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THE INDIAN REVEALER, SAPULPA, CREEK COUNTY, OKLA.
OCTOBER 14, im
THE INDIAN REVEALER
1938 POST CONTORTION BULLDTIN
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THE AMERICAN INDIAN FEDERATION
Office: 34 O Street N. Miami, Okl*.
KATHRYN H. CHANDLER, Editor
O. K. CHANDLER, Associate Editor
Evtry PmoQ Entitled to Volt
to choose our aervuts in
Soon we will again be called upon
the making, interpreting and enforcement of laws to govern
vote, should not neglect this privilege and duty i
lightly. It is the privilege of the people to accept
who offer themselves as public servants. If we net
Christianity and Indians
By O. K. Chandler
The Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of Interior, was
created for the express purpose of Christianizing the Indian and
fitting him for American citizenship.
This has been the recognized policy of the United States
congress over one hundred years and was the outgrowth of one
pursued by the very earliest colonists whose charters from the
European Crowns nearly all contained the provisions, “to reduce
the ... . natives by gentle and just manners to the love of civil
society and Christian religion.”
Indians rocked the cradle of Christianity in America. They
sustained the Pilgrim Fathers in their darkest hour, made pos-
sible and participated in the first Thanksgiving. Through bitter
hardship and sacrifice an Indian woman, Sacajawea, led the ex-
pedition of Lewis and Clark which paved the way for the es-
tablishment of Christianity in the great northwest. The histone
stone missions built by the Indians over 200 years ago in the
southwest are today living monuments to the love and respect
which the Indians had for the Spanish padres who brought them
Christianity.
All progress of the Indian race has been through the efforts
of Christian people and Christian influences. Quoting Rev. Jim
Pickup, full-blood Cherokee Indian minister of Tahlequah, Okla.:
“Neither the Indian nor any other race of people can hope to
reach higher levels of thought and action without inspiration—
spiritual The class of whites who really brought us benefit was
the God-given element which sought to show us how to distin-
guish good from evil ... It was the missionary and the school
teacher who showed us the way. Christian education brought us
closer to God and Country
Missionaries established the first schools for the Indians.
Later these were taken over by the Federal Government.
Government Indian Schools of Today
“Chilocco Indian School,
Chilocco, Oklahoma, March 19, 1935.
“Rev. G. L. Phelps,
Wetumka, Oklahoma,
Reverend Worthington,
Pawhuska, Oklahoma,
Rev. Orlando Shay,
Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Rev. Emil Ghyssaert,
Newkirk, Oklahoma,
Rev. G W. Baker,
Ponca City, Oklahoma,
Dear Sirs:
I have recently received a letter from the Indian
Office, calling my attention to instructions previously is-
sued relative to religious worship in non-reservation
boarding schools.
Please be advised that in the future you will not be
permitted to hold revival services, invitation meetings,
or in any way hold services in which you ask children
to join any religious body while they are students of
this school. Of course we would be glad to have you con-
tinue to look after those that stated their preference
previous to their enrollment in this school.
Very truly yours,
(signed) L. E. Correll,
Superintendent.”
our conduct Every man and woman entitled, under the law, to
nor consider it
___    or reject those
public servants. If we neglect to vote or
consider the privilege to vote as of little consequence and we get
poor government and poor enforcement of the law, we, not those
chosen to serve us, are to blame.
In this issue of the Revealer will be found appeals of those
who would serve you. We present them to you in their own lan-
guage as to their qualifications, honesty and accomplishments of
the past. They are entitled to your serious consideration. Give
some of your time to the study of these men—this is your duty,
as a good citizen. Having made up your mind as to those best
qualified to serve as public servants, give them your vote and
support. In this manner will you have proved your worth as a
citizen of one of the greatest nations on earth. Vote! VOTE!
UNWITTINGLY AID COMMUNISM
Not many years ago middle westerners only heard of com-
munism in the thickly populated areas of the larger cities of our
nation, but with the swiftly shifting sands of time this destroyer
of democracies has traveled far, crossing many bridges, and to-
day even in the small towns of rural America well-meaning citi-
zens with their ribald utterances against the government, have
more than pleased Moscow and sent their bewhiskered upper-
uppers into hysterics of delight.
Many of those who berate the government even offer to sug-
gest how things should be run at Washington when they never
have supported their family; are being kept by public funds like
their father before them.
Other offenders are motion picture stars who wisecrack
about Uncle Sam and there is the college professor who called
the American Legion unpatriotic and others who unwittingly are
Charlie McCarthys and stooges for Stalin and don’t realize what
they are doing. The constitution of the United States allows
communists the right of free speech, their own newspapers and
even placing their names on the election ballot. They also spread
poison through books that creep into our libraries, colleges and
schools, with the poison being so thoroughly sugar-coated that
at first Moscow does not know her own offspring.
Communism is gaining in America because screw-balls and
jitterbugs are unwittingly furnishing the moisture that feeds its
roots which are in Moscow.—Danbury, Iowa, Review.
Jlett&il
Sella, Ariiona
September 8, 1938.
Mr. Joseph Bruner,
Sapulpa, Okla.
Mr. Dear Mr. Bruner:
I accept the appointment as dis-
trict president No. 4 and will do ev-
erything in my power to do Justice
to my position.
I have already held two meetings
since I have been back from the con-
vention. I am going to hold another
on the 18th of this month at which
time I expect to enroll the Papiffoes
in our organisation.
You will bo glad to know that
things are looking bettor now. The
Indians are beginning to wake up.
They seem to be taking more inter-
est in my work amongst them.
As soon as I can find time I will
make a trip to the Pima reaervation
and see if I can arrange some meet-
ings with them.
I hope this finds you and yours
well and happy. Please accept my
best regards for you and your fam-
ily.    Yours truly,
Joe Pedro.
Dedication program Will Rogers
Memorial will be held at Claremore,
Oklahoma, on November 4, 1933. It
will be of interest to all readers of
this paper.
NINE YEARS AGO
“Injun Heap Big Foci
To March in Pay Raid''
"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world,
and preach the gospel to every creature.”—Mark 16:15.
Mexican Rural School Teacher's Oath
“In the presence of the Board of Federal Education, I........
....................... ., declare that I uncondi-
tionally accept the program of the scholastic schools and that 1
will make it known and defend it. I declare that I am an atheist,
irreconciliable enemy of the Catholic, apostolic, and Roman re-
ligion, and that I will endeavor to destroy it, detach the con-
science from any religious worship, and I am disposed to fight
against the clergy anywhere and wherever it shall be necessary.
"I declare my readiness to take a main part in the campaign
to attack the catholic, apostolic, and Roman religion wherever
it may appear, and I icill not permit any kind of religious prac-
tice at my home nor the presence of religious pictures.
“I will not permit any of my relatives living under my roof
to attend any religious ceremony.”
INDIAN COMMISSIONER APPROVES
MEXICAN SCHOOLS
Mr. Ayers—“And you approved of educational programs?”
Mr. Collier—“I think that the rural schools serving the Mexican
ajitas are almost the most perfect schools in the world.”
Mr. Ayers—“And you approve of that school system you say
they have there?"
Mr. Collier—“Oh, they have a wonderful system.”
(p. 705, I.C.& A. 75th Con. 1st S.)
Mr. Ayers "As I recall the record, when we adjourned Friday,
we were discussing the educational program of the Indians
in the United States and Mexico. It developed that the In-
dian Bureau had sent to Mexico for a Dr. Saenz and he had
gone through the Indian tribes to advise your Bureau with
reference to Indian educational matters in this country.
Have you initiated any changes in the Indian educational
program since then "
Commissioner Collier—“Yes; we have made many changes. . . .
There are certain things that we are trying to do in accord-
ance with the recommendations of Dr Saenz, things that
he did with the Indians in Mexico.”
(p. 711 I. C. & A. 75th Con. 1st S.)
INDIAN BUREAU VILE
“If I had the time I could tell you things here that you
would think hard to believe, but which are true: things like when
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs wanted to reorganize the
Indian schools he sent to Mexico for a man who comes from a
country where every- teached in every public school has to take an
atheistic oath. Nobody in the United States being capable of re-
organizing the Indian schools he sent to Mexico.
“The Indian Bureau iz so vile that it makes the blood of an
honest American run cold in his veins and brings the blush of
shame to the cheeks.”
Hon. John Stephen McGroarty, M. C.
By 8. W. ROSS
MUSKAT RIDGE, Feb. 18—
Skasta Wasah, an old Cherokee
who lives in the hills near here, is
decidedly opposed to any civilized
Indian marching in the inaugural
parade at Washington Mar. 4, at-
tired in the garb of his foretath-
ers.
If the Indian wishes to appear
in the habiliments of a white man,
it is all right with Wasah. This
ancient Cherokee who always
stays in his beloved hills seldom
talks and then only when his
wrath is aroused.
This week he voiced his objec-
tions to the Indians appearing in
the inaugural parade in this faah-
ion:    . ^
“Not many days gone by when
snow is start to fall one morning
time one white man what is school
teacher and lawyer and preacher,
he say kill three birds with one
rock- comes ridin’ out of woods
on big gray jackass and he stop
close by front of yard and holler
hello. Me open door and say,
'What matter you cry in front of
house? and white man say he’s
afraid dog might make bite. Me
tell him dog is sleep under house
and to lazy make bite and white
man he's then get down and come
in and set close by fire and say he
can't stay long cause he’s got get
wood when he get home White
man is been down to post auger
and is got newspaper stick in
pocket and he pullit out paper and
read me how much Indun peoples
is make ready go down big town
what you call it Washin'ton and
march in what he's call big pay-
raid behin' Herbut Hoover, man
what's take way seat from Calvin
Cooledge when comes March four
times. White man he say Indun
peoples from all over Nited States
will march with peoples down long
street and have much big time.
"Guess maybeso they is put big
pot in little pot. me say, and white
man he say he guess it somethin'
like that.”
"Well, me say, I guess it all
right. Me glad hear how Cherokee
will be in march and help put it
Herbut Hoover in big chair.
"White man he keep on read
and pretty soon he say, ‘All Injun
peoples takin' part in pay raid will
be dress all same old-time way -
feathers, legginB, moccasins, most
naked some of them, with faces all
paint like flapper wimmens. White
man aay Cherokee will be well
rep’sented in pay raid and will be
dress in old-time way.
"That make me feel sore and me
say me take it all back 'bout it
be all right for Cherokee to march
in big crowd.
“White man say he think it just
thing to do— it will add colors to
ocashun, he say and he say may-
be prom'nent Cherokee will head
Cuerokee delegashun with feather
head-dress and buckskin legglns
and face paint red and blue.
“We get much mad and me say
for many year Cherokees is been
make big brag 'bout how they is
civilize and how they is had pub-
lic school and high school before
any other Injun peoples, and how
they is stojd in front ranks long
time. They is much brag about
they nation and government, and
when statehoods is come much
smart Cherokees is run for ollis
and been lected to Nited States
senate and house of rep'sentative,
and others is hold big job in state
and is clerks and teachers and
preacher mens, and now me say if
they is big fool nough to drop
back one hunded year and wear
old-time savage dress they ought
be kick all way down Pennsylva-
ner av'nue from behind and stuck
in crazy house. Seem like they is
lots of Cherokee what is got good
sense other ways what can’t help
make jackasses of self when there
is big march or pay raids. White
mens tell 'em put on old-time
dress and fool Indun fall for what
they is tell And there is some
Cherokee what think it fine to
dress up like savage mens and
tract 'tention little while, but they
is want sens and if me and other
old mens was young one time
more we’d make trip to big pay
raid and tear off foolish Induns
feathers and buckskin and run um
all of big street.
"White man he set still and look
and me keep on make talk and
say. You never see in papers
where white mens and wimmens
fall back and dress it all same
they four fathers used dress? You
aint read how white men and wim-
men dress in skins and carry clubs
and spears in hand. Smart white
man come my house one day las'
summer and smart man he is long
talk and he say white mens one
time was what he call it cave men
but they keep come up and get it
high civilize. Why don't white
mens and wimmens march in pay
raids dress all same cave time
peoples? They is shamed, we say,
and none would take much pay to
dress like way back old-time peo-
ples. And if they won't dress that
way, fool Indun what s call him-
self civilize oughtn’t get back and
put on skins and paints and fea-
ther* and make maybeso durn
fool of selves."
—Tulsa Daily World. Feb 18, 1929
COMPLIMENTS
—    OF —
CITY OF VINITA
—    TO —
The American Indian
Federation
VINITA ENCOURAGES AND SUPPORTS EVERY
WORTHY ENTERPRISE WHICH TENDS TO
BENEFIT THE CITIZENSHIP OF VINITA
AND CRAIG COUNTY.
CITY OFFICIALS,
of Vinita, Oklahoma
R. E. CHANDLER
REPUBLICAN
for
ASSESSOR
OTTAWA COUNTY
(Pd. Pol. Adv.)    An Indian and an Ex-Soldier.
f ~ •    ■ ■ —1———
| W.F.(Bud)Hampton
REPUBLICAN FOR
District Judge
Ottawa and Delaware Counties
W. F. Hampton, known to his friends and people of
Delaware county as “Bud," is 40 years old and was reared
in Grove, Okla. He graduated from the public schools
there in 1918, and in that year enlisted in the U. S. Army
and served 11 months attached to the 12th Cavalry in
Carazol Canal Zone. When he returned in 1919 he attend-
ed the University of Oklahoma for 5 years, graduating in
1924 with a B. A. degree. He took the Bar examination
while in his second year of law school and was admitted
to practice.
His record shows him to be the poor man's friend. He
prides himself on being a plain everyday American. Is a
member of the Masonic lodge, and of the American Legion.
He was county commander of the Legion in 1932 and has
been service officer of the Legion Post at Jay for 6 years,
and is never too busy to help a “buddy.”
In the fall of 1924, W. F. Hampton was elected county
attorney of Delaware county, and served continuously for
a period of six years. He made a splendid record as county
attorney and was known as a fearless but FAIR prosecu-
tor and a tireless worker.
Judge W. F. Hampton was elected in the fall of 1933
to the office of County Judge of Delaware county. He has
served in that capacity continuously since that time, and
has an irreproachable record in that office. During his
tenure in this office he has done more for the crippled
children of Delaware county in the way of hospitalization
than had ever been done for them.
His friends invite you to study his record and decide
upon his eligibility and fitness for office.
PLATFORM
Fairness in trial of all cases, and in a manner that Will
expedite the work of the courts.
Look for his name — On State Republican Ticket
W. F. (Bud) HAMPTON
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