Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-09-12

there reminder of another friend of the Pill
gflihs. IL Is granite monument with Il bronze
tablet bearing this inscription: "Samoset, an
indian Sycamore ofgPemaquid who welcomed the
English at Plymouth, gave a deed of the land
where this stone was quarried, and of that where
1t stands. to John Brown of New Harbor 18th
July, 1925 and acknowledged 1t before Abraham
Shurte, 1t being the first deed properly executed
IN New England" One other New England statue
which should be mentioned before leaving that
part or the country is the famous bronze by
cyrus r. Dallln. THE Appeal to the Great Spir-
It," which stands before the museum of fine arts
In Boston, This was the last of a series of four
statues made by the famous sculptor more than
twenty years ago which represented the racial
tragedy in which national life began The
flrst THE Signal of Peace" stands In Lincoln
park, Chicago, and represents the friendly meet
ing OF white and red man. 1.-THE Medicine Man"
In Paramount park, Philadelphia, depicts the red
mans suspicion of the invader while protest,
SHOWS the warfare OF the tribesmen against set.
tiers. THE Appeal to the Great Sniritn illus
trates the surrender OF the Indian not to human
enemies but to a higher friend One other OF
Dalns symbolical scuptors should be added to
the list of his masterpieces. 1t Is 1.-THE Scout,
which stands in Penn Valley park lii Kansas CITY.
Mo, an appropriate locale, for this was the east
ern terminus of the Oregon and Santa re trails
and the mounted Indian is looking over the vast
empire where he made his last stand before the
onrush Of the white settlement OF the West
The recent unwilling Of the Chance monument
In Virginia Is reminder that Pocahontas one OF
the two great Indian hernines in American hjs-
tory, was not the only one whom Virgnans have
reason to hold In grateful remembrance The
statue OF Pocahonfas, which stands on jamestown
island Is perhaps the best known of all Indian
statues. To see the memorial to another Indian
heroine Ipnr t.a
to City park In Portland Ore There stands
Sakakawea, her hand outstretched to the west
pointing the way as she did more than n hun
dred years ago when she guided Lewis and Clark
on their famous expedition into the wilderness
North Dakota also has honored the memory OF
this Indian girl with statue which stands ON
the grounds of the state capitol at Bismarck Vir-
ginla however, Is not the only state which had
Pocahontas. Near the town of Benton, Tenn.
stands carn OF stones bearing marker with
the following inscription: an Memory of Nancy
Ward, Princess and Prophecies OF the Cherokee
Nation. The Pocahontas Of Tennessee The Con-
slant Friend of the Pioneer, Born 173S-Djed
1892"
In the Congressional cemetery in Washington
d. G., stands a monument which is not only
unique In that burying ground of notahles of our
nation. 1t Is also memorial to an Indian war.
rior and statesman said by many to be the great
GOT " al MS race Known 10 the white man and
honored at the time OF his death with military
funeral accorded only those ranking as general
officers Of the United States arrny-the only rod
man In history to have been paid such a tribute
Engraved on the plain shaft that marks his bnrv-
Ing place are these words: "Pushmataha n choc
taw Chief lies here. This monument to his
memory was erected by his brother chiefs who
were associated with him In delegation from
their nation In the year 1924 to the government Of
the United States pushmataha waa warrior
of great distinction Tie was wise In council clio.
1uent to an extraordinary degree and on All ocea==
sons under all circumstances, the white mans