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Subject: [KSJACKSO] Pottawatomie Indians Fear White Man Inroads: July 2, 1914
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:06:12 -0500

The Mayetta Herald
Jackson County
Thursday
July 2, 1914

Pottawatomie Indians Fear White Man Inroads.

Six hundred Indians of the Pottawatomi reservation, in Jackson county, fear the pale face brethrens in a business way, and are asking their Great Father in Washington to continue his guardianship over them.
In 1887 the disabilty act was passed by congress granting the land in the reservation to the Indians, but restrictiing them from selling any of it. The guardianship will expire in 1916, when the Indians will be free moral agents and entitled to sell their land as they wish.
The wise No-gan-be, the great chief of the Pottawatomies, and his council have sent a petition to Washington, asking that their tribie be extending at least twenty-five years more. The wise No-gan-be, although he can speak little English and write none, has watched the inroads of the white man into the lands of his braves, and has become troubled for their future when they are left to their own. It is said that he also greatly fears the effect of fire water, and for these two reasons wants himself and his tribe to remain wars of the government.--Holton Recorder.

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