Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-22

Southern Indian, holds the right hand
out to the front at height of waist, fore
| fingers only extended to front, aud then
draws it quickly back in waving, wrlg-
| Cling style.
| An Absaraka or Crow holds up both
hands about the height of and outside
his shoulders and loosely flaps them like
| the wings of crow.
The Ute makes compound sign black
| and red. Black by brushing the back
\ of the left hand briskly with the fingers
| of the right, as though smearing on
pant, and then Immediately rubbing the
right cheek with the same fingers-the
| sign for red.
The Navajo, having practically quit
| the war path years ago and gone to rails
ing sheep and making beautiful blankets,
is now designated by a long, com pound
sign: "Make-blanket- ''rather
too long and intricate for his first lesson
| and there are plenty of short signed
Indians without him.
The Apache-though l never saw the
Arizona Indian so make it, gives a queer
sign by rubbing the extended ferefinger
of the left hand with the side OF the
forefinger of the right; fingers at right
angles-just as though sharpening a
knife on milestone.
The Kiowa, too, has a queer sign. He
raises his right hand palm to left and
upwards in front of right shoulder and
gives it rotary motion from the wrist
so that the finger tips describe small
ellipse.
The Mandau tribe make the sign of
falloed chin by tapping that part of the
face with the fingers of the right hand.
The Flathead simply spreads his
hand fat on top of the front part of
his head.
The Blackfoot tribe makes the COM
pound sign moccasin, black. Drawing
the hands along the feet from toe to
ankle, right on right, left on left, and
then making the color sign, or black, by
rubbing the tips of the right fingers
quickly up and down on the back of the
left hand.
Now these are the main tribes or
bands, but in such nation as the Sioux
divided into so many powerful tribes you
should learn to know one from the
other, and this is the way: The Indian
first makes the cut-throat sign-and
the Sioux sign-and then that of the
particular hand. For instance.
The Ogalalla-First, Sioux sign; then
make motion with fingers of right hand
as though Tipping dust or ashes in the
face. The Ogalallas for years have been
know as the "Dust-in-Face Indians.
The Uncapapa-First the Sioux sign ),
and then the sign of an incomplete cir
Gle with the thumbs and forefingers. The
thumbs touching; the tips of the
forefingers about an inch or so
apart. The Sioux had way of camping
in big circle at one time, with an OPEN
n fQr ri No nd ha
were placed nearest that opening. These
Uncapapas were Sitting Bull g own peo-
pie. You have all heard of that willy old
rascal
The Brule "a French name given them
meaning ''burnt, - but the other Sioux
call them Sichung-goes or aburnt
thighs make the Sioux sign first then
rub right thigh near hip with palm of
right hand. They got this queer name,
SO their traditions tell us, either because
party of them got drunk on ''fire
water' and fell asleep too near the fire,
or because an old chief o. theirs once
burned himself badly on the thigh. The
Brules were fine band of Sioux when
old Spotted Tail was their chief and, at
the close of the Sioux war in '76 Gen.
Crook deposed old Red Cloud of the
Ogalallas, 8 blood-thirsty and treacher-
ous fellow, and put .'Spot'' whom we
all trusted and liked, In his place. A
few years afterward he was assassinated