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Show SQUAWMAN BURIED BY LEGIONNAIRES Sam Terry was a squawman, and when he died recently at St. Francis, S. P., American Legionnaires burled him with full military honors. But Samuel Mark Terry, nephew of General Terry of Civil war and Indian war fame, was not the typical gambling, gam-bling, wife-beating derelict who becomes be-comes a squawman of necessity or slothfulness, hated by both the Indian and the white man. When Terry's body was lowered into the grave at the Rosebud Indian Reservation cemetery, cem-etery, the intoned moan of sorrow that went up from the red men surrounding surround-ing the grave betokened a different type of squawman, for these sorrowing sorrow-ing Indians were mourning the passing pass-ing of a man who had spent many years of his life in the United States army as a scout and fighter of their people. Terry was born in Hew York September Sep-tember 1, 1S30. He joined the United States nrmy in 1S58 and a gunshot wound received in the Civil war caused him to wear a silver quarter in his throat the remainder of his life. Handicapped by his wounds, Terry went Into the west country and continued con-tinued in government service as a scout and Indian fighter. For many years he evaded the whizzing arrows of the Sioux, only to succumb to a more deadly arrow fiung from the bow of romance. His detachment was about to attack an Indian village In 18G7 with orders, to kill every man. During the fighting a figure was seen moving in the tall grass. The long musket of a scout raised slowly to rid the world of another an-other "red varmit" when Sam Terry suddenly grasped the barrel and ordered or-dered them to wait while he investigated investi-gated the moving figure In the grass. Search revealed a beautiful Indian maiden. After the attack she followed Terry's every step as a faithful dog follows a master, and Sam Terry was her master, the gods lsad Willed It so. Terry became a squawman and a real lover of the Indir.ns. Sam Terry, old timers say. was a noble character. After serving his country faithfully for twenty-three years, much of the time In the capacity of a professional enemy of the Indian, he found It in his heart to accept them as brothers, to serve them with understanding under-standing and tolerance. It was largely through the Influence and efforjs of Sam Terry that mutual understanding between the Indians and the Great White Father at Washington was brought about. |
