"T hope I am not too much of a disappointment to those of you who expected a bright 'Red Indian,' said Miss Ruth Muskrat, as she mounted the speakers' platform at the dinner given in honour of the International Team of the World's Student Christian Federation on Monday evening. Certainly the attractive young girl in green cut velvet and georgette gown seemed much more of the Astor-Carlton order than the Pocahontas type.
As a matter of fact. Miss Muskrat, who is Irish on her mother's side and Cherokee on her father's, looks and talks like any American girl and that nation is proud to claim her as its re-Presentative, although at the Federation she represented the 100,000 Indian boys and girls of the government schools of the United States. Miss Muskrat is " Sophomore at the University of Kansas at present and her training and en vironment has been such that she says she does not feel distinctively Indian, in distinction to other Americans. She is, however, deeply interested in the problems of the Indian people and after graduation expects to take up some form of social service among them.
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