Indians hired to give frontier flavor to the Calgary Stampede (TIME, July 21) are paid on a graduated scale for all services rendered: $5 to a chief, $3 to a sub-chief, $1 to every brave, squaw and papoose for each parade; $5 for the best-dressed buck and squaw; $2 to $7 for each Indian race. They want more. Last week, with the help of Paleface John Laurie, Calgary schoolteacher, they presented their demands:
"Whereas times have changed for the better, and the net profits of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, Ltd. have greatly increased; and whereas the Indian bands of...
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