The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04

| FEAST, is PREPARED
A dozen or so of the well-to-dc
Indians of the reservation are, en-.
tertaining their people this Fourth
of July with a banquet and sports
at the cottonwood grove on the banks
OF Snake river on the north side OF
the Ferry butte about ten miles be-
low. Blackfoot. 1t is on the site o!
the old stage station where LIQUID
refreshments were served across the
bar in the old days Of gold mines
and firewater.
| A Feast For All
The Indians who are acting ss
hosts today were in town Wednesday
and Thursday buying out the
grocery stocks, and being stockmen
themselves, they had their riders
round up seven fat beeves and get
them in shape for PEACEFUL slaugh-
ter and places on the altar SO the
meat will be tender and juicy when
the multitudes assemble.
All the tribesmen and their
families are invited to spend the day
at the grove, and there will be sports
and races for old and young in addi-
tion to the feast.
White Friends Welcome
A consultation with leaders of the
hospitable ones brought forth the
information that white people are
also welcome at the events of the dav
including the feast. OF course they
are not especially invited, nor is the
whole of the white race urged to be
present, but those who wish to at
tend are as welcome as the flowers
on the dry farms, and the editor of
this little sheet, knowing the Indians.
perhaps better than good many of
our readers, suggests that if they
attend this event out of couriosity,
they take their manners along with
them and make the same use of them
as If it were celebration of white
people. If you intend going and
staring as you would stare at the
things on exhibit at circus, you will
be out of place and should revise
your plans or remain somewhere
else.
A Place for Courtesies
We suggest that if you go to the
Indian celebration of your own ma
tional holiday, you take your basket
of dinner and be as chummy as you
would be if you went to any other
settlement such as Groveland or
Sterling or Firth. If you carry
kodak, make the same use of it that
you would if you were at gathering
of white people. Would you go up
to- bunch of white folks and take
their picture without doin gthem the
courtesy to say you wanted to snap
them? Would you approach pretty
woman and baby and snap them
without saying by your leave?"
Would you tag around after some
young couples to snap them when
they were trying to lose you? Well,
take your good manners along with
you If you 60 to the Indian celebra-
tion today. If you want to join
some bunch and eat dinner with
them, and put your basket of goodies
in with theirs, you have our approval
If you secure their approval.
Be Their Chums
If you want to get acquainted
with Indians, get somebody to in
troduce you or introduce yourself.
If they hesitate about giving you
their names after you have told
them yours, remember that they are
studying your purpose, and maybe
next time you meet they will have
decided to loosen up little and tell
you who they are. If you will act
just as good-mannered and just as
chummy as you do with white folks,
you will get acquainted sooner and
they will respect you more. We
have case in mind where two young
ladies, college graduates, stood star
ing point-blank into the faces of two
handsome Indian girls, and after
moment, one of the Indian girls said
to the other as if nobody was present,
"They have very poor manners
haven't they!"
The Matter of Picture Taking
If you want to take any pictures,
we suggest that you hand your kodak
to some Indian and let them learn
to use it on you first, and then
perhaps they will take turns with
you. A good way to do would be to
have groups of Indians and white
people in the pictures, to show that
we are getting along well together
and having corking good time. A
group like that, with all Of them
smiling or laughing and some of
them cutting some funny antics
would be worth more than the kind
of pictures that are usually taken
on the sly.
Returning Last Falls Visit
When we had our carnival last
fall, the Indians came in and made
it big success When we had our
chautauqua, we did not make any
effort to get them to attend, and they
did not come. II we 60 out and help
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