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Justice and Fair Dealing for every Indian who desires to become a good Citizen.

THE TOMAHAWK.
Truth before
Minnesota,

Favor."
Thursday, January 24. 1918.

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Published in behalf of, and to secure the welfare of the Indians of theUnited States. :

Vol.

XV.

White Earth,

Becker

County,

THE TOMAHAWK.
6US H. BEAULIEU, C. H. BEAULIEU, Founder. Editor.

Autumn number devoted great White Earth Agency, Minnesota. space to the question of the Indian's place in the army, and and voices its own opinion that Eniered at the Postofflce at White the Indians should not be segregated into a racial military unit. Earth, Minn., as mail matter of the There are those who believe that Second class. for racial glory and renown, the Indians should be massed into units of battallions, regiments and SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 PER TEAR I I A D U M l even divisions, and one so believing has ventured to suggest such persons as Senators Curtis and For the greater part Minnesota Owens and others as worthy comChippewas are citizens and voters. manders of large units. We apThis summer a campaign will be preciate the sentiment that prompts on and we Minnesota Chi ppewas the mention of distinguished Inwill do well to support such patridians as commanders of purely ots as Senator Nelson, Governor Indian military bodies, one it beBurnquist and Julius Schmail. lieves would bring the race into prominence and seek to make hisIs red tope the bane of our gov- tory for the Indians as the Indian ernmental departments? Congress in a worlds history that is being has in its investigations discovered fearfuMy made. that the war department is bound We have given much thought to hand and foot by the red, red the subject and have come to an stuff. Because of our national individual conclusion that we hardexegencies the people are with ly think it best to separate the Congress in demanding less red Indian from his fellows of this tape and more individual business country by a segregation into the initiative. racial military unit. ID this, the editor is speaking The Indian office with its red tape is not perilling the life of the for himself alone, and wishes it to nation but it is strangling initiative be distinctly understood. So far on the part of such Americans who as he has observed the individual Indian of army age has made no are known as Indians. demand for the racial military We Indians will fight for Uncle unit; so far the Indian has volunSam as loyally as any American teered purely upon individual citizen, but along with this, we do initiative and with the same sense demand recognition as self-respect- of patriotism as has moved his ing individuals and entitled to all white brother. Clamor as he will for his politi the rights of citizenship. cal and tribal rights, he seems to sense that feeling that he is part Russia as Russia does not seem of the people of this country and to know its elbow from 40 cents in owes it a duty as against alien change. Under this bewilderment nations. When he has been conGermany seems to be getting the scripted he has submitted like his upper hand of her. An Irishman white young neighbor. In his way was once inhaling an egg^ it had then he has recognized his actual well advanced chicken life and as and potential status as the Amerithe chick went down it cried can. "Peep." Said Pat, "Beggora me We say, let the young Indian be friend you. schpake too late." the judge rather than those who When Russia comes too it will be for or against, have advanced only to > late for her if Germany wins sentimental reasons. Those who fear exhibition of the present world war. But she racial prejudice should consider isn't going to win and Russia will that it can be shown against a find her safety through the prowess regiment of Indians as well as of the allies and the United States, against the Indian individual. and not because of her craven atBut more, racial prejudice does titute in having sought a separate not exist, and if it did military peace. comradeship would soon kill it, military discipline would not permit it. Ask ajy Civil war Indian veteran and he will tell you that his race status did not hinder him in the least in his standing as the soldier and the comrade. The Indian is being taken into Red Tomahowk of Standing the U. S Army as the American Rock agency, one of the leading and without prejudice. young men among the Sioux In But there is a lesson to be dians of South Dakota, heads a learned by the Indian office from delegation of his tribe which is the discussions that have arisen making a fighc for the whole min over the question. Mr. Sells is eral region of South Dakota, which not in favor of segregation of the is known as the Black Hills. Indians in a fighting unit and here The delegation was in Mitchell, the editor can agree with him. S. D., recently in conference with But let Mr. Sells stop and think Daniel B. Henderson of Washinghow bis office is treating the young ton, an attorney, who is the repman, and the old man too for that resentative of the Indians in their matter, in civil life. fight for the territory. He looks upon the Indian here It is the contention of the Inas a mere ward and as incompe dians that when the Black Hills tent, and acts with varying dewere ceded by the Indians to the grees of severity according as is whites, the Indians did not intend the report of some narrow- minded to cede the mining section, and field official. Mr. Sells becomes that the ground thus claimed never very praiseful of the Indian once was ceded, although white men he is in the service, and yet before have occupied it and operated that Indian was swore in he tormented him if he was independentmines there for years. ly minded, or fed him pap if he was meek and yielding. Read T H E TOMAHAWK, 52 issues Treat the Indian always in a $150.. manly way.

Paul H. Beaulieu, also a member The Indian in the Army. 13 Indian Boys Perish in the North American Indian is of He moved from Kaukauna, Wis- of Co. F. 32d Reg't., Wis. Vol. Jewish descent, he certainly has consin, to White . Earth in the many of the physical characteristics spring of 1878, where he remained Inf't., and in whose honor "Paul Dormitory Fire. The Quarterly Journal in its of the Jewish type of countenance, H. Beaulieu Post, No. 247, G. R. Muskogee, Okla.Thirteen Indian boys were burned to death last week in a fire which destroyed the boys' dormitory of the Dwight Indian training school at Marble City, Okla , forty miles southeast of Muskogee. The fire, the origin of which is unknown, destroyed the boys' dormitory, which housed about 125 boys. The victims were trapped in their rooms, the flames spreading so rapidly that some of the exits were cut off before the alarm could be given all over the building. Ex. Recently at our own reservation Boarding School an apparently inexcusable incident occurred. Fortunately it was not one of fire, and no lives were lost, the worst being that the children suffered from the cold due to the bursting of steam pipes. ' But here is a case of horrible occurence and the loss of the lives of thirteen Indian boys. Fires are always liable to occur during ex ceptionally cold weather, still a question arises as to whether or not due vigilance was exercised in order to avoid, or minimize danger. We do not charge flagrant neglect for the above account is too meagre whereuuou to base direct accusation of neglect, but we are driven to a conviction by a comparison of the history of the incident at Marble City with that of the White Earth Boarding School that due precaution against catastrophe was not exercised. Where numbers are housed under one roof there cannot be exercised too much watching of premises, and particularly when inclemency of weather increases danger. Due investigation shoutd be made by the Indian office, and thoroughly made. But will it be made? Had such a fire as occured at Marble City resulting in loss of life occured in any State institution, and particularly where children were congregated, popular indignation would have blazed and demanded thorough investigation, and also demanded the severest penalty the law could inflict upon negligent whose failure in duty brought death. We trust that the people of the State of Oklahoma will arise in wrath and demand an investigation, and furthermore we believe the citizens of Marble City should not fail to demand of the Indian office an investigation that should take in citizens of their city as parts of a committee to investigate. To send an Indian office school inspector to investigate will not be enough for the professional inspector haS not the confidence of Indian people. Rightly or wrongly the authorities of the school are under suspicion of negligence, and faith in the Indian office does not exist among the Indians. What is going to be done? and it was said also by some ethnologists of the older school that his Grand Medicine practices and thinking bear a strong resemblance to some Hebraic customs. We do not so believe, we have a theory that there are Indians and Indians. Some are strictly aboriginal, purely native to this continent and some we believe are of Mongolian origin. But here is the mystery, if practice of scalping came from Syrian and Jew, possibly then the Indian is Jewish, and when scalping only practices the war act of his Jewish projenitor. Be what it may, he was certainly an artist in hair work. five years, then moving to the farm homestead about seven miles southwest of Fosston; making his home there for 34 years, then coming to Fosston to live, in November, 1916 In the year 1870, at Kaukauna, Wis., he married Hellena Coppell, and they have had a * family of thirteen children,.six of whom are living; they are Joseph, Eddie and John Beaulieu; Mrs. J. R. Giard, of Thief River Falls, Mrs. Charles Haraldson, of Fosston, and Miss Gertrude. His faithful wife cared for him affectionately to the end. He had been afflicted with heart trouble for many years and this eventually caused his death. There are four surviving brothers and sisters, Theo. H. and Norbert H., Mrs. M. Van Wert of White Earth and Mrs. Carl Miller of Fosston. R.,"(Kaukauna, Wis.,) was named. Both of these soldier brothers are grandsons of Paul Hudou dit Beaulieu, one of the early Canadian fur traders of the northwest who conducted a trading post at Lac la Pluie, (Rainy Lake), during the years 1815 16. and subsequently .-eitled at Navarrino, now Green Bay, Wis., in 1834 and, a few years later removed to Kaukauna, Wis.

There are those who believe that his historic "march to the sea."

Mary Beaulieu and a brother of

Glad to get The "Tomahawk/ 1

"Cloquet, Minn., Jan. 18, 1918.
The TOMAHAWK,

I received ray first issue of THE after reading it over I find it to be very interesting. This vilie Catholic Church, he was laid is one new leaf I turned over by to rest in the quiet rural cemetery Within thirty minutes of the subscribing for THE TOMAHAWK, noon hour, Wednesday the 16th, of the church beside the resting inst., Alexander H. Beaulieu, an place of his two daughters who and I believe I done wisely. Yours truly, honored and respected resident of preceded him to the great beyond. J. J. F. Landry. In his death, Fosston loses a Fosston for many years past, died P. S.If it is worth while you suddenly at his home here, in the loyal, kind and highly respected citizen. The community mourns may publish this letter, and also 73rd year of his age. Mr. Beaulieu was a veteran of with the family.The Thirteen the clipping I am enclosing, it was the Civil war, through which he Towns, (Fosston, Minn., Jan. 18, published in the Duluth Herald of Jan. 14, 1918." served in Co. F. 32d Reg't. Wis- 1918. We are much pleased to receive Alexander H. Beaulieu, was consin Vul. Inf't., as drummer boy, enlisting at the age of 18, on born March 13th, 1845, at the old such encouragement as Mr. the 21st of August, 1862, he was B. H. Beaulieu homestead, on the Landry's letter. For lack of space in active service until being hon- east side of the Fox river and jut however we were unable to puborably discharged June 12th, 1865, across from Kaukauna, Wis. He lish the clipping he inclosed in his and was with General Sherman in was a son of the late Bazil and letter.
TOMAHAWK,

Another G. A, R. Veteran of the deceased was held Has Gone Beyond. onFuneral Friday, the 18th, at the Hans-

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No, we are not joking, but after reading these statements taken from "Our Wild Indians," 'the origin of the Indian custom of taking the scalps of their slain enemies seems to be lost in ob scurity', and, 'Scalping would seem therefore to have been a Syrian, and probably a Jewish custom,' we have been led into speculation.

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