Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-01-05

still continues. Hoft is well known
around Wildwood for he served on the
life guard force for several summers
past. He is best known under his
alias of Dutch" Vanaman.
STRONG WOLF ANSWERS CRITICS
On page three will be found an ar
ticle in criticism of Chief Strong Wolf
taken from the Atlantic City Press.
Since that was printed the good look
ing Indian has made the following re-
ply in the issue of January 4, 1928:
"Chief Strong Wolf, whose adj
dresses before local clubs. Boy Scouts
and school children drew much atten-
ton here, yesterday answered attacks
made upon him in dispatches from
Washington from the heads of the
Indian Bureau. A statement issued
through Harold Feyl, executive of the
local Scouts, declares in part:
More than 80, 0 volumes have been
written describing the character and
history of the North American Indian,
man of mystery, the earth, his mother,
and the sun, his father, a child of
mountains and plains. Quite a few of
these volumes and history which de-
scribe him as something of the savage
was collected for a bag OF tobacco, or
a few beads, and yet there is no class
Of people concerning whose real char
acter the white mar is so completely
and densely ignorant, and no people
about whom he is so se~nsationally Gu
rious. The first and last impulse is
to call him either a savage or a faker.
If he has no education and still wears
the blanket, he needs protection and
he is a savage; if he is educated and
does not need protection and tries to
carry himself like a gentleman of the
forest, he is a faker.
L took up the Bursom bill at the in
stigation of the Indian Rights Asso-
citation, of Philadelphia, while those
who made the attack on me knew
very well without trying to make be-
lieve they don't just as well as they
know the Rev. Red Fox and DR.. Sher-
man Coolidge, of Denver, Colo, who
is my superior and high chief of the
American Indian Order of Tipi, which
is promoting a love of the great out
doors and also promoting a spirit of
cooperation and understanding be-
tween the white and red races, espe-
cially along the lines of outdoor life;
also they know Rodman Wanamaker
and DR.. Dixon, in charge of Wanna
makers Indian Investigating Depart
ment in Wanamaker's store in Phila-
delphia, which has a more complete
record of Indian affairs, both past and
present, and can always be relied
upon to be authentic, and under whose
guidance l am studying the whole his
tory of my race, and if anyone doubts
anything they may hear me say at any
time, all they have to do is to write.
DR.. Dixon, of Indian Department,
Wanamaker's store, Philadelphia.
AS to my identity, l have 210 pounds
of it. My mother and father were
born near the Canadian border lines
of the Middle West and did not come
under the jurisdiction of the Indian
Bureau, and neither have 1. My
mother and father came East, settled
in Maine, just outside of Bangor, then
crossed the line into Canada, went
north for hunting and trapping and
then came back into Maine again.
When l became old enough l went to
school. At that time my father was
acquainted with a young college man
who tried his best to teach me all that
he knew of my race, which at present
is attracting quite a little attention.
L am of the, Ojibway blood and
never said that the Ojibways came
from Boulder, Colo, but 1 said that
Boulder, Colo, was the headquarters
of the American Indian Order of Tipi,
and my home.
The American Order Tipi is COM
prised mostly of Indians and some
very prominent white adopted broth
'ers who are working for a common
cause. / hold the rank of chief coup
of this order, and if those who are
interested will come to Philadelphia
on the 21st day of January they will
see me invested with the rank of high
priest, which l am receiving in the
usual line of promotion.
L am also a member Of Wapella
Tribe and Nokomis Council of the I'M
proved Order of Red Men, with the
degree of Pocahontas, of Wildwood,
N. J., of which order I am proud to be
a member because of their real Ameri-
can ideas and their care Of the sick
and little orphans"