The Tomahawk (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
602 issues from 1903 to 1926, published in White Earth, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
After the demise of the White Earth Progress in 1889, Gus H. Beaulieu launched another weekly newspaper on April 9, 1903, the White Earth Tomahawk. The four-page, six-column newspaper proclaimed itself the official organ of the Minnesota Ojibwe, and its motto was “Truth before Favor.” Beaulieu wrote, “Believing the pen is mightier than the sword we start on the war-path with a paper tomahawk.”
Although the surviving copies of the Tomahawk are quite scattered, it is possible to reconstruct the history of the many hands involved in publishing the newspaper over its lifetime. With Lee Logan serving as editor, Beaulieu sold the newspaper in 1905 to F. J. Smith, whose name disappears in connection with the Tomahawk sometime before 1909. A. L. Dorsey then owned and edited the newspaper until at least 1911. By 1915, Gus H. Beaulieu was again editor and publisher, promising “justice and fair dealing for every Indian who desires to become a good citizen.” Beaulieu expanded his vision of equal rights to include all American Indians of the United States. He increased the newspaper to eight pages, giving space to world news, fiction, fashion, and travel features. After Beaulieu’s death on August 8, 1917, interest in the newspaper was purchased by a group of White Earth businessmen who called themselves the Tomahawk Publishing Company. The group’s largest interest holder, Benjamine L. Fairbanks, bought the Tomahawk in March of 1920; however, his death in late 1921 placed the newspaper…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- White Earth, Minnesota, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress