The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-08-11
CROW NATION MUCH EXCITED OVER OIL
ON RESERVATION; MANY EXPECT WEALTH;
TROUBLE is ON OVER IMPORTANT LEASES

Uncle Sans walking soldiers" as
the Indians called the United States
infantry in the 70's, to the Indian
Of today.
While he still wears a blanket in
his council, has his hair in two braids
and bears the golden brown color of
his fOrebears, and while his sQuaW
still paints her face and wears moe
~casins, the Indian of today is fire.
quently an educated man and Oft
times a successful farmer, careening
along the roads in his "fiery Ford"
or hauling to market behind a we'll
groomed team, his load of produce.
The well-watered valleys along the
Little Big Horn river and other
streams that flow through the reser-
walton are dotted with the fertile
farms of the red man.
The sQuaws paint their faces Just
as do their white sisters, but in a
different manner, and probably with
a different purpose. Instead of
daubing a blotch of pink on each
cheek, the squaw paints her face
from the cheek bones upward, smear
ing a yellow coloring about the eyes
and streaking her forehead with red.
A few days ago in Lodge Grass a
young squaw sauntered into the viii
lage grocery and ordered a nut sun
dae. She wore a faded cotton blan-
ket, a bingham Mother Hubbard"
and a bandana handkerchief about
her head. On her feet we're mecca
sins and her ankles were wrapped
with strips Of chamois skin. Having !
finiChod har ion araon che Wonf fn I
the photograph, picked out a record
a selection from Rigoletti,
put it on the machine and hummed
an accompaniment as the record vas
firing of the classical she put on a
trot and danced in time to the
music. Having concluded her flight
INTO the realms of culture, she bought
huge can of coffee and one of bak-
ng powder, two standard purchases
lmong the Indians.
"TheSe Indians are intelligent peo-
lie and many of them are well edu-
said M. E. Mccarthy, an old
Butte man, formerly connected with
he Butte College of Telegraphy, but
low the editor of the Lodge Grass
Independent, a publication recently
established on the reservation.
There are many schools open to the
indian and they have been taking
dvantage of them" t
The Crows cling to the old style of {
.omenclature in the naming of their t
hildren. One meets with such names t
S yellow Brow" BIRD Above" S
BIRD All Over the Ground" Q
mong the warriors, while squaws b
ear the fanciful names found in the 6
Id Indian romances. b
The men and women are fine types
f the physical. The bucks possess II
lassical features and fine width of .
boulder. The squaws are not conf E;
letely civilized for there is not a !,
nee-length skirt on the reservation. -
While not startling beauties, their II
are comely enough to bear =,
OF unfavorable comparison with ~
leir white sisters. ~
On a Milwaukee train, passing !;
the Bad Lands, a tall swar- -
ly man came into the smoker and =,
,ated himself beside a d~isgruntled ~
1pearing traveller, who was staring 4
1T at the seemingly amending sue e.
,ssion of little buttes, tide washed y,
Id weather-worn into many fantas- =.
C shapes. II
"a rotten looking country. No -,
onder they call it the Bad Lands"
i'd the disgruntled one The swar- =