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INDIANS GET $25 APIECEPow-Wow at Musquakie Reservations Netted Tribe $4,000.Truer. Ja„ Aug. 2!).—Profits oithe recent Indian pow-wow at theMusquafcie reservation of Tama county, totaling nearly $4,000, arc to be divided equally among 154; i Indians of the tribe, this being the-number w ho toolc part nr assisted j in the enterprise as performers. op*| erators of stands and concessions.! as IraiTie police or 3it other ca-j pacities.The 154 Musqimkies put on the show with u little aid from two white men—Curator E. R- Harlan, of the state historical department of Des Moines, who lectured and bad general charge of the program of the pow-wow. and Joseph S^a-cina, a Jiarnessmaker of Tama, who assumed considerable of the I business management- Mr. Svacinaj is perhaps the most influential! j white man among the Tama ln-j I chans.i Profits of the pow wow this year j were $1,500 more than any pre-I vious year.
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Davenport Democrat and Leader

Davenport, Iowa, US

Tue, Aug 29, 1922

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