The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-01-12

"eNo INC Niute1 chase LOT ropes. In
pest robes could be obtained only i
the winter season. These hunts wer
always events of the greatest import
ance to the Indians. They absorbe,
MS whole being and were attended b,
every member of the tribe who wa
Fable to go.
The missionaries never ATTENDED
Duffalo hunts. The buffalo rang,
was the common hunting ground o
several tribes, and likewise the bat
tleground. Had the missionaries at
tended they would have appeared Il
De partisans of those they accompan
led, hence they remained away.
Had No Mercy
No Indian" says Father Palla-
dino, "ever felt mercy for an enemy
who fell into his hands. If mis-
slonary were present he would have
opposed the killing of captives-and
would have antagonized the tribe
among whose members he lived"
Father Point once accompanied the
Indians on a winter hunt There
were go in the party. They came
upon and captured II Blackfeet. The
Blackfeet appealed to the Black
Robe for mercy. He insisted that
the Flatheads spare their captives.
They did so, but were highly incensed
with the priest for his meddling.
While the Flatheads, the Nez
Perces, the Occur d'Alenes, the
Blackfeet and other tribes listened
with eagerness to the words of mis-
sionaries and many embraced the
Christian faith, the Cheyennes have
held aloof for the most part.
Evidently the cattlemen did not
look with favor on the missionary
efforts among the Cheyennes, nota-
bly, the st. Latrobe mission, for the
reason, says the author, that the
locating of the mission on Tongue
river, tending naturally, as it did, to
establish the Cheyennes on section
whence the whites wanted them re-
THE cattlemen had large herds
fattening in that region. The atti-
tude of the whites" says the writer,
was made clear by an outrageous
deed at st. Latrobe's, Sept. Is, 1884,
which was reported and commented
On in the Miles City Daily Journal,
September 49,"
They Yanked Him
George Yoakum, interpreter for
he mission, was seized by five mask
I'd men who bound him, at the same |
ime drawing guns and threatening
he priest. Yoakum was dragged |
tut and 'yanked'' and then ordered |
nf f6a ,fx-xr IT, a. 80
IN the affair the Miles City Journal
aid: mo trouble is apprehended
rom the Indians-in fact the cattle
men would rather rejoice at an OPP
ortunity to inaugurate an open arm
d resistance against them and drive
hem from the country"
The missionary-author pays a high
ribute to the Cheyennes. In fact he
GEMS to have found many manly
irtues among the Indians generally. :
The Cheyennes," he says, 'are a
rave people, upright, honorable, of
good morals and excep-
lonally free from the curses of their
elbow -firewater, immoral
y and gambling"
Father Barcelo relates that while
g was at st. Latrobe's some deprav-
cowboys attempted one day to
,rce a Cheyenne woman to take
rink of whisky, holding a pistol to
or head to make her do it. They
lied and the woman's heroic firm :
3ss cowed the villains.
r. e. Upshaw, Indian agent among Y
10 Cheyennes, is quoted as saying
lat "the Northern Cheyenne is pro-
,rbial for the chastity of his wom- :
i"
The unsettled state of the Indians \
suggested as having been an OBJ
acle to their conversion. This feat
e, as we'll as the figurative style :
expression that prevailed among :
EN- Is illustrated in the following '
ON a starving Indian woman who
pealed to the priest for aid: 1--WE :
arve," she said, "and the howlings
our hungry stomachs deafen our q
RS to thy voice; give us something
eat that we may be able to heark-
to thee"
Cheyennes Are Eloquent
1.-THE Cheyennes," the writer says,
urpass every other tribe in natural
'quence and poetic imagery and the
with which they can ex-
ess their thoughts"
On one of his visits to st. Latrobe,
shop BrondeI was welcomed by one A
the head chiefs, Old Wolf. The
hop took down the old chiefs
,ech verbatim.
Said Old Wolf: "There is a noun =
n in this vicinity known to every Il
eyenne. The mountain is high and
ong and many years old. Our fore y
hers knew him as well as we do.
len children we went out hunting
cared not whether we knew the
Y. When men we went out to ri
ct our foes, no matter where they
ne from. Though the way ran
h up and low down, our hearts =,
mbled not on account of the road; -
ause the mountain was ever -
2 guide and never failed us.
When far away, on seeing him our w
rts leaped for joy because the {
nntain was the beacon which told
that our home came nearer. In
inner the thunder shook him from =
d to foot and the fire bored holes -
lis sides. But the noise soon pass BE
away and the mountain stood -
re-.
In winter the storms rushed &c