AMERICAN INDIANS FOR THE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 234, 21 June 1918, Page 6

AMERICAN INDIANS FOR THE FRONT

„ 0 ■ , "Oklahoma will give a good account of herself before tho war is over." suid Colonel George Griffiths, of Oklahoma City, U.S.A., in an interview. "To betrin with. Oklahoma has a regiment of fullblooded Indians. They are about through with their training at Fort Sill, and Eome dav. perhaps, they will be over hero taking their place at the front. Some of them are volunteers and some arc in the drnft army, but they aro all willing members of Uncle Sam's contingent, and if they are anything like their forefathers they will not falter when the word comes to go over the top. They are chiefly of' the Osage tribe, and are fine, upstanding types of men. Many of them are well-to-do and all are able to take care of themselves anywhere at any time. "Speaking of the Indian, it is an interesting thing for the wurld to think abont-this what I'm alwut to tell you. The Indians in America were noted ior their savagery, their massacres, and their mercilessness. .All.trie hi a war. ilut here's something for the Hun to give consideration '.a. The worst Indian/the wildest Indian, the most unscrupulous rod man America ever produced would not violate a treaty, nor would he harm an ill man. He would kill and he would attack in the night, but the home of the ill was respected, and a treaty was • a tliV regarded as sacred, even by these men who were set down as the most snvngo types of all time. "It follows, therefore, that an American Indian is a gentleman alongside a Gorman: This outfit to be a happy reflection for the Hun.