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Will Rogers: Indian Affairs
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Will Rogers was more than just a movie star, he appeared in newspapers, on the radioand even in advertisements. Here is an image of him advertising the Strollers brand of cigarettes (see left). He was a comedian, a conservative, a cowboy, an indian,a politician and a political satirist. He loved adventure and he worshipped his wife. He was a visionary and a country boy. He was more than a man, Will Rogers was a true legend.
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Later in 1946, Rogers won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from California, but lost in the November general election to the incumbent senator, William F. Knowland. (Coincidentally, both men would eventually commit suicide.) He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1948, 1952, and 1956. Later governmental service included time as a member of the California State Parks Commission (1958–1962; chairman 1960–1962), and special assistant to the Commission on Indian Affairs during the Johnson Administration (1967–1969).
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If the people could only get that crazy Wall Street and the dream of easy money off their minds, thought Rogers, there was a way for Americans to live well off the land. At a chance meeting with Henry Wallace at the San Juan Capistrano Mission in California, Rogers and the Secretary of Agriculture discussed the life the Indians had under the Mexican missionaries. Each community raised what it needed without any overproduction, no tariffs or taxes, no killing of hogs, "no plowing under every third row of free holy beans. Thousands lived in each of these valleys until the Gringos come." The "white man" gummed it up proper. So Mr. Wallace knew there was a sensible way for people to live "because he stood on the very ground where it worked" (WA, Vol. 6, 126).
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