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1970, April 5th - Natives claim Chief Wahoo is degrading and Insulting and must be eliminated

This article was republished many times in the 1970's, with the additional info about Sockalexis at the end, as part of a PR campaign to deflect the Native American activists, 

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1970, April 5th - News Journal

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