The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
IT'S JUST FOR FUN
Why Princess Bright Star Fol-
lows a Show.
Wants to SEQ the World and
Meet Her People.
EDUCATED AT CONVENT
She Talks IntelligentIy ON Any
Subject.
Expects to Go to Europe Next
Year.
EDUCATED AT CONVENT

! :" Oh, how 1 do wish the States took
care of their Indians as England does
| In syllables as clear as a bell, with
infection that no Anglo-Saxon could
better, these words fell from the lips of
a princess-a member of royal house
long ago uncrowned.
Wah-Ta-Waso is her name. Bright
| STAR" this means in the language that
you and I speak. And it fits her as the
dew does the rose.
Hers is a tribe once proud and famous
the people our Pilgrim fathers met
when first they trod the sands of Massa-
chusetts beach = the Iroquois Indinas
Her family was one of chiefs and rulers.
She might in other days have been a
Minnehaha. For the words fell not less
musical from her lips than they did
from the maid which Longfellow sang
about. Hers is the real Indian beauty.
She has the grace of bending willows
and Swaying reeds.''
Any drawing room would be a home
to her. She could grace the society of
any smart set and with a pardon for
descending to race-track language, it
would be a safe proposition to give her
opponents any sort of odds, and bet that
she would be more interesting than nine
tenths of her white sisters in their gar
nishments of lace and silks.
This little woman, it wouldn't be fair
to tell her age, but then she is close to
the one-score mark, is at the fair
grounds behind a curio cuntain, at the
exhibition of the Miller Brothers, 1O1
ranch show. But she is not there be-
cause she is poor and in that manner
earns her living, no, she is rich, and
very much so. She is not there because
she loves the show" life. She is not
| there because her people believe in such
vocations-no, not at all, for her people
frown upon such life. She is there of
her own choosing, to see the world, to
meet its peOI e, to acquaint herself with
the customs of all people in different
iands-to learn Chats the word), just to
learn.
She only Joined the Millers on Tuesday.
While travelling with her sister through
Omaha she became very i'll and lay in a
hospital for five weeks. When she re-
covered she was not strong enough to
continue a contemplated journey o Eu-
rope. Meeting a member of the Millers
show she was asked to join them and
sell curios. She accepted the offer and
will remain with them for little while.
Il think that 1 will stay until next
spring" she said, land then 1 will go
on to Europe with my mother and nv
two sisters. We want to see many things
of the old world. They are so interest
ing to read abut you know, and one
longs to see them, to tread the halls
where men famous in letters. in law, in
government and all history once WerI. 1
love such things and that is why want
to go.
81 was educated at Notre Dame Uni
versity a Catholic convent at Montreal
in Canada. After I had finished school
began to travel. My people do not
! believe much in showing off as the
people in the States call it. I say this
in explanation of how am here. Then
I want to see the country. 1 want =
meet people. 1 want to learn every
thing 1 can.
Last summer 1 was at the st. Louis
| fair for three months in a booth in
the Manufacturers Building. My
mother didn't want me to be there, but
| I went because I knew that in that
way 1 could see much of that great
exposition.
Tell us something about how Can
ada, or England takes care of its In
! dams % was asked.
! oh she cried quickly and sudden
| ly, her face serious and showing an
utter intentness on her subject, "how
do wish the States took care of their
Indians as England does. Up there we
have our reservation, just as you do
| here. But there, however, we Indians
can only sell our land to each other,
never never outside of the tribe. Here
| the Indians can sell to anyone, at any
| time, and do Just about as they please
| THAT is what destroys their wealth.
| That is why so many of them are made
| poor. My family is wealthy just for
| this reason. The land has always be-