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1 Matthew K. Sniffen, The Citizenship Expedition 1 (1914)

handle is hein.amindian/citiexp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 92-Second Series-4,ooo INDIAN RIGHTs ASSOCIATION, 995 DREXEL BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY 28, 1914. THE CITIZENSHIP EXPEDITION. A recent Washington newspaper despatch announced that Senator Penrose had intro- duced a resolution calling for an investigation of Indian affairs, in accordancewith a sug- gestion of the Rodman Wanamaker Indian expedition. The resolution proposes that the commission of seven, to be appointed, shall act in conjunction with Dr. J. K. Dixon, the leader of the Wanamaker party, and it also recites the accomplishments of the expedition. Senator Penrosd and those for whom he is acting have evidently not kept in very close touch with current events; for they do not seem to know that a joint Congressional Com- mission, composed of three Senators and three Representatives, was created by the Act of June 30, 1913, for the same purpose. That Commission, of which Senator J. T. Robinson is chairman, has been, and is now, conducting its work, as directed by the law, with a view to recommending such changes in the administration of Indian affairs as would promote the betterment of the service and the well-being of Indians. It is therefore hardly likely that the Penrose resolution will receive favorable action by the Committee on Indian affairs. It has, however, been the means of giving added publicity to the claims of Dr. Dixon in regard to the alleged accomplishments of the Citizenship expedition. So long as the Dixon report was being used for advertising purposes, its absurd and extrava- gant claims of accurate and extensive information could be regarded as humorous and harmless; but when its author seeks to have Congress give the document serious con- sideration, it is in order to analyze its statements. Mr. Rodman Wanamaker's desire to perpetuate certain noble characteristics of the red man, and to arouse a stronger public sentiment to secure just treatment for him, is to be commended. The expedition sent out by Mr. Wanamaker could have performed, under proper management, a service of real value; but to those who have even an ordinary knowledge of Indian affairs, the Dixon report of achievement& is very unsatisfactory on account of serious inaccuracy of statementand apparent igrorance of the essential truth in many cases. It is regretable that a philanthropist of such high ideals as Mr. Wanamaker should be exploited in this fashion by suc'h an agent. During the past summer and auturan 1 visited ffteen Indian reservations in the South- west; our Washington Agent visited a number in the Northwest, and I also met many of the Indian Service field-men, in the East and West, with whom I talked on this subject. From every point the testimony was the same; Dr. Dixon was always in a hurry, and his Reproduction by Permmission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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