Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1919-01-16
INDIAN CHIEF. 73
ROYALTY MARRIED
FULLBLooD OSAGE AND WIDOW.
ED DELEWARE TRlBESMAN
CELEBRATE ACCORDING
TO OLD CUSTOM
ALL join IN .OANCING FOR A week
Old Ones Hop to Hurdy Gurdy, While
Young Folks Do Latest Steps

Tulsa, Okla.-A Prince of royal
Indian blood has been married and the
Osages are making great occasion
Of it out in the hills where onlyIa few
of the fullbloods are left.
Chief Aenry Spybuck was married
in Tulsa, according to the ceremony
| of tho white man, but the celebration
that followed was revival of the ira.
ditions of the red men. 1t was not eX.
actly romantic affair, for Chief Spy.
buck is 7S years old and a widower.
AID his bride, Nancy Caesar, a full
D.ood Delaware, and almost the last
If her tribe, is 68 years old and also
has been married before.
When Chief Spybuck and his bride
to be came to Tulsa to take out the
marriage license and go through the
ceremony the white mans law re-
quires Of them, they were dressed i'll
the garb of fuilblood Indians.
There was procession through tho
streets from the railroad station to
the courthouse, but Chief Spybuck
might have been walking alone in the
primeval forest for all the notice no
took of it. Men and women, dozens of
them followed the trail Of the Indian
party, led by the aged chief himself.
Children were in the procession and
boys ran along the sides of it, but the
old chief did not see them.
Spybuck wore the gaady garb of the
fullblood Usage chief, for he is still
clief in that tribe. A tall feather head
dress topped his crown and about his
form, regardless of the sweltering
weather was the inevitable blanket OF
bright colors. He wore buckskin trou-
sers. hef Willy fringed, and moccasins
with many beads. His attire was Ir.
dian made and not from the white
mans factory.
Six PAGES behind him walked the
bride. Other Osages were in the line
among them daughter of Chief Spy
buck, dressed so much like the girls
Of the city that one could not have
distinguished her from the girls of the
white race except that her skin was
darker.
At the courthouse Chief Spybuck
took the pen in his hand, held it awk-
wardly and under the direction of his
daughter made his mark on the page.
The bride to be did the same. Then
the daughter signed as a witness in a
clear hand as legible as any.
From there the Indians made their
way through the crowd that mad gath.
cred to the office of Justice Lee Dan
iels, where the wdding took place.
They left the courthouse as they had
come. walking in the same order.
Chief Spybuck leading, his bride fol-
lowing, and the others in the party
coming behind, all in single file. No
'wo of them walked abreast at any
time. Three hours later the entire par
~ left the city, bound for the Usage
bills.
In his home in Usage county Chief
Spybuck lives very much as sis ances-
tors lived century ago. His home is
a tepee of dried skins, and although he
is the owner of handsome house, well
furnished and having all the modern
he scorns to live in it.
He could not sleep in bed, but only
on the ground in his tepee, his nsd o.
skins is as good as he asks.
Hanging inside the tepee Of Chies
Spybuck are so scalps. taken many
years ago. Most of them are from thu
heads of Indians, although some are
r ainly from the heads of white men,
and others have upon them the long
hair of women. Chief Spybuck never
speaks of them, but sopetim-s be sits
and looks at them long time.
The marriage celebration Of the
Osages probably is bei.g fully otserv-
ed for the last time by Chief Spy
bucks wedding party. The fulibloods
u tho tribe are not numerous and on
ly the older ones cling to the customs
of the past. They dance to the hurdy.
gurdy on the greensward, but at the
same time the younger ons, back from
school and their farm work over dance
to orchestra music in the fine house
owned by Chief Spybuck which he
n yer uses. t.