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

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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)

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Students

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Seniors Four years have gone by for most of us. We have finished a milestone in our lives. It isn’t really a ‘'finishing of a task.” it is the beginning. It is the beginning of our lives. All that we have been working toward we will now become. As we leave Chilocco many of us have mixed feelings, because for some, it has been a home away from home, a school, and a place where we could just be ourselves. However we feel in this one thing we are the same, Chilocco has played an important part in our lives. We shall miss the school, the broad and sweeping prairies and all the beautiful peo- ple. Anderson, Samuel Ponca Webb City. Okla. Andrews, Veronica Kalispel Usk. Wash. Anquoe, Timothy D. Kiowa-Apache Wichita. Kans. Barnaby. Leo Flathead Dixon. Mont. Batten, George Colville Nespelem, Wash Beard, Alba Jo Pawnee Pawnee. Okla. Billie. Mark Seminole Hollywood, Fla. Black, Leroy D. Quileute La Push. Wash. Black, Rebecca Cheyenne- Arapaho Concho, Okla. Botone, Phillip L. Kiowa Oklahoma City, Okla. Brockie, George Gros Ventre Hays, Mont. Cahwee, Dewayne T. Creek Sapulpa, Okla. 11