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THE
CHEMAWA
AMERICAN
I am no more than what you believe me to be,
and I am all that you believe I can be.
( I am wThat you make me, nothing more.
I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of col­
or, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of
that big thing which makes this nation. My stars
and my stripes are your dream and your labors. They
are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm
with faith, because you have made them so out of
your hearts. For you are the makers of the flag and
it is well that you glory in the m aking.”
Delivered on I* la« Day, 1914, before the employes of the Department of
the Interior. Washington. D. C., by Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the In­
terior.
ME M ORAB LE R E SO LU T I ( >N
The following resolution was unanimously adopted
by the Creek Council of Indians; Okmulgee, Okla.:
Realizing that we have in the person of our Honor­
able Commissioner of Indian Affairs one of America’s
foremost statesmen, a man of unusual ability and un­
tiring energy, who has consecrated his heart and dedi­
cated his soul to the best interests of the Indians of
America, and realizing that within the short period of
time that he has served as Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, he has done more to bring about a spirit of
friendly co-operation and better feeling and more
thorough understanding between the Indians and re­
maining citizenship of Oklahoma than has ever before
existed, and realizing that through his personal efforts
he has done so much to inspire the Indians of Okla­
homa to attain a higher standard of moral and social
conditions, safe-guarding at all times, as he has, our
property rights, and especially the property rights and
moral and social welfare of our minor children; there­
fore, be it
Resolved, That, as a token of our appreciation of
the services he is rendering us and our Tribe, we ex­
press to him the gratitude of our people, and the sup­
port of the people of our Tribe, in the very splendid
effort he is making to conserve our estates, the estates
of our children, and lift to a higher degree of citizen­
ship the personnel of our Tribe.
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