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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Poor Qui!e?ites.
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table raising on settlers' ranches, some
of them, but they will not be allowed to
do that all the time. The railroad is
coming and the settlers will use every
bit of these clearings. This is the kind
of disposition they have to enjoy if
nothing else. .
' Many of these Indians do not have a
foot of ground to call their own in what
is known as the Quileute reservation,
which is supposed to contain the area of
640 acres. A greater portion of this
area is occupied by the Pacific and the
marshes along the Quileute river. This
is not enough for 300 persons excluding
the coming generation. Each Quileute
is entitled to two acres, but more than
half of them have no lands and no lots.
There is an error somewhere. When
the alloting agent began his work, he
issued an order through Henry Hudson,
who was then the only educated Indian
among the Quileute, and asked them to
come at once and secure allotments.
For an unknown reason, another order
was issued in which the agent said that
not one of the Quileutes was entitled
to an allotment. This, however, did not
cause them to get on the warpath. The
chief did not put on a fealher and see
the United States president. Thinking
they were not wronged very much, the
Quileutes did not have a word to say
about their rights
Should not the United States govern
ment remedy this mistake, if it is one?
But if it is not just let the matter drop and
the Quileutes will be obliged to "paddle
their own canoes." However it is pitiful
as well as disgraceful to allow them to
remain in the condition referred to
while they should have enjoyed the
same rights as other Indian tribes have,
Our congressmen and senators have
something to do with this matter, but
if the officials who have the entire charge
of allotment work happen to discover
any error, the 40 applicants might be en
abled to take up. their rights.
I am a member of the Quileute tribe,
was educated at Chemawa, Or., publish
ed a tribal paper atLaPush, Wash., and
will remove it to Taholah.
W. H. Hudson ('08)
PICTURESQUE JAPANESE
PEASANTS.
The most characteristic scenery in
Japan is not the mountain, on which few
Japanese dwell, but the rice field, which
is to be found wherever there is a patch
of level ground for the field and sufficient
water for irrigation. Gentle slopes are
made useful by terracing, and the cooly,
preparing the ground or cutting his crop,
is the true Japanese peasant. He is a
picturesque peasant in his blue cotton
suit, his broad, conical straw hat and
straw overcoat. He is a good natured
peasant, absurdly contented with his
earnings, though the agricultural labor
er earns as little as 8 or 10 cents gold a
day. His house is a light wooden frame
surmounted by a heavy thatch, and he
loves to plant a lily garden along, his
rooftiee, But ho always has one thing
which separates him from the Chinese
and the East Indian he lives on a plat
form raised above the ground. No har
dened soil for him, no chilly pavement
of brick or stone. A wooden floor, a
piece of clean matting, a broom and a
bathtub the poorest Japanese will always
have. Tokyo Letter to Boston Transcript..