Chilocco Indian Agricultural School - Chiloccoan Yearbook (Chilocco, OK)

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Preface The theme of the 1973 Chiloccoan, is “Listen to the Voices.’ From the copper Indian on the cover, throughout the book, the wisdom of the older generation of Indian is evident. Listen to the voices of great chieftains as we have reprinted some of their speeches on the division pages. Indian oratory has passed unmatched throughout the ages. LISTEN TO THE VOICES........ Speeches of Cochise, Kicking Bird and others have the beauty of the ages, and much of what they said is the war cry of young Indians over the country today. LISTEN TO THE VOICES........ and learn of their lives, their thoughts, their problems, as they lived from day to day. Learn, and remember that today, the Indian has much to be proud of, as the 1973 Chiloccoan talks about Chilocco, an Indian school. LISTEN TO THE VOICES........

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“Now Ladies and Gentlemen, you read the paper. My move from Texas over Oklahoma, my country. I see John Stephens, Congress from Texas, and I tell him would like him get bill $1,000.00 to remove my mother remains two years ago. Bill passed and after that somebody. New York man, started that bill, and last June I been to Washington. I come again and see about it. Made bill $800.00. 1 used $200.00 buy new coffin. Now, ladies and gentlemen, Texas objects me do that. I have over at my home my oldest son dead, some seven or eight years ago. Nobody knows when me die. maybe tomorrow or ten years, but me have family graveyard and me want bury my mother there now, here is another thing. Here is all of my acquaintances come from Quanah. They came from my town, the Quanah country. All that used to be my hunting ground, snakes up there. My town up there wanted to put railroad west of Quanah. They came to me and I helped them out. I invest- ed $40,000.00 in Quanah Western. I wanted tc- run it over New Mexico. Well, you see here this night what I want to tell you now. I got one good friend, Burk Burnett. He big—hearted, rich cowman. Help my people good deal. You see big man hold tight to money, afraid to die. Burnett helped anybody. I came from Fort Sill. No ride me in like horse or cow. Had a big war; I fought General McKen- 7.ie; he used two thousand men. I had four hundred and fifty men. I used this knife. I see eight miles perhaps, lots of soldiers coming. I say, ‘hold on, no go over there, holler.’ I gathered maybe three hundred fifty United States horses trail. . . I ready to fight, lot men. Way head of it maybe fifty or sixty men. I tell my men to stand up behind hill, holler, shoot and run. I run. I run to one side and use this knife. I came up right side, kill man, sergeant, and scalp. You see how bad at that time. Well, ladies and gentlemen, now I working for Government. I work for my Indians. Every year me want to go to Washington and I work for my Indians. Put you Indians in school, and make Indians do like white man. They have horses like white man. Seme Indians no good, you see man buy bottle whiskey and play cards. That reason some men no good. Some white people do that, too.” —Quanah Parker— (From INDIAN ORATORY by W. C. Vanderwerth)