Word: indians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near sandy Henryetta, Okla. (pop. 6,000), in the Old Indian Territory, Jackson Barnett, full-blooded Creek, worked his 160-acre allotment by day, rested his tired bones in a not-too-clean four-room shack by night. He was old#&151;60, maybe 70-he didn't know exactly. He was poor. He was illiterate. But he was a Govern-ment ward and he had learned that, so long as he stayed a good Indian, the Govern-ment would provide...
...taxicab rolled up to Jackson Barnett's door. A well-dressed white woman stepped out. She said she was interested in oil and asked him to go for a ride. It was getting dark; he did not want to go. But he was a good-natured Indian who could not say no. He grinned and went. They drove to Okemeh, 18 miles away, and there spent the night. She was not a bad looking white woman...
...program is as follows: Serenade in D major (composed in 1774) Mozart Overture, "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn Spring Song of the Robin Woman, from "Shanewis" Cadman Silhouettes (Poem by Oscar Wilde) Slonimsky New England Sketches MacDowell To a Wild Rose--From an Indian Lodge--From Uncle Remus Music Box Liadov Fantasy from the opera "Jonny spielt auf" Krenek
Incredulous folk found more interesting than these holy doings the hard fact that in New Delhi, India, last week, the Indian Legislative Assembly rejected (53 to 24) a bill which would have made illegal the notorious Indian practice of "Child Marriage." Cried several members, "Shame! Shame!" As everyone knows, there are numerous recorded instances, claimed by Hindus to be exceptional, wherein mature and even senile Indian males have taken unto themselves wives under eight years old. The bill rejected last week would have set the ages of consent at 18 and 14 for youths and maids respectively...
Died. Capt. Luther Sage ("Yellowstone") Kelly, 79, famed Indian scout, foe of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, veteran of Alaska and the Philippines; in Paradise, Calif. Capt. Kelly willed that he be buried in Boot Hill Cemetery (Billings, Mont.), where lie some 40 rascals and heroes who died "with their boots...