Show r 1 INDIA INDIANS S AND PIONEERS l-I l By F. F W. W HODGE From Irom the custom of artificially flattening fattening the the heads of of their Infants Infants in infants In- In usually by strapping them to toa toa toa a and compressing the forehead until the crown of the head lead was forced gradually into a kind cind of peak the term terni Flathead has bas ms been applied to various tribes from rom early arty ar y historic times Including the Choctaw Catawba and Natchez of the South especially the Chinook of Columbia river and the tho Indians of or Vancouver Val island Strangely enough however the In Indians Indians indians In- In officially designated Flatheads Flatheads Flatheads Flat heads by our Indian bureau did not flatten th the head at all but were so nicknamed because ac according according ac- ac cording to one authority when they were first met by Canadian voyageurs they had some Flathead slaves among them while others explain that the Indians with un- un deformed skulls were regarded as by the real Flatheads in contradistinction to those whose heads were more or lets less pointed In Iii Inthe Inthe the state of or Washington In Indians In- In dEans are ale commonly called Si wash in the mistaken belief that this is is their correct tribal name On the contrary it is merely our misspelling and mispronunciation of the Canadian French sauvage sauvage- sa savage vage His Ills name means chief of men and It It was was was' indeed well earned for was reputed to be the I most intrepid Pawnee warrior oCI of oC I his lis time There were many brave brae I Indian warriors of whom we hear little or nothing and perhaps Pe Pe- reputation also would have been obscured had It not been for a remarkable performance which several contemporary writers writers writ writ- rH- rH ers mention nearly a century ago The Pawnee practiced the custom custom cus ens- I tom torn of sacrificing a captive to the Morning Star and It was on one of or these occasions when the victim a Comanche girl ghI bound to a frame ready to be shot full fun of tiny resInous resinous resinous res res- inous arrows and then burned that 1 stepped forward and declared that it was as his brothers brother's wish to abolish the abolish the the practice an and that he presented himself for the purpose of laying down his own life on the spot or releasing the victim Whereupon he severed the thongs that bound the girl bore her sw swiftly through the crowd to a horse which he presented to her herand and after seeing her safely be beyond beyond be- be yond ond the rea reach h of or immediate pursuit pursuit pur pun suit and supplying her with rood food he left heft her to find rind the way to he her tribe more than miles away He then returned to his own vil vii lage Later was a delegate delegat from the Pawnee to Washington and while there was given a medal meda by th the pupils of a young ladies ladies' seminary seminar suitably inscribed i in recognition of ot his daring In behalf behal of a woman This very medal was wa dug up a a. a few ew years ears ago from a grave In Nebraska which presumably abl ably contained the bones of th the Pa Pawnee hero The medal is now no In a New ew ev York museum en Ad Adventure ture tune Magazine L Lifelines ife I I nes I Frances Frances Of Of course I believe i in palmistry Why hr a fortune fortune- fortune teller teller told me me memy my exact age b by looking at atthe atthe atthe the lines In m my hand Jean Why lean Why she could have told you ou that b by looking at the lines in nil om face face Sunn Sunny |