indian war and II ar
| rived Just too late 20 assist IN the
defeat Of General BraddoCk The
Bellmores and perhaps others OF th'
kaws still maintIon that they shoull
/ own large landed estates In tho
/ vicinity OF Quebec.
senator Curtis q kaw.
United states Senator Charles y
! Curtis Of Kansas ~ the hest known
/ representative OF the Kaw tribe TO-
day and he also bears this French
strain, for his mother was Eller
| PappRn. a daughter Of Louis Pap
pan. according 10 other members OF
the tribe. and his father was Jack
| Curtis white man. Senator Cur
It's and his two children hold land
! bllotments I'm the KAY country 90