The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-07
SECTION TWO.
THE



Many years ago in a little town Of
northwestern Nebraska I saw an old
Indian drive his tWo~hOrse wagon up
before a dry goods store. He asked the
EtOrekeeper il he might have an empty
box that was out in front. He was
told yes. he turned 10 his squaw, who
sat beside him OE the wagon. and said
n few words. She got down and started
70 put The box in the wagon.
Hold up, there, YOU lazy old devil,
said the storekeeper. IF you can't get
down yourself and load in a box after
I've give II to you, you can't have it.
You get back up on The wagon,
said the merchant so the sqUaw.
The Indian drove away and left the
box
This was ike the Indian. The man
fhc bucks proud. he makes the
Fquaw do the drudge work. The buck
feels tEar mis- sole occupation rs the
WaTpath. Between this and hunting or
else in getting ready for battle or for
the chase. the indian spends his time.
The sQuaW may make his mOcCasins.
but the brave is his own tailor and
the maker OF mis- ornaments. He used
IL uu iu much Of his time chipping out
flint arrow heads and stone tomahdWkS
or i'm making his bows bat even Ia the
days OF thc firt-lock gun he Cult all OF
this iu the east. In the west though,
the Indian laid aside the bow and ar
row for the 'loug shoot only fifty
Years ago. Now nowhere does the IN
dian do a great deal I'm some places
he farms little and raises stock There
are no more battles fo~ him 10 fight
Ills hunting grounds are cut by the
white mans pillow. About al ithat IS
left for him % do IS 20 make his war
bonnet ard once in while paint him
self for mock pow-wo1.
Every brave i'm th. old days tried TO
do deeds that would some Gay make
him chief For the mos, part the
chieftaincy weut from fatiJer to son.
: ut sometimes all Of the heirs TO the
throne were kiiled out in one battle,
and the tribe had to find Q leader in
some other family. The reason, per
Traps, that every brave wants 70 be
chief is because that office gives hiin
power. The word of the chief must be
CbCyed. II he says, XIII that man.
that man must die.
Rather a queer thing happened NOT
long ago ia the Cayuse tribe. The
chief, whose name was Young Chief
DIED. His nearest kinsman was show
o-way. But another young buck, Tow
a-toi wanted 10 be chief He went 20
old Chief Joseph of the NeZ PeTces.
Joseph really had nothing to do with
making the chief or the CayuSes, but
he sent word 10 that tribe that Tow
E-tOi should be their leader. A reporter
for one of the coast papers wrote an
article telling that Tow-a-t0i had been
made chief, and with his story sent ia
the picture Of this Indian. The Cay
uses did rot at once confirm Joseph's
choice. They were in a stew. But one
Of them. CHANGING to be shown the page
on which was printed the picture OF
1ow-a-tOi. took the paper home with
him. At the next pow-wow the Indians
so Trr "a rhnfw
rhief because it said so IN the news
paper.
The medicine man IS a very great
man in every tribe. ] asked an ola
medicine man once how he cured mis-
patients.
NO bottle. jus hand. lie said. IT
say. Yea die, you die: I say. You get
wcli.' you get we'll I no make man
well. he lao give me money.
NO cure. no pay is it, said 7.
Yes. that right I no cure him, he
40 pay.
The Indian medicine men. like ire
Old negro yIrb doctors down south,
arc thought by many whites % have
great power 10 cure. ] asked my med
iciue man friend II he ever treated any
whites. He said 70 ne:
Il doctor some white man Weston
close He be sick one year. One year
poor no meat-all same bone. White
doctor no cure him. [ doctor him one
hour. one day-whole week, Now he
see me. he shake my hand.
Since the days of the priest and the
missionary among the Indians the med
icine-mau has lost some Of his grasp
The Indians now nearly all profess the
Christian religion. and there are many
native preachers among them Who are
looked up to quite as much as the med
icine-meD-
Scouting, too. is what the Indian
likes. War with him is simply hunting
big game. he is built just right for
this business. His eye is keen and his
foot is swift. He viii dare the devil
But even TO be an ordinary Indian is