The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 10, 1935, Page 3

BTHOPUAN CRSS IS [Glory of Sioux Is REVIEWED BY YOUNG Friction Over Boundary Lines|creat Poetry of Bible Loses Was Direct Cause of Way, Rotarians Told Friction over boundaries indefinite- ly set in a treaty has been a direct cause of the present Italo-Ethiopian war but the small concessions in Africa given Italy by the Versailles treaty have greatly aggravated the present crisis, C. L. Young, chairman of the N. D. Bar board, told mem- bers of the Rotary club at their regu- lar noon luncheon Wednesday. Great Britain and France received concessions totaling about 1,000,000 square miles in Africa after the World ‘War while Italy received only small portions. The rapidly increasing Italian population has outgrown the Italian peninsula and Tl Duce is aa for room for expansion, he sald. Ttaly first sent troops to Italian Somaliland and Eritrea three years ago to protect concessions in Africa when trouble arose over the settle-| fy ment of boundary lines fixed unter- tainly by the treaty. The trouble has increased rapidly until it threatens to pe el all of Europe in another con- et. Young traced the history of the ‘Ttalian government's actions in Ethi- opia from 1869 when the first trade privileges were granted to the present day. He was introduced by L, H. Richmond, program chairman. George T..Humphreys reported on the Rotary International Round-up held at Minot, attended by 140 Ro- tarians from four Canadian and five North Dakota cities. Eleven Bis- marck Rotarians attended the meet- ing. Dr. R. 8. Towne appeared on the ‘program. Guests of the club Wednesday were Maurice Schumacher, Minneapolis; ‘H. Taylor, St. Paul; and Ed Walsh and G. A. Hample, Bismarck. Rotary Scout Troop Has Outdoor Meeting An outdoor meeting in Pioneer Park was held Wednesday night by Boy Scouts from Rotary troop, No. 3. Merit badge tests in nature study were passed by Gordon Arntson, Rus- sell Rohrer and John Solberg. Ray- mond McCullough, Gerald Priddy, James Ozar and Herbie Rosen com- pleted tests in fire building and cook- The troop has made plans for a number of inside and outside scout-| ing activities for the fall and winter months, according to Scoutmaster Gideon Hample. SOUTHEAST EDUCATORS MEET Jamestown, N. D., Oct. 10—(@)—A |own river they seem contented with three-day convention of the south- east division of the North Dakota Educational association will open here ‘Thursday night. | That deep rich 8 Schilling flavor ‘Those who know their tea, know that rich fragrant flavor that comes from just one thing... .TOASTING! 2 .. by Schilling! Nw Schilling Toasted 1€U lways. ‘The Arikaras, whose ances- As new as tomorrow’s news... . Presenting the top of the Coat Fashion World Seen in Language tors and on whose lips one seldom hears the quaint melody of the an- Nothing in Translation Says | cjent language of the Sioux. Reviews Religious Services Lingual Expert One gets a new view of this lan- guage by attending a church cere- Editor’s Note: mony at Fort Yates, a squalid place Following is the second of two | for the remnants of a once-great na- articles on the history and lan- tion. - guage of the Sioux nation, writ- ‘Their grandfathers worshiped the ten for The Tribune by R. A. |Great Spirit at their Mecca—the once Mickle, formerly a resident of - |lovely and sprite-haunted grottoes of Fort Lincoln. the Red Pipestone Quarry — whose very name the missionaries have ob- By R. A. MICKLE literated, and maintained for ages “one of the treasures of the two|their sacred cathedral in the forbid- Dakotas is their background of Sioux|den recesses of their Black Hills. traditions. That one time powerful | Here was the favored resort of Wakan natiom has left as a legacy its name,|Tanka, which dimmed into insigni- stainless insofar as they are concern-|ficance the temple of “Solomon and ed, to its conquerors. All know that|all this glory.” ‘These people are the retiree of Red Se ote as ray unique and ancient as of . famous Six Nations. _ under their brilliant ca’ leaders, Sakowin,” or the Seven Council Fires | “Crazy Horse” and Gall, hurled back the legions of General Crook on the ‘an immemorial war with the| Rosebud in 1876 and one week later Ochipwe on the east and annihilated the vainglorious Custer, Absoraca, or “Crows,” on the west.|the Glory Hunter, and his immortal They were also involved in wars be-|Seventh cavalry. Ah! a Sioux chief- tween the French and English, siding | tain in those days in his flowing war- with the former. Ages of mimic war- | bonnet and mounted on his war-pony, fare had among them brought into|on his way to battle and riding over play, in all its force, the law of sur-|the boundless plains, was about the vival of Lard fittest, and with the|most picturesque and noble figure in elimination of the weaklings had pro- j duced a race of what might be called Unbowed by Tragedies supermen. Their religion was @ form| At ten-thirty makes its appearance of panthelsm, seeing the Great Spirit} ® procession of this strange race, in every created thing. Thus they] which slowly winds up the bare and were brothers with all forms of life.| wrinkled hill and enters the narrow ‘They were artists and still are, as wit-|gate of the Holy Rood. There are ness their bead-work, embroidered on|half a hundred men and women of buckséin, beautiful in color and de- sign. They were poets because they lived near to Nature's heart. Mu- sicians, too, although their music is perhaps unintelligible to us. Their maxims and customs were drawn from what they deemed the unvary- ing laws of nature and they had per- fectly adapted themselves to their environment. We can never cease to lament the fate that has brought them down from their high estate. There is little that we can return to them for what we took from them. for Happier Days bronze complexion, with hair and eyes as black as the sloes. They seem unbowed by the tragedies through which they have passed and the weight of sorrow which each one car- ries; rather, they appear unconscious of their ancient grandeur and child-like happiness. Old are they as the burn- ing suns and silvery rains. The men, tall and silent, are garbed in decent black; the women wear heavy cloaks, or heavy ‘shawls, some of them with infants in their arms. For an instant they face a slender . Long and bleeding form of a man hanging It is doubtless a source of pride to| from an enormous black cross. Then the Dakotas that this soll gave birth|the women kneel in the torrid sands, to @ race like this. It is a source of | where there is no vestige of green, the interest to visitors who have come|sun blazing overhead. The men from afar to feel that here, even yet,| gather to one side under the shelter there are vestiges of a people so bold|of the cross, on which all eyes gaze and free in happier days. humbly and intent. And yet they ‘At times I have visited the Indian |are staring at something beyond the school and have there found/|figure hanging there, at something myself surrounded by groups of girls| they remember far away on the limit- who interest me as they must inspire | less prairies. The ceremony now be- and interest any rational human be-|gins in the musical and pathetic ing cognizant of their historic back-| tongue of the Sioux. ground. Out on the banks of their A Voice Like Caruso Makoce mitawa Waste wadake ca, their lot for the time being, and their activities are directed by men and Iwadowan ‘women who appear absorbed in labors Mihunkakep!i den in their behalf. A trip to this com- Icagapi qa en fortable home well repays us for pay- Wicahhakapi cen ing them short visit. Here, for ex- He weksuya. ample, is a group of “Crows,” who (Translation) My Country, holy I hold thee From which my fathers sprang, And where are their sepulchres still display to a certain extent the fine. physique of their ancestors. Here are the Blackfeet, with their mysterious and Egyptian-like faces, the smiling and dainty Ojibway, smiling as with disdain for the white man and his Thee I remember. In the chorus of men is a tenor, quavering, true, sweet as the voice of | Caruso. Only a few of the women! are chanting. There are no young folks taking part in the ceremony. And they are singing of their country in truth, these first and legitimate Americans. This is the land where their fathers died for uncounted generations ere appeared off their shores the winged galleons of the Spanish conquistadores. ~ ‘Then through endless verses these people entone: Cikiyedan waun nunwe Ttancan mitawa tors were kin to the Aztecs, who built the ancient teocalis of Old Mexico. The Gros Ventre, shy and. unrespon- sive. And here a Mandan, delicate and aristocratic as an old miniature; there the Sioux maidens, whose faces are shrouded as by the grim masque of Greek tragedy-sorrow and dolor etched into their faces and forms, in- scrutable, and yet withal dowered with a certain dignity, intelligence and submission to the decrees of fate. Outside the meadow larks chant a plaintive note, as though they missed something know not what, and even the seems to murmur @ protest to the children who have forgotten the tongue of their ances- kin, (Nearer my Lord to thee.) Then they chant, or so it seems, the 91st Psalm: Jehowa, wicoicage qa wicoicage Kin en, wowinape un niyanpi dJehova, for ages and ages ‘Thou hath made for us @ refuge. Poetry Loses Nothing | And rest assured that in the lan- | sauge of the Sioux this noble and sublime poetry loses nothing of its grandeur and pathos. The scene is pathetic in the ex- 3 i is @ grave without a it @ cross made of peb- another in which sleep, all and unforgotten, two | ns, whose names are lish: Clara and Geral-; again is heard the chant- it ae HH Ee 5 g of Knox Hats. You'll be satisfied with this outstand- ing collection of grand, cloth Coats. . « . Reasonably priced. : Just received — another assortment ing +, turies. Perhaps such a thought also is in the mind of these taciturn and mysterious people. BOCKEFELLER DIXIE BOUND Lakehurst, N. J., Oct. 10. — (®) — John D. Rockefeller, nonagenarian multimillionaire, entrained Thursday for his annual trip to his winter es- tate at Ormond Beach, Fla. 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