Show INDIAN DIVORCES the courts court playing havoc with customs of 0 f marriage with most of the plain indians indiana marriage consists simply of picking out the maiden leading her to a cabin or wigwam and installing her as mistress of the house and cornfield corn field sometimes with the necessary preliminary of paying the father a pony or two or an installment of blankets and occasionally with some slight ceremony performed by a chief or medicine man says the st louis globe democrat and when the brave grows tired of his partner he can get rid of her as easily as he won her the people who are now flocking to the dakotas or oklahoma to get divorces would be supremely happy if they could throw oft off the galling bonds of wedlock as easily as does the reservation indian the I 1 tact fact having been formally announced by the head man of the clan the divorce takes place when the tribe is gathered at a dance when all are assembled and the circle formed the di discontented s warrior strikes a drum used by the revelers gives away a few presents making a present to the squaw he intends to take next and then in a short bombastic speech he stigmatizes stigma his wife by giving her over to tender mercies of the other braves while they look upon him enviously and consider that he has performed an act i of bravery in his desertion often as many as half a dozen divorces are thus obtained at a single dance no tedious I 1 waiting no courts no lawyers and no trouble about alimony or the custody of children and the squaws squads thus cast off I 1 I 1 as a general think thing seem to take it as a matter of course and before the close I 1 of the dance are using the wiles known and used by women the world over in an effort to repair as speedily as possible I 1 the break in their hearts and I 1 matrimonial experiences with the taking I 1 of land in severalty severally and putting 0 on n of citizenship however the indian fin finds d s I 1 that he has cemented the ties that were I 1 so loose before for the courts everywhere are deciding that the tribal marriages i are legal and binding upon the indian who becomes a citizen and it if the weight of one legal marriage wears somewhat heavily upon a white man how must mt it he be with the red man who has contracted two three four or even more alliances which the court now i declares legal and at the same time takes away his former avenue of relief |