Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-12-01

made promises that could not be
kept, which have tended to stir up
more i'll feeling, factional disputes,
and family troubles among the In
dams than has ever existed at any
previous time.
4. That those Indians who have
refused to accept the act or have
opposed the act, the program of the
Bureau or any of the Indians who
favored the act have been discrim-
mated against in the distribution of
work relief, rations, clothing, loans,
and anything else which the local
agency has jurisdiction to disbnrse
or handle; and that some Ind ans
lost their jobs because of such op-
position.
S. That Indians opposing the act
had been and are being threatened,
coerced, and intiridated by ei her
the Bureau employees or the local
Indian officers who operate u Ter
the Wheeler-Howard Act, or a COM
bination of both Bureau and InGian
officials in the effort to force the
program on the Indians Indians
have been arrested, fined, OF jailed
on trivial or false charges and been
denied the right Of trial by jury.
6. That individual rights of inner
itance, private ownership of pro-
perty, and private enterprise are
being discouraged and destroyed by
reason OF some provision of the act
he oIv ct - -
act.
7. That all efforts tend to force
the Indians back into a primitive
state; that tribal ceremonies, native
costumes and cuStomes, and langu-
ages are being both encouraged and
promoted in the administration of
this act; that the educational pro-
gram of the Bureau of Indian al
fairs has been revised to accomplish
this purpose in place of the regular
school courses in white schols.
8. That the act is not administer
ed in such a manner as to provide
the self-government which was pro-
for more mandatory power for the
missed to the Indians, but provides
Secretary of the Interior, and the
program under the act has destroy
ed the seif-governoring rights
which had previously been enjoy
ed. The constitutions prepared by
the Indian Bureau officials for ado
ption by the Indians were so filled
with the impositions of the Depart
ment that there was little room for
the ideas of the Indians, yet the
constitutions were supposed to be
Indian made. They provided for the
reference of everything of import
ance to the Secretary of the Inter-
| ior.
(a) That generally the officers
elected by the Indians when organ
izations are set up by virtue of the
provisions of the so-called Wheel
er-Howard Act, are, or become, en-
ployed by some Government "a
gency supervised by the Indian Blu
reau, or some other government
function, and in selection OF lands,
and in the extension of credits,
many of such tribal officers have
secured advantages through their
positions and in some cases advan-
tages have been secured through
fraud and malfeasance.
10. That the Indians were told
yuchi agenc tesed aim ,-tnlo
that the act provided means of
repeal if they did not like it, yet
not tribe has yet been allowed to
vote on repeal though some Of
them have presented petition after
petition. In reply to such petitions
they are told to revise their const;-
tutions and that # they could no.,
they might vote on repeal.
II. That chaotic conditions pre-
vail, due either to the administrat-
ion of the act or to legal compiled
tons which resulted from the ap-
plication of the act to certain trlb-
es; that individual initiative of the
Indians is being destroyed; that no
progress is being made; that con-