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Volume XXXVII     Number 45
FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA
FRIDAY,  SEPTEMBER 28,  1951
 
 
 

Some Indians On 'War Path' Now

Washington, D.C. - Unsuccessful in their protest to the bureau of Indian affairs against removal of their Cheyenne River (S.D.) Reservation superintendent, Sioux tribal leaders said last week:

We will attack from another direction.

Frank Ducheneaux, spokesman for the five-man council delegation, declined to amplify this statement. But he told a reporter the group hopes to discuss the problem with Senator Francis Case (R-SD).

The South Dakota Indians carried their bitter objections to Dillon Myer, commissioner of Indian affairs, Wednesday.

Myer explained that for economy reasons the bureau removed superintendents from Cheyenne river and Standing Rock reservations and consolidated these supervisor functions under a single superintendent at Mobridge, South Dakota.

Ducheneaux said Myer told them a reduction in the bureaus operating appropriation funds for this year made consolidation necessary and urged Indians to give the plan a trial.

North Dakota Siouxs Leave
Last weekend, four Sioux Indians, headed for Washington by airliner to protest plans for consolidation of two agencies in the Dakotas.

Mrs. Josephine Kelly, Fort Yates, chairman of the Standing Rock Tribal Council said she and the other council members will appear in the protest before Oscar L. Chapman, secretary of the interior.

She said Senators Langer and Young of North Dakota had promised to "do all they can" to assist the Indians.

The Sioux object to a plan for the consolidation of the Standing Rock agency in North Dakota with the Cheyenne River Sioux Agency in South Dakota. Under the plan, the consolidation headquarters would be in Mobridge, S.D.

Accompanying Mrs. Kelly were David Black Cloud, secretary of the Standing Rock Tribal Council; Martin Medicine, vice chairman, and Louis Gipp, a member of the council. Mrs. Kelly said the Standing Rock Indian Agent, H. N. Clark also will go to Washington shortly.
 


BULLETIN

According to a wire received from Washington, states that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, confirmed the statement that the change was only administrative, involving office of superintendent and including only assistant and replacement of clerk. Other department are to remain unchanged at Fort Yates and at the Cheyenne River reservations.