The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-03-03
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some ceremonies were held I'm the lat
Ter part Of The preceding week. Of
which the whites were not made ac-
qnainted. II h said. and II Is undoubt.
ehly true. that the real green-corn
dance Is held on the qniet-nltho .gh
there Il a good deal Of noise about it
and that the public ceremony. which al
nays takes place on Sunday. is 10 salts
~ the curiosity Of the whites and the
msrcenary warnings OF the noble req
men. Tho dance was At FIRST Fixed for
a week ago Sunday. but was postponed
for a week. The reason assigned for
the delay was that old Chief Daniel la
Fort was III. The real reason was that
the number Of white persons on hand
was too small to make II profitable 10
the dancers.
Your correspondent drove out 10 the
Onondaga reservation last Sunday az
ternoon. II lies nine miles down the
beautiful valley south u this city
Coming into the Indian settlement you
pass numerous houses occupied by the
Onondagas. some Of which are neat and
comfortable and speak well Tor the
thrift u the Inhabitants. while others
are badly In need OF ordinary and ex-
traordlnary repairs The Council
House IL IN the centre o. the settlement
and Just On Of the main road. % Us a
long. narrow. one-story building paint
ed white. with grssn blinds and % red
root.
Here were found a dozen tall 1.-THE
why, muscular young braves. engaged
IN the great ngtional game % baseball
that is they were knocking up and
catching files The ball-piayers saic
that there would be- q green-corn dane,
Ia the afternoon. Just when depended
upon Chief Ia Fort; In the shade baei
% house not far away sat this oil,
chief of the Six Nations. smoking a IA
and cheap cigar. he was surrounde,
By half dozen % the tribe.
La Fort r. good specimen Of IN,
highest type Of the civilized Indian II
u we'll along In years nov. and hi
hair and mustache are gray His Eng
lish Is excellent for one Of his llmitel
opportunities. Among the tribes Of IN
Six Nations bis word Is Law. Not onl
Is he the head Of the lroquois Leagu,
but he also IL the chief Of the Ononda
gas All the Indians within his jurls
dlction have great respect Tor him. II
wa at the head OF the New York IN
dlaus who were AZ the Columbian E1
position. and be- said last Sunday tina
a .Nan from New York had been {
see him In the previous week about "a
ing Nth some Of his race 10 the PAR
exhibition aud that be- had agreed {
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we shall have the dance by-and-b,
when Atty or a hundred people <,
here said la Fort, 10 response to a
inquiry Then he added that the II
dians wanted 10 make II pay by char
ing a small admission Zee to he Lor
House After a while there came
perfect string o. carriages and bicycle
and by 80, when the dance was begu
there were several hundred persons q
the ground
M while waiting for the white people
- come. the chief spoke about the Onoi
"a dagas and their ceremonies. Il ha'
~ not taken a census Of the people {
!. the reservation In three years "a
A he. The last one showed about fol
,r hundred Indians. men. women and chi
. dren. and the number Is about the san
m now. There are between seventy M
~ eighty families. Twenty years al
IN there were only $50 persons here.
A. YOU see We have increased In number
a. The state gives Us an annuity Of mon,
Ia and salt. Last year We got si44
=. each inhabitAnt. and $50 bushels OF ~
90 the entire reservation. The Unit
states government gives twenty var
- OF cloth to each family annually. v
"a have our farms and are content. | a
BY the head OF the SIX Nations and alo
y have the right to open the Council
ed am a man Of peace. and have devot
o. all my life to the advancement OF =
~ people.
ce There are two parties here" cont
W. ned the chief. We call them the q
* party and the new party. The VIII
~ men speak Of the old party as bel
'es pagan and the new party as Christian
OF | am Of the old party. but we are n
w pagans A pagan does not believe
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