Evening star., 1934-07-29


younger-are leaving their footprints
something far more substantial than the
sands of time. TO Washington has come
Chief Bull, noted member of thu. Black
feet Tribe, telling how imprints made by men
who belong to a nobility known to centuries
are being assembled to form strange and
significant memorial This memorial, which
has no counterpart, win soon take position on
a distant plain as a standing tribute to a
vanishing race and TO Maj Gen. Hugh l..
Scott, famed military parsonage, who died re-
Gently at Walter Reed Hospital here In wash
ington.
Into construction of the memorial viii enter
stones, pieces of petrified wood and concrete
blocks, each of the latter bearing footprints.
Substantially, it is evident, gives promise TO
preserve the unique monument until days Wnen
the Indians and their tribal customs VIII nve
only in the realm of mankind's history.
The monument, to be erected on the Black
feet Reservation in Montana, where the aged
chiefs of Is tribes met in their last grand
council with Gen. Scott, will be comprised OF
three units AS described by Chief Bull,
brought to Washington by the Smithsonian
Institution to complete the motion picture
dictionary of the Indian sign language" which
Gen. Scott began, the main unit will be COM
prised of the concrete blocks which bear the
footprints These viii be arranged In circle,
with footprints of each member of the grand
council being given position corresponding to
circle
The second unit win be bronze monument
presenting in bronze the figures of Gen. Scott
and Mountain Chief, the latter being the oean
of the tribal leaders who met in the council
The third unit will be a reproduction in con-
crete of a chiefs tepee. Beneath 1t the earth
will be excayated to receive the remains OF
eight chiefs who came to Washington 40 years
ago to discuss Indian problems with the Great
White Father.
n JAMES identifying each pair of impressed
~ foot prints form a roster of the red mans
aristocracy Linked with tribal Affiliations,
they rouse the imagination to paint pictures
of grand deeds and past glories.
Witness them: Black Horse Rider, an As
siniboin; DragS Wolf, an East GroSventure;
Jim White Calf Blackfoot; Tom White Horse
an Arapahoe; Bird Rattler, Blood; Deer
Nose Grow: Night Shoot, a Piegan; James
Eagle. an Arickare: Foolish Woman, a Man
dan. Strange Owl, Cheyenne, and Mountain
Chief, Blackfoot.
Gen. Scott famed friend and adviser of
the men with whom he sat, and of their fathers
rs well. occupied the traditional place of the
ranking chief in the council circle, sitting
opposite the entrance to the tepee. The I'M
prints of his boots, as well as those of Scott
Leavitt and Joseph NJ. Dixon, governmental fig
ures who long have been interested in ad-
vancing the welfare of Indians. will have
place in the memorial circle
Gen. SCOTS mind was the source of the
idea that a monument fittingly might be con-
trfved to commemorate the grand council, and
in a larger sense. the hosts Of roVerS and
fighters reaching far into the past. Just be-
fore the council met, the military called
Chief Bull listed in records of the Indian
Service as Richard Sanderville into a bit OF
quiet conversation
Recalling that conversation as he sat waiting
n few days ago for members Of the Smith
sonian Institution staff to begin motion pic
ture photography Of his sign language move
mentS Chief Bull said:
Gen. Scott asked me to think up something
so as to make q permanent record of the coun-
Gil. hit upon the idea of the footprints in
concrete because in the old days the Indians
made practice of reading footprints the
war path and at all times When they
across the tracks Of any party they would
study the footprints and they could always
tell to which tribe the members of the party
belonged by looking at those prints SO they
knew whether the party was made up of friends