BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE
Buffalo Child Long Lance, a scholarly
Indian chief-
tain from Alberta, Canada, spoke at the
annual meet-
ing of the Society October 2. An account of his ad-
dress and his visit to Ohio is found on
a succeeding page.
In introducing him at the annual
meeting Governor
James E. Campbell, President of the
Society, spoke in
part as follows:
I am going to introduce a real live
Indian of the Blood tribe.
His name in our language, is Buffalo
Child Long Lance. His
name in his own tongue is En-ui-poka In-us-twan.
This gentleman in some ways, is the most
unique person we
have ever had address this Society. He
was born on the border
of Montana and Alberta. He was educated
at the Carlisle Indian
school, in this country, and in 1915 he
was appointed a cadet at
West Point by President Wilson. These
appointments are made
a year ahead of entrance, and before
that year expired he had
enlisted in the Canadian contingent of
the British Army. More
than a year before we got into the war
this brother of ours went
over on his own account and became a
captain in command of a
battalion of the British Army. I think
that is a great his-
tory. * * *
I want to introduce this American
patriot who went to fight
battles that were the battles not only
of the Allies but of the
United States and of humanity; not only
a great American with a
lineage farther back than ours -- I have
an American lineage, if I
live six years longer that will be three
centuries; his may be for
all I know three thousand years. I
introduce him as an American
citizen, as a soldier, a brother man and
a man whom we delight
to honor.
Buffalo Child Long Lance greatly
enjoyed his visit
to Ohio and the acclaim with which he
was hailed in the
great meeting at the Logan Elm on the
afternoon of
October 5.
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