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Pow-Wow in Big Teepee : : Sign Treaty, Make [[image]] H PINE, Dakota [[image]] ERNEST JOHNLEY, Umatilla; Oregon. [[image]] LEE MOTAH, Comanche; Oklahoma. [[image]] ARCHIE PHINNEY, Nez Perce; Idaho. [[image]] A.A. EXEND Delaware; Okla [[image]] Denver Post Photo. [[text cut off]]e between tribes of the American Indian [[text cut off]] al once this treaty is signed by all red man [[text cut off]] ledges peace and friendship. Holding it is [[text cut off]] e Johnson--(he goes by N. B. Johnson)--[[text cut off]] tional Congress of American Indians. The [[text cut off]] Cherokee was elected to the Oklahoma [[text cut off]] in the recent general election. Indian Treaty Cements Ties Of Friendship It will be official soon. The Indian tribes of the United States have been at peace for scores of years. And that peace is being cemented by a treaty of friendship now being distributed tribe to tribe by the National Congress of American Indians. The treaty, a hand-printed scroll, buries in the "depth of oblivion" all offenses or acts of hostility of the past. It calls for a "perpetual peace and friendship," and pledges unity in the defeat of "all encroachments upon the Indians' rights of self-government." It pledges the defeat, also, of encroachments upon the property rights of Indians, and "justice and honor" among the tribes in intertribal affairs. The treaty, when signed by all tribes in the United States, will be deposited with the archivist of the United States as a symbol of the unity among tribes. Edith Eudora Kohl, Denver Post staff writer and long a champion of the Indians' cause, became the first woman Tuesday to address the national congress. She reminded the tribesmen that they organized in the dark years of war (1944), and that they pledged, then, that their organization was "necessary in the interests of our fighting sons." The congress, she told the conferees, used blunt words in its organization convention but believed that necessary if the interests of their warriors overseas should be protected. Chief Fire Thunder of the Pine Ridge, S. D., agency, and vice president of the association, addressed the group, also, welcoming delegates.
