Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-09-28
NEW INDIAN NAMES.
DAUGHTERS OF CHIEFS WITH MANY
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

ciaty In EnElnnd-BriSht Eyes Lee
lures on Indian Topics.
According to her opportunities the
American Indian woman has kept good
pace with her paleface sisters. Along
with the new privileges and rights ex-
ercised by the latter have come means
for the Indian woman also to develop
mentally, and she has not been slow
to recognize them. Striking examples
of their native intellectual vigor are
shown In what the new Indian women
have accomplished in art, literature
and education and in their higher
standing generally.
Among this new generation of Indian
women are Pauline Johnson, Inshta
Theambra. Eugene, Vincent, Maud
Echo Hawk, Jane E. Waldron, Minnie
Cornelius, Go-Wan-Go Mohawk and
Gretchen Lyons. Pauline Johnson,
probably the most conspicuous, is the
daughter of an Indian chief who lives
on the reservation at Brantford, On
tai,io. Her education has been more
tlsan superficial. She is a writer and
student of literature. Her poetry has
attracted the attention of readers Of
periodical publications during the last
five years, the subjects being chosen
from the natural Indian surroundings
of her own home. Miss Johnson has
also shown capability as an actor in
readings from her own works and i'm
presentations of Indian character tn
costume In England she is received
by literary men and women on an equal
footing, and the individuality OF both
her written work and her acting has
made stir in London. Miss Johnson
has travelled through this country and
phases of Indian life.
Inshta Theambra, or Bright Eyes, is
the Indian name of Mrs. T. II. Tibbles,
whose home Is in lincoln, Neb. She is
also the daughter of a. chief-a leading
figure among the Omahas-and her ac-
complishments could be divided among
half dozen women and equip each of
them well.
Bright Eyes was educated at~a girls
school in the East Ten years after her
graduation she became lecturer ON
subjects pertaining to- the Indian. She
addressed audiences In England, Scot
land and this country. She has writ
ten many magazine articles on Indian
matters.
Her latest Accomplishment dS in art.
A year ago sha felt a destire to painI
pictures. A friend gave her brusheS
ly began to work. Her first picture
painted without instruction, Is said to
be wonderfully good, and artists have
pronounced her a genius. Since then
she has worked regularly under good
instruction. She has in that time Illus
trated book on Indian folk lore. Her
husband is T. H. Tibbles, white Pop
ulist orator.
Eugene, an Indian princess of Cana
da, is the eighteen year-old daughter
of Chief Philippe Vincent of the HUI
rons, or Tarron Wartesche. as the
tribesmen call him. She lives with her
father at the Indian Lorette near Que
bee, and Is known as the Princess Of
the Hurons. Princess Eugene is well
educated and speaks English and
French as well as her own picturesque
language. She spent eight years at the
convent Of Charlesbourg, sings un-
usually we'll, and is good pianist. Up
on the piano she improvises strange,
weird little pieces and calls them by In
dian names. One Of the duties of the
Princess is to take charge of the heir
looms and chiefs official articles. There
are medals presented to the family by
George w. and members of his court,
others of later date by Queen Vic
toria and the Prince of Wales. Among
her valuable possessions is the famous
chiefs jacket, couple of hundreds Of
years old, and the official crown, which
Is made Of feathers.
One of the cleverest Of the Pawnee
girls is Maud Echo Hawk, who teaches
the children of her own people in the
Hope Indian school at Springfield, S.
D. She is young and ambitious and
got her own education at the Lincoln
Institute in Philadelphia. Her father
and all her relatives live In Oklahoma,
where he is chief Of the Pawnees. Miss
Echo Hawk has adopted the customs
of civilization, and she Is very earnest
in the belief that the American Indians
are to be power in the future. 1t Ia
this belief that inspires her to teach
the young redskins the principles OF
Americanism along with arithmetic and
grammar. She visits her own people
often, and Z you ask her ds she would
ever go back to her nation to live she
twtrls the ring on her left hand and
grows thoughtful.
Jane e. Waldron, beloved among
the Sioux, is proud of her Indian blood
and counts 1t the highest honor to have
gained the affection Of her race. AT
Ripon College, in Wisconsin, she chose
music as her vocation. In this she has
become proficient and has labored to
make music popular among the Indians
giving nearly all of her time to in
structing them and visiting the Gov
ernment schools for that purpose.
Mrs. Waldron was the heroine of the
famous case Of Black Tomahawk
against Jane E waldrof, which was
fought bitterly for seven years in Con-
crase and the FederaI courte and excft.