Show T IS HE mou MOURNS FORTHE VANISHED H HAPS pitie SS OF ats BACE A chi TAUM talla familiarly of r lic li the CU C torn tonu of HU HI tribe tilbe he fecla that the he wd the indian orun wiron the pardue that U done before the white men came we were men said mid a chippewa friend these them people look back upon their past as up tipon a lost paradise iu in which there were happiness and innocence they repudiate the descriptions of bf them written by white historians as the work of enemies seeking g toju to justify stif y cruelties cruel ties and our fathers always did what was rights right and they punished bad me men they were kind and true to their friends and terrible only to their enemies we were great warriors and we ve fought for our own a long time it 16 was not th ewhite mens arms but their vices which ruined us what makes you think that th atthe the old times were so BO much better you have good laws no wars and the government will not lelyou let yon go hungry Is not this better than the old precarious and dangerous way of liv living gedid we did not go hungry we bad more than we wanted you can see for yourself what wha t we had aam om what is left after so much 16 destruction there was no end to the deer moose caribou beavers beaver lynx and aalthe all the smaller fur bearers an and d as for the elsh you said there was no fun catching them wh when en you yon came 6 they were top too plenty trout traut bass pike pickerel sturgeon the waters swarmed with them then look it at the wild rice nuts wild plum alums oceans of them and d then we had cornfields and andhor for smoking the kinni kinio kinic the plains were black with buffalo we gehad had Z no hard work to th do what we did was manly sport while it provided us with food and clu clothing thing arid then we were free the freest people in the v orld with a whole contin continent emt in which to enjoy it we are not now what we were our people have become drunkards beggars md and cd cowards wards the white man has bas de strayed us along with everything elm eke I 1 see that you have among Y your photographs the picture of a chippewa grave that is the grave of the last of the five brothers great warriors you may say that is the grave of the last of the chip because left after the seven brothers and the five brothers were so no longer true specimens of bf pur our great gmt and noble people the seven brothers were Tecum best mm men they were known know all over the mississippi mi asip valley talley and the five brothers who came after them were as good they adopted me when my latler father died th the last one ona died so 80 years year sago ago a very old bold man suppose you think abbi the seven brothers madea made a president of the united states because he ba beat them at tippecanoe noa aes they made two and the chero kee amade awai the Th white iwhite men thought ai aas a great beat il thing when four or five ta oia they could chiy on an indian and oes who did it thatis what eliat the 66 white man rn an thought of the indian 1 4 what about your idan aign language and picture writing that mat is nearly forgotten only a few know and ther th eyare old menthe men the sign q agn language V waa what deaf and dumb simpler aid all understood example it you came a stranger to a foot on an the ground meant t that avy W welcome two or thee alc tlc ec stamps that you 1 ivare we come H g T were berc made th pheoh a an dabe d am wi up a k per oth other er climber ciet abing d animal were running i fingers gas down own made bounding motions the the magerr nerr ma aiding hie e fingerr was closed ba ud jq alark and hare and iAac ircle bev w acted td dmn t s abad or A za z A A n illy though 1 r the abbe f wiliam tow mahat awaa your 1 l eaise z V R 7 5 ix jay y t mend n e n d t thinks h 1 n t would aa d hate h i v e d developed i i il civilization ty this chis time if left jet alone raj ca cultivators id catoris of tho the I 1 soil and nomadic one on a element ot th their air aj success in war var was wab their endia endurance 66 1 aid and andr r foot when he 6 iii was a youth ife led a dog tean deaia anthe on the snow 66 miles in one day he waited from the st sk Croix to bay flold 72 miles i and this was among thim them 4 the imd end dennese of swiftness in retreat rendered the most native keople jEp le evey ever conquered but their paradise is gone abne chica chicago 0 interior A witty frenchman Irenc hman said mid Only death is an excuse for not keeping a dinner arinner engagement and even then a polite man would send the undertaker to apologize for him when a man marries ho tally intends tota no 1 in the family j but vua often the toll fun point dro drops ps oaf gontrand on he lapses into to noona spain italy 6 sweden hanover adv r rua I 1 lia austia i receive 1 daily weather veathy reports acom paris aris and Ii ondon arabia Ara blawas was so coi called aroa its inhabit atto the arabs |