The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-11-03
THE WHITE DOVE IS NATIONAL
BIRD OF THE 0SAGE INDIANS
Supposed to Have Directed the Tribes Course
From the Lands of Long Ago to the Cont
ncnt Where Peace and Plenty
Were Found

ed believing II the winged messens
ie er returned they would be saved. A
lf Gay break the camp was aroused b
o. ine sentinel cry inat the dove Wa
r again with them. As Id the beg.nninl
q d cTte ed and flew toward the sun
ji returned circled again. and again
g winged 10 The east Still fearful.
G few oi the party were sent forward
g. crossing over the ice 10 the othel
E land. from whence they soon return
ed with bear meat. anu reported thai
game Has plentiful
! To Land OF Peace and Plenty
The travellers had suffered greatly
{ from tie temperature and lack g.
j 1000 OtAcrs os tie band we're sent
forward and thes. too. returned win
bear meat, al the while the faitllfu.
5 aote eirellng in sight In he mean.
2 TINE The water all became frozen,
: and soon tAe dove made swift flights
over the camp. rs II reckoning re.
sumption ot TIE exodus. The good
Dsages took up their march crJss.
lus on The ice to the other land as
they say and on and on. followin.
the dove until tue band had gotten
Well south. whore the atmosphere be-
came baimy again. and the chiefs pro-
GAINED u the promised land
Great ceremony followed including
thanks 10 the ManitOu for their dejiv-
erance from the evil portion OF the
tribe The dove immediately disap.
peared. bat there came others. show
ing the bird hal borne its Kind as Il
blessing and an exponent of peace n
All 81 the earth wao are troubled or
dove IS sacred is the eyes Of those
people.
What became Of the bad Indians? ?r
a listener asked wnen the story was
being reeled off
Don't know maybe die. maybe
i've. don't care, was the response
which contained no additional infoi-
nation.
1t has been figured out that cross
ing, Il the legend has a foundation in /
fact, must have been by way Of what |
is now Bering Strait me route I
through Alaska, AMI the land where |
they halted with the first dubiety as /
TO the Manitou's medicine" was 81
IBERIA. Some times the Osages speak
OF coming over frozen water" other
times ol passing from one land 10 an
other over snow covered ground L
Shores OF Bering Strait, now about 100 Il
miles apart, offer geological indica
tions bearing out the theory that the
continents were once Joined there 4
Indian history. save what the white
man has written ives only In legend,
set there is a well-settled belief. now
ever, with no positive authority. that
the Indians are OF the lost ten tribes
Ji Israel. a recent publication Of the
Bureau OF American Ethnology re-
erring 10 the surmise, SAYS that the
most popular theories are one which |
Identified the lost tribes with the |
Anglo-SaXon. and another which sees
neir descendants in the American |
indian The publication continues
Father Duran III 1855 was one OF
he first to state explicitly that these
latiyes are Of the ten tribes OF Israel
hat Shalmaneser. King of Assyrians II
made prisoners and carried into AS
yris. Antonio de MontZinos, Mar.
no (secret jew. while jOurneying I /
II South America in lG4l claimed L
hat he met savages who followed II
ewish practices. Il
Identification Of the American alb II
ginges with the lost tribes is based II
pom alleged Identities in religions III
ractices, customs. habits traditions III
nd language Adair's history OF the
.merican Indian published in l115,
'as based upon this theory Al en-
lusiastic successor 10 Adair WAS )r Al
iias Boudinot Nllustrious Cherokee III
indian whose descendants noW re
ilewin Oklahomal whose work, a
tar in the West, Or an Humble At II
smpt to Discover the Long Lost Ten III
ribes OF Israel Preparatory TO
heir Return 10 Their Beloved City, III
was published at Trent III
II, \ T.. in 1916 Today the idea III
'ops out occasionally in pseudo III
.ienti1c works. missionary literature III
e., and the friendly interest which III
"a Mormon church has always taken III
the indian is said 10 be due to tais III
slief II may be remarked, however III
e Jews and the Indians have no
lysical characteristics in common,
e two races belonging to entirely III
stinct types III
saues Are The Richest III
The Usage story Of their pilgrim II
e does not halt them ~ any partic'
ar spot II is only where the air
ew bamy and game more plentiful.
.ench traders furnished the first au-
entic record Of them, then along the
wer Ohio river The tribe name is
azhazhe llarge-boned people,. ''Os III
e. was the nearest the French III
uld come in the pronunciation III
nee the present day name. Osages III
G OF Siouan stock. migrated from the ii
lio river country to wnat is now Ar
nsas. Missouri and finally TO Kan III
5 The Oklahoma Osages are from
.nsas, and by virtue of their oil and
5 lands in Usage county. Oklahoma
d their tribal money held by the III
ieral government are per capita,
. richest people on earth.