Show SLEEPING BY SID SIDD SIDE OF WHIT BROTHER Continued from Page One Ouray many Indians have been buried and with them hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of dollars worth of Navajo f vajo rugs silver bracelets etc Many 1 of these graves are untouched These Indians were were buried in the sight of the whites hites But the whites who saw were of the pioneer type They have lived with the Indian for years and they his strange ideas and beliefs an and refuse Defuse to desecrate the graves graves Rumor had it that the I beautiful house of Slim Jim Jim had h boon been burned down Usually when the Indian dies in the house the house is either ether deserted or burned The Indian will not live in n the house hous where one has died At Ouray an Indian died in the house The floor was taken up and the dead man buried underneath Then the door was fastened fast fast- ened up two horses tied to the corner comer of the house and shot Then the Indian came to the house no more In this the Indian Indian Indian In In- dian r. r resembles the Chinese somewhat But a few years ago the Chinese walled waIled the room room of the dead i up p. p They even walled up the doors and windows of the room before the sick m man to died if they thought he was going to die Things Thing's like this lend strength to the he old theory that years ago go the Chinese crossed Behring Strait and became the ancestors of the Indian This treatment of the dead is very simil similar simil lr The old stone houses o China made possible the walling up of the dead room and the house still occupied bv lw the l I Ih v- v ing ins The tent life of the Ir Indian p maJ makes s this impossible Still t 11 he hc wants ants nothing to do with the place where death has visIted visited vis- vis or the things that belonged to the dead The house o of Slim Jim still st stands It Itis is not known whether Oates Gates died in the house or or not It i is is known that the body lay in the house some time while dead At that time the casket was adorned by the squaw saddle squaw saddle belonging to Oaths Oater All the things belonging to o Oates Gates that were not buried with wah her were burned outside the house If Slim Jim continues to live there it will seem seem that 1 indeed the Ute is advancing in inthe inthe the way war of the whites Today Today Slim Jim walks about the streets or sits upon the ide walk dejected Always when one was about town the other was close at hand The long black braids are shorn This indicates his grief for the de Je- parted parte f fTh Th Th Princess Oates sleeps in the white mans man's grave 1 I yard 1 N No horses dogs Al' Al chickens are tying lying dead lead about Very litt little of the things that u t mark tl fhe the e us usual al Indian burial has mar mark marked c d hers So Soothe fhe ie old passes' passes away and the ne new v ne ti tir S r x 5 n 1 1 takes its place It is s well the redman has been driven to this rather out of regard for the ways of the white brother than by the haunting memory of the desecrated graves I It is well if the burial of Oates Gates means a liking for the ways I II rf f the white and not a fleeing to a place where he thinks I the grave of the dead will not be he disturbed 0 |