Eureka Reporter | 1904-12-30 | Page 7 | Tribal Custom of Sioux

TRIBAL CUSTOM OF SIOUX son in law rarely has speech with his wife s mother from the missouri to the bag horn 4 squaw men testify that there la no wife like the sioux woman be cause there Is no mother in law like the sioux mother in law this is why many a ranger argues that the sioux tribe will be assimilated by the whites facts confirm this prediction tor reports from the reservations are that more than maidens became the wives of whites in the last year A J callander Cal landar one of the squaw men and proprietor of a large ranch declares that he would not trade the dusky woman who presides over bis household tor any white woman be has seen it is one of the oldest customs of the sioux indians he says that the son in law shall not look on the face of his mother in law or communicate with her more than is absolutely neo essary the custom is probably the outgrowth of family brawls arising from their crude way of living hud died together in tepee and wigwam at all events it is an inviolable rule