REDSKIN PLATOONS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 91, 23 May 1916, Page 8

REDSKIN PLATOONS.

INDIAN OFFICER'S EFFORTS. A plan u> enlist Indian.-; from t\ie dili'errMit reserves tliih>ughon t Ontario lor the 114 th Overseas Battalion has been formed hv Lieutenant John R. Tiucey, of the I'OOth R'. g men':, who is himself one of the Iroquois tribe, Lving formerly on the Cuiignawauga Reserve, on th-' St. Lawrence U-ive; - . L.cu tenant Tract y believes that there arc at least o(!0 Indians who conkl be s; cured in the province, and-he proposes to visit these an:l to endeavor to on li t them. He hontii to raise a I'uii platoon froir, among his own IT.besmr n. and .another platoon each from the six nations in Western Ontario and tile Ojibways. in the ne tfliborhood of tke Soo. From hi.s knowledge of the liiifan dialects Lieutenant Tracey hopes to be able to reach the Indians 'where ha white man could appeal to them, and lie frp'.s that when tife facts of the w«r are explained to them tltey wiil readily eufet. The Jnd'ans of the var'ous reserves in Canada are again contributing to th'e patriotic funds th s a ear, as they did last.