Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-05-08
DAUGHTER OF CHIEF
PLEASED AT HOTEL
Aged Indian Woman Gratified that
Logan Fontenelle Was Remem-
bered in Naming Edifioe.
DECATUR MEN ARE THE HOSTS

magnificent Fontenelle hotel in
which she dined with her people last
night, Mrs. William Tyndall, dsugh-
ter of Logan Fontenelle, former
chief Of the Omaha Indians, tottered
to her aged feet last night and spoke
TO the fifty Indians and twenty-five
whites of Decatur who held a ban
Guet in honor of the great chief
Fontenelle. The aged daughter of
the martyr chief, whose name the no
tel bears, spoke in her native Omaha
tongue.
Without lifting the lids from her sight
LEGS eyes, she thanked the people who
had built the hotel and who had been so
thoughtful and considerate as to name
II in honor of her dead father. whom
they had never seen.
Glad ChIIdren o.an Enjoy.
Il am almost blind she said, accord
ing to the interpreter. and l cannot see
this great building which the white peo-
pie have built in honor Of my father.
But l am happy that my children and
grandchildren are here, and the knowl-
cdge that they are seeing this great
structure and enjoying it Is as good ITO
me as though l saw it myself / am
thankful to the people for thinking OF
my father when naming this hotel. IL
is especially pleasing to think that those
who never knew him, who never saw
him and who in no way came in con
tact with him should stin honor him in
this way" p
Nipctieth Birthday of chief.
a little group OF business men OF De-
catur gave the banquet. John Il. Elliott
Z. A. Hanson. Axel Johnson and num-
Ler of others headed the enterprise. MIR.
Elliott first began making the arrange
ments for this banquet with the late w
i. Burbank shortly before Manager Bur
hank died Yesterday the Indians, prin-
Clpally direct descendants and relatives
Of Logan Fontenelle, were brought to
Omaha in the automobiles of a number
of the Decatur business men for the oc-
casion 1t was, the celebration OF the
ninetieth birthday of Chief Logan Fonte-
nellie, who was killed near Bellevue while
defending party of women and children
from an attack Of Sioux warriors.
White Horse Gives Advice.
Another speaker who talked in the
Omaha tongue was Chief White Horse, a
descendant of the ancient chief Black
bird. White Horse has passed the four.
score mark in years. He has discarded
the blanket however. and in his talk
told his people to live. the ways OF the
white man. to strive to learn the was
of the white man and adapt themselves
TO them. lie advised them to hold their
r. lands and not let them slip careiessly
ora r n Ia thAtr liz
ings by working the lands.
T.. A. Hanson of Decatur was toast
master. T. r. Sloan. attorney, now prac-
ticing in Washington, d. c., reviewed the
history of the Omaha tribe, and praised
them as a highly intelligent people lie
spoke of them as being a highly moral
tribe of Indians and a tribe with whom
the whites had no trouble even though
the overland trail passed through their
territory in the early days. Mary Nit
chell. r. r. Ashley. Mrs. Harriet Mac
Murphy and Mrs. Thomas MeCauley were
other speakers
Two Comrades Meet.
Thomas McCauley Is a full-blood In
dian. He is a veteran OF the civil war.
having fought in Company ID of the First
Nebraska cavalry. Jonathan Edwards of
Omaha among other visitors strolIed into
the hotel during the evening to hear the
Indians. He learned that McCauley was
present. He got the old brave out in
the lobby and there the two renewed
acquaintance. for they had been COM
rades through the civil war and had not
seen one another since forty-nine years
ago, when they were discharged from the
army. There was no more banquet for
them. They sat in the lobby and talked
Of long marches and battles, related
stories of army life, and mutually re-
called many funny incident with
hearty slap of one another's shoulders.
Tbo~~ who ttkH~dcd.
Mrs. Tyndall was the only direct de-
scendant of Logan Fontenelle in the first
degree present at the banquet. Her
three daughters and a son were present,
however They are Theresa Milton,
Amelia Lovejoy, Madeline Sherman and
Christopher TyndaI. Besides these and
their own smaller children. there were
many relatives Of the Fontenelle family.
such as descendants of the brothers and
sisters of Logan Fontenelle.
Over half the Indian women at the
banquet wore a dark tattoo mark on
their forehead This, among the Oma-
has. is a badge OF royalty. Simplifying
that the bearer is a direct descendant OF
a chief.
similar Party Hrif Century AGO.
While the banquet was being held. Dom
aid B. Allan. son Of J. T. Allan. who
ran the old Herndon house in Omaha in
the early days, showed TO Manager Bur
bank the register OF the hotel for 1855,
which revealed that on March 2S OF that
year, about fifty years ago, a party OF
Indians Joined in a spread at the hig
hotel OF that time, Included in the list
were:
Colonel r. w Furnas, Indian agent;
H. Fontenelle. relative OF Logan Fon-
tenelle; T. Balcolm Mrs. Wade and child.
II. Chase. Alexander Payer. Louis Samo-
see. Michael Sinsea. Joseph LAfIesche
Little Chief Standing Hawk, Noyes. No
Knife, Young Crane. Little Hill, Little
DEBORAH. Whiriing Wind. White Breast
and Young Prophet. John MacMurphy OF
Decatur was also a member OF the party.
WOMEN WORKERS PROTECT