The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-06
"Winona is Here, Winona IS Here
This was the Cry Of Iron Face When he Came Face to
Face With Miss Mary G. Collins at Buffalo Bills
Show.

! were to hear Miss Collins, Iron Face
| offered to call council in the evening
/ If she could come out. But owing to
the weather and her health she was
not able to do it.
Indian Actors Are scorned.
The Indians who act in the Wild
| West show are looked Gown upon and
scorned by their own people. Con-
seouently the aborigines have lost
much Of their interest in the perform
ances that they formerly held. What
they do in the big arena at the show
ground Is nothing like what they do
in their wild state, is the opinion OF
Miss Collins, and she is certainly COM
petent to express one. Knowing that
4 they are practically social outcasts
from their tribes they have ceased to
exert themselves in these exhibitions.
Il AS a general thing the shows pick
4 out the finest looking Indians, both
men and women, but they rarely keep
them over a year or TWO. They re-
turn them to the reservation at the
end of that time in an unfit condition
This led to the great objection on the
part of the government to allowing
Indians to be collected for such ex-
! hibitions. In fact they have issued
an order prohibiting this sort OF
/ thing, but like some ether things
there is always way to evade the
Z n ~
times, through the Indians them
| solves oftentimes. the others are per-
: suaded to join the circus or show, but
) seldom do they last more than two
: years. The mode of living Is entirely
/ different The Indian is not used to
5 being herded in with so many other
D ! people In his wild state he gets a
great amount OF sleep. On the trail.
| In the fields, everywhere, when the
ponies stop to rest the indian throws
2 , himself on the ground and sleeps.
. This is not possible in the busy hust-
9 ling show life of this. generation
. where big jumps and irregular hours
a are the rule. The food too, is natural.
h ly very different. The redmen are
g unable to get the roots and herbs
n and different vegetables they are &C
X customed to on the ranges. This is
. the reason why the Chistian Indians
V the Christian schools, and the leaders
. in them are constantly fighting the
: drafting of the Indian for the wilc
4 west show.
If Some Indian Customs.
IS In speaking of the performance
d Miss Collins said that one little Incl
m dent depicted in the ''On the Trail
" scene in the Battle of Sunni
of Springs spectacle was true to life
+. 1t had to do with courtship. In court
10 ing girl, the young Indian brav
s. makes use of go-betweens. He see
* girl he would like to marry an
AZ tells his father and mother. The
II tell the father and mother of tn
IT. girl and if all is agreeable the youn
~ man is told SO. He then takes spa
re of the finest horse to the father-in-la7
he to be, tying them by ribbons to tn
tent pole. If the horses are taken int
the old chiefs stable, the young ma
60 knows that his suit is accepted an
he takes his bride.
I'm A runaway match Is differen
IA Where there is any opposition tn
% young man endeavors to see the gi
70 and he goes cut with blanket. Whe
he meets the girl he throws til
~, blanket over her and they talk t
VT gether, if no one sees them and
she is willing then thew rim ava
I'd But if anyone sees them they try
nv break up the match And this
;as what was depicted in the encampmel
~ scene. The brave threw his blank
nc over the girl, but one of the old wol
o. en- saw them and ran out and chase
,ye the man away, then she came up
az front of the people and sang her sol
II OF triumph.
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