Three California Writers:
The Advocate
by Samuel J. Rice
Edited by: Cindy Beck
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THE ADVOCATE
A recent article in the American Indian
Advocate, published by American Indian Order (The Teepee), with Rev. Red Fox
as editor in chief, commented that the Mission Indian Federation1
and its head officers, to the writer’s judgement, were not carrying out the
right policy for the poor Mission Indians in behalf of human progress.
Let human reason do her best to trace known
facts to be reasonable and competent causes, giving due credit to the
efforts of them in every case. But back of all the intricate machinery of
the policies are the hands of the people of the Mission Indian Federation.
It is a fact, then, that man has capacity
for appreciating things of what he knows and not of what he does not knows
and not of what he does not know, as in this ease. Let us appreciate a
struggle of humanity for God’s ruling.
1. The Mission Indian Federation was organized in
southern California; its membership comprised both Indians and whites.
Founded by Jonathan Tibbets of Riverside, the Federation opposed allotment
of reservation lands and in many cases challenged the Bureau of Indian
Affairs. It was active in land claims issues.
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