DANGER AHEAD FOR NATIVES
OF ALASKA
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Now is the time for the many
“lawyers'’ among the natives of
southeast Alaska to come to the
md of their party.
The Bureau of Education is
giving way to the Indian Bu
reau. The head of the Indian
Bureau already talks about the
“Indian wards of the govern
ment in Alaska.”
It will take a number of law
suits, including appeals to the
Circuit Court to preserve your
liberties.
Are you ready?
Or perhaps you are another
“Chief Sitting Bull,” the man
with the big head and the small
heart.
We quote a part of what
Commissioner Rhoades said:
The Indian Bureau, he declar
ed, would be entering into an un
known field as the Alaska wards
of the Federal Government are
not kept on reservations.
Commissioner Rhoades said:
“It probably will be necessary to
formulate a new policy in hand
ling some 26,000 Indians and
Eskimos because of the great
difference of conditions in Alas
ka and the west.” He added he
wouM call on the Office of Ed
ucation for assistance.
The interior Department Dili
mw nendinc in the Senate pro
nonner the transfer calls for $1,
000.000 for the Bureau of Indian
Affairs for direction of educa
tion. economic support and me
dical relief. Under the Office of
Education in 1930 education of
Alaska aborigines cost $580,400,
and economic sunport and medi
cal relief cost $171,780.
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“POLITICAL POST MORTEMS”
You can prove almost any
thing from an election.
Some say that Montana is wet,
but can you explain the dry
Senator Walsh?
President Coolidge carried
Nebraska and so we can say
that Nebraska likes his brand
of Republicanism. How then can
you explain Senator Norris who
seems always to oppose Mr.
Coolidge?
In the recent Alaska election,
the Ketchikan Chronicle says
that the election was a repudia
t’.on of Frank Foster who it says
is now trying to be a second boss
Shackleford.
But the Juneau Empire says
the election was a declaration
of independence on the part of
the “whites” who by their votes
have repudiated the “Indian
boss.” But how explain the dc
ieat ot Grigsby, and Hardcastle,
and Gaffney, and Judson, and
Samson, all standard bearers of
the Empire’s gang of white col
lared whatnots in the federal
brigade and its sycophantic,
toe-kissing politicians. ,
We wonder what these editori
al writers would have said when
Abraham Lincoln was defeated
hv Stephen Douglas in his con
gest for Senator from Illinois.
Was that repudiation of Abra
ham Lincoln?
Was that a vote for the in
stitution of slavery?
We still must keep our feet on
the greund and realize that the
white people of Alaska will yet
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