Show mii GIVEN AS TO editor times independent many people especially school child tea have come to me for a story asking ahat is the tradition of the in bans about grand valley moab awell just imagine an indian turning his face back over his eh stretching his lips as far as he can yag E e tish pah avant tuch annas pah e 1 A long time ago in the ages gone covered this hauey and browned the people so our forefathers 4 if pahe pah e when the water la weeded and went down the grand it made all these side and great gorges and the erosion a terrible when the people ven teed back from zions canyon where gods dwell we called the valley bat the land of evil spirits overcome that dread feeling it moab the land of swamps we were assured the aou would never occur again hence e have kiba ploney five point the la a challenge high water when they say betish that means thin ones own memory E e elsh an indefinite time or tradition tan means an aged man or wom nin happuch then look wire old toothless blind deaf and the way you may expect to be anytime it was the custom the indians to bury alive the ed I 1 with others have res w several of them and when we a them nearly uncovered they red our interfering with them one M squaw lived five years after she I 1 unburied if a sick indian has dread disease they lay them un a tree and start a lire a little dis from the invalid soon the tire the dry leaves reaches the anfor we victim who Is cremated he white mans influence has ged all this and no more indians aried alive and are exempt from 17 cruelties cruel ties but indians dont fear they say everything Is better a happy hunting grounds where never die nor suiter pain any ore i L christensen moab utah june |