The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-31
OVER NIGHT IN A TEPEE.
PHOTOS BY
LEE
MOOREHOUSE

bobbed along before me. doves eooed
from the limbs of dead trees. Z trod
! upon yellow daudelions and the Indian
pink. ana brushed against alder bios
SONS. the yarrOW and Che wild rose
Before ] reached The river HAD
smeaTed my hands and face with the
red juice of blackberries. When 1 beut
over TO dip my hand into the cool swift
stream. e large trout daTted from un-
der the log on which I knelt. Thus be-
come child OF nature it was only the
sizzling salmon that could tempt me
back to the tepee
As sat again with the Indian family
at breakfast how Fudeiy were my re-
; ieettons broken By white man that
poSed his head into our tepee ANA
called out: Hay. 10 cents bundle"
.Pooty scarce hay this tiqle. said
Whiriwiud. Lots of him before white
man come. Bunch grass grow high
T wondered if ] was q welcome guest
l-if the Tedman WAS nOr secretly WISH
ing in his heart that he with his people
could again be LETT alone with the Tow
ers- the birds. the FISH ana the game
which in this region a century before
/ had lived for the Indians alone. I
I sighed with him when the old Medi-
1 cine Man said Long time ago Tina
1 tilla tribe lots of men, now she small
people
But this was the morning OF the
/ Fourth Of July and WhirlWind. the but
/ Ter for the tribes. had TO be off to town
I to get big grub. Meantime 4 went go
/ see many Indians whom 7 now knew
! The news of my buck and wing having
spread through the village L found that
/ 1 was welcome guest in every wig
wam. These Indians having lived alonC
4 the Columhia-the main route OF the
/ pioneers of our great northWeS5-ave
perhaps the most interesting in Amer
/ lea. They told me manipulating tales
iof war and hazard I was glad il rained
/ that dag and that the poW-w0w was
put off until the following Monday for
1 wished to hear more of their stories.
I The Indian celebrates pretty much
as the white man does: NE p8rades. he
/ feasts. he dances. he CANDLES. He has
/ learned from the white man 10 play
/ cards. Many a game of seven-up did
/ I see in the village. Where did you
/ learn TO play cards. ] asked one young
buck
AT school" he answered.
They gamble most, however at
game of their own. They take four
bones. two OF them having buckskin
strings tied on them. These they shut
/ he about ana hide in THEM hands. The
/ point Of the game is to guess which
hand holds the hone with the string
At this simple game / saw q long row
of indians. mon and women. sit for
/ hours. 10 win the game one has TO
guess right for fifteen times. On the
resllt an Indian wouid bet a saddle
or "a horse. or sometimes as much rs
$1eo. They are born gamblers.
The feast is not unlike the white
mans barbecue. The dance. like that
I saw IN the tepee, consists IN jump
ing up and down. first on one foot
and then on the other, shaking bells
or rattles and giving an occasional
whoop. And iE their horse races they.
jockey FOR the start just as do the
riders at cur tracks The rider Is
mounted bareback. The distance IS
usually two miles and return. An In
dian win bet his fortune op a race.
IT is the parade which is unique. Let
me tell you Of the one I saw.
One by one the bucks and squaws
left their tepees and. taking their po-
ines with them, went among the trees
along the river until the village was
deserted. save by the whites who had
come 10 view the wild pageant. At 3
o'clock I heard pistol shot. and soon
a war-whoop resounded. Then in single
file the warriors. painted and dressed
in the gaUdy garb of the war path.
rode around the circle Of tepees; the
squaws, wearing all their beads and
bright, sportive vestments. followed
them. AS the brilliant cavslcade drew
near to the tepee of Chief No-Shirt. he
and his squdw. Thunder who was
mounted on a. spotted pony Joined and
led the procession. Those who followed
held places due to rank. A prominent
figure was HOosis- Nox- Mox yellow
Hair. the ceutenariau chief Of the
PaIouses. His face was painted vel
low and stre7ked with red He was
the happiest Indian OF them all. Far
to the rear RODE the dozen dancers who
were to cut didos under the arhor n
the middle of the camp. They had
daubed their bodies. naked save f3r
the clout. strings of beads and nng-
ling trinkets, with pigments of many
hues Three times the barbaric train
gaIioped around. Then forming In line
at the far end Of the field they dashed
forward. whOOping and yelling, and in
a wild hurrah ended the parade.
Copyright 1904, by Charles y. Crewd-