Democratic messenger., 1911-11-04

really was my mother was nsicep
could say only one word -'Naonuro' =
so they called HE that for my name
That IL all know about myself.
II stayed IN the reservation school
and was a good l,oy til | was twelve.
Then the bureau " education sent
me east 10 nn Indian school. Il In
tended to make = civilized Indian ut
me. ] rilcnded ..at ss.hool two years.
l was aOud hoy again and learned
my lessons. i.ui all this time was
thinking. thinking The white teach.
ers looked down on us Indian boys.
They felt themselves far above us.
The people OF the village where the
school was looked down on US too.
! looked 1T myself IN the still water
OF the river. shook my ist and iin
agined ! was sinking II In the face
Of the teacher ! dlsliked most. I'm
whittier than yol ARE. | said TO him Ia
my imagination. III run away from
this school.
"a Moki boy and ran away togeih.
er. We went to his people. and !
lived among his tribe. An old Moki
woman with a face like the wrinkled
bark Of brown tree adopted me for
her grandson. | learned TO do dances
and reel Off incantations with the best
of them. II was not bad life. |
would have been happy, but | bad
learned white mems ways. felt half
white. half Moki. Sometimes the
white man WIS uppermost. sometimes
the Moki. In one OF my white iits /
said: 4 won't he an Indian. I'll turn
white, The white mans learning. the
white mans money and power-they
shall bc mine
II was seventeen thcn-reservation
waif. Moki blanket Indian boy. am
twenty-four now--college senior. mem.
her Of the most extrayagant Greek
letter society and-yes. maybe the
fairest girl-but never mind. What !
have done have done nil myself.
How? Would these proud white peo-
pie accept me as one of them u they
knew
when | was seventeen and had
made up my mind TO turn white q
Snowman came among our tribe look
ing for preseniablc Indians TO go In a
circus and perform the tribal dances
and the juggling feais OF our medicine
men. ! went. ] made n circus Of my
self ] became professional snake
charmer and Moki medicine man. /
xNf v,arn shnt IN IN 40 m
n white boys school "a white boy
| have been doing the same thing sum
mer vacations ever since. and nobody
ever appeared TO recognize me till to
day wonder n | deceived the Do
CARTS.
"Tlie summer I turned white the old
woman who had adopted me- made me
give her my solemn promise that !
would come back TO her after ! left
school She told me II was Of the ut
most Importance: thar she knew how
to give me power and the hidden treas
ure Of the Snake Mokls. r am going
next summer Old Teresa never told
me lie
sNVM U INV NIilttu Np"h
II is fixed IN my mind My purpose Is
fixed IN my mind Naonoro. the Moki
medicine man. will get riches He will
marry the i,r Of the white people. and
she will NOT be ashamed OF him"
'I suppose our class Will never all
see one nnoiher again after this com
mencemcni night. Mr. Moran" said
Laura Degari year later.
Moran looked nj her
miss Dcgart. yon will sec me again
n you wish to nm going away In
make my fortune Before | 20 ! would
like 10 hear you say. Carl Moran. come
back 10 me :"
"Carl Moran when YOU think you
have mi. dc your fortune come back "
SAY come hack 10 me-"
well. t,i"r-cOna back to me"
In the ~ar.!s. among the cactus and
sagebru>l in the shadow OF n ciin
stand two m aged blanket squaw
with y Face like The wrinkled bark of
brown irrt. and man in white iien
pies dress. - black haired young mar
proud with tho splendid pride ~ youth
and power
"Naonorn nol red Indian" said the
old sGiaw ''Naonorn half white. half
brown M0ki Naonoro sure old Tcrcsa's
grandson Mother white mans girl
She riin away from father with Ra
mono Terrsa's son She took him
away from Teresa. Teresa very sor
rowful. hui >he laveeANaonoro. isa
mono's little child by IN by white
WIFI tired ~ Mpki ways She hnIc
Ramna0 l:un away. take baby with
her ;auDn" want son lie iunk every
place for him little Norn with the blr
black eyes Ramona never find son
Ramona die Teresn have no child
But Teresa l;now white woman would
run away nv y. 10y She put mark on
Noro's arm one day: mark never come
of II IL niark of Tcrcsa's own l.o
t,la eha Gu4sla kfnEIe Has fraesS.l'e