The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-31
by
CHARLES n.
CREWDSON.
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right spot
From car window the first Of July
last IS / was riding through the Una
tia reservation in Eastern Oregon, I
saw an Indian village. Learning that
the redskins had gathered there to
hold a midsummer pow-wow and 10
celebrate the 4Jh Of July whenever it
would suit their pleasure. I made up
my mind to turn back and visit them.
Little did know that I would stay
with the Indians many days. when with
Major Lee 8Ioorhouse, an old timer, 7
drove within the circle of wigwams.
But just as soon as 7 set foot on their
SOD ] felt strange desire 10 be aH IN
dian. Perhaps this was because I was
charmed by what j saW-a hundred
tepees pitched in a ring on q level
sward' on one side hills covered with
clover and ripening grain rolling away:
green cottonWOods and willows on the
other marking the course of the rip
ping Jmaulia: above. big, white
clouds floating upon the dark blue sky
sea. Ponies era Zed. From tepee 20
tepee braves with feathers in their hats
and squaws decked in gaudy trappings
went to and fro with n0iseless, mecca
SIN tread.
DO you think. Major" said I. that
the Indians will let me stay all niglH
with them?"
why, yes. Let's go find the medi-
cine msu-Whiriwind.
The major knew every Indian on the
reservation. having lived among them
fQE forty years. There were three
tribes of them. the Umatilias the Cay
uses and the Wallulas. numbering over
1000 While hunting for Whirlwind we
went into a dozen tepees. You do not
knock ana wait for the servant to come
70 the door when YOU visit an Indian:
You just lift the Zap of his tepee and
walk in, day or night, without saying
a word
We saw White Bull. Josephine,
SOmpkin. Tow -a-tOe, the young Cayuse
chief, Princess Eat-no-A Meat. Pish-Pish
or Kitten. Spokane Jim and Chief No
shirt. We found the women always
busy, cooking or else smoking buckskin
or making mOccasins and baskets. The
men were smeaTing their faces with
dry red and yellow paints, putting
eagle feathers iu their war bonnets or
PAINTING their tomtoms-getting ready
Tor the coming pow-wow. At last lift
Ing the flap of a tepse covered with
red-striped bed-ticking we found
WhiTlwiud. The medicine man said
was welcome to sleep IN his tepee and
To break bis bread so late on the fol-
lowing day-the Sd of JULY came to
stay all night. J was the only white
man IN q camp OF a thousand Indians.
had come 10 be an Indian for &
least one day, to eat what the Indians
ate, to sleep where the Indians slept
Ny white friends warned me against
fees and Indian cooking. I felt sure
that I could manage the 1eas. but for
satetys sake / took along box of
sandwiches. Not to eat them. however
unless forced to do So was my will.
( went into Whirlwind's tepee and
found him lying down. sIndian men do
this most of the time, But the sQuawe
when not sleeping are always at WORK
WhlriWInd's sqIfaKy. a Wrinkfed old We
man. was peeling potatoes His sons
squaW. ka-mish-ne or Light-ou-the-
Hil, a young woman about 20. was
combing her braves hair. His name
was Grizzly Bear.
HO.' said T. for this is the way you
greet an Indian.
Ho, said WhiriwiDd. you keep
your word-you come.
The squaws said something in Indian
and Whirlwind answered them. Their
he said TO me: My squaw say. Who
this man? I say, She Che called re-
q she) from big city. Chicago. She
make him big newspaper
This made known to my hosts I made
myself al home and lay down upon a
blanket spread upon the ground Pref
Is soon, being hungry. I asked Whiri-
wind how long before he would have
Supper-and he didn't blush q bit
Bimeby' said he, this night we eat
him fish,
soon tho Medicine Man went ont and
brought back big salmon nearly a
ward long All along the Columbia riT-
or and the streams that flow into it the
plentiful salmon has always neen the
chief food of the Indians. Light-On-the-
Hin scaled the fish and ripped him up
he back, Then, IL being warm and fair,
she built a ire behind the teDee. stuck
sticks in the ground around the blaze
and hung on them 20 cook the pink.
strips of salmon It looked so good To
me that I forgot my sandwiches. Kf-
mish-ne next kreaded some dough ard
put IL ia pan To bake before the open
fire
When supper was spread in the tepee (
on a red-checkeTed linen CLOTHS clean
rs YOU have a right 70 expect when you
are camping out sat down ON the
blankets with the Medicine Man and
bis family. They all folded their hands &