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Noble Red Man Old and New Styles
By Elmo Scott Wassun the piece traces American Indian Day in Illinois, the rise of the Indian Fellowship League, and a shift from wartime leaders to peacetime progress led by figures like Francis Le Flesche. It profiles Kicking Bear and Le Flesche, lists other notable Native Americans, and outlines citizenship history and the United States Board of Indian Commissioners.
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Illinois
Ilinois
Indian Fellowship League
Chicago
Tulsa
Okla
Society of Oklahoma Indians
United States
Canada
Mexico
First National Indian Congress
Spokane
Wash
Lawrence
Kan
Haskell Indian Institute
Hubert Work
Secretary of the Interior
Haskell
Kicking Bear
Miniconjou Teton Sioux
Uevia Guys
Francis le Flesche
University of Nebraska
Mato-Bear
Wanartaka-Kicking
Dakotas
Nelson A. Miles
Miles
Cheyenne River
South Dakota
Nevada
Wovoka
Jack Wilson
Short Bull
Sitting Bull
Fort
Sheridan
Ill
Kicking Bull
Fran's la Flesche
Plains
Nebraska
Estamaza
Standing Bear
Senate
Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
Francis la Flesche
Charles A. Eastman
Carlos Montezuma
Joseph K. Griffis
Chief Tahan
Sherman Coolidge
Arapahoes
Episcopal Church
Chauncey Yellow Robe
President Coolidge
Rapid
United States Supreme Court
Congress
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Board of Indian Commissioners
George Vaux, Jr
Philadelphia
Warren K. Moorehead
Andover
Mass
Samuel A. Eliot
Boston
Frank Knox
Manchester
N. H
Daniel Smiley
Mohonk Lake
N. Y
Hugh L. Scott
Princeton
N. J
Clement S. Acker
Savannah
Flora Warren Seymour
John J. Sullivan
Malcolm McDowell
Washington
Earl Y. Henderson
Cambridge
Eb, Ayer