The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

utas. a national organization, has
"a $4,000. congress has supplemented
nm bv an equal amount, the statue
>>einv made and will be dedicated
tine during the summer. n the
Iof these facts 1T is interesting TO
that there is lost in the wIlds
,e Northern Mech of Virginia, but
<le back of jamestown, q remnant
Id tribe of which The Indian prin-
who was tn best friend 10 the
settlers was member. In thai
nent of a tribe is preserved in
! fs purity the very blood of the
p girl who saved the life IF Cup.
John Smith and The COLONY from
he. There is in the tribe today Il
of II girl Of - who - the very
prDart OF the Pocahoutas OF ais
Each year the people of the tribe
themselves in costume and por-
the scenes Of early times as re
Isiy as do the peasants at Obcr-
,rgau in the Passion Play. On
occasions the young girl of the
Ankey river forcshadows more near
h|r original Of the Indian maiden
ubolds first place in the affections
ymericans than has any artist or
r of fiction. She is the Poca-
enty-four miles 10 the cast of
,v,nond winds The Pamunkey river,
'Alg parallel with the James. 1t
\ Its name from the Indians who
floated their canoes on its bosom
Thousand years. Upon its banks
grown some Of the first tobacco
ihe coloDists ever circulated among
elves as money pr Seat Back to
reynd for sale at fancy prices. In
slal davs ths region to the inland
= vastly more important than that
d jamestown. which was at best
Temporary post. Here the great
IS with the red men were fought
lerc magnificent plantations were
u5ped On the bank Of the Pa
rey within Il mile of the aboriginal
Int, stood the so-called White
!. where young George Washing
Ielebratcd his wedding with the
NJ Gusts. which had Just taken
IN ,at st. Peters church near by.
"a Protected Native People.
most strangely historic of all the
that have transpircd on tho lazy
nkcy is the manner in which that
has protected and maintained a
icnt OF its native people, tucked
nj in a crook of one of its elbows,
is bend it has isolated body of
containing some 500 acres. All
!. of it are protected by the breast
n of the stream with the exception
y narrow neck that ties 1t TO The
and. Here the little band has
.Nled in maintaining itself through
issing centuries. The narrow neck
...een The scenes of score OF Their
aes in its race history, and all
'"'been won. Here today live ITO
lis, free, wild people, subsistlng
ly u-on fishing and hunting, main
,~g their tribal government, glory.
the blood of their fathers and
Zig it pure from the contamination
Der races. The tepee has given
4 to the lumber-built houses, scat
nondescriptly about the rcscrva-
e At home they have come to live
S ms do the whites of the section,
therwise the life is nor greatly
snt from what is WIS before Co
US went voyaging.
rhatan, the great chief Of colonial
had succeeded in uniting thirty
in tidewater Virginia and Mary
tnder his control AT his call werc
.oraves. Of these one-eighth were
nkeys. this being his homo tribe
-trongest of them all. Powhatan
general Of no mean ability, as
|h6blonists learned to their sorrow.
Vuontas was his fair daughter, who
Y TO be honored.
Ml Greater Than Powhatan.
Nv among the Pamunkeys there is
reater than Powhatan. Opochan-
. Oh was from the very heart Of
A home settlement, was n brother
QIi whatnn and his successor. 1t was
10 led the massacre of 1922. 1T
= who, when over a hundred years
insisted on being carried on a
qto the battlefield and directing the
uWhen so old that the lids of his
Nhust be raised by the fingers of
lived ones that he might see. Be-
of these great deeds Opechanca-
Is ranked as greater than Pow
soon the Indians came to recog-
he prepondernnce of the gods Of
bite men aud submitted to them
amunkey has never recognized the
ority Of any man. Men, they hold
1t the instruments of their gods,
gods also give magic to their
ms and they conquer again
gh the force Of this magic. The
OF the white man, as shown
IN the execution Of their weapons
fsupenor to the gods of the red
They bowed to those gods and
fter sought to placate them.
has been nearly three centuries
X The Pamunkeys yielded to the gods
HP white men and turned TO their
H atlon in the bend Of the river
~ tribes stronger and more numcr,
tM Rve disappeared, but the Pamun.
III pave remained. There was about
%bome quality that refused to yield
T. ITO the, oblivion of the vanquished
}and they are still intact. Their
ment Is officially known as In.
IA Fown. and is located in King VIII
They live so quietly thai
years ago the congressman from
IiHtrict denied their existence. Yet
vi. batter of fact, the tribe has beer
Epnchauging for 200 years. It is
El1l0 strong, and the numbers have
Ypractically at that figure for two
Mes. A stalwart, wiry race. still
? "a to the core, it has maintained
Z distinct in an eddy of a vast
alton that has built up about il
Maintained Itself.
is the only tribe in Virginia tina
lintained itself as such. and ther,
W like it east Of the Mississippi
nds are held under a grant from
ate. They are owned in common
&c privilege of occupying q givel
is given by the chief and hi
The tribo governs itself through
md regulations that are made b,
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