Show bear dance pageant at ouray ended End ute indians in tribal dress entertain Vr white hite neigh bors historical pageant given by BYU As aa the day began to come to a close monday amid a terrible sano sana storm the ute bear dance at ouray concluded with the endurance dance as the findlan women out danced their male partners and forced their column into the west fence ot of the corral or danced them to 10 exhaustion in the center of the enclosure then the old medicine men talked to the bear in prayer they also talked to bunav bu su nav the wolf god to the sun Mata wats the moon moan Booch Doo chive lve the stars and to the sky the talkers asked these beings to give good health to all lots iota of cattle horses and sheep and lots of at good things to fro eat they also told the beope to bo be good not to steal quarrel or fight and to be good to one anc another ther they said that it if they would do these things au all would be good to them trip m and they would have good health and lots to eat A feast was wai then set out to all after which the medicine men stood at the eastern exit and as the people dle departed parted for their homes they stroked them with eagle feathers thus placing the blessings bless of at the dietler on them ensuring them a prosperous sear ear the dance began thursday april 11 bad weather haing pro pre anted its beginning the previous monday as scheduled besides the ordinary cere ceremonies which accompany the dance there was a horse race sunday between indian horses and those of the whites in which the indian horses easily won on at Conti continued nied on page five BEAR DANCE AND PAGEANT j AT OURAY C continued from page one about noon sunday there wp WM 1 1 pm r acted c pr ct t the of the taking pow assion of the country by oin continuing on down don in to ito the da dav 1 covering incidents as ai they then occurred in the uintah basin dr albeit B D ond a pir ty of his archaeological students from brigham young university acted out this palt pait of the ceremony dr reagan acting for prey frey alonzo de took goolt po Ls sion of the country for spain ins inc the establishing of missions anc trading posts posta and the sending out of later establishing ithe the folt foit of cf santa banta now in ruins a mile south of the ouray badge virgil peterson acting foi father anatasio then blessed the region creglon and its In endias indias Ind dias las ithe I 1 the blessing ct cf god jesus and the holy mary to them in a very cere ceremony mony in both Fi and english then lee stokes as antoine flux illustrated the cruel days day of his trapper career at fort winte doux near the present whiterocks Whlter going through the acts of poying paying two charges of powder for a dressed antelope skin and proportion 1 ale ate prices for other dressed skins also acting out purchasing indian women for sale to the mexicans at taos and santa fe or wives lie he payee 2 for each and sold them in new mexico for or more mor e apiece kit carson 1 wa was 3 reit ebenal d vy bv dju bill hier who stood up for fairness in his dealings with the natives then Tb thompson ompson and other renegade trappers stole forty snake indian horses and cara carson yn joseph L week and jo walker recaptured the horses and returned them to the BrA snakes litts both th saturday and sunday there was over e r a thousand white people in attendance at intervals before and after the dance the party excavated in fort santa Se serapina Seraf ratina lna finding among other things both dublar bead and beads of the round type and the brass part of an old gun |