Evening star., 1903-10-24

sped by. 1t seemed a thing of fancy. II
call him Black Hoss,' said Whrlwind. We
talked little.
while combing his hair. began to chant:
l. 1. o.. l. o. o., 1. l. O., l. e. E., and Kept
it up a long time.
After time he said: I'VE have him
dance this night
'Where?"
This tcpee, bimeby. Come now. We go
see Chief No-Shrt."
The chiefs squaw telling us that No
Shirt had gone out to look for his horses,
Whirlwind and l went to SOmpkin'S tepee.
| sat down in the only chair in the viii
lage, and for an hour, without saying
one word myself listened to the two red
men, who sat Indian fashion on their
feet. They made many signs in talking.
AS we left, Whirlwind told me that they
had been parleying about having big
grub" the following day Then we went
again to No-Shirt's tepee, and the old
chief, who had come back, soon sent us
to the wiSwam of Two-slaps. After
brief talk this fat old Indian, who had
that is he put on his big black hat and his
moccasins. He, the Se-no-we-kla or spokes-
man for the tribe, walked slowly around
the circle of tepees, calling out:
''Malots howis keetsowee atkara hiscok
shaplish' C'To-morrow big feast Bring
your grub to Whirlwind'D.
The call of the Indian sounded weird.
The encircled tepees-fres within them
light of the harvest moon, as it peeped from
behind passing clouds, could see from the
tops of the wigwams curling columns OF
smoke go up. The breeze, just strong
enough to rustic the leaves of the cotton
woods and the willows, was sweet with the
smell of fresh-cut clover. Aside from
the call of the Se-no-we-kla there was no
noise save the popping of frecrackers once
in a while and the gleeful shrill of the In
dian small boy This was the lull before
the revel of the night.
1t was 10 o'clock, and 1 began to wonder
if there would be a dance. Passing near
grove we saw a crowd of half-breeds
dressed in the garb of the whites gathering
on platform. A fiddler shrieked; banjo
twanged The prompter called out: First
fo' ford an back agin',' and All prom
feet in a common quadrille. Soon tiring or
this, l went back with Whirlwind to his
tepee-I. thought to go to sleep.
Not SO. Whrlwind struck the big yellow,
painted deersllin tomtom; Light-on-the-Hill
hung up a lantern; and soon six gay
dressed young braves, answering the call,
came within the tepee. Seated around the
big drum, they began to pound 1t, ana
Whirlwind who led the band, chanted
again his:
The others joined in. Soon the tepee was
crowded with young bucks and squaws,
who squatting, filed the entire wigWam
except a bare space in the middle about
eight feet by ten. II was some time before
the spirit moved anyone; but after while
one young warrior, wearing over his gar
ments of red and green, shell trinkets
feathers, beads and sleighbells fastened on
to bands of ribbons, jumped up and cut a
few jngling capers. From that time on the
fever spread until the whole tepee became
one mass Of Indians bobbing up and down
to the tomtom music of the antelope dance.
The last to resist was a fat boy named
Pope Leo and his schOolboy chums Leo
had gone to the Kate Drexel Catholic
school on the reservation. and doubtless
had been warned against the sin of savage
dancing. But at last he popped up and