Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-08

his life, gives an interesting intimate
picture of his distant youth. He
writes in one place:
when was child Of five winters.
perhaps only four, I prayed to the
spirits of animals, to the stars, the
sun and the moon. My words were
not many, but prayed. l was afraid
of the enemy, Of the dark. My faith
or had heard of the white mans God
through a trader, but nothing clearly.
We sometimes prayed to the white
mans God, who made US and could
make US grow. We had female divin-
tiles above, and we prayed to the
four winds and to the earth that
makes the corn grow. There
many songs concerning these things.
Some of the songs speak of the diff
ferent colored flowers. These things
were taught by great prince, by
the priests of the tribe.
when l was II years of age l had
the smallpox. l was left alone In q
lodge helpless and my eyes were
nearly closed. A bear came in and
walked up to where l was lying. He
sat down with his back pressed
against me and began to scratch his
breast with his forepaws. By and by
he got up and walked out of the
lodge. Was I dreaming or had it
really happened? While I was think
ing it over the bear returned, and,
while 1 trembled with fear, went
through the same motions again, and
then went off, leaving me unframed.
thought surely the bear had mercy
on me. When my father came again
we talked it over and agreed that the
bear pitied me. After that I wor-
shipped the bear, and in the dance l
wore anklets of bears teeth
A Mighty Hunter and Friend of the
White Man
Poor Wolf was a mighty hunter
not according to his autobiography,
though some of his conquests are
modestly related, but according to
other Indians who knew him. One
day he caught twelve eagles, and,
like a successful Indian hunter, he
observed the inviolable rule of bring
ing his eagles hack crying. One Of
the warriors dubbed him Poor Wolf
because he had given the warrior
succor. The warrior dreamed that
lean wolf came to him and told
him that a long life awaited him.
Poor Wolf was the Indian that saved
him from starvation. Hence the
name; for the eros Ventre chief had
made a prophecy and it had come
true.
This literary chieftain always has
been the white mans friend.
II remember" he writes, Saying
to my father, will be a white man
now?' And my father said, Yes
That was seventy-seven years ago,
and have been friend Of the whites
ever SINCE"
Gun-Guardng-House There Too
Gun uarding-Hous also remains
to see his people more closely hem
med in. He is not distinguished for
anything but this, that he has a med
|al from Washington dated 1897. He
got it from Coyote, one of the chiefs
of the Mandan village just north of
Bad Water creek.
The Mystery Of the Fair-haired
Mandans
The origin of the Mandans is much
of a mystery, and students of the
aborignes have been busy for many
ology of the fair-haired Indian. Major
Murphy of Minot, who once was In
dian agent at Fort Berthold, con-
trasts in an interesting way the spec
ulative historical origin with that
told by the Mandans themselves.
"Three hundred years before Col
umbus set foot upon the shores of
San Salvador" he says, land nearly
700 years before the great metropolis
of the west secured the worlds fair
in honor of that event, the Celtic
Prince Medoc, with a fleet of ten
ships filled with fair-haired followers,
sailed away from the Scotch coast
in search of the western islands. The
frail craft disappeared from sight and
history, and no tidings of the chief
tain or crew ever reached their home.
1t was not until the Imagination of
an enthusiastic artist and Indian
traveller was fired by the sight of the
fair faces, blue eyes and light hair
Joined to an unwonted hospitality
and courtesy of manner in remote
tribe on the banks of the upper Mis-
souri, that the missing Maddoc reap
peared, with claims not only to the
discovery but also to the colonization
of the new world. Prince Madoc's
supposed course was traced up the
Mississippi river to the banks of the
Ohio, where the site of his settlement
was sought in the remains of the
Mound Builders; and following the
marks of Indian occupation and re.
PROGRESSION up the Missouri the last
drops of Celtic blood transfused into
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