Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-10-19
CAprRING INTO
INDIAN LAND

So NJ. G. Crandall, Baraboo, Charles
l.. Brown, secretary of the Visions
Archaeological society, Madison; his
son, Theodore Brown; E. A. Gilman,
Portage: and the writer climbed into
the faithful Hudson, gasoline was
spilled into the tank, and we're Off
The early morn was snappy. Frost
lay in spots, harbinger of the forth
coming boreal blasts. Maple stood
like torches along the way and an
casional cloud floated across the sky
like a galleOn on a boundless ex-
panse.
There was little sound except the
animated conversation of those
aboard and the purr of the motor in
the machine. Portage, Fairwater, Ri
pom, Oshkosh, Neenah, Menasha, and
Appleton were split in rapid success
sion. A loop was made in Ripon for
Mr.. Crandall 10 take his first look at
the old, one room school house in
which the Republican party was born
and pause was made at Oshkosh to
greet .. l.. 5tinsOn, formerly a resi-
dent of Baraboo. He was with The
News a dozen or more years ago
and is now on the staff of the Osh-
kOsh Northwestern.
From Appleton We skipped right
along to ShawanO, me country be-
coming more wild as we neared the
StOckbridge country. The scenery de-
yelOps graciOusly as the road winds
along. Everywhere there is color and
the acreage of corn grows less and
less. The night is passed in ShawanO.
An Hour With a Stockbridae
See Jamison Minnesota Quincy"
was the reply given by all from whom
inquiry was made in Shawano; so we
went TO see this Indian, born in 1849,
now 70 years old. Mr. and Mrs. Quin-
ney live in a comfortable, two story,
frame house not far from Gresham,
the land they occupy once being
part of the StOckbridge reservation.
The land was allotted some years ago
so the reservation was divided among
the Indians, many later selling all or
portion of their holdings. The Quin-
neys have IS acres and on this they
are passing the sunset of their lives.
Mr. Quincy is small of stature,
spirited in speech and sprightly in
all his movements AS he talks there
is a lively twinkle in his eye, a beam
ing expression on his countenance,
and a stirring laugh when an anus
ing incident is related. There are no
full blooded Stockbridges now; they
have lived with the French, English
and other peoples too long 1t is safe
to conjecture that Mr. Quincy had
French ancestors away back in the
past, his spirited manner saying as
much
Pastor of Church With Us
Rev. J. A. McGreaham, pastor Of
the Stockbridge Presbyterian mission
church, joined the company when we
visited the Indians. Quincy is an
expert with sling shot and the min
lister said that when a squirrel peep
ed from behind a tree he is dead so
accurate is the Indian with his di-
minutive catapult. When a rabbit
jumps up he falls dead, the pastor de-
Clared Mr. Quincy does not wait un
til he sees a rabbit squatting in the
grass but shoots him with stone
when leaping through the air.
The Indian stated he raised no hogs
because he could go into the woods
near his home and bring in all the
meat he desired.
Bear in Abundance
The Scotch minister, who had eX-
pounded Presbyterianism at Lowell,
Massachusetts, and Snawano for
many years, told the writer that sew
enteen bear were killed in the re-
gion Of Shawano within a year. This
is an indication of the wildness of the
section.
Mr.. Quincy keeps two COWS, few
young cattle and poultry. On the
porch were piled several bushels of
bright red apples and when Mrs.
Quincy was Intercepted as to what
she did with them she said she quar-
tered them and strung them to
dry.
Corn and Babies
When Rev. Greaham was asked if
the Stockbridges were increasing he
said: yes. during the past year they
have produced two large crops, corn
and babies"
The Stockbridges were first known
as the Housatonic, residing at that
time among the Berkshire hills OF
Massachusetts. They had two villages
then and after Stockbridge (this
name coming from England) was es-
tablished. the Indians were then
known under a new name. When the
French and Indian war broke out in
1854, many of them Joined the Eng
fish which was disastrous. After join
ing the English army maurauding
parties from their enemies invaded
their territory and killed all but 200
of them. The whites. too, were clos