Adoption ceremony for Rembrandt P. McCreight, on left. Chief Flying Hawk in center. Man on right unknown. 1929.

* * * * * * * * On returning to the east a current magazine was delivered for attention to a marked article appearing in it, viz.: "Gaunt poverty is in almost every Indian reservation today, and so is hunger and so also is contagious disease, and so is complete subjugation of person and property of the Indian. Because of their valor in the World War the Indian was made free by law—they assume—they are entitled to the same treatment as white folks get." "He cannot sell his own land; he cannot worship in his own way; he cannot rear his own children. If he leaves the reservation without permission he can be thrown into jail with ball and chain on his body and held any length of time without trial—no counsel, no right of appeal. The agent can do as he pleases—recognizes no superior. The Indian is a slave and a pauper in a country which abolished slavery after the bloodiest war in history, to do so." To know from experience of many years, to see, to hear and feel at first hand, the truth of our terrible national crime, and to realize the cold-hearted indifference of Congress and the officials responsible for these conditions, is to wonder if there is a Law of Justice. Is it any wonder they doubt the power of the white man's prayer? What has the white man's God done for them? And we hear in reply: "Ever since we heard of the white man's Manitou we have been persecuted, robbed, cheated, debased, diseased and rum-ruined by white men; nothing they told us but has proven false. What right have we to believe in him or in his God?" To one who understands, no apology, explanation or "reason" is necessary to appreciate the gathering together of the northwest tribes, at great inconvenience and suffering, to pay a last tribute of reverence to the only God they know and understand and believe in,—by joining in the sacred ceremonies at "The Last Sun Dance of the Sioux."

The Crazy Horse Carbine. Springfield- model of 1873. Old Sioux bow and arrows Indians say was used in the Custer fight. Original Washington Medal, 1789, from Bear Dog, brother of the late Chief Hollow Horn Bear. This medal was presented to their grandfather when Chief and worn by the son and grandson chiefs, successors to the original. War Shirt of Chief Flying Hawk decorated with scalp locks. War Bonnet owned by Chief Rain-in-the-Face.