Show bear dance at whiterocks began sunday to be followed by dance at ouray 04 t C j L 1 no 7 4 annual wan I 1 nil in dear bear dance chich lakes place each year at the uintah and cumy indiana indians have been na n aing ing elaborate rate prep preparations for the annual bear dan dance aich started sunday at the dance usually lists about a seek eek beir beng carried on daring the day tuna time un il 11 the eve cie of the last day when the dance la is nm run continua continually ly out alc night tho the dance usually st starts at and Is followed by the dane dan e at ormy blockades stockades aro are built at either place alch which enclose the dancers and spectators Iland reds oe of peaple treb trek to this fischal from ou all parts of tho the basto basin ind often camp tor for das at a ume time to watch the utes in their trib d galli it Is understood the ouray dance will commence in about a week or ten days at the bear dance with its throb of tho the drum ita its shadows and lights from blowing glowing camp firce fires and the emell smell of the sage brush to fin an indian must be the very incense on the altar of hymen for you know ith mh indians aro are not made in heaven but at the bear dance dame fop F op e travel any miles 11 to aee the bear dance but it la is a travesty on the bear danco dance cl of twenty five years yews ago now it Is 13 a question of ox how alch money the squaws can gel get tut nut of the white men who crowd one la other to 0 sm which dusky belle wil lake take their firo five cents and civo give them an opportunity to plow back and forth through the dist laden air the of the dance is 1 lost in tn the present surroundings it Is a time of over vla departure of ef winter made known to the elect by the appod aice of pa bruin at the door of W a cave aft vm a his long 1 clem bleep AU ali the tribe get gel neady for a desat of thanksgiving th and rejo a and the young beares and maxo maka ready tor for the annual conquet conquest of heanu that waa was no to savi arn jl part pan of the emeral i rejoicing corrals were billt the bones and notched hard a tood sticks got ready puce piled of wood and sage draped to the ground the pennant with two bears painted pointed wa and then each brave had to think of his finery for vas v As bo be not going to in li the favor of hia hearts hewl s delight in tho days they wore wom no merl cat clothes but beautiful yellow w leggins g with hanging to the I 1 ground and the moot most intricate patterns of beaded moo moccasins casim the bright new shirt that hung down over the legeas IW ns and often showed several ln in i chei of bronzed lees between the tine fine blue red or yellow 0 I 1 aa that 11 flew out resplendently when t they he the u tuya medic clae bacs tm W 1 heats dw hea co the tb abreast plates oe or I 1 wampus oa mhd in bare brown breast the bl robea robes of ol 1 every hue wrapped clout the stately forms and only ally the ducky facea faces with streaks ct ef red yellow jellow or white paint across them peering out ot of the gor pious folds big silver ear tox rini ringi a big brad bra d of hair at each ear eu wrapped in ober skin and the utie 0 ono o behind that held the hawk or eagle I 1 feathers not NO ft bave b ave with short hair not a single pair of clumping shoes or a pair of trousers in the whole clan elm but just gorgeous human birda in au all the glory of their fanciful plumage and the squaws well ell it Is hard to tel of their lovIt ness never a dress of anything but heavy beaded buckskin busk skin moccasins with leggins atta attached like stocking ice lers and beaded hair and r embed strings of laadt of a kind never seen seer 1 now i purse purses attached to a big leahl leather ter belt it fhe file or six inches wide and studded ath braam tacks silver or twisted copper wire brue lets galore and ozen trally a red banging behind which iba a useful aa well sell as ornamental na because shen hen they zat sat iowa down it protected the valuable buckskin dress ah those were the day days it 13 ras aa enough to ta make one want to be an indian sweet eteng in the air the excitement the throb of the music made by rubbing a a bow races a hardwood laid on a i li bi hollow drum the rushing up of ponies the old squads flatting out pancakes ee with their hands and cutting up whole beeves in that vwe mere to be roasted over tha the tire fire big black bloc pote puts of bowing stuff that smelled awfully roca but avre said to be to the celebrated dog pot little toddling u who were sere miniature braves and squads and a gentle hospitality that took you in and lei let you share the pleasure of those enchanted days and those were the day days that let you know that the ancer of civilization to Is never very deep hen to in you to the lur jur of the 1 and sounds and you ampa th thed wd with those young savages vaRea sa who at that biting dance dame lived the adage of AU ali for love and the world well 1 ibay a pair ato had been boen contented with ora another before felt the uie spoil end ard as the dm drew to A close chose another nule mate for better or for orie until finally in time they found the me cong congers sp spirit to jog jo through life with will change a 41 thia this of course as it should and win will substitute taits by and divorce by w but UA it mao la drea dren ot of raters happy in id |