The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-09
New Indian Pony.

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An Arikara Indian driving his own
car was sent by the association to meet
DR.. Gilmore at the railroad station at
Garrison, and convey him to the vicin-
ity of the old village, where entertain
ment was provided for him until after
Memorial day.
Tbs Scouts association engaged the
Garrison band to furnish music for the
exercises the morning Of Memorial day.
A band concert was given at the place
OF assembly, and when America was
played everyone stood up without
prompting. There followed a prayer by
the chaplain, Paul Yellow Bear Then
the herald, Snow-Bird announced the
orders Of the day. The parade formed
and marched to the cemetery the band
playing dead march. The band rested
at the northeast while the scouts
marched by and entirely around the
cemetery, coming to a rest at the east
and racing the graves. The women and
girls carrying flowers for the graves,
came to a rest on the north side.
FolioWlng the singing of the battle
hymns, the chaplain offered prayer,
after which DR.. Gilmore made an adj
dress in commemoration of the SER
vice of the scouts. the dead and the
living.
Flag Raised.
The nag had been at half-mast all
forenoon. Now it was noon, and the
color bearer of the association adj,
vanced to the Flagstaff, and while the
band played The Star Spangled Ban
ner and the people stood with barred
heads. the flag was drawn up to the
top staff, and so remained until sun
set. - T..
The women now advanced and dec
grated the graves. Then a cornetist
sounded taps, the parade formed and
marched back to the meeting place,
where another concert was given by
the band, after which everyone dis
persed to the tents for dinner.
Community Program.
In the afternoon the people as
sembled in a sheltered spot at the edge
OF the timber, where an organ and
song books had been provided, and a
community program was carried out.
The principal address of the day was
given by DR.. Gilmore. Speeches were
made by the old scouts and by a num-
Der of the younger men, leaders in
their community. Explanation was
made of the war situation and military
registration. Elaboration to loyalty
was the chief note in the speeches
made by the old scouts.
One of the old men said that when
he thinks about the war he wishes
that he was young once more that he
might again serve his country. He
said he could not imagine what the
war of these times would be like, but
he would like to know, and he was
sure that some great good to the world
will come from it all. When he enlist
ed he did so because he thought it
was his duty to serve in the United
States army against the tribes which
We're the enemies of his people and also
the enemies of the United States. He
did not realize. then as he does now
when he looks back at those times and
sees results from that service. He sees
now that his people and the white peo-
pie and the people of the tribes that
were hostile are one people, one nation
and one in interests, working together
in peace. Great good has come that
he never anticipated, more than he
ever expected, out of the service which
he and his comrades did in those days,
and he believes that some good will
come to the world from what the Unit
ed States and the friends Of the United
States are doing now.
Giving of Gifts. .
Community singing was interspersed
with the speeches, and then was serv-
ed a feast, to which all sat down to-
gether. Then there was giving Of
gifts. People gave gifts in memory Of
dead relatives and In their names.
These gifts sometimes were to
individuals; again to organizations of
which the dead had been members.
After. gift-giying the people sang in
English, God be With You Till We
Meet Again, dispersed to their tents,
packed up, broke camp, and soon, all
but a few who lived too far away to
reach home that night were trailing
away over the prairies. on which they
had hunted the buffalo and the hostile
Sioux but a generation ago, but which
now TEEN with prosperous farms and
great herds of fine cattle.
The northwest owes a great debt of
gratitude to the Fort Berthold Indians.
The Arikaras, Mandans and Hidatsas,
always peace-loving, thrifty, tillers of
the soil and good husbandmen, were
ever hospitable to the newcomer.
Preyed upon by the savage Sioux and