CHIEF OF REDSKINS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 August 1930, Page 5

CHIEF OF REDSKINS

11 (Vi ,11)A l IN ENGLAND. MAN WITH NO “ROUGH EDGES.” Air Georg© Meye is an anachronism. A man who liars sat nightly with JSioux, Pawnee and Blaokioot, a man who lias sat cheeK 'bv jowl with tire Indians in the American Indian reservation, a mail who has listened to awful tribal legends white the pipe-smoke curled and wreathed round the blackened props ol 1 the wigwam—such a man, says the “Daily itxpmss,” should not Look like a University don, well groomed, with perfect- courtesy and no- rough edges. The writer says: I met Air George Hcve while lie was on (holiday in England ,aiul he is the greatest living authority on the Red Indians in the world. He is also the founder of the Red Indian Museum in New York. “They are lovable,” Mr Heye said, speaking of the Indians. “A lovable race with a set me of humour, a race which gradually is being Westernised, educated —or —improved.” “Obviously you do not think that,” the interviewer remarked.. Mr Heye frowned. "Whv Westernise them?” he hr kb Whv ruin them? We foist our I customs and religion upon them. We give them bastard wavs and a bastard tongue. We expect them to retain then- o>.<l splendour. No, we do not l think we are improving them.” “Did thev give you a name?” the writer asked, wondering: what a Sioux would call this benevolent .old gentleman with the gold spectacles. “Yes and it was not ‘He Who tracks Marrow Bones With His Gums.’ as most fiction has it,’’ laughed Mr Heye. “I was ‘Alassone —the -Chief.’ ’’ and he smiled unite proudly. •Mr Hove is blood-brother _ to descendant- of the most bloodthirsty redskins in America. He knows the loves, lives and hatreds of the Red man But two hours Inter he was seen in Fleet Street, at the inn which is the American Moron—l-nv w nndi impressed.