Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-28
TE.E RED NJ EN-.
Grand Pow Wow Yesterday.
Parade and Interesting Ceremonies.

der of Red Men, had its first anniver-
sary celebration yesterday. The Tribe
was organized one year ago with 81
members, and it now numbers ll2.
The turnout yesterday was quite q
notable one, there being IS in the pro-
cession, under the Marshalship of A.
J. Hamilton, with Gus Katzenstein,
A. +. Mcdonald and d. T. Mooney as
Aids. Desmonds brass band of thir-
teen pieces headed the column, and
the following line of march was OBJ
served: Up Main street to the Plaza,
down Main to Fourth, up Fourth to
Fort, up Fort to First, down First to
Spring, down Spring to Turn Verein
Hall.
When the large audience was seated,
Sachem L. M. Holt in few brief re-
marks announced to the pale faces
present the object of the gathering,
which was followed by music from the
band, prayer by Rev. VIM. H. Hill,
and quartette, "When Evening
Shades are Falling" by f. B. Fan
ring, Prof. Arevalo, O. w. Parker and
j. f. Mohn, with Prof. Falkenau at
the piano. sa.4 zT
Sachem Holt then introduced the
Orator of the Day, brother J. G..
Eastman, who delivered the following
| address: lf56 ~ 8N
Worthy Sachem, Chiefs and Brothers,
Ladies and Gentlemen: #...
During the period preserved to us by
history it has been the custom of ma
| tions, orders and societies to celebrate
with appropriate festivities the ami
versary of days to which particular
| importance was attached; days of or
| ganization or birth; days Of triumph;
days of deliverance; of joy; of success.
| And, sir, it is q custom honored in the
observance. They are epoch days in
the life of nation or order: the mile
stones in its journey; the landmarks
in its history; and by their celebra-
tion the traditions of other ages are
perpetuated and handed down from
generation to generation. They bind
the centuries together in an unbroken
chain; give voice to years gone by;
make past and present one, and make
the mighty dead and mightier living
guests at one common board.
1t is in conformity with this custom
that our tribe meets to-day to cele-
brate with those who gather round our
council fires, as we'll as those unini-
tIated in the mysteries of our Order,
the anniversary of our organization as
Tribe. But one great sun has
marked its record on the dial-plate of
time since the first council fire of our
Tribe was kindled. Then sixty men,
bers sat around it's blaze; to-day one
hundred and ten braves who bear its
totems are following the hunt. 1t is
usual upon such occasions that some
insight into the purposes of the order
should be given, and that its history
and traditions should be related. That
so important duty should not have
been allotted to some one whose age
and experience better fitted him for its
performance is with me matter of
regret. Perhaps tits easier to tell you
what we are not than what we are.
The opinion founded upon stories in
dustriously circulated by envious pale
faces that our Tribe contains the gen.
uine and original assassins Of the un-
fortunate and beautiful Miss McCrea
is unfounded in fact. Among the tro-
phies which attest the prowess of our
braves her scalp cannot be found. The
broadly whispered suspicion that the
bloody scalping knife of Tecumseh is
worn and used by our brother, Major
Truman, is fiction. The base insin-
uation that the unslain Modocs are
officers of our Tribe cannot be justi-
fled. And those who charge that
the Shominacs are, in cOmpa-
ny with the Temeculas, about
to unearth the tomahawk and
the war paint draw upon their fears
for their facts. 1t is not true that the
walls of our wigwams would furnish
an exhaustless resource to wig-makers
or that small unroasted children are
consumed at our festivals. Our wives
neither hoe corn nor gather pine nuts.
our children are not cradled upon the
waving boughs of birchen trees and
rocked by the turbulent winds, nor are
they tatooed with the totem of oul
Tribe. am not the lineal descendant
| VI Ncu JdChCC, ttuu you Will lCduiio hA
proof that the mantle of the tawny
Cicero of the Western world has not
fallen upon my shoulders.
The Order Of which our Tribe is q
branch was born with and grew out oi
the same necessities giving birth tG
that greatest declaration of govern
mental principles which became the
cornerstone of Liberty's noblest mon
ument-a free country. The oppres-
sion of England which forced organ
lied revolt did not impress all the vic
Tins alike. There were many timid
souls who preferred to "endure the ills
they had than fly to others that they
knew not off, and who were willing
for possible PERSONAL advantage and
safety, with treachery base as hell tC
betray those with whom they would
gladly have been companions in sue
cess, but in adversely and defeat
strangers, and, if necessary, enemies
1t hence became necessary that the
true, faithful and sturdy patriots who
had resolved to resist oppression with
life, fortune and honor should estab-
lish some organization from which
towards and traitors should be ex-
cluded, and in whose councils none
but the honest, brave, liberty-lovine
and determined should participate. II
also became necessary to adopt such
signs and secrecy, such modes of rec
ognition and organized action a,
should protect them from betrayal
surprise or defeat. To carry out such
purpose, and for such ends, the or
ganization, whose hunting grounds to-
day span continent and whose coun-
Gil fires illuminate half world and ot
which our tribe is an integral part
was formed. 1t was an association o.
pure spirits, brave hearts and honest