| Summary: | Again Seek Cash To Honor Garry: Poindexter Asks Senate For $500 For Monument To Indian Chief. Again Seek Cash To Honor Garry: Poindexter Asks Senate For $500 For Monument To Indian Chief. Another effort to gain federal aid in erecting a monument over the grave of Chief Spokane Garry, head of the Indian tribes, Middle and Upper Spokanes, is being made by Senator Miles Poindexter. He has introduced a senate bill for $500. Senator Poindexter introduced a similar bill on June 15, 1917, which failed. Chief Spokane Garry's grave is in the Greenwood cemetery. He died in 1892. History records him as the greatest Indian friend that white people of the northwest ever had. General Howard, who led the attempt to get to relinquish land claims and take up land Spokane Garry made the longest speech ever made by an Indian and that he could "filibuster like a congressman." Chief Garry was well educated in English and French. When he was a boy he was sent east by the Hudson Bay company to be educated.
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