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Show WHITES AND INDIANS JOIN IN GRASS DANCE Fort Hall Indian Reservation Is Scene of Exhibition in Custom of Aborigines Ab-origines to Invoke Rain. Special to The Tribune. BL-ACKFOOT, Idaho, July S Probably for the first time on the Fort Hull Indian In-dian reservation the "grass dance" was danced and chanted with illumination supplied by automobile headlights Thursday Thurs-day evening. This certain dance is In supplication for rain to produce pasturage and was participated in by many Indian men and squaws, several of the latter carrying; papooses on their backs. Late Thursday afternoon it was learned in Black foot that a camp of L'OO Indians, with fifty lepees, was about seven mMes south of Blackfoot and that at dark danclne; would -commence. A bout fifi ecu automobile parties were soon traveling southward and upon arrival at the camp were requested to form In a circle and to use their headlights. The scene was picturesque in the extreme and at lu o'clock Chief William Penn arose and Invited In-vited all the white people to participate. The Invitation was genera y accepted. White people, alternating with their red friends, completed a circle 100 feet In diameter and. In the usual Indian -steps, danced until TJ o'clock, the Indians continuing con-tinuing the i nee until daylight. The sagebrush had been cleared away, with the tepees at the south side in a semicircle and the automobiles on the north side in a semicircle. The dance was between the lepees and t lie automobile automo-bile litrhts. Chief William Penn, in charge, Is one of the old-time and substantial Indians and uses the English language well. With his tribesmen lie trc:i led the Bin ckf Holers Hol-ers to the best of bis ability. A wagon-load, wagon-load, of watermelons supplied the general gen-eral refreshments. A large American flag floated over the main tepee. |