Show Y N NN N e r r rS e 3 i l r rs rA A s r r p wa j 41 YI I l f i h 1 Y Y A t Bps 1 IY G Ga a t ta tc a c a w wr r ps 4 e r t t d i t i Y Yr r it t r Ys j ff r rt f y G r a f it f M v 1 w tl 1 lr n 4 t tp I p na fr a h v Pl cY a T q By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N O AO 0 EMBER 11 l 1922 It- It Ithen 4 when hen the Unknown SoldIer was enshrined at Arlington cemetery among the high I officials and other dignitaries who ho took In part Q- Q W that Impressive ceremony wis s the f figure Eure of an Indian chief resplendent In buckskin scalp shirt fringed leggings beaded mocca moccasins 5 r bonnett sins t ind rid nd a n m war w bonnet t that slept to the ground As he stepped forward to place on the white o marble tomb a n war bonnet and a coup sUch stick he said In his nath nathe a tongue I I feel fed It an nn honor to the red man that lie he has taken hen part In this great greit e ent today tolla because It shows that the thou thousands thousands sands of Indian soldiers who ho rough fought t v vIn In the gol t e war are appreciated by bythe bythe the white man I am nm glad golad to represent sent ent the Indians of the United States tes In placing on the grave grace of this tillS noble nohle nobles s unknown warrior tills this coup stick nd ind w r bonnet emery ever eHr eagle feather of which represents a deed of vilor by bv i my mv race I hope that the Great Greit SpIrit III grant that thit these noble warriors e hale ha not given gisen up their lives In salmi aln and that there will be pence peace to nil all allmen allmen men hereafter This is the Indian s s hope bope and ard pra er This Thic chief was wis chosen as the e of all nIl the Indian n tribes to place the red mm n s tribute upon the grave grace E of the Unknown 1 n Soldier Is known n ninon amon hIs Ills people the Ab as Meek Aleek c en n mein Ing Mom Mans Achievements nut Hut the 1 white men who ho call the h It Cro Crow c lie he Is la more commonly known fiS as Chief Ilent Coups perhaps the best kno 1 known n Indian In the United States State tod For that reason on one of the outstanding biographies of the i sear Is the book American pub recently b the John Day corn com pang for it 1 Is Ic Time The Life Story of n I I GI Great eat Indian Ilent Plenty Coups Chief of the Crowe Crows as he told It to nh Fr n B I through the medium of an Interpreter r and aru the I sign n language In which both Plenty Plent Coups IH ind Lin Linderman LInderman derman ire adepts American Is not the first t autobiography but It Is outstanding i bec because uce It Is the stor story of a genuinely e Indian hen hen Plent Plenty Coups as born In Montana In the late 40 10 his people were re still using living then nor normn normal mn oral nomadic life In the doss days before the buffalo herds were ere swept and these 1 wild lid horsemen of the plains were ue almost untouched d 11 b nay contact with Ith the whites hit 1 His Ills early life S f 11 Used ed under tribal conditions condition but lit 0 over oser er a n period of hundreds of years 3 ear ears In his earl early v fie be witnessed th the first firt conflict between the two races with their Ine Inevitable x cm climax ot of the subjugation of the red and th the domination of the white and his de e dining years are arc being pal passed ed In nn an era ern which Is peeing a century of his history history tory concentrated In a decade So Sn ina In Inn Ina n a sense sence the life story of this Indian chief Is an nn epitome of WO rs e of American history from a gery to flOm a wilderness to the industrial age ne Plenty Coups Coupe his s remained a n bay bivall an all his life and the loess Iness of S childhood Is reflected throughout his history tory story liat hat are your jour our earlle earliest t Mr Ur I n asked ed him and the old n man smiled Play Play flay hi he said Fald happily All toss tos are arc much alit aIn e a Their hearts are arc young ani and they the let them sing Ing And In his Ills till tellIng lag Ing of the eH events of his bo boyhood hood and his training it t the hands of the eld elders rs of ot the tribe there Is food fond for forC C thought by lIy the 1 white mm n who 1 ho be- be be believes Jle Cs that men of his color are arc su superior In anwar ans an way war to men whose hoce skins shins art are red Ao 10 o doubt It will Ill be a n shock to most moct men to realize that thit In time eyes eres of the Indians white children arc are so bO s o bred 1 y f t FI f t tra fr frt ra c cs s tM f t a t tr r p Tc y C sat is isy r 4 Y 9 RA x a a 3 Ji RY So profiting by the example and the Instructions of his elder elders Plenty Coups bo boyhood hood wn was spent In the kind hind of play which 1 s the beginning of his edu du tion In pIn physical Ical des dc eloi meat In and wood snood 1 oo craft crift and In strict self discipline of body bod ind mind lIe and the other hors hO 11 ed at mat in war ar and 1 with Ith great eagerness s lie he loot 1001 ed for forward to the diy day when he ml might go 0 out on tile the first w 1 ir r p puts ut have hate the chance nce for fur th tint It lion Hon so much de desired by all pro pec th e en counting w n amors lOrs counting coup coups be lie In one of ses elal ways 8 wi s lIe He might strike an enemy 1 Ith hIs lis coup stick bow or quirt he fore other otherwise Ie Ing him or t tIce Ice his 1 n while he wis 5 still ilise e lIe ire misfit count coups b hi by striking lm the Hist of the enemy enem s dea dead or his breast breastworks under fire ire 01 or by steel ste stelIng lag Ing horses hores from the of an en enem enemy em emy e a tIu the white man mans s Idea It was as not so 0 much an to be wounded In hen hen a Wll nor who ho hal had bet been n wounded donned an eagle feather eather to commemorate te till the he lie must stain It f red d ind nd such n I feather wis w esteemed less hl highly hy hythan than one which bore hore the e markins sho showing how a coup 1 was as lOunt d Plenty Coups COUlS young oun oung manhood was filled with Innumerable skirmishes be be- between between tween Cen the th CI Clows 0 08 8 and their traditional enemies the Sioux the Che ennes the and the HI Ills first rea real contact with the white men came when hen he lie enlisted as i n scout Ith General Crook and Ben served ed with tint th officer In the great greit battle the Sioux on the life Rosebud IOor with their traditional 10 lose e of good there Is nn an I Interesting c example ample In Plenty Plent Coups attitude towards his bis enemies In ne near nearly I ly e every emery ery n ease case e In which he lie tells of a 11 foeman whom horn he fought and killed he end ends the story I by 1 adding gra eh lie He was sins a good man mun that Sioux Siou and anda a brave brace w But nut the Ot o inions of the white man expressed ed liy ly this tills old warrior I Is not such comfortable rending fur for those who ho fondl fondly fondle belle belies believe bellee e that the white r re race rIs e Is superior to all others other But Is good perhaps for the X 1 Iger self es esteem esteem teem of ot the conquering while to In read the these e 1 words of PIe PIet t Coups find and reflect re Let upon them with an honest mind They spoke poke scry vcr er loudl loudly when hen they said maid theli laws s were Cre made mide for er e bod but hut we e soon learned that the they expected us to keep them they the thC thought not lain of break breakIng lag IlIg them thon eh themselves Ci Their priests said s we e might have base re but 1 when hen 1 we e tried to under understand understand understand stand It we e found tint that there thue 1 were ere too many man kinds hInds this tills bothered us ue usa usa a good deal until we e saw sass that the hUe man did not take his religion nay auy more seriously th thin to m tie lie did His lava 1 and aud that he kept both of them just behind him to use uce when ashen hen the they might do him good in his dealings with Ith These were not our WU ways e s e e kept hept the laws s we made and lined ed our religion e e a has ha have hae e a nes ne never neer er been able to understand the white lute min n who fool fools but himself elf ow 01 too late we sae Inow 1 1 now that the aline man n Is not wise nice Ice He lie Is Ie smart not be bend ind nd fools only onh himself To 10 reid r Plenty Coups story Is to realize that t lie he deserves en de-en e the character char of a n great Americ in 1 by b 1 what whatever e eser eer er standards stand either eIthel white or red he ml be jud judged etI A pal part pait t of hl his greatness s lies in tl 11 adjustment e c he mide de between een hl his bib people ind ours In ht his p hIs Ills c ind nd his IlIg I which ed 81 the Crows s from the tragic fate fute which 0 overtook other Indian n tribes Of them hes he sass s We e saw that those who rondo made roar r a against the while man 1 a s failed ailed In the end and md lost their lands look I ook ut at atthe the Striped 1 I Arrows Arros s Ch Che I ennes Most of them are his Ing where here the te hite the ground that hold holds their lodges They cannot an not look nt at the mountains as ns I 1 can cnn or think good water Wlter as I do every emery e ery di In Instead Instead Instead stead of making a tre treaty 1 with Ith the mm n am and by It holding their countr country which Illch they loved hosed the they fought Ah Au i hums ho those thoc warriors w fought I And 0 lost all nil taking whatever the white whiteman man would give gl And AntI when the hearts of the gh givers er are filled with hate their gifts are small the I 1 lie he ennes and the Sioux who ho fared a little better have hate always as been our hut but I am sorry for them them today I ha have hale e fought hard liard against t them In war ur Ith the white men more than once and often orten with Ith my 0 n tribe before the white men main came But when I fought with the hUe man against them It was as not because I e 10 hosed him him or because I 1 hat hated the tut Slow or Che but because I n aw as this was as the on only 1 we e could I cep our land and land and It was a m dream Hint th taught ns as the way Although Plenty Coups talked freely about hi his lilb rl enri life even esen to tI tic e a In Intimate lIs dt of his Ills dreams dream and find all the other elements clements which make mahe up the them m of the a Indian Indian a rare re oC oCcurrence occurrence currence for the red man to bare his cowl to the 1 suite n man-his bib book tell tells little of Ills his life Ilfe after time the p pissing using of the buffalo he 1 he de descent decent cent Into pO crt and dependence upon the 1 min n s 1 bloke hl his spirit hen hen the iTalo went away lI a aw the hearts he of ns people fell to the ground and times the could not lift them up again he lie q c After this nothing happened There seas little singing fin e And those mournful words ord are a n fitting Otting requiem for the whole bole race ruce of ot rid rud men |