New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-06

much accursed race Consider the en-
ightment they had and put yourself ii
their place. gu who follew this mar
ratiye closely will notice that the red man
has similar aspirations and views of life
to ours and is susceptible in q degree to-
kind emotions and capable Of noble deeds.
There are writer's who have exhausted
their vocabulary in search of vile epithets1
to hurl against him. Their writings fairly
TEEN with expressions like .sRed deYel," s.
and Bloc thirsty hound care not
what warranty there may be for the use.
Of such terms; it i'll comports, with
our much Wanted Civilization. II per-
chance you, gentle reader, have learned
By the perusal Of these lines 70 judi him
less severely shall consider one object
Of my feeble eforta as achieved.
ALLOW me to introduce you nov to the
new household of which formed part
for nearly the remainder of my seven
weeks captivity. Il consisted Of two
brothers in their best years, each having
wife. The elder who now claimed me
had three children, 9 son ofmy age BY the
name OF Chaska, daughter by the name
of Winona and a son of about three whose
name / cannotsrecall, if, in fact, he then
had one. 4 =. ri.
The two brothers lived in peace with
themselves and wives, under one roof, Till
some weeks later. I here had regular
duties assigned to me. It devolved upon
me to furnish all the water and fuel need
ed in the preparation OF meals and other
household purposes, to provide the horses
and the oxen with forage and water, to
replenishes the tobacco pouch Of my
lord and master with mixture of klnik-
mick and plug if no kinlkinick was to be
found t took inside bark of whiteash.
Having attended to these duties was at
liberty to amuse myself as I chose. At
first I was still annoyed by the calling Of
the nickname and complained about it to-
the squaw. She Immediately took me
under treatment saying that she would
efectually stop that source of annoyance.
She streaked and dotted my face on a
brown background with various bright.
colors and powered my hair red as was
the vogue with the braves. She repeated
this operation every morning, after she.
had given me a rubbing of with moist
dish rag, unless we happened to be on:
forced marches. must admit that I no:
longer found any cause to complain on
that score. Chaska on becoming acquaint-
ed with me assumed the roll of protector
and was never molested while In his
company. We would frequently make
excursions to the river bottom on our
ponies-I had colt of hardly more than
a year assigned to me-. There we would
search for plums and grapes Of which we
generally found an abundance. Before
starting on such a trip. Ohaska would
take brick. OF maple sugar cut il in two
with his tomahawk and give me half
| which we slowed away III our shirts un-
I'll we could eat it along with wild fruit.
At the teepee there was generally q bag
Of crackers mixed with lump sugar, or 8
box Of raisins or figs opened for US to
help ourselves for lunch. The regular
meals were good and liberal rations al
lotted to each. My supper invariably
consisted of two cakes fried in lard, each
dearly as large as a pie about quart Of
strong black coffee which I could
sweeten to taste. At first the squaw add
ed the sugar when she poured out the
coffee but I grumbled that it was too
Isweet and that my food was not salted.
She SAID, Well if I can't suit you, there
lisa bag of sugar and another with salt,
help yourself2" For dinner we had fresf,
pork, mutton or beef stewed along with
potatoes or green corn. Breakfast varied
more than dinner and sometimes was the
same as the supper. On the march, we
would eat crackers pemican and jerked
/ beef. I had never lived SO we'll as far
food was concerned and Though / had
lost some flesh while at Camp Release
and on the trip down, about the first re-
mark that I would hear after the usual
greeting was, How fat you have grownl''
orr WHAT'S the matter with your nose9''
In the first place that prominent land
mark in my physiogn had been sun
burnt and then often hit By stones thrown
atmes By Indian boys when yentured
out alone Of went to fetch water. II
sometimes happened that there was verii-
table hail ofstones. / had to pass through
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