The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
Gipson in Iodian Journal.

(Continued from Last Sunday.)
 The stray boy became a great man among the tribe as a medicine man on account of making the discovery The Indian doctor believes one of twins is always a doctor by nature and the In- dian women when leaving their cave homes had brought along a few seeds of corn which they planted near their camps. In this way they raised corn each season to make sofky which was and is today a great dish with them. Travelling across country to the At lantic coast they came to a large stream known by the present living Indian as the Mississippi River, which the In- dians named Yellow River. Here the Indians had q lot of trouble getting across, losing a lot of their plunder, among which was their seed corn. That summer they done without their sofky which was a hardship, but one day lot of young men volunteered to go back over the old trail and see if they could not find some of the corn lost. They travelled several moons and at last came to the banks of Yellow River, and looking a,ross they saw to their great Joy ripe corn all along the banks where the seed had hoated down stream and lodged along the bank, taken root and bore great ears of corn They sent a courier back to the great camps while the others went to work building great
 
 the corn across to tkeir side. By the time the great delegation came up to assist in gathering the crop the young men had gathered and fioated over ev- cry ear that could be found. In this way the Indian corn was preserved to the present day. Tie Indians then broke camp and emigrated South to a warmer climate where, being sat- isfied with the climate and hunting, they remained until Columbus came upon the scene Long before Columbus came over the Creeks were known as the Spo-ko-gee's and were warlike people and there were but few tribes who could stand a hack with them in battle. Beiag strong in warfare they conquered tribes and captured and adopted their victims In this way the Creeks or Spo-ko-gee's were the strong est tribe in either North or South Amer lea, and that today accounts for towns in the Creek Nation. There were only four tribes at first and these were later called the Spo-ko-gees. What are now called owns in the Creek Nation were once great and independent tribes and at one time when these Indians came forth from the great cave there was a disag cement and these rebelled A great many left their camp and tray eled to other hunting grounds; little squads would leave at night and roam over the country until great many be-
 
 away from the big camps they would adopt language of their own. In this way a great many tribes and languages were adopted and that plan has held out even to this day.
 As to wearing skin clothes, a young man was passing along a stream that literally swarmed with otter and beaver and he thought how nice it would be to be clothed as these animals, so he shot several of the animals and skinned them with his split cane knife and took them to his camp where ne figured on how to soften the hide While engaged in a brown study he saw his bed of deer skin which had seen long usage and he saw that friction had caused soft places in the old bed. so he con- cluded that he had struck the right idea. He took up the old hide, damp ened 1t and proceed ed to use friction, first with a rock, then with a split cane. By the time 1t was dry from constant rubbing 1t became very pliable and in this way the Indian became tanner, and here dressing skins was discovered. After deer hides were dressed the hide was bleached, but living in tepees and smoks being confined therein 1t was found that smoke color4d the hide vel low so he learned to color his DuckSkin by smoke.
 About the time that the Spo-ko yee's were strong and powerful there was a BTS6L tEApc thdt ihHdUllcIu GNoIlh Aiuci
 lea known as the Mound Builders. To- day this tribe consisted of a great many tribes and were the largest tribe in either North or South America and on account of their numbers were dreaded by all other tribes. These people were lighter complicated than other tribes and having often heard of the Spo-ko- gees prowess and aimed to engage them some day in battle. In rambling about they came across the great Spo- ko-gee camp and one night they held council of war and decided to have an engagement with the Spo-ko-ge They sent a delegation to barley with them and warn them of what the Mound Builders wanted so the next day the Spo-ko-gee's being very cunning in war