The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-05-13
They Are Very RELIGIOUS.

almost white. thinking to show his
friendliness, said to her. I have a lit
tie Indian blood in me- The girl drew
herself up, and, looking at him in
scorn, said You have a little Indian
blood in you. Then | thank God that
l am not like you.
Indians. according to Mrs. Wood
bury, are pre-eminently religious IF
it We're not for their religious wants.
they would ask very little odds Of the
missionary and Indian associations of
the country" she said.
You may recall how about Is
years ago the Messiah craze swept
over the Sioux. who number about
one-third of all the Indians. The adj
vent of the Messiah. they believed,
was to be heralded by an immense
tidal wave. which would land on the
prairies all the buffalo the Indian
could ever want to hunt or eat, and
would bury all the white men three
feet deep Messiah would bring for
every Indian shirt. ghost shirt,
which would render him invulnerable
to the white man. They thought that
the Messiah was coming to make a
temporal kingdom, so they destroyed
all their totems and became a goddess
nation. Some burned up their totems.
Others, more prudent, bids theirs in
the ground, thinking that if the Mes
siah did not come. they might prove
useful again. Poor Wolf hid his totem
in a haystack out in field. and the
lightning struck the haystack and
burned up the totem.
"But the Messiah did not come, nor
the buffalo. nor the ghost shirts. In
stead, the government interviewed.
My point, however, is that the Sioux
were left a literally goddess people,
and that in consequence they came
croWding into the schools to learn the
shining Jesus way
The Arstocrats.
81 was in Oklahoma at one OF the
distributions of the government semi
annual dividend For acres the land
was dotted with Indian tepees, but be-
tween the tepees of the Cheyennes
and the Arapahoes there was a broad
avenue, for the Cheyenne is the aris-
tocrat of the Indians. Any Arapahoe
would feel himself flattered to be
asked. Are you a Cheyenne" and
every Cheyenne would feel himself in
suited to be asked, Are you an Arapa-
hOe?' Over the plain thousand In
dams came driving. each with two or
four of their ponies. their blankets
flying, and followed by packs of In
dian dogs. half dog and half coyote.
Here was Black Wolf. with 70
gashes received in the willow dance
and the ghost dance land there was
old Left Hand, whose wife was doctor
ing his rheumatism.
II visited the tepee of Lowing Buff
falo, who is 103 years old, if son, who
is a Christian. is to be believed. On
the other side of the fire was his aged
wife, Daralyzed from the waist down
and nearly blind. Opposite sat Eagle
Feather, their daughter, very sorrow
full because her husband Swallow, had
left her. The poor thing was sitting,
her hands claSped over her heart, and
all she would say was Heap sick
about Swallow I got out my Tesla
ment and read part of the eleventh
| chapter of Matthew. Come unto me,
all We that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest l saw her
face begin to soften. Then we sang,
Rock of Ages and Safe in the Arms
Of Jesus, and the missionary who was
with me offered prayer.
cone day, years before, that same
missionary came upon little pile Of
gray ashes in the grass. That is
where 1 burned my mother day be-
fore yesterday a young brave told
him.
What was the disea8e?'
She had none. but she was old
she could no longer spear salmon or
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