The Whole Town's Talking: Tama, Iowa Part 3

Bob Taylor this citizenship what does it mean to the Indian what is it mr. Toshi he say she would mention that in this reading they said that the end in the Meskwaki were once the Lords of the government back in 1924 when President Coolidge was there was a president of the United States he automatically made all the Indians of the United States citizens and a right to vote and that was all that we received at that time our citizenship and a right to vote all the others that the government had over us remain the same so today we are still the wards of the government and in regards to schools I wish to stay a little in that regard yesterday I spent a little time and looking to some treaties and what little time I had I looked in a few and I found in three of the screen was a word education was mentioned and that was one of the promises that the government made to the Meskwaki analyst to educate the indents in Oscar their themselves and I was found in 1830 treaty on the fifth article of Education mentioned and another one making 36 on the fifth article mentioned and one in 1837 in the eighth article there an education mentioned there for the Meskwaki now those were the promises the government made to the Meskwaki and all these treaties the state government made with it the meskwaki there's always the word Perpetual's connected with it and the word bind him and you know what those words mean and that word perpetual when they made the promise deserve in then they always say that those promises would be good as long as the streams flow and as long as the grass grew and that word bind them to seem like the binding must admit never broken any of these treaties and it's always the one that right out these treaties that break those rules and just about all the promises have been broken in those treaties so since the government promised their education Indian I think the state to continue operating on government schools now all of you from Peter Morgan very quick I want to he's one of the elderly men one of the are full remember and I want John working to to interpret for mrs Morgan to see Miss emotion what it's gonna live in my bathroom yeah from the chemo is megan is german armored within a fair amount they will participate now Washington you not going to become on to my god abysmal exercise the owner heralded as a limit your county in order anything the universe of touch this way our mr. chairman Ivan asked to us prepared for this group last night to serve as interpreter for mr. Morgan here one of our elderly gentleman of the tribe and I'd like to say this in behalf of mr. Morgan that he says that that the years ago the government the leading men in the history of our country made agreements with the Indians even to the extent of firing salutes spraying the Great Spirit were various help guidance made a lot of promises which were never kept this is through the doings of Congress in various phases of our government throughout the two or three hundred years since the first organization of our government and we find once again I say that most of the promises made by those gentlemen have nose and kept and that we'd like to see our men act and the general public also throughout give us a little help in these matters so that they might be solved to the satisfaction of everyone concerned with these problems thank you that was their friend and that gives a Boston a strong point that required to this thinkin's and understanding well I wanted to show that the Mr Davenport here the Morgan over there or elderly men of the time now we have the middle-aged this year and then we've got from a teenage girls and I think there's one boy teenage they want to express themselves on the request from a recreation I want the expression from the yesterday I think I'll column my daughter I believe first and then their record it occurred I think that's our young people but Indian young people of our reservation need is a recreation center we don't have any place together have our party stuff to have fun we always have to go hang around downtown to do a lot of things that and I think the best problem here we have is very important to us especially the youth is the problem of having electricity set up cameras for we can have a recreation center I think we should have the equipment and a place for Travel recreation we should have a supervisor keep the recreation boys someone who would be interested in understanding you