To Adopt Coolidge

Rapid City, June 11 - Possibility that President Coolidge will be adopted into the Sioux Indian tribe during his summer vacation in the Black Hills is suggested by Chauncey Yellow Robe, full blood Sioux chieftain, grand nephew of Sitting Bull and Disciplinarian at the United States Indian School here.

The statement was made while Mr. Robe, whose Indian name is Canowicakta, in behalf of his people was expressing the appreciation of the president's forth coming trip to the Hills. Mr. Robe declared his people join with South Dakota and all western states in "a united welcome and genuine western hospitality."

"It has been asked "What the Indians are thinking of President Coolidge's coming to the Black Hills.'" Yellow Robe remarked. "The Indians are like anybody else, they are also anxious to see him come. Our population of more than 20,000 Sioux Indians, the first people of the Hills, will also open their hearts with most sincere and hearty welcome of President Coolidge to the land of the Dakotas and if the occasion should permit, President Coolidge will be adopted into the Sioux tribe. We hope he will find in these beautiful Pahasapas (Black Hills) rest, peace, quiet and friendship among us."

Mr. Robe speaks as a representative of the native Indian of the Dakota plains. As a youth, he roamed the prairies with his people, hunted buffalo, deer and elk. As a young man, he entered Carlisle Indian school, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1895. He remembers well his grand uncle, the famous Sitting Bull, leader of the Redmen in the battle of the Little Big Horn, often incorrectly named, Mr. Robe maintains, the Custer massacre.