Arizona republican., 1899-05-26
TORTURED AND BURNED.
The Navajo Indian Medicine Mans
 Horrible Death.

Horrible Death.
 A few weeks ago the Citizen exCiu-
 sively published a brief account of the
 torturing and burning cf the Navajo i Indian medicine man by the braves
 and squaws of that tribe The story
 was written more fully to the Now York Journal, and is as follows: Holbrook, Ariz,, May 11.-This is
 the story told by Doe Obija," a ref
 able Navajo Indian, Of the horrible
 tortures his tribe inflicted upon Bine l Nimalgo, medicine man and s0rceTar: ''When the spot sickness (smallp0y1 came upon the NavajOs they knew that there was magic. That was why cur men were dying and our young Women's faces were pitted. -Bine Nimlago was a bad Indian. He deserved to die. His medicine was
 bad medicine. We had long known that; this was why he had been driven cut by the tribe long ago and lived away from the tribe. He had his re- venge.
 Tt is not true that the sick went to
 him to be cured. They would not do
 that He did not cure people, but made them ilt. They feared the bad medicine.
 'Bine NimlagO was very strong and very wicked. He had a magic bow and arrow, with which he could shoot from very far away the spot sickness and other bad things into his enemies, and he hated everybody because he was bad.
 He alone had the bow and arrow Many had tried to find them, but they could not He had well hid them There was bad magic in the cache s3 that no one found it. By night he shot the arrows and we fell i'll.
 It was this that made hundreds fip down. and many of them died. Wben they felt the bad medicine in ti:em they covered their faces with their blankets and sat waiting. They died bravcly.
 We could rot find the bows and ST rows and the tribe was dying. Soon there would be nc one left. And th9 Navajos are greatest of all Indian peo- pie. This is known.
 This is why they went to the hogan (hut) of Bine NimalgO. There were i seven squaws and five fighting men who went. I do not know their names 1 but they were all Navajos. They did i not fear death fer themselves. They ! went for the tribe
 T have said that the angry enc wcs | far eff. The chosen twelve went to his | place. I do not know their names.
 They reached the hogan and danced ! the death dance a long time; they ted | Bine to a tree, that he might see the | dance. It was dance for him.
 Then they told Zine Nimalg0 how | one by one he had slain the young men and the babies. And one by one. IS they told him this, they broke tire bones in hin-broke them in short 1 pieces, beginning with the little bones and after that the great ones that do net break easily.
 ''Ffe lived long, for he was vo-y strong man. The bad medicine made him strong.
 They took of his scalp, for he was an enemy. They cut of his cars. Where he has gone they will know him by these signs. I think they cut away his arms and legs. They danced the death dance, and sang to him his bad deeds, while they did these things.
 ''I d0 not know the names CT the twelve that did this.
 When they were weary they fred twelve bullets into the body. Each fred one bullet
 Then they cut the thongs that held the body to the tree and they put Pine into the hogan. His legs and arms and all the parts of his body they put Tn together. Then they set fire to the lcgan, singing and dancing about i. md it burned very fast. The fire ate Ip all the bad medicine. The ashes were clean.
 This is the true story. Whatever e.se has been said is a lie"
 Doe Cbija was with difficulty h. ( lueed to tell his story A small brIbe hat looks large tc an Indian was tha ( nducement finally offered. He be- ( ieves firmly that the sorcereF Nls . guilty and his punishment just. {
 Of course Cbija, like all the rest If he NavajCs, knows who the guilty .Welve were, but he will never reveal ( heir names. Any Navajo would thcer- ully undergo torture rather than re- zeal them. (
 The crime was committed in what Is 'alled the Keam canyon country. Of- icers went out from Ho.brOok as soon ; IS they heard of it, but their visit was Ierfunctory They knew very well hat rc Indian is in the least likely 10 urn tnformer 5
 Meanwhile the smallpox, perhaps be- .ause t has run it's course, perhaps be- E .ause Cf the effect of Bines death up 5 n the minds of the Navajos, IS cer- S ainly diminishing in intensity.-Albu- F luerque Citizen. !
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