The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-24
RED TOMAHAWK BACK
FROM EAST IS GUEST
OF LIONS LUNCHEON.
Tells Club Hoover Seems Nice
Man and Charlie Curtis Is
Very IndianIike
WEIGH TALKS OF REDMEN
Major Traces Probable Origin
Of Four Tribes That In.
habit This Region

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Red Tomahawk, back from q
triumphal tour of the east. where he
was the guest Of General Charles p.
Summerall. chief Of staff Of the Uni
ted States army, was the guest Of the
Lions club at the DOR luncheon to-
day. He was accompanied by Frank
Zahn, the Fort Yates interpreter. who
was east with him and participated
in the Philadelphia. Chester. Allan
tic City and Washington social
events In which Red Tomahawk was
a star of the first magnitude. The
chief and Interpreter got back at
] l:43 this forenoon.
The chief vas prevailed on to make
q short speech In Sioux. He selected
his visit to President Hoover as a
theme and said he could talk all day
about that, but he knew the Lions
were busy men and couldn't give him
the time. Frank Zahn interpreted.
MY friends" he said. "many years
ago I went to Washington, but I had
a hard time making my mission
known. This time I was given an
hour Of conversation with the presi-
dent Of the United States.
President Hoover appears to me
to be a very nice man. I also had
the pleasure Of meeting Vice Presi-
dent Curtis and took luncheon with
him. He looks SO much like an In
dian that I felt very much at home
with him.
Il am glad today to have dinner
with you. ! was treated so royalty
In the east, I thought the sociability
was at an end when I came home and
! didn't expect this in addition.
Il am not a stranger in the city
OF Bismarck. A good many years ago
I knew most of your fathers, who
were in business here at the time. I
have outlived a good many of your
fathers, probably . I am always glad
to visit the city Of Bismarck and take
dinner with YOU"
President F. B. Strauss assured
the old chief-he is 78-that the
Lions were equally glad to have him
as guest and that the latch string Of
the Lion tepee always was on the
outside when he was in the city and
nothing would please the den more
than to have him as guest.
Dressed in Full Regalia
The chief dressed for his visit to
the Lions. He wor the full buckskin
and fcathered head dress regalia,
freely ornamented with beads in
beautiful colored figures, and he wore
beaded moccasins. He looked very
majestic in an Indian sense and sat
through the proceedings with a dig
nifty no white potenate could hope to
Surpass.
Major A. B. WEIGH. Mandan post
master, by good fortune had been
chosen as the speaker of the day,
with Indians as his subject. He and
the chief had ON Sioux CONVERSE
ton across the table. And whenever
the major In his talk spoke some In
dian word, 1t did not fall unnoticed
on the old chiefs ears.
The major and the chief are old
friends. The major wa but q boy in
his early teens when they first met.
Years afterward. he told the lunch
ers, the chief and he CHANGED to be
present together on some public &C.
casion. The chief studied him in.
tently and afterward told WEIGH he
remembered his face. but could not
recall him until he heard his voice.
Then he recalled the boy down in
South Dakota. near the present city
of Mitchell, playing around the dried
out carcass of q buffalo which wolves
had torn up. This shows. said tile
major. q curious power of impression
which the Indian possesses.
Tells Of Tribal Origins
The major told Of the possible
origins of the Arikaras. the Mandans,
the eros ventres and the Sioux. He
traced the Mandans to Hedoc, prince
OF Wales, whom tradition describes
as an adventurer who set sail in IL
ships from Wales and voyaged south
westward. In It'll. It is possible, he
said. that the prince reached the
coast of Florida or that portion Of
the gulf coast which now is Texas,
and that the white expedition was
submerged in the Indians in succeed
ing generations. The Mandans had
traditions Of the Deluge, the Trinity.
and some crafts that are mainly
white arts.
The Sioux, he said. came from the
east and formed the confederation Of
the Dacotahs-the friendly people,"
six tribes on each t..de Of the Missouri
river after the Assinaboines. the 18th,
had departed northward. The Gros
Ventres. he said. had q tradition Of
coming from under Devils Lake. The
Arikaras. he traced to the Pawnis.
or q remnant Of the Toltecs Of Yucca
tan. a pre-Mayan people.
The major reviewed the five viii
lagos. the wars among the Mandans
and Arikaras and the defamation Of
the former by smallpox. until the
Arikaras were able to drive them out
Of their villages here to the Berthold
country to the north.
O. @. Bran1en. Of the Tribune
proof room. gave the luncheon several
violin selections. accompanied by his
daughter. Esther Mary Brannen. in
Guiding wild Irish Rose" 1.-THE
TWILIGHT Hour" and . "A Little
Scotch"
HE MADE HER TIRED
Portland. ore.-Mrs. Maude Gard
ner has grown tired Of her husband.
Leon One evening last December
tney went to q dance and tripped the
!ignt fantastic for several hours. Came
time to 20 home and lam rot thu