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MEMBER OF THE TAMA TRIBE OF INDIANS HEREGeorge Youngbear Says the Indians at Tama Own 3300 Acres of LandOne of the visitors ut tin* annual Farmers Union picnic recently was George Youngbear, Tamo Indian, his wife and four children. Mr. Youngbear spoke in the afternoon.Mr. Youngbear is an educated mnn and speaks the Fnglish language very fluently. In fact, be snys.tbnt. nearly nil on the reservation are well versed in this language, due to the system of education being promoted by the. government. Mr. Youngbear is a graduate of Haskell Institute, in Kansas.450 on ReservationAt the present lime there are •150 Indians on the Tania reservation, which is small compared to the number of Indians in Iowa prior to lfl-12, when the treaty was signed with the federal government. Up to that time all the lands in Iowa belonged to the Indians. The treaty stipulated that Indians might buy land from the homesteaders, which, of course, was very cheap. Mr. Youngbear docs not recall the price.A large company of Indians bought land in Kansas. Government employees conducted them through the enemy country to their destination, Mr. Youngbear says. The others remained at Tama and bought land there. At first, they bought HO acres. There was a gradual accumulation of land year uftcr year until today the Indians, the Sax and Fox tribes own 2,200 acres.Like a Great FamilyThere is a community of interests on the reservation, like one great family, Mr. Youngbear says. All their money is placed in onegeneral fund and material possessions are shared cnually. However, they do not have tncir own stores. They patronize the Tomn merchants.Although Indiana have adopted the American style of dress and hnve become Americanized in habits and customs, Mr. Youngbear says they hnve not ndopted nil and that Indian life is still much of the traditional type.Religion of TribeAsked us to the prevailing religion of the Sax and Fox tribes. Mr. Youngbear replied to the effect that the Presbyterian faith has predominancy because of the activity of that church in establishing a mission school there. lie added, however, that Indians, no matter what church they may he affiliated with, they still observe their sacred ceremonials and festivals. ,Tim father of Mr. \ oiinghenr is the chief of the tribe. He is •«'.» ( years old. He is the business manager of the tribe'* activities and * has general oversight over every- j thing. , . .Mr. Youngbear was hern in the ^ interest of the coming pow-wow, to be held nt Tama on Aug. 20 t«»22 inclusive. He declares that all Indians, young and old. take part in this event, and that it draws thousands of people to Tama every year.The ComingUnion Convention(By Rev. C. Witt)Attention has been called in several recent issues of the Pella Chronicle to the Convention of the National Union of Christian Schools, that is scheduled to meet in our fair town on the 25th and 2f»th of this month. Permit me to ndd a bit to the information already given by making a few comments about the musical side of the program. We feel that this loo, is going to be worthwhile and lest some think that the meeting will offer nothing hut solid speeches we want to refer to this feature on the program.On Tuesday evening, nt which * time Prof. II. Schultze «»f Calvin ®_ i. . 1.1.1 * _ ........i. .... i
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Pella Chronicle
Pella, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 27, 1936
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