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a \ = AS tA A WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1923 PUEBLOS IN PLEA FOR JUSTICE Delegation Asks Winnetka's Aid A group of seven Pueblo Indians from New Mexico made a plea for justice and fair dealing at the hands of the American government at a meeting held last Tuesday evening in the Kuppenheimer Memorial Assem- by Room of the Skokie School. The Indians wore their native ceremonial costumes and gave several songs and a dance. Mr. John Collier, who spent the last year living among the Pueblo Indians, presented their case. The Pueblo Indians have always been a peaceable, agricultural people who have maintained themselves on land made fertile by a system of irrigation that goes back hundreds of years. The Spaniards confirmed these In- dians in the lands on which they found them and after New Mexico and Arizona became a part of the United States their lands and water rights were again confirmed by solemn treaty and congressional statute. In 1863 President Lincoln asked that the governor of each of the Pueblos visit him in Washington to receive the thanks of the government for the aid their people had rendered the Union troops during the Civil War. At this time President Lincoln presented to each governor a silver-headed cane duly inscribed and these canes are the symbols of authority that pass from governor to governor of the various Pueblos. Since the governors visited Presi dent Lincoln in 1863 no other delega- tion of Peublo Indians has been East until now. Although they are the wards of the goverment and legally and morally entitled to its protec- tion, people have been allowed to | sure, the reservation Indians. take their lands and steal their water in violation of solemn treaty and con- gressional enactment and despite the assurance of President Lincoln that their rights to their lands would be forever inviolate. These encroachers have no legal title and: can be ousted by the gov- ernment. But a bill was recently in- troduced into the United States Sen- ate by Senator Bursum of New Mexico, which, if enacted into law, would confirm the title of these tres- passers and thus, and in other ways, destroy the Pueblo life. The Bur- sum Bill has had the active support of Mr. Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior, who has put it forward as an administration measure. A companion bill known as the Snyder Bill has been introduced in the Lower House. The Pueblo Indians and their friends are seeking to defeat both the Bursum and the Snyder Bills. More than this, they are ask- ing for the passage of the Jones- Leatherwood Bill, which will confirm such rights as are left to them and give them some affirmative relief in the way of an irrigation project, which, if put through, would be of benefit both to them and to the white citizens of New Mexico. The story of injustice and callous disregard for the rights of the Pueblo Indians, as related by Mr. Collier, was a moving one. Not a person who heard him but felt a keen sense of indignation that high government officials should deliberately plot to destroy a wonderful pre-historic civ- ilization and that by the slow and brutal method of starvation. These Indians have not been maintained at public expense as have, in large mea: They have been peaceful, law-biding and self supporting. They have lived in settled towns for hundreds of years cultivating fields they have them- selves rescued from the desert. Their form of government is a demo- craitc one. They elect their governor by popular vote every year. They are kindly, gentle and self-respecting and all they are asking from the gov- ernment is that it keep its written and spoken word and allow them the land and water necessary for their self support by their own labor. These Four Things Built Our Business HIGH QUALITY RIGHT PRICE BUSINESS-LIKE METHODS REAL SERVICE PETERS MARKET A. PETERS, Prop. Phones 920-921-922 734 Elm Street, - - WINNETKA Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, after spending some time among the Pueblos, wrote of them. "The Pueblo life is one of our most precious pos- sessions. Let us cherish it tenderly and proudly!" A Chicago organization has been formed under the name of the "Indian Rights Association of Chicago," to help these Indians <n their fight for justice. Mr. Carter H. Harrison is Chairman of this Committee, Mr. Ralph Fletcher Seymour is Secretary and Mrs. Harold L. Ickes of Hubbard Woods, Treasurer. Out of their slender resources these Indians have succeeded in raising about $3,500 to send the delegation to Washington. To do this it was necessary in many cases to sell their trinkets and even their horses because the Pueblo In- dians, thanks to the American Gov- ernment's breach of faith, have been barely able for years to eke out a mere existence. The belief was ex- pressed that public spirited citizens will want to reimburse the Indians for outlays unjustly made necessary and contributions were solicited to be sent to the treasurer of the local association. Citizens were also re- quested to write to Senators and Rep- resentatives urging defeat of the Bursum and Snyder Bills and the Passage of the Jones-Leatherwood ill. . INDOOR GOLF COURSE Syracuse, N. Y.--A local store has inaugurated an (indoor) golf course, with a professional golfer from Palm Beach to give instructions. AAR R ZAZA AAA AAAARAAAAAAA Poultry Broilers, Frying and Roasting Chickens Freshly Dressed Squabs Mrs. Smith 819 Oak Phone 112 Winnetka AZIZ IIIIXIIXIIIIIXIIXIXIIXXX hS 8344000000880 03304 8 $/ MAGAZINE AGENCY. WILLIAM A. HADLEY Renewals and new Subscriptions to all Magazines solicited. 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