Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-11-20

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where tall tenements are not and little
houses half q century old Ill up the
side streets. In some months there
are more ana in some fewer OF Indians
in he colony. Few have what could
be called permanent residence here.
Thus at one moment hundred In1ians
or more may be about Broome street,
and few weeks later the visitor would
ind il hard 70 discover score. Three
trades or professions are wha. bring
the redmen and their women 70 Ne.
York-beadWork. engagements as
braves and squaWs in travelling Indian
medicine shows, and jobs a. artists
models.
OF bead working the chronicle Is
sad one. While trifies Of this sort sell
well az Niagara and such places. the
New York city market for them Is poor.
Il Is even poorer than II ~as few
years ago, and miniature shoes, pin
cushions. and the like. heavily orna-
mented, seldom pay the worker more
than 10 cents apiece. Il i difficult for
the most industrious Indian woman %
make more than % cents day al this
work. Some. with baby or two TO
/ support, have all but starved; In fact,
I many. men and women alike. would
/ have found life in this city unbearable
\ for the last few years had Il not been
l for Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse. the
/ only white woman chief Of full rank
ever created.
/ Mrs. Converse. or Ta-ie-wanoh. As
she Is called By the Indians. i . Sen
eca Indian chief Of the Snipe clan.
adopted By this tribe in recognition o.
her services 70 the redmen OF New York
state. Her father. Thomas Maxwell. Of
EImira, always paid the keenest attsn-
ton To Indian matters. For many years
Mrs. Converse has followed up legisia-
ton in their interest. visited with great
frequency the reservation in the west
ern part Of the state. and kept watch
fuI eye on the Indians Of New York
city,
Bead working. however poor Il Is II
, these days, Is the trade Of several 81
the most picturesque Of the colony. UI
in the third story back 81 dingy IVES
Broadway building, otherwise inhab
e tied by Italians. is the home Of tn
/. most noted Indian bead worker. half
Q breed, Mrs. Lizzie SayIor by name. He
keen commercial instinct has kept he
q going at this work for upward Of TWEEN
: ~ years in New York. Few Indian
: have the modern trade shreEdnsss o
( this bright-eyed. snappy little woma
e or her industry. She has the regula
q business Of the chief shops which har
9 die bead work, and these are mostly th
e little emporiums along the river fror
= that sell 70 sailors.
e At times, even enough orders CON
! in for her 10 take on helper or twl
y but these occasions are rare. AZ a ma
i ter Of fart. Ars. Saylor cannot mah
. a living on bead work alone. She con
p bfnes il with furnishing uniforms II
the Indian societies-such az the Ind
y pendent Order 81 Redmen-headgea
belts, moccasins. and other insight
This work pays much better, but Ii
"A limited and uncertain.
IL Like many other Indians, she speaI
4 almost pure English, despite the IA
n that she belongs 70 the Caughnagal
~ gas, Canadian tribe whose influence
y have been French. She II small al
n stout. but facialiy an excellent India
II type. Her daughter year ago mn
= ried an Italian, and lives with her, Il
m baby, now few months old, showing