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Show Younger Indans Turn From Faith of Fathers Sixty or svventy years ago the Fox Indians of Iowa began the ncuislllon of the English alphabet from missionaries. mission-aries. They learned a method of writing their own language by means iT the English alphabet, separating Iheir words Into syllables. Slmv there Is only u rough conrormlly between be-tween the characters as employed by tho Fox Indians and the actual Bounds, It. Is necessary to restore the phonetics of any Fox text so that the symbols may correctly represent, them. Dr. Truman Mlchelson, of the Smith sonlim Institution's P.urean of A men can Ethnology, has hiim foremost in Ibis work of collection and restoration. restor-ation. Doctor Mlchelson, wln.se work ha." made hlni the foremost authorlly on the Fox Indians, describes their rituals rit-uals as conslsllng mainly of eallng, dancing and prayer. As Is nalurnl with a primitive people, their prayers Invlle malcrlal henellls such as lonx life, freedom from disease, that the clilefs village should be slrong enough to resist lis enemies, ami that no foe should even be permitted lo gossip ngarlist the village. According lo Doctor Mlchelson, the .younger general Ion now turn thone once serious ceremonies Into occasions occa-sions for iiiniiseiiienl. Up lo some la yeai'M ago the tribe was so conservative conserv-ative ns lo resist, education, but It has since grown progressive- and all the young Indians mv anxious to go to school. The tribe are good farmers and compete with the whiles In the nl nl 0 iigi'lciilluriil fairs. |