BROTHERHOOD NEWS
John Fred was very sick right af
ter our Indian doctor named Shquin
dy visited him at Angoon. He was
so sick that his friends bought him
a narrow box bed. But John fooled
them and we hear he is getting well
and strong again. John Fred is one
of the strong, upright, staunch pro
gressive Native Americans who is
showing his people the way to the
“land of promise”.
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All male Indians between the ages
of 21 and 50 years are today com
pelled to pay a special tax of $5
each to support the “white” schools.
The Governor from New York tells
Walstein G. Smith, his office boy,
whom to appoint tax collector to get
this money from the Indians.
One bad thing about all this bloc
Indian voting is that it stirs up race
prejudice, and if the Natives of Al
aska do not forsake William L. Paul
and if they do not listen to Jake
Williams and take his advice, pretty
soon the “white folk” will begin to
discriminate against them. It has
been so lovely up to now, no dis
crimination, no prejudice, no noth
ing; “all the samee” you dirty In
dian chiP, you can’t use the school
buildings supported by the Indian
tax money.
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But to get real serious, I can tell
some of these so-called pure stock
of Juneau about certain outcasts who
have a right to carry names that
would startle the Natives. I am
talking about high society. It seems
to me that when even our pure blood
ed stock will consent to be the fa
ther of an Indian child, that father
should be man enough to give the
child a name. I don’t tell all that
1 know, but don’t you worry; I have
the goods.
What I would like to see is an end
to corruption, deceit, injustice and
hypocracy. I thoroughly despise “so
ciety” churches. The failure of
Christianity is not due to His teach
ings, but is due to the non-Christ
ians who so frequently run the
church.
“For a certain man named Deme
trius, a silversmith, which made sil
ver shrines of Diana, brought no lit
tle business unto the craftsmen;
whom he gather together, with the
workmen of like occupation, and said,
Sirs, ye know' that by this business
we have our wealth. And ye see
and hear, that not alone at Ephesus,
but almost throughout all Asia, this
Paul hath persuaded and turned
aw'ay much people; and not only is
there danger that this our trade
come into disrepute; but also that
the temple of the great goddess Di
ana be made of no account, and that
she should even be deposed from her
magnificence, whom all Asia and the
world worshippeth. And when they
heard this, they were filled with
wrath, and cried out, saying, Great
is Diana of the Ephesians.”
Isn’t it the truth, that the can
nery lawyers considered Indian votes
all right until a certain Paul ex
plained the little game; and the
danger, is it not that the people be
gin to see that their great goddess
Diana is of no account. And is not
the cry today, “Great is my pocket
book?”
Pass the collection basket and put
something in for the heathen in far
away China.
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The organization of SISTER
HOODS is going along with the
BROTHERHOODS. Indeed, it takes
the two societies to make things de
velop along right lines. Usually, the
Sisterhood usually takes charge of
the social side of Brotherhood work.
The best example of this is in Sit
ka, with Wrangell a close second.
Hoonah, however, is wide awake. At
this place, they have a new set of
officers as follows: President, Mrs.
Frank White; vice-president, Mrs.
Sam Johnson; secretary, Mrs. George
Wallace; recording secretary, Mrs.
Helen James; treasurer, Mrs. Mark
Williams; sargeant-at-arms, Mrs.
Rose Kobegas.
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HOONAH has always been a hard
place for the work of the ALASKA
NATIVE BROTHERHOOD and the
Churchwork. This has been due
mainly to the kind of United States
Commissioners and Deputy Marshals
that have been in office. When new
deputy marshals were about to be
appointed, Harry Pryde got ex
tremely busy and solicited petitions
to get himself that “fat” job of
deputy marshal—doing nothing and
getting $150 a month for it. He had
been a homesteader, but one great
disadvantage about homesteading is
that you have to work.
At the time Harry Pryde wanted
signers to his petition, Indian signers
were all right; but when he got the
coveted job, Harry became “an of
ficer of the law” and “Indians must
keep in their place.”
Not long ago, there was a real
drunken white man in Hoonah. The
Indian city marshal wanted to ar
rest the drunk but they could not
because the drunk was “white.” Un
der the law passed by the “fair and
friendly” legislators that John Troy
talks about, white criminals are ex
empt from the hand of the law' in
Indian villages.
The Indians reported this drunk to
marshal Pryde, but the marshal was
always looking some place else when
the drunk passed by. The illiterate
Indians stood this for two days,
whereupon they decided to act. They
did and arrested the drunken white,
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