| Show Memorials to i 14 t 1 p a a I l ld d 7 a g y o- o x w r t w e m ifS 1 x k i fB i 4 i i l ir W 9 L 4 By ELMO EtMO ELMO SCOTT WATSON HIS year jear tur marks the tenth annie ann r of the establishment of a aJ ad J d dI day ly for honoring the memory of 1 rillS the original Inhabitants of this continent the continent the American Indian tp It u was In 1110 1010 that the Illinois f t legislature authorized the observance Vr t once ance of ot Indian day on the fourth If Friday In September of each year jear Since that time tilDe the idea I has hns spread to other states andall and CI all over the time country the day is marked with various ceremonies In connection with this event It Is Interesting I to note how many permanent memorials have ha ken keen within recent years jears to perpetuate the fame of some sOllie Individual red man or of ot the Indian as a rn race I The past year jear has seen the lion Bon of ot several se to an nn already long list of such memorials Outstanding among these have been the we two Indian equestrian statues of ot heroic size Mich were ere modI n a part of the main project of ot the monumental Grant park decorative scheme the TO twin bridges es across the railroad tracks at the tot foot t of or Congress street on the lake front of ot Chi CM- toga f Characterized ns liS two of ot the ugliest but ww host Indians ever cast In bronze these TO statu statues modeled by hy Ivan han l the P great t rugo Yugoslav Stav sculptor Idealize the fi fighting i ni of the American an Indian ns as not done before Oth Other r memorials to a n vanished race rare and that tern tem Is h used USe usell purposely because the primitive e el very indian t Is not not merely the vanishing race but hut definitely u a vanished l race ruce Include ude the Uke i bust of f Chief of the hack n tribe was recently presented to the kr Be M n en County Count the WE Infirm Historical society In New Jersey iii x A 4 nt to Chief Straw of ot the tile I a Dlag ot at Strawtown near neur Noblesville Ind and massive gl granite boulder erected at nt Surrey o of Courthouse f that Virginia which lIch recalls to the people named state their Indebtedness u to iu an nn Indian ed fl Chanco hall o t br bronze nite tablet that boulder tells I s his Ills HOT on n u story It U U reads In of Chanco ChanN tip p indian memory in thIs Who with Richard mchard face l aee at nt r Paces Pace's tie the m County and antl wh who on the night before of massacre of It March 22 1022 l Informed o d Pace I plot piot and thus saved the Colour i coin And d these ra 8 to the are only a few of ot the runny many memo- memo mem erected American Indian which ha have ha e been In every eHy ry State In ln the Union An entire I could be th the Written about these memorials and hern heroic i deeds tI ilk t therefore to witch which thy they testify This art aril i la is lav cannot hope to contain a complete dew v W eel set Pet ft on f England land 1 alone for tor Instance a plan dred font fot several era years ago ao to erect one ted er of m monuments to all n the tribes Ibes and to a I i on n of the h Indians who lived ell In n that Hunted lOa OUa pd th that Just the other day It was w the a memorial of ot a n sort Rope BP tin In n i Was Ws to be established on Mount ni i islan I S I 8 a shrine lo to Perpetuate Ir or On n or of k nl I Philip P the great grent ale that historic ridge will viii he built hullt n a ni mm rawness i fr fur housing sing objects of historic value C loJ nl u and It U w will hc ht u a shrine an archer archer- i y fr r new history ilas- ilas Pt 1 s uco honored ue time of ot I Kin fil father na sots to e Of of h Ih with n huge bronze P tn OM ani e I Bledl s of the time 11 hl tai u 31 e er of the Pil Pilgrims g rims which h erected t rat II Plymouth l' durin during the tho 1 ary In 1021 Tb v v. w at New few Harbor llama will find Cud PO t there a n reminder of another friend of the Ill I'll- rIms grims It Is a n granite monument with a n bronze tablet tuble bearing bc this Inscription Samoset an Indian Su Sagamore of Pemaquid who welcomed the time EngliSh nt ot Plymouth K gave lIre e n 1 deed of the laud land where Ms tills stone was quarried and of that where It stands to John Brown n of ot New Harbor July 1625 and acknowledged It before Lefore Abraham It being the time first deed propel properly ly executed In New England Eng One other New England statue which should he be mentioned before leo leaving Unit that part of the country country- Is the famous bronze by byC C Cyrus Crus rus U E oJ The rime Appeal to the Great Spirit Spir Spir- it which stands before Lefore the museum of fine arts in fn Boston This was the last lost of n a series of four tour statues made by the famous sculptor more than twenty t years ago which represented the tile racial radal tragedy In our national life lite began Legan The first The Signal of ot Peace stands In Lincoln park Chicago and represents the tile friendly meetIng meeting meet meet- Ing of white and red man Dlan The Medicine Man ManIn In Fairmount park Philadelphia depicts the rellman's red rell redman's redmans redmans redman's mans man's suspicion of the Invader while Protest shows the warfare of the tribesmen against set tiers The Time Appeal to the Great Spirit illustrates illus the surrender of the Indian not to human enemies but to a higher friend One other of ot sculptors should Ie be l e added to the list of his hit masterpieces It Is The Tile Scout which stands In P Penn nn Valley park In Kansas City yin JIo an appropriate locale for this was the time cartem eastern east cart ern em terminus of ot the tile Oregon on and Santa Fe Fc trails trolls and the mounted Indian Is looking over oer the time vast empire where he made his last stand before the onrush of the white settlement of ot the West Nest The recent recert unveiling of ot the Chanco monument In Virginia Is a reminder that Pocahontas one of the two great Indian heroines In American history history his his- tor tory was not the HIP only one whom Virginians have reason renson to hold hoid In grateful remembrance The statue of which stands on Jamestown Island Is perhaps the best known of all nil Indian statues To see the memorial to another Indian heroine you ou must go clear a across ross the continent to City park pari In Portland Ore There stands her hand outstretched to the w we west t pointing the way o as she did more than a hundred hundred hun hunt she Mie hp guided I Lewis wis and amI Clark dred drell years ogo when 1 on their famous anions expedition Into time tile wilderness North Dakota also has tins honored the tho memory of this Indian girl Irl with a statue which stands on the grounds of time the state capitol at Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia however howe Is not the till only Mate otate which had hadn hada n a Pocahontas Pocahonta Near lr the tho town of Benton Menton Tenn stands a of stones hearing bearing n marker with Ith the following Inscription In Memory of nf Nancy ancy the tile Cherokee Ward Princess nail Prophete s of Nation Notion Tim The of Tennessee The Con Con- stant I Friend of the Pioneer Horn Died 1734 Died In the Congressional cemetery In Washington which Is not only stands a monument I D D. C C C. notables of our of round unique In that burying o nation notion It Is also a memorial mp to nn an Indian warnor warrior war nor and statesman said by many mally to he be the greatest greatest great great- the white man end and known to est Nt of nil his ro rocs race e honored at nt the time of his death with a military funeral accorded only nl those ranking AS ns general officers of the States tots army the only red redman redman redman such a tribute In history to have Ime been heen paid man the plain shaft haft that marks his bury bury- on en Choctow Choc Choc- words Pushmataha a these hag In place Chief are lies Mes Here This monument to hU him tow v his hU brother chiefs who II mil reeled erected bj by memory from frum with Mill him In a R dl delegation were a In tn the lime year jear 1 1524 4 J to the lo nf f f fhe their he r nation warrior was a w States Plates United the he council I elo- elo distinction He lie was I Ne e In of great gent degree owl aril Dillion on all nil 0 orcas orca- orca 18 to II nn an n mans man's white while nan skins s ns un under rr nil all ll circumstances the tile vz z friend He lie died d In Washington on the day of December 1824 IS J of ot croup in to the GOth year jear of or his age It U Is to the lima credit of the white man at least that not all all of time the monuments which he has erected have hie been to friendly Indians Some of ot them perpetuate the warlike deeds of Indians ho who were In their day the time bitterest enemies of the encroaching whites hItIS One of these stands In Inthe Inthe inthe the courthouse yard at nt Point Pleasant W. W Va and hears bears witness to the greatness of Cornstalk the Shaw Shawnee Shawl nee who led his iris warriors In the first and greatest merl nn haute battle at lit Point Pleas ilens Pleasant ant ont ut lit the tho month mouth of th time tho great In 1774 when native white front i L i under ion Gen Andrew Lewis strove mightily with native c nd red men under Cornstalk Althou Although h defeated nt at that battle C Cornstalks Cornstalk's prowess and generalship won von the highest e from his bis enemies who later were the tile most sincere mourners of his hla death at atthe time the hands of 01 treacherous and cowardly whites while he was detained as a II hostage A memorial In a Pittsburgh park recalls another great Shawnee Shawnee Shaw Shaw- nee who fought under Cornstalk at lit Point Pleas Pleas- ant lie He was vas but known along time the frontier as Black Dlack Hoof a warrior whose fighting days das extended from Braddocks Braddock's defeat In 17 1715 1755 5 I I through the defeats of ot and St St. Clair until Mad Anthony Wayne Wane finally broke the power of the Indians and pence was signed In 1703 1705 No part of time the United States Is richer In Indian memorials ls than the great Mississippi valley which was for tor so long tong the beloved homeland of ot s several eral powerful Indian tribes Near Columbus Ohio stands a monument to the memory of Leather Leather- lips a Wyandot chief who was executed by his hili own people on the site of the monument In ha 1800 1809 This memorial was erected by the Wyandot club an organization dating back to pioneer days because of the fact tact that although the time claim that the tho old chief was executed for practicing practicing witchcraft It was the opinion of the settlers settlers set set- tiers that It was done because was too friendly with the whites Chicago the time metropolis oils olis of the time Mississippi valley empire Is especially espe espe- especially rich In Indian memorials In addition to the lc and Dallin statues It has also a monument which perpetuates not only the story of a terrible Indian massacre but also a noble act on the part of a red man This Is the Fort Dearborn Massacre monument on the lake hake front capped clipped by the stirring group which depicts Black Partridge time tile saving sating the life of Mrs Sirs Helm wife of one of the officers In Inthe Inthe Inthe the fort from the time deadly tomahawk of an Infuriated Indian brave bruve West Vest of Chicago the traveler tra will see SIP on a high blurt bluff above abole the Hock Bock river a solitary m majestic Jestic figure outlined against the natural beauty of ot field and woodland In the time background Although this statue the time work of the noted Chicago Chi Chi- Chisago ca sago cago o sculptor Taft Toft Is popularly believed ed ed to hc ht that of the great leader of the Sats Sacs and Foxes Po Its maker has declared that It ItIs Itis itis is neither a representation presentation of that leader nor of ot any army single dingle tribe It symbolizes the Indian a n spirit unconquered while willie still n 1 conquered race It Is Isone Isone isone one of time tile First large monuments to be Le made of ot concrete Still further west pst Is III another statue by the time some same sculptor which tells the tile story of another great Sac and ond Fox Tox leader This Is the bronze figure of Chief Keokuk which stands In the lows Iowa city which bears Lears his bis name Oshkosh Is an on honored name the name of a n chieftain of the time Menominee Indians and several e years ago In a beautiful getting set get ting tin In Menominee park the citizens ens of Oshkosh Wis erected a n statue In honor of hU his memory Out In Colorado Col ralo Is another city which bears the name of s a great Indian chief lIe He was Chief Ouray of the Utes an Indian who repeatedly proved his right to the title of Friend of the White Man A few tew years ago a II part of their debt of ot gratitude to him was paid by the ell un In lug of a monument to Ouray and his wife wire Chi hl- hl pets pet a on a tract of land near Montrose which was us a part of ot the original Chief Ouray ranch And these are ore but a few v of the time many runny memorials memo memo- rials nails to the vanished race roce As All westward the star of empire took Its a way It took with It the time Indian end and the sorrowful fate which bleh has hns been U lit In one ont of ot the most famous of nil ull Indian the statues statues tin bowed figure of an Indian warrior mounted upon a horse whose drooping head hI Is pointing the setting sun sun-Jamell sun Earle Erasers Je l Find d of time tile Trail |
