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AN" ACT To provide a suitable memorial to the memory of the North American Indian. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled, That there may be erettcd, without expense to the United States Government, by Mr. Rodman Wanamaker, of New York City, and others, on a United States reservation, in the harbor of Ne'w York, in the State of New York, and upon a site to be selected by th"- Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, a suitable memorial to t\\ President of the Senate, ^yt.^o~7ai< - A-^ty^^ C^Cal/ona/ , yzm ennui ^y/iir/a/? tAlcemona/ . yvatoot or t /it'it' (/i)c/{ t^ eirman/ Owe/i/y -.levo/ia, C hnefeerv-mtr/eert 'aon 4 C'JCe//iPcr.^ cy/ ///c C ar/'/ie/ CV/r K./(nrernor cyr //le QVa/c or Qy Oew c/cr/i' u/ie C JLau(tr i>/ //le C//V o/ Cy oew c/or/f O/iir/u r y/iaiii/i y^i/e/.t /ra/u J J ej/cv c/oaifa/ ana CyJCt///a/y JzJe/fion.\lrah'onJ- National American Indian Memorial Association HARBOR OF NEW YORK President RODMAN WANAMAKER, ESQ. Vice-President HONORABLE JOSEPH H. CHOATE provisional) Secretary DR. JOSEPH KOSSUTH DIXON Treasurer and Bank of Deposit J. P. MORGAN & CO. Advisory and Executive Committee i to be completed) — J. FREDERIC TAMS DR. GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ JAMES HERMAN RIDDER Vice-Presidents, City of New York ito be completed! ROBERT C. OGDEN Vice-Presidents. City of Philadelphia HONORABLE JOHN WANAMAKER E. T. STOTESBURY N. PARKER SHORTRIDGE JOHN G. JOHNSON Honorary President, ex officio- PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Honorary Vice-Presidents, the Cabinet, ex officio Secretary of State, PHILANDER C. KNOX Secretary of the Treasury, FRANKLIN MACVEAGH Secretary of V/ar. HENRY L. STIMSON Attorney-General, GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM Postmaster-General, FRANK H. HITCHCOCK Secretary of the Navy, GEORGE VON L. MEYER Secretary of the Interior, WALTER L. FISHER Secretary of Agriculture. JAMES WILSON Secretary of Commerce and Labor. CHARLES NAGEL NOTE. — The President and Cabinet ratified this organization with autograph signatures. Naval and Military Vice-Presidents Admiral of the Navy, GEORGE DEWEY Lieutenant-General NELSON A. MILES Major-General LEONARD WOOD, Chief of Staff Rear-Admiral of the Navy, JAMES B. MURDOCK Major-General THOMAS H. BARRY Commander of the Department of the East General HORACE PORTER Colonel WILLIAM M. BLACK Colonel, Corps of Engineers. Haibor of New York Colonel S. W. ROESSLER Colonel, Corps of Engineers, Harbor of New York NOTE.— The Naval and MiUtary Vice-Presidents sienified their endorsement of the organization by autograph signatures. Vice-Presidents THE GOVERNORS OF THE VARIOUS STATES OF THE UNION Honorary Vice-Presidents THE MAYORS OF THE TWO PRINCIPAL CITIES IN EACH STATE NOTE.— Governors and Mayors, so far requested, have given their autocraph signatuTcs. Official Personnel of the Inauguration Ceremonies PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HONORABLE WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT CABINET HONORABLE GEORGE VON L. MEYER, Secretary of the Navy HONORABLE HENRY L. STIMSON, Secretary of War HONORABLE WALTER L. FISHER, Secretary of the Interior HONORABLE JACOB H. GALLINGER, President of the United States Senate HONORABLE CHAMP CLARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives HONORABLE GEORGE PEABODY WETMORE, Chairman, Committee on Library, U. S. Senate HONORABLE JAMES L. SLAYDEN, Chairman, Committee on Library, House of Representatives HONORABLE F. H. ABBOTT, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs MAJOR JAMES McLAUGHLIN, Inspector of Department of the Interior GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK HONORABLE WILLIAM SULZER MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK HONORABLE WILLIAM J. GAYNOR NAVAL ESCORT U. S. S. " DOLPHIN," detailed for duty, with Band REAR-ADMIRAL HUGO OSTERHAUS DETAIL OF MARINES MILITARY ESCORT MAJOR-GENERAL LEONARD WOOD Chief of Staff, and Aide MAJOR-GENERAL THOMAS H. BARRY Commander of Department of the East, and Staff BATTALION OF UNITED STATES TROOPS GOVERNORS ISLAND MILITARY BAND FORT HAMILTON MILITARY BAND INDIAN CHIEFS FROM NORTHERN CHEYENNE Chief Two Moons Chief Little Wolf Chief Black Wolf Chief \A'ooden Leg Chief Shoulder Blade ARIKARA Chief Little White Man Chief Little Low Land GROS VENTRE Chief Young Chief Old Dog Chief Drags Wolf Chief Wounded Face Chief Rustler MANDAN Joseph Packeneau CROW— APSARAKA V^hite Man Runs Him Chief Plenty Coups Chief Medicine Crow SHIVELY. Interpreter MINICONJOU SIOUX Chief Swan OGALLALA SIOUX Chief Red Cloud Chief Red Hawk WESTERN RESERVATIONS YANKTON SIOUX Chief Pretty Voice Eagle Chief Runs the Enemy Chief Hollow Horn Bear STANDING ROCK SIOUX Chief One Feather CROW CREEK SIOUX Chief Ghost Bear BLACKFEET Mountain Chief Chief Big Spring Chief Black Weasel Chief Little Dog SOUTHERN CHEYENNE Chief Brave Bear SAN CARLOS APACHE Nethla KIOWA Chief Lone Wolf CHIPPEWA Chief Red Blanket Chief Gay-she-geor-ar-sh ^n •ot(/t/t(^ Leader of the two Wanamaker Historical Expeditions to the North America)! but inn. and Secretary of the National American Indian Memorial Association. /. , H a/io/ial t ^Zii, > U/t. Fort Hamilton Military Band Governor's Island Military Band U. S. S. -Dolphin'' Band .). r X/r/c//V"J.< f. Cvw ^-(/it/'c.ic (•////<• t ///iha/i t .'( f'/)iotial, ^^'i. /o.u'v/i > A o.Kut//i .J\.V(> ^yucy/tora/ui' y}i///(i//t ' ^ Oou'cini Oa// PRESIDENT TAFT WILL DIG THE FIRST SHOVELFUL OF EARTH, AS CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF THE NATION. THUS I N A UGU R ATING TH E WORK OF CONSTRUCTING THE MEMORIAL. IMMEDIATELY AS THE PRESIDENT LIFTS THE SOIL. THE BATTLESHIP WILL FIRE TWENTY-ONE GUNS THE PRESIDENTIAL SALUTE -/. , ^.> ( lit' c/ //if ^Anr/uii>nii/.i i/i //if L ii.t/ff ,'/'ii^/i/ THE ADDRESS OF CHIEF HOLLOW HORN BEAR WILL BE INTERPRETED BY MAJOR JAMES MCLAUGHLIN. INDIAN AUTHOR. AND INSPECTOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. THE INDIAN CHIEF WILL CONTINUE THE DIGGING OF THE EARTH WITH THE THIGH BONE OF A BUFFALO. THE INDIAN S PRIMITIVE IMPLEMENT. THE GUNS OF FORT WADSWORTH WILL FIRE A SALUTE IN HONOR OF THE RED MEN — THE FIRST INHABITANTS OF THE SOIL WHERE THE GUNS ARE MOUNTED. ^/V(//a/// THE THIRTY INDIAN CHIEFS WILL HOIST THE UNITED STATES FLAG. AS A SYMBOL OF THEIR LOYALTY TO OUR NATION-THEIR RECOGNITION OF THE GOVERN M ENT AGAINST WHICH THEY FOUGHT WHEN CUSTER FELL. SLAIN BY THESE VERY INDIANS ON THAT FATAL JUNE DAY. T876-AND AS A PROPHECY OF THE MEMORIAL TO THEIR RACE TO RISE ON THIS GROUND. PRECEDING THE HOISTING OF THE FLAG. Dr. IRVIN J MORGANS ORIGINAL INDIAN MUSIC. 'THE INDIANS REQUIEM." TYPIFYING THE VANISHING RACE." SPECIALLY COMPOSED FOR THE INDIAN LECTURES RESULTING FROM THE WANAMAKER HISTORICAL EXPEDITIONS. WILL BE RENDERED. THE REQUIEM WILL FOLLOW THE RAISING OF THE FLAG UNTIL THE STARS AND STRIPES ARE MASTHEADED. WHEN THE COMBINED MILITARY BANDS WILL MERGE INTO THE EXULTANT STRAINS OF THE 'STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. SIGNIFYING THE UNION OF THE FIRST DWELLERS ON THE SOIL WITH THE CIVILIZATION OF OUR DAY. /. ^-(it:>f/i/// o/ ^ /i\o/nc X\j/'M /iiat/.i/n^ ///,■ CW,' o/ //,'■ , J/i/iiotia/' ^-J'oi/ot L^i'iHcjri' , J'tcJi-iu/i' f /t u/i: X ./Cah'o/nii/ r^ai't. .n\xi/,Co/t,fn/'ux/ ()>/fi/>ui,-J , /////Any .Vja/,,)., National Memorial to the North American Indian DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS AND PLANS The latest authentic Government statistics declare that the North American Indian, as a race, is rapidly vanishing. The rate of decrease since the coming of the white man is, up to the present moment," that of sixty-five per cent. The day is not far in the Nation's '•tomorrows" when the Indian as a type, will have passed forever from this continent — his footprints are already marking the sands of the Western Ocsan. There are many evidences of the character, oratorical ability, heroism and virility of this .striking race. The iconoclasm of civilization has relentlessly swept forward, and the red man, with- out his will, has been compelled to face the setting sun. It has been conceived that a race possessing so many striking and wonderful characteristics, once having the libertv to roam over the entire continent, — indeed, the first American, — that the memory and deeds, and life, and mysticism of this people should be immortalized and a record of the race preserved for all future generations. LOCATION By Act of the Sixty-second Congress, this memorial was authorized, and was approved by President Taft. According to the provisions of the bill, Honorable George Von L. Meyer, Secretary of the Navy, and Honorable Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, approved the site of old Fort Tompkins, at Fort Wadsworth, in the Harbor of New York. This site received the unanimous commendation of the Federal Fine Arts Commission, together with the Art Commission of the City of New York, as being the most appropriate and artistic location for such a memorial. The rise of ground, the relation to the old forts and to the landscape, and the possibility of the rnemorial being seen by incoming and outgoing ships from the Battery to Sandy Hook and far into the interior of New Jersey and the surrounding waters make it an ideal location. SCOPE The concept of the founder of this memorial is that he should not alone place a mammoth bronze figure of the North American Indian upon the highest hill-crest in the harbor as a witness of the passing race to all the nations of the world as they come to our shores, but his purpose is to perpetuate all that the Indian was — his manner of life, representations of his habitat, his customs and costumes; and to this end this monument comprises a small museum, thirty-five feet high, which is to contain, in the various sections, the various styles of Indian homes; an art gallery for all prints and paintings that may be procured of Indian life; a section giving a collection of his weaponi-y; a costume section showing what he wore; a home section showing his method of life; a section for animals of the chase, showing the life upon which he subsisted; a library section, con- taining books of Indian lore; — the idea being that the mammoth bronze figure, which is to rise on a pedestal .seventy feet high, the statue rising sixty feet, shall preside in bronze over all that rep- resents the primeval Indian on this continent. At the foot of the monument on the lower terrace will be the equestrian statue of an Indian as he is known to-day. COMPOSITION As a matter of composition, the architecture, standing on this height against the open sky, should be rugged and large in scale, without too much detail, as it will be seen mostly in silhouette against the sky. It should also express the museum as a part of the design as well as the memorial character for which it is undertaken. CHARACTER As to character, it should be remembered that it is a tribute of modern civilization, and is being built by a civilized nation to a race of primitive people. No attempt has been made to establish an Indian style of architecture, but rather to incorporate the character of the people in a design which should be modern and the expression of a civilized people. The dominant feature of this design is to be an Indian in a striking and characteristic po.se that will reveal the soul of the Indian him- self. The bow and arrow, with the left hand hanging entirely at full length, indicates that he is through with his war weaponry; the uplifted hand, with the two finirers extended toward the open sea, is the universal peace sign of the Indian. Thus he gives, in bronze a perpetual welcome to the nations of the world, as he gave welcome to the white man when he first came to these shores, and thus we have combined the impress of modern civilization in the base, and what the Indian thought of him.self in the bronze statue. Note. — The Indian shown in the design is tentative. It is not to be considered the work of the sculptor. ARCHITECT, THOMAS HASTINGS SCULPTOR. DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH L>/ie <=^u/voJe (>/ //le <• y/ic/nana/ It is the supreme struggle of humanity to survive the past — to gather up the ashes of yesterday and pour them into the urn of today — to perpetuate and memorialize heroism and valor, the dignity and glory of the consummate achievements of men and the age in which they have lived. So far as can be learned, never before in the history of mankind has a monument been erected to a race of people. The ceremonies inaugurating this memorial to the North American Indian are, therefore, pregnant with signifi- cance. Over this ground he once roamed, the sea, the sky, the land, his pat- rimony. For long years this spot has been dedicated to the bulwarks of armed defense. Today, by official act, the President of the United States consecrates this hill-top to the perpetuation of the life and history of the Red Man. It is fitting that President, Cabinet, Senators and Congressmen, Governors and Mayors, eminent citizens, soldiers and marines, together with noted Indian Chiefs from the Western Reservations should assemble on the birthday of our First President to establish a Memorial to the First American. The voices of the past, voices from out the primeval forests, voices from the far stretches of the Western plains have been heard — and we are now to realize in granite and bronze an expression of the life of the American people. Posterity will applaud the honor we do ourselves in gathering up the life story of this virile and picturesque race, while yet the rays of the setting sun fall upon their departing footprints. This Memorial will rise — blending in its architecture and .sculpture the thoughts of the past and triumphs of our civilization. The gigantic bronze figure that will surmount the splendid pedestal will face the sea, extending the univer- sal peace sign of the Indian, giving welcome to the Nations of the earth as they pass through this greatest gateway to the New World. A lonely lofty figure, whei'e the sea will forever moan a dirge for a vanished race; where sun and stars, and wind and thunder, the gods in his great World-cathedral, may utter the speech of his soul — while a child of the woods and plains — but now to fall upon unheeding ears of bronze. 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