The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-08-07
Nocua, Conancbe and
Anacbe Reservations. 6
Description of the
Territory Lands BY
Leila Fisher Wood
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tonal $4,000 acres will he reserved Nc
tMhinS 20 the act, as grazing lands A.
sel,, an these holdings are reserved there
WI remain n ebout-at a conservative esu
Of white settlers. There nre M tou, nv'nV ~
iI ,s reservation save Anadarko. which has
FOR al Ye tha .he seat o. the general agencg
sps, ~ tn f, three tribes, and the old United
Mil Us handsome though ancient lookIng
~ nlierhh' presenting q pleasing contrast n
s 'ne smaller surrounding buildings, Is a
sVuVce OF interest TO the visitor
BESIDES the missionaries are mis-
siohs owned by the Baptist Mefhoiist
oabbaonc and Presbyterian faiths near here
tnere are few white settlers some OF
whom have intermarricd with The tribes
nil counted with them by adoption and
iessees OF indian grazing lands who have
us ~ pa nh leased from the government,
~. Whlch they pay grass money" to the
agent, who, IN turn, pays 1t to the Indians
pro rata. All such leases and rentals, how
efed' WIN expire by this August
At Anardarko and Fort SIN one has ample
opportunity TO see typical representatives
OF the three tribes. The Kiowas are most
numerous at Anardarko while the Co.
msnehes, who are numerically strongest
congregate at Fort snl II was In the
summer that | visited Anadarko. aud wit.
messed primitive Indian IIfe. primitIye9
Wen, In comparison. True. the Indians
/ were not robed In skins probably because
tue nuualoes are no more, rather than from
,6 Psrsona soma lnclination They were, for the
only moccasins, CANDY beads and brass
JeWelfy galore = testify to their savage
taste. Indeed, the blending Of the savage
anu tue clNlilzed was not only manifest In
the wardrobe, hut in their very life itself
few two-roomed government houses
which the Indians make more acceptable
| by giving a coat Of bright blue yellow or
rs hN
government might furnish are found here
ana there in the towns. And still these
gandy residences were not preferable to toe
heloyed tepee, as was evinced by every
lndian house being furnished by not Gully a
! tepee, hut an auhor
The, ohlising government carpenter at
Anardarko, who has held his posi- ton since
| Cleveland's first administration and who
Is very popular With the Indians showed
US through various Indian homes AZ the
| agency. Some Of the Indians regarded our
visit with evident suspicion II was a
warm afternoon In July, and most OF them
We're arrayed in their inevitable blankets
and were sitting in their arbors upon some
I skins which they did not leave as they oh
/ served us peering into their open houses.
And such conglomeration the interiors
| presented In one house there was a
broken dowp safe, which, upon being open
ed revealed a saddle minus the stlrrups.
pair of mOccasins, some bride bits aud
q few cracked dishes, while upon tun.
bledown he'd were spread the Indians re-
/ gala. consisting Of buckskin dresses, Of
/ feathers. of hats converted into gauds
! sombreroS by an intermngling of cQlored
lihhons and of huckskin shirts and leggins,
doubtless to be worn upon the morrow, as
] there was to he m Indian celebration Of
some sort at the agency,
J. thlef Ahpeaht0ne Is rather n progresses
ing Indian and far above the average in
| clothing and conyersed in broken Engllsh.
| but his squaWs and pappoOses We're robe,l
! in blankets. Tho various missions neer
/ the agency as well as the government
| school here, have been potent factors ia tie
| civilization Of the formerly fierce and now
comparatively semi savage Kiowas.
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| The Comanches outnumber the Kl,was
and Apaches combined. For this reason
the reservation t. generally spoken Of as
the Comanche reservation. They are as a
! rule more shrewd and intelligent They
are good traders and many of Them own
herds of cattle. Tending these cattle and
! specially fond-they being inVeterAte gam
! biers-are their chief occupations.
! Quanah, generally Khown IA teuanen
shrewd Indian, his moth r la ing cen q
I white woman. The Apgches, whose Old
! clief, Geronimo, has for several years been
ipcarcerated at Fort Ill ne iii,"t I Tract
| "a military reser -ltiol n u far fIom the
old fort, and undrr the wise gEdance 81
such an agent as Sptain S'atl. CIV .
| tired, have developed Into passahly COOL
| farmers. Their fCltncred hcaldr's has
| given place to the La t7e hlauliat {: Cpl
| upon ceremonial occasions, Ia the rWitns'
/ suit They work SIX hours 4 lay NJ her
! crops, cultivatlng orn and oas. Al OF
! the Indians Of the 'hcca triAss ere peace
| able and comparl vely llvc1 !lng, and nc
| doubt In few yeas viii MA = good cti-
/ zens, industrious rrHaien, rassaua fa' m
| ers and obliging mel 'lbo's.