The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-28
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A " OMAN SEES II

ssssy,t fJ,geIl out on the Indian resers
pafior during the late windy rain II
was tosfeeI sorry for them and to eN-
meet to hear they had been left shelter
less or blown with their tepees from
4.x1fr 4f1e hill, but 4 Mondays sunlight
found them sunconcernedly going about
4 their work. The little boys sailed
BARK boats in puddle and made
adobe bricks OF the plentiful mud,
I while one, in the airy morning neg
gee$of "a green calico skirt, slid down
vet clay embankment on barrei
staYe IT was washday, too, and some
OF the braves were doing the heaVE
work of mfnding the babies Wine the
suuaws chopped zkindling or bent over
the up-to date washtubs and boaros
and scrubbed out the family WASH.
Work was progressing on the big sod
house, whose pole and brushWood
frame was being covered with thick.
chunks of turf. Apparently sod is
taken because of the binding roots,
FOR the grass is not turned outward
as would be supposed. Beside WOOD
sires were set simmering coffee pots
and over them on brushwood sr1ddles
big slices of meat were broiling.
The atagonians were sitting on the
ground beside chunk OF roasted
meat from which, with their knives,
they cut great mouthfuls, dipped them
in salt and ate them from their fingers.
The men. still wear their fur blankets
ssfI,pon occasion, but have turned the fur
side outside and have as yet made no
sum mer substitute for the heavy trous-
h13 n X
One Of the men sat down upon a ma
-cadam road and chatted amlably
awhile with an Arizona Indian, using
the sign language, helped out by span
zSish, Of which both know a little
Monday was busy day on the res
searYation, for on it fell the weekly ra-
ton day, when regular supplies OF
groceries were to be given out. About
tbe governm ent storehouse gathered
the heads of all these fortunate fam
lies who are sure of three meals
day. They came early and each
sbrousht a card on which was the num-
her of people in his household and his
name Such a hilarious name it was,
sometimes such as Singing Goose,
Cut Nose and Buffalo Hide. After his
name followed along list of things,
such as soap, candles, beans, baking
powder, coffee, -four, sugar, salt, DRIED
fruit, rice and lard, and opposite each
was set the amount of it he was EMU
lied to- draw Some of the braves car
s-r7ed the groceries home themselves
and some of them had their wives
come and get them and carry them OIL
sffed up in their blankets. The paths
) were muddy on Indian hill, so the
ssuuaWs Just left off their shoes ana
later washed their feet beneath a
nearby faucet The meat tickets,
which entitle every man, woman ana
child to i ~ pounds Of fresh meat ev-
.ery morning, wereaApresented at the
door of a little fly screen 1nclosed
room where the meat was weighed out
in lump pieces if for family ana
IN slices if for single person. Ihere
was no wrangling over choice cuts,
for meat is meat to them, and the Pat
.agonians even prefer ribs and neck
The different Indian tribes all eat
much the same things, although the
Pata gonians eat the most meat, While
those from near the Mexican border
like a good deal of red pepper ana
cook also the thin wafer bread OF that
country.
One of these southern Arizona tam,
lies has only just come and IS st1ll
IN the Indian building where the
women cook on big six-hole range
with all the newest attachments. In
preparing bread the women mlAeo
wate1., flour and salt in nice ne"
Y clean graniteware washpan, and ia Il
ing a 5wad of the dough set it whlrllne
son one hand, while with the other they
pulled at 1T deity until it was o.
fer ttinness and over foot in oil
.aneter Then they laid it on the to1
of the hot range and turned it oVel
rapidlys until it Drowned lightly, the1
folded it up and laid it aside. AT hone
they bake on a piece Of sheet iron
and in more primitive times used
dat lava stone set within the fire. Thu
f man in the government storehous'
said he had seen the Indians in thel
own land twirl out these pie-crus
SHAPED cakes and stack them in
fpiIe on their heads until enough were
ready for the baking, and singing a.
they twirled Remembering that tn
whole of the Arizona desert was ther'