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When news of the war came to Belcourt, a hamlet in the heart of North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, all but a few of Belcourt's Chippewa braves joined the Army. Last fortnight Brave David Delarme, 24, hitchhiked 150 miles to a naval recruiting office in Minot...
Married. Tommy Gibbons, 51, oldtime heavyweight who in 1923 fought 15 famous rounds with Jack Dempsey at Shelby, Mont., now sheriff of Ramsey County (St. Paul), Minn.; and Mrs. Josephine Black, realtor's widow; both for the second time; in Chippewa Falls...
...Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take...
Partly to help the Indians (most of whom act, live and dress like poor whites), partly to save a valuable State resource, the Minnesota Legislature last year passed a rice conservation law. The statute restored to the Chippewas their exclusive harvest rights on some 200,000 acres of Minnesota's rice lakes, outlawed all harvesting methods except the traditional way of the Indians. Chosen to administer the law was a respected Chippewa half-breed named Frank Broker...
This week Frank Broker was at work for his tribe and the State, giving rice conservation its first trial in Minnesota. At Cass Lake, at the town of Mahnomen, at many another where wild rice is sold to brokers, Chippewas and whites are celebrating the new moon of Mah-No-Men with street fairs and carnivals. Frank Broker meantime kept his eye on the wide, shallow lakes and their waving tops of grain. As in the old days, no Chippewa dared go into the fields until the tribal chieftain announced that the rice was ripe for harvest. This year Chippewas...