Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-01-10

the Kitt-so-la-sha, the dominant tribe
or British Columbia Indians. She Is
also the daughter of New Yorker,
and So 4 descendant OF one Of the old
Knickerbocker families. This is how
Miss Hamblet came. by her ancestry,
as she told the sIcsy 10 an Examiner
historian in Sam Francisco the other
day,
My mother was the only child and
~at the death of her father she became
chief OF the tribe. She never cared
to assume the title she only cares 70
help her people. Being. the only daugh-
ter OF powerful chief, he thought
she should have some education, SO
he sent her TO the home OF his friend,
Bishop Cridge, in Victoria. She was
only fifteen years old.
Zone day she Went fishing by her
self She wore her blanket pinned
over her shoulders and looked very
picturesque, my father says. He hap
pened to be walking by the side of
the stream when he spied her She
Iicaught, fish. so cleverly that he became
interested, and after watching the pro-
cess for While fell desperately in
love with her.
You know the Indians have a the
DRY that people know the instant they
encounter their fates. Ii was so with
mother The first glance told her he
was the hero of her life. Three months
afterward they came TO this city with
I their friends and were married The
: marriage displeased' her father, who
/ had engaged her to a young chief in
the northeast. After their marriage,
they visited their old Indian home, but
my grandfather never allowed his SON.
inslaw to sit at the family table, He's
nice man., he said, but he has never
distinguished himself in battle be
cannot eat with chiefs
'.As the acknowledged CHER of the
tribe my mother has an opportunity
of doing vast amount of good. In
i dams have great reverence for their
chiefs and can be easily influenced by
them, When we have gone on our mis-
slonary tours we have mingled with
| the people--liyed with them and assim.
lilated with them as far as possible.
! In many of the inhabitants their
ways are primitive. we always
ate. the same food they did, and some
times it was boiled seaweeds and
| sometimes the inner bark of the hem
lock tree. This last delicacy Is sub
stitute for bread.
| Many OF the Indian modes OF cook
ing seem extraordinary to Americans.
| understand their recipes thorough
| ly," she said, laughingly, land feel
perfectly competent at any time to get
up, an Indian dinner The women OF
the Kitt-so-Ia-sha tribe are not slaves,
as. the majority of women are. The
husband and wife work hand-in-hand
they help one another, and there Is
nothing of the neutrality-suspicious..
Illness about the men. 8.
/ In some settlements they still have
the primitive schools They are con.
Quoted in. this way: The children are
called together and first one and then
1 another old person will give them oral
instruction. They tell them OF the
wars, the chiefs, and instruct them
about the rocks, trees and water
Every child is also taught to cook
and to prepare medicine from herbs. =
Miss Hamblet is highly educated
Her associates have always been
Americans, although she has spent
/ considerable time with her mother,
who has devoted her life to the work
of elevating and Outstanding her
people.