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![handle is hein.amindian/carpuebl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 23-Second Series-3ooo]
INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION,
995 DREXEL BUILDING,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
JANUARY 8, 1923.
From THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 7, 1923
CARING FOR THE PUEBLOS
To THE EDITOR OF The New York Times:
I This is a moment of extraordinary interest and activity in the
affairs of our North American Indians, as the recent agitation
in opposition to what is known as the Bursum bill, affecting the
land rights of the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, shows. It
looks now as though the Bursum bill, which was framed, as we
think, with a very great disregard to the land rights of the ancient
and interesting body of Indians whom it affected, were now dead.
This result is due largely to the efforts of different groups of
friends of the Indian who, for a long time past-some of them,
at least-haVe ben working to prevent legislation taking the
precise form into which Senator Bursum and his associates put
this objectionable measure. It ought to be -known-and a
considerable number of the present very active friends of these
Indians do not seem to know it-that the Indian Rights Associa-
tion is on record a year back, in its annual report for 1921, as
opposed to the measure as it was then framed, when the associa-
tion called public attention to the fact and asked friends of the
Indians, and well-disposed citizens generally, to oppose it. This
ought to be said just now, because in some highly respectable
journals it was intimated that this association had been silent
on this very vital matter. It may also be mentioned that our
Washington representative, Mr. S. M. Brosius, following his
visit to the Pueblo country last August, called on Mrs. Stella
M. Atwood, Chairman of the ladian Welfate Committee of the
General Federation of Worten's Clubs, to bting to her attention
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