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14 DANCE T0 WARD OFF ENIL v, it the sun THE then he would strike the | but, which was to b t pestiog place it ety g , hut from others. Then Indians Chace the Blight of a Curse from I instructing and | ¢ . WISVl 61 8 EraY i Is the Reservation, O Borsing whve (69 768 § \ el 4 P peeped over the treetops Red Eagie .. . his tepee blowing flercely SUN RITES PERFORMED BY THE TRIBE uon his meticine whistle, Ao tryes op ailts for ek, were out of th il the wooden grave had ection of A New Chief Who Tnherits ow moments 484 faclag tomurd Loy | SecuFely fast, w the gt the Family and Other Troahles e grounds, 1o the southeast of the | " burial ce ny sat ar of Hin Predecessor— Indian village. They ran with all thels | PO%ed heads. Then Ka:Wan-So of Ite Kin " in order to arrive before the sound | Ly < 08 CT¥, T whistle bad died in the echo. Hasti r which a ned to the @ semi 1 for a second alled in a shrill vo follow him. She kneeled the circle, while the chanted this appea the medicine With all the goal. Red of the sun worship! ot Indians on homa, where th religion of their wal ide the curve ves danced and stalled a new the crow eays, vacant by the Wh, ya, sickened and Kill our kquaw Kl our squaws, Nah-Mal-W ; eundance o for his squaw to circle This was a emooth place square. Tt quarter of a m 1 no time in getting into the d was now directly above them They formed a circle around t Two to or Beaters sat near these fires irregularly, mak no effort to keep time Then the leading with each other en, afded by " other cal to the Great § paseed thro i - 3 o lancer pped ar 1 the much as a rat v et Fir 1 Eagle st his sway rolling Fated by th ! ', " bt 4 outer ed | fra P Quelling noupri < Where h Ll '\"“\"‘.\ "Yr\ dian braves whose hearts h ad tepee. T yelled | Jieq by the by firewater, he who he | Jo hey knew 1 bad been | 1 5 50 men, The dab rs m.\x“v o evil spirits to depart rit ren 1 the hea elr SqQUAWS. | ojed, Bome fell to the ground. Otber to arise, had at last fal It mained to however went into the s odge and wers sups own will He had sipped m Medicine Man Decrees the Dance, | posed to be very sick. They l\\r nt lll rough the bottle that makes the g agaln Two weeks had now elapsed since the | all sorts of t s gt and with a vision of s death of Nah-Mal-Way, and yet no EK, THE NEW CHIE he had passed on to the happy hunting ground. Nah-Mal- ¥ay was a victim of und leaves his curse upon the tribe the temptation. He could not resist the cup gelection of a proper man to succeed him that cheers. is indeed a delicate problem. This curse The taking off of Nah-Mal-V by an must be removed by the head evil spirit was the cause of squaws’ la- man before a new chief can be selected mentations for many sleeps, and the braves Wan-So, the head medicine man of the went about silently with the black paint of sorrow spread freely upon their naked breasts. The medicine men cut wrists and studied the from sacred candle. Rations came with unusual regularity, and yet impending evil darkened the existence of the Indian The dead chief had surely left a curse upon and dog feasts and in attendan gone into the with the Great Spirit sintment of a new chief. Upon his returs he called the redskins in front of his lodge poke to them in a loud voice: “I have medicine affairs, at the sun dance, hills to portant thelr was n he | havir ames a sense of t | Later posse had been named. Whenever a chiet dies and master of ceremonies at all im- commune | relative to the ap- agony real Irtroductory new chief. After the dance th in the river near the villa Early next morning the Indian medicine men from surrounding trib rive. Fro to the Initiation of the all bathed s began to ar- 1 the east came Running Elk of the Poncas, from the south Whistling Bear of the Arapahoes, and from the west Big Heart of the Osages. All of them brought the sacred paint along, so that they coull take part in the ceremonies If invited Other redskins came, until there wero 00 in all. Ka-Wan-So called them togethe: | on the open prairie to t} grounds used for the dances fore a number of sw up near the place, and the new chiet and his Indians had all seated t Wan-So, in an impressive vo the name of the new chief and called hin forth. Up to this time nobody had know who was to be chosen. The choice was a surprise to all south ot The night at lodges had spri lodges were After the mselves Ka- e, announced family Parlor Magic by the Chief. Wa-Pa-Ke-Sek, a well man, and quite influential a tribesmen, was the new appeared there was a general sile new chief was short and fat, weak from three days' fasting. In the sweat lodge sweating the impurities of the common Indian out of his system He was clad only In a breechclout. One of the medicine men near him threw a sacred white otter skin at him and the new chief fell as if dead. Then the two men who led him in grabbed him by the feet and uncere- monlously dragged him around the lodge, while all the spectators threw their otter skins at him. Suddenly he jumped to his feet and, reaching up into the air, brought out a tom-tom. Where It came from no one could tell. It was merely a feat of jugglery e | which the Indians would not try to solve if 1 | they could. They wanted to think the Great e | €pirit handed the drum to their new chief, nown med ong his fe chief, and wh n he The but quite Ho had been medicine | and the delusion was accepted as a fact. He then went to the center of the dance * | grounds and there, with two huge American flags floating over him, Ka-Wan-So declared . | Wa-Pa-Ke-Sek chiet of the Sac and Fox Kin degree of medicine men heads the Indians sat around and listened 0 | When Ka-Wan-So had finished the tribe e | and its guests adjourned to a big dog feast » | and ate their fill at the expense of Wa-Pa- them, sald Looking Glass, an old chief of falked with the Great Spirit about this | Ke-Sek the Fox clan. So Looking Glass was called matter and he says 1 must order a dance) In addition to recelving the chieftaine upon for an explanation of his words, and e you all good again. He says we | Wa-Pa-Ke-Sek fell heir to the family of th must bury the dead chief with proper cere he sald “My brothers Nah-Mal-Way was a bad mony and in the meantime I will choose 'and six children, which, with his own family departed chi . consisting of three sq: THE APPEAL TO THE SUN s W nan's 1the ohls as instructed me to. He i ten children ake die! ol e nk the white man h fet h has instruct ; = Jadistae: chies, ¥ S for his dying. 1 said that our old chief was a false man riiE 8- the Bao snd. Fog firewater and blamed told bim the paleface had put snakes jn and we bury him good or he woul He ides this he will have the | 1t, and he would surely die, but ho laugk me back again __ | mive member the councll to feed and at me and ssld I was no prophet. I tell ter of ceremonies he then ordered clothe the income of the chief is de- you, my brothers, that he has left his on their black paint and rived from the rental grounds of the tribe's | must have it taken lo at the burlal curse upon us and we grounds at sun- land 1 Whii he has sufficient to port his offictal away or we will die. with the principle medicine household in princely style without work Then the Red Eagle was told chiefs forming a circle about him and the Not in a qu er of a cent t wers of the tribe seated never again, will a cl that the Sun spirit would tak younger member e tribe eve He made a prayer to the round the outer edge, Ka-Wan-So called g Indians choc BGAWS and was told that his sq ficed to save the other squaws of the tribe. (ciiberations. A To make this spiritual sacrifice he was to peen cut for the purpose, w order the sun place his squUaw ward and each one ate a r aw must upon the Great Sp berry tree, which hac s br 1 berry dance and 1 ot {ve away forever the evil curse | loses his identity he government agents in the midst of the dance circle as an of- | from to Arive away . " e i Moo | ¢ ” ferfng to tho sun. 1f the sun was not angry | of the departed chief, whose remains lay | ba alt harshly with t who kept up with them he would order the Squaw to wrapped in a blanket in the midst of the | their ancient customs, until today there ar. get up and leave while the dancers were cj After an invocation the young men | few tribes wh free to hold thelr sery- | Combination Game Boards. We are headquarters and can show more varie- ties and a greater range of prices than any one else in this city. See the list below. ~Prices from $2.25 up. COMBINOLA, BOMBARDO, CROLARD, ARCIHARENA, CROWN. 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