Arizona republican., 1920-04-18

1 of the Current Opinion in which he is | regarded as the true aesthete in ! America.
 THE INDIANS OF THE PLAINS 1 Let us view the Indians as the white
 man found them wandering in tribes over the painless prairies of the west . ern plains.
 1 There are many, many different | tribes of Indians. Each tribe is called 1 by some peculiar name such as Snake, Crow, Blackfeet, and so on These 1 Indian tribes wonder from place 10 place, sometimes following the buffalo over the prairies. At other times they travel through mountains going on horseback and afoot through dark gulfs and sombre gorges, beneath splintering precipes and emerging at last upon those beautiful but perilous hunting grounds. Here they stay and hunt until they get the supplies that they desire and then they move on
 The buffalo supplies the Indians With
 almost all their necessities of life
 They supply them with food, clothing,
 strings for their bows. with boots for
 crossing the streams, and many other
 things.
 War is the Indians religion Against
 most Of the other tribes they cherish
 deadly hatred. Many times a year
 in every Indian village the Great
 oPAA1 AS CdiiSd upon, IdSIS are lf1dQS,
 the war parade performed and the
 warriors go out against the enemy.
 The Indians are a very superStitious
 people. They greatly torture them
 selves at certain seasons believing that
 II they do this they will secure the
 favor of the Great Spirit and also gain courage and endurance.
 Before entering upon mature life each of the young savases subjects
 hlmself to certain fasting and calling
 upon the Great Spirit. The young man paints his face, finds an obscure and out of the way place in some cave or cavern. Here he lies for days with out touching food and praying to the Great Spirit In dreams and visions produced by this weakened and excited state, he fancies that he sees super natural revelations. Sometimes he lmagines that he sees an antelope which talks to him-this is a sign of peaceful life. Sometimes it is a grizzly bear who advises him. this fires the young man with the ardor of war The visions beheId during the perlod or this ceremony usually de- termine the whole course of an In- dians life, because he is bound by iron superstitions
 Indians have queer ideas about death and punish themselves severely when one of their relatives dies or is Killed in battle. The women sometimes go to the extreme of gashing their limbs with knives. Indians are very treacherous. When a white man was in an Indian camp he had to be al- ways on his guard. He never knew when some Indian, no matter how friendly he might seem, would try to scalp him, if he found him unarrned and off his guard.
 Each Indian tribe has at least one chief and sometimes several. These chiefs dress is very queer. They shave and paint their heads and from the tuft of hair remaining on the crown dangle several eagle feathers and the tails of rattIesnakes Their cheeks are daubed with vermillion. 1 Their ears are adorned with green glass pendants, necklaces of grizzly | bears claws are hung around their | 1ecks and a number of large wampum 1 necklaces hang on their breasts The l indians paint their faces different col | DTS some Of which are red, green l White and black, all are painted and l ntermingled in variety of designs
 The savages wear very little cloth | ng- Their dress is generally composed | 't d scanty cincture around the waist l md a buffalo robe thrown over their | houlders- They carry quivers at their | packs, lances and tomahawks in their lands. Indian warriors are on an Lverage of about feet tall and are 'ery 1.-the and graceful. The Indian .hiefs have many queer names sucb IS. Wh1rl Wind, Red Water, Eagle 1 leather, Mad Wolf, Big Crow, etc.
 The chief generally keeps only one if his many squaws in the lodge with himself. He keeps his other wives and avorites in another lodge. The lodges re composed of slender poles covered with buffalo robes. Hung around the odges are rude garments of skins and yer the resting place If the chief is ung his bow, quiver and lance. These all lodges are erected in a circle, thus orming an Indian village
 When savage's squaw displeases i'm he orders her out of the lodge, hrows her clothing after her and an- rily tells her to go back to her father. uch IS the divorce of the Indians.
 The Indians eat at all times of the lay, sometimes having as many as 20 heals a day. If a visitor does not at each time he greatly offends the enerouS host. who at once becomes ostile. To eat at dog feast is a very onorable affair in the eyes of an ndian. ;
 When the warriors and chiefs de- ide to move they merely tell their 1 quaws so. The squaws' in their turn ( ill remove the coverings of the lodges l nd load them on the ponies who are landing patiently by. Then they take p the poles and fasten them to the des Of the ponies. Next they gather 'gether their kitchen utensils. such as cities, stone mallets, large ladies of orn, buffalo robes and cases made of l g ainted hides, filled with dried meat f nd other articles. During all this c lstle and confusion each warrior sits f 1ietly on the ground by his dying fire t among all the confusion ] olding in his hand the long trail rope g his horse When the sQuaws have V all their preparations the v ibe moves on. When they arrive at | r le desired place the squaws again Ii ect the lodges. They carry all the ood and do all the work except the V lnting and fighting. An Indian k oman would be disgraced and an n itcast from her tribe if she allowed n IT husband to do any work.
 In an Indian camp men, women and r, aky-eyed children swarm like bees. u undreds of dogs of all sizes and col u s run restlessly about. Ugly old ft omen with hair streaming loose in fl Q wind run about screaming at each u her. With the cracked voices of the 1 hags, the clamor of the dogs. q