The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-10-23
WILD WEST SHOW COMING.


dams of all sorts with the lOl Ranch
Wild West Show, which will visit
this city for performances afternoon
and night on Saturday. Nov. 7. All
of them are the rurebloodeG people
of the wild old days. Sioux, Crows,
Osages, Sacs and Foxes, Apaches,
Cheyennes. Comanches, Poncas. Paw
nees, Cherokees, Choctaws and Nave
loes are represented in the camp OF
skin lodges which is daily pitched
on the show-grounds. Visitors are
welcomed to the encampment and
many converse freely with the red
men through interpreters. They will
find the Indians as much interested
and amused as they, themselves.
Despite the advantage of civiliza-
ton, the protection of the govern
ment and the benefits Of peace, many
of these Indian nations will soon
exist only in memory. Swiftly the
grim ferryman is reckoning the red
man across the dark river to the
councils of his fore-fathers. The
handful of Ponacs with the show,
for instance, include nearly all the
survivors of the once powerful and
populous tribe. They are lean, sinewy
and tough and literally the fittest of
their race.
The older Indians take keen delight
In r%ecOuuting the days when they fol-
lowed the buffalo herds from place
to place, leading them into traps or
forcing their horses close TO the
fleeing animals side and driving an
arrow into its ~vitals. Then no ra-
tons came gratuitously to them from
the government agent. and they de-
pended on the abundant fish and
game which swarmed in the rivers
or on the uplands and which yielded
an easy subsistence.
Many famous chieftains are enrolled
among the hundred Indians the Miller
Brothers have gathered from many
reservation. With them came wrinkl-
ed squws, young bellies of the wigwam,
gay braves, and napooses, swinging
accomplishing on their mothers backs.
The war dances performed are those
which the government has for years
tried unsuccessfully to discourage
and check. The children are prOhib-
tied by the federal authorities from
watching the fantastic, savage evo-
buttons, in which the old Indians
feign war, pretending to attack and
scalp their enemies and entering into
the spirit of the st~age-battle as though
1t were grimly real.
In spite of the government and in
spite of education, it will be observed
that the Indians cling to old customs
and old traditions. The men remain
strangers to work and refuse to be
introduced. They insist upon the
wife performing all labor, whether
there be one wife. or three. The
squaws carry the baggage, build the
fires, erect the tepees and saddle the
horses. Their reward from their
stronger mates is generally a cigar.
cite, which the squaws relish immense
".
Soup is the most popular dish of
food. It matters little what animal
forms the base of the concoction or,
with one exception, what its manner
OF death. An animal killed by
tightening is Stunned as though it
embocied the spirit of the devil. A
steak sliced from the flank Of q dog
is considered q choice morsel.
The old custom of weird is
still chung to. They are applied in
connection with some peculiar Incl
dent Of the PERSONS life. Thus with
the l0l Raj Oh Show are Girl Bear
Head, Black Mountain Sheep, Big
Turkey, Red Elk White Crane, Bull
Bear, Hiding Woman. White Buffalo,
Wolf Robe. Hooting Owl, Long
Pumpkin, Rusty Foot, Spotted Dog,
Short Tail and Belly Ache.
All the Indians are required to APP
pear IN the parade of the show, which
will traverse the principal streets on
the morning OF the day of the exhi-
bition. They form one of the most
picturesque features of the pageant,
which stretches more than q mile in
length and is q special department of
the big amusement enterprise, upon
which the Miller Brothers have ex.
pended great outlay and effort.
Meats are much improved by
using Redsnapper Sauce. Relish,
Chow Chow or Catsup.-John
Blunt has them.
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