Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-09-13
really was NV mother. I was asleep.

really was my mother I was asleep. |
could say only one word-'Naonoro'-
so they called me that for my name.
That is all know about myself
Il stayed in the reservation school |
and was a good boy till l was twelve. |
Then the bureau of education sent |
me east to an Indian school 1t in
tended to make a civilized Indian of
me. l attended that school two years.
l was a good boy again and learned
my lessons. But all this time l was
thinking, thinking. The white teach
ers looked down on US Indian boys.
They felt themselves far above U.S.
The people of the village where the
school was looked down on US too.
l looked at myself in the still water
of the river. l shook my fist and i'm
agined I was shaking it in the face
of the teacher l disliked most. I'm
whittier than you are said to him in
my imagination. III run away from
this school,
"a MOki boy and l ran away togeth-
er. We went to his people, and
lived among his tribe. An old Moki
woman with a face like the wrinkled
bark of a brown tree adopted me for
her grandson. l learned to do dances
! and reel off lamentations with the best
of them. 1t was not a bad life. l
would have been happy, but l had
| learned white mems ways. l felt half
white, half Moki. Sometimes the
white man was uppermost, sometimes
the Moki. In one of my white fits l
said: I won't be an Indian. I'll turn
white The white mans learning. the
white mans money and powerfully
shall be mine
81 was seventeen then-reservation
waif, Moki blanket Indian boy. L am
twenty-four now-ccllege senior, mem
Der Of the most extravagant Greek
letter society and--yes, maybe the
fairest girl-but never mind. What l
have done 1 have done all myself.
How? Would these proud white peo-
pie accept me as one of them if they
knew.
"When l was seventeen and had
made up my mind to turn white a
Snowman came among our tribe look
ing for presentable Indians to go in
circus and perform the tribal dances
and the juggling feats of our medicine
men. I went. | made a circus Of my
self. I became a professional snake
charmer and Moki medicine man.
got money enough that season to go to
white boys school as a white boy
I have been doing the same thing sum
mer vacations ever since, and nobody
ever appeared to recognize me till to
. day. I wonder if I deceived the De
CARTS.
THE summer turned white the ole
woman who had adopted me made me
give her my solemn promise that
would come back to her after I lief
school. She told me 1t was of the ut
J most Importance; that she knew how
} to give me power and the hidden treas
r ure Of the Snake Mokis. l am going
l next summer. Old Teresa never told
me lie.
'Now have written my story down
=. 1t is fixed in my mind. My purpose i
. fixed in my mind. Naonoro, the Mok
medicine man, will get riches. He will
marry the lily Of the white people. AM
she will not be ashamed Of him"
=
st suppose our class will never a
! see one another again after this CON
mencement night, Mr.. Noran," sal
: Laura Degart year later.
o Moran looked at her.
Miss Degart, you will see me agai
l if you wish to. l am going away I
make my fortune. Before go I woul
J. like to hear you say, Carl Moran, com
: back to me-"
h "Carl Moran. when you think 70
t have made your fortune come back"
) "Say come back to men'
"Well, then-coma back-to me-"
:
d In the sands, among the cactus an
t sagebrush, in the shadow Of a clii
e., stand two. an aged blanket squa
l. with q face like the wrinkled bark
J. a brown tree and man in white Pc
e pies dress, black haired young ma
s proud with the splendid pride Of yout
/ and power.
= "Naonoro not red Indian" said Il
{. old sQuaw. 'NaOnOrO half white, ha
/ brown Moki Naonoro sure old Teresa
7, grandson. Mother white mans gil
She run away from father with r
T. mono. Teresa's son. She took hi
4 away from Teresa. Teresa very so
e. rowful, but she love NaonOro, R
mono's little child. By m by viii
T. wife tired Of Moki ways. She ha
2 Ramona. Run away. take baby wit
g her. Ramona want son. He look ever
Y place for him, little Moro with the b
/ black eyes, Ramona never find so
u Ramona die. Teresa have no chill
l. But Teresa know white woman woul
e run away by m by. She put mark g
a Noro's arm one day; mark never CON
1t off It is mark Of Teresa's own pc
Is DIa tho Snake Monks Has Teresa