National Geographic : 1915 Jan
BLACKEEET INDIANS AT WORK ON THEIR IRRIGATION PROJECT "The great oil fields have brought wealth to those Indians so fortunate as to hold allotments within the oil territory. The following cases are examples of the royalties for 1914 received by Indians of the Creek Nation from oil: Samuel Richard, $94,00ooo; Jeannetta Richard, $go,ooo; Seeley Alexander, $57,000; Lessey Yarhola, $73,000; Eastman Richard, $93,000oo; Thomas Long, $35,000; Ella Jones, $31,000; Nancy Yarhola, $29,000; Johnston Wacoche, $27,000; Miller Tiger, $23,000. Some of the Bad River Indians have received as high as from $14,000 to $16,ooo for the timber cut from their allotments" (see text, pp. 77 -80). Photos from Office of Indian Affairs The irrigable lands belonging to the Indians form one of the principal sources of wealth of these people, and also form probably the best opportunity for these people to become individually self-supporting. In some sections of the country the Indians are better ac quainted with irrigation farming than the whites in the same communities, and they are making great success in this line.