Show ORSE NORSE THAN THE SLIPPER punishment meted out to ind indan an boys certa aly of the most stran nature my gr grandmother had 12 children and one uncle undertook to teach me the art of worship he ile used to lead me to the sand bani s of the missouri river where he would mould set fire to a pile of driftwood drift mood and then taking me by the hand sing sacred songs to the fire and rihei in the meantime mein time he threw into tl ti em offerings of tobacco red feathers and sometimes oll twigs I 1 neer nener knew the meaning of these otter offer ings but I 1 always felt that some living thing actuated both the fire and the river another uncle came to visit us periodically periodic illy and every time he came my brother or I 1 suffered at his hands han I 1 ds sometimes he be would rush to the spring ta ca carrying me horizontally under hie Is arm and would plunge my head into the water ater until I 1 almost suffocated ills common form of discipline was to let me hang by my hands on the cross joles 1 oles of the wigwam until my arms ached my body writhed before I 1 u k dropped this uncle seemed to like i best to command my older brother to he alemy amy hands an annl I 1 feet with a rope then the en he would order roe me to resist aa an ardeil that would make us both cry in the uin winter he would also sometimes roll us in inov sno v naked the punishment of indian collden Is usually in 1 the hinds of some uncle rattier rather than the parents our punishments were inflicted generally because we had dis i be ed grandmother I 1 y falling failing to get ft od at evening had resisted fasting fating had fought some indian boys or had i cried without sufficient clent cause south I 1 ern rn workman J |