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COLLIER THINKS SENECAS WILL ACCEPT DRAFTAISICtheArsifansu:th:ar:(Continued from Page One)of the Selective Service Act which reads:“Ail residents subject to registration on Indian reservations shall be registered under the direction of the commissioner of Indian Affairs as arranged between him and the director of the Selective Service Act.”“The attitude of officials of the ca Selective Service System is that In- ca dians are not exempt,” Capt Smith deasTuscaroras Make Own War ipyIn contrast to the advice Crouse is ve reported to have given Seneca young men not to register for the draft, it is remembered that the Tuscarora Indians, living near Sanborn, formally declared war against Germany when the United States entered the World War, but never formally concluded a peace, and so technically still are at war.At Ithaca, Dr. Erl Bates, Cornell University anthropologist who helped form a company of Iroquois soldiers to fight in the World War, said chiefs of the Iroquois Confederacy had signified the ending of hostilities with lie Germany by a rising vote.This informal action, Dr. Bates said, took place in 1019 at a council sti of chiefs of the confederacy, at the request of an Indian soldier who had go just been mustered out of service.-o—-00climis ■ upsti
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Salamanca Republican Press
Salamanca, New York, US
Fri, Oct 11, 1940
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