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Unique Culture Maintained By Northeast Kansas Indians
James A. Clifton, assistant professor of anthropology, says maintenance of this culture is an outstanding feature of the modern Prairie Potawotomi Indians who are located in Jackson County near Holton.
An Indian tribe in Northeast Kansas has maintained its unique culture in spite of many attempts to convert them into white men.
Prof. Clifton has been doing research in the Holton area on the cultural stability and change in the plains Indian tribe. In April, Clifton received a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation to continue the research on the project.
PROF, CLIFTON SAID there is a "hard core" group who are "unmistakenly Potawotomi Indians." They speak the language, practice the religion, eat Indian foods when possible, and live fairly remote from modern civilization.
Historically all Indians have gradually lost freedom of movement and the power to make their own decisions, Prof. Clifton believes. It has been the policy of the U.S. government and the people to convert all Indians to "palefaces" in the shortest possible time, he said.
The assimilation has been at different levels. At the simple level the white man has, in some instances, required the Indian to cut off his long hair. At the complex level the people of the United States have asked the Indian to accept various religions and other values, Prof. Clifton said.
Who are the Prairie Potawotomi?
THEY ARE THE modern descendants of an older band of Potawotomi who were called the Bluffs Eand, when they lived near Coun-
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The Potawomi mi has maintained an ancient culture, he said. Other bands of Christian Delaware, Iowa Sac and Fox Indians were also relocated in Kansas, he said, and now they are all gone.
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il Blu's, Ia. Before that they were in the Chicago area and were known is the United Band of Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawotomi. The tribe moved to Kansas in 1847.
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PROF. CLIFTON SAID, however, that no human group, including the Potawotomi, could live through the past 100 years without change. The picture of the modern Potawotomi is one of variety and difference. They have not changed together or as a group, but more or less individually. There is a variety in race.
"Only the Potawotomi remains with a substantial Indian culture in the heart land of the Kansas prairie," he said.
Some members of the tribe who live in Kansas are educated professional people, industrial workers or successful farmers. The modern Potawotomi is able to integrate into modern Kansas. He is able to mix into life in the modern age, but still maintain a separate culture.
through intermarriage, in dress, language, customs, food habits and religious beliefs, he said.
Prof. Clifton said there is no single answer as to why the Potawotomi has managed to maintain a true Indian culture while others have vanished. Part of the answer is the deliberate teaching of their young the value and importance of their culture, Prof. Clifton said. The tribe also holds high esteem for the older members of the band. They continue to integrate and keep active both the old and modern Potawotomi customs.
KU-Y is sponsoring a free tutoring service which operates on a student-to-student basis.
KU-Y Sponsoring Tutors
The KU-Y Tutoring Service Committee sent letters to students who had a 2.26 overall average last semester. These students were asked to fill out a card which listed all their freshman and sophomore courses. Each interested student filled out the card according to his interests and abilities in these fields.
Martha Allen, Lawrence senior and co-chairman of the tutoring service, said that after the cards were returned they were matched up with requests for tutoring.
"MOST STUDENTS who request help with their studies are freshmen and sophomores who have trouble because they haven't learned how to study," Miss Allen said.
About 70 to 75 students are being helped now through the service. There are 20 more students who have requested tutors for math and chemistry, she said.
"We have a shortage of math and chemistry tutors at the present. We do need students who can tutor in all the freshman and sophomore chemistry courses and we need some students to tutor math 2c particularly," she said.
Miss Allen said the tutoring service was begun about four years ago. Until this year an average of 40 to 50 students a semester applied for tutors.
The other co-chairman of the Tutoring Service is Joy Chatlain, Shawnee Mission sophomore.
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