EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

SHERMAN COOLIDGE,
Honorary President

ARTHUR C. PARKER, President
ALBANY, N. Y.

JOHN M. OSKISON
First Vice President

GABE E. PARKER,
Vice President on Education

WILLIAM J. KERSHAW,
Vice President on Legislation

MARGARET FRAZIER,
Vice President on Membership

GERTRUDE BONNIN, Secretary
707 PORT BUCKLEY, CTAN. W.
MARIE L. B. BALDWIN, Treasurer

THOMAS C. MOFFETT,
Associate President

ROBERT C. HALL,
Associate Secretary

FAYETTE A. MCKENZIE,
Honorary Associate President

The Society of American Indians

A National Organization of Americans

Organized at Ohio State University, April, 1911

Membership: Active, Associate, Indian Associate, and Junior.
Active: Indian Associate, and Junior Persons of Indian Blood Only.

HEADQUARTERS: WASHINGTON, D. C.

BARRISTER BUILDING

Sept 4, 1917

707 - 20TH ST., N. W.

ADVISORY BOARD

PHILIP GORDON, Chairman

HENRY ROE-CLOUD

DELOS LONEWOLF

IRA ISHAM

SAMUEL LINCOLN

DR. G. J. FRAZIER

SIMON REDBIRD

ESTAIENE DE PELTQUESTANGUE

EMMA D. GOULETTE

SHERMAN COOLIDGE

CHARLES KEALEAR

CHARLES ONEHORSE

JOHN LE CLAIR

HENRY STANDING BEAR

AMOS ONEROAD

STEPHEN JONES

Dear friend of the Indian, General Pratt;

Yours of August 39th received.

I do thank you for sending your message to Chairman Carter.

You are right.

At last year's conference, I did not take in the whole significance of the part these men played. Since coming here, I have had opportunity for observation. My own conclusions as disappointing as they are to me, oblige me to place them in the same category you do; and for the same identical reason.

I wrote Dr Montezuma asking him for an address to which he replied that it was uncertain about his attending this year.

I have written again asking him to attend; and if it was impossible, then to send his address, requesting the Secretary to read it!

It is my desire to restore the SAI to its original purpose but without an active number of supporters, I feel like a grain of sand against an organized army of cunning crooks.

Still a grain of sand can stop the smooth running of gigantic machinery. Its knowing when and where to lodge this bit of insignificant sand.

The latest annoyance to interfere with my work is a demand from the Treasurer for Treasurer's letters with their envelopes.

Doesn't it sound queer? I have given her my signed itemized statement of all dues and moneys that came through this office; and was my understanding, as well as Mr Bonnin's that she did not want me to wait for her on official mail as her personal mail was never sent to the Society Office. I have her letter to me prior to my coming where she says she was too tired after the day's work in the Indian Office, to start work in the SAI at 5:30 or 6 until late.

"I do not do justice to the position of Treasurer because it is impossible for me to do even the little amount of work that I do."

"I wish it were possible for us to have a Treasurer or other officer who could be in our office during the day, etc"

So after the few first times when I left Treasurer's letters lay over a week unopened, I began to open and to enter credits on the personal card file, and furnished her these itemized, signed statements, which are vouchers from one officer to another. It took time and labor, as I have no clerical help since I came.

I asked why she wanted the letters, she said "I want to start a