Show liNEAl GREAT SUN SI DANCE FINISHED FOR mi YEA Indians Near Vernal Close Barbaric Barr Bar Bar- r baric bark Custom Without Trouble 4 AS SEEN BY SPECTATOR i 7 Aft After r Three Days and Four i Nights Jumping Medicine Man Is Chosen D BY c. c h n. n COOK i Vernul ernal Utah Jul v 11 DId Did you ou r dance Cl C witness 88 what f Is co called II th thIt tho Sun un It Is weird and wonderful fuI There 1 Is 18 no dunce dance or of the Hie savage abe III in all the world one half so o ta S. S awe awe- hideous barbarous sill silly or I altogether C U The Bear Bena dance Which r rukes akes k H place once oric each year In the i sin sin-Ing when the mating season Is js at Its full Cull and which Is witnessed L by people from Crum ruin Co far I flit and near sinks into In insignificance when compared Jo to the Sun dance dunce One Olle differs from I uio tho lb other othel as an much oa U night differs from CrOm da day or heathenism from Crom civili civili- The Thu same people who went vent to see sec that dance years ago aJO never nc tire of oC it ita a nH as they thoy do the Bear dance The They go again and anI again and each ench time tile thc they arc are as deeply Interested as before With th the lie dance In the spring when whon all aJl the he world Is 18 glad when the thc birds Lc begin ln to sing when the lie grass begins to grow blOW when hen nature Is smiling when the tho sl sky seems to have more blue In II Hi it when the bear comes out It Is dir dif f ferent erent rent When hen you OU see ee It IL once you ou have havo seen all there Is to IJ see But I there thero is something new or there appears appears ap ap- pears to be bc at every O Sun dance I If this dance Is so o wonderful to us who l o lla have vo seen C n It so often oCten and who lun 0 I been right light here among the Indians for or so many years cars what ahat would It be beto beto beto to those people back East who lio have hae never nC as much n an as seen cen an Indian if Custom I III 1 Is 1 III D-III Dying But Dut the custom r 1 te IJ fast Cast dying out and pretty soon it will viii be but hut an nil unpleasant un uti- pleasant memory It has n already Itea d disappeared disappeared dis dis- appeared from most of t IC the he reserva le reservations for or various reasons ons but chiefly chicO because of oC the Intensity of feeling th that t i among the lie Indians It Is discouraged here hele among the tlC Utes and the tho whiles wio arc nrc trying to let Jet i In 11 Inthe the light of oC religion and education 11 hope that It will soon oun be among the dead things thinS's of the patt jat those things s that have havo retarded the thc Intelligence of or orthe the red man nan The rhe Sun SUIl dance danco for this tills year ear is finished fin- fin and the Indians have ha all reto re- re tu turned led to tielt various llou i lJ eL or abode c. c The tribes from Crom rein Montana Idaho South Dakota Wyoming Ari Ari- Arizona Arizona zona zone Colorado and southern Utah are wending theil their ways back l lo their hut huts laden aden down with their mun many presents of ls and belts and anti beads and with them then the they are arc taking the ponies given cn them lJ by the Utes TIle rhe They were royally treated while at the a agency ency Indians are arc always alwaiN vet N ery hospitable to toward toward to- to ward each other but more so o than ever e on such sueh occasions as this one that has haB Just passed un With HIt itil Sham Battle This dance Le begun began n a week weck n ago no o last Wednesday afternoon with a big sham battle and l It continued for fot three days and amid four fOUL nights It h Is hard to describe so that the reader who has 1138 never seen It will b be able to fully appreciate it fl It Is a n religious celebration cele cele- bration of some somo kind and only the tho bucks bUCH take part in lii H It Strength and endurance are arc tested and the man nan who comes conies out at the time end cud in III the time best condition JK is It the me medicine man and the medicine man of or tho the Indians Isa Isn Is Isa a n wonderful Icing He t says S 'S luau words In a strange tongue over oyer the time sick and lays las on hands with great violence This performance per per- always alwa's takes place at night and mill often Mien lasts until tho the sun un Is far Car UP 11 In III fl the heavens cm The rhe relatives of the tt I t t and I-I- I many who ho arc uro not relatives rela rela- arid and they thoy chant around an lives tives gather ather curious through and go u and anti PoV- PoV pow man resorts motions The me to many tricks lI HU lid picks up UI n IL stone stolle and swallows it Al awhile awhile- ho lie all his might belches it H up and amid with he ho hurls it JL towar toward a star stat If H he h hits us misses the o ostar If he lie tho star all ull right star all nIl right 11 lie charges all the from a few cents to an In Indian lan I wa way who services man luau for hJ his such wonderful things can S medicine man mall can accomplish as the must needs be a 3 nina man of or great cut cul strength and that strength Is mo cn en at the tile Sun dance Dance Hunce III In an un Enclosure circUlar circular in III a place dance dunco takes Time Tho ho In m diameter lar enclosure sixt sixty feet to the cn- cn Tiler is I but one opening and anil ClO closure UlC and none but tho the dancers rs inside in- in to enter allowed tile the squaws are arc aIlo e have Us the Indians side sille of thIs cIrcle cle covered with blankets In tho the booths about the circle Is Es a 3 pole of center feet high Surrounding tho the thirty thirteen thir- thir distant ant are arc feet few fow pole amid aull a to fifteen feet teet ten teen tech other ther poles In tue tho the one olle than thun lower to ed supposed These thirteen poles jOICS are arc aref f Continued from Crom Iu Page c Two I GREAT SUN DAN DANCE CE i FINISHED FOR YEAR t Continued From rom I go One represent the thirteen moons of ur the thc year ear The top ot or tho the high pole Is decorated with man many eagles' eagles feathers Th The dancers are naked except for Ol a slight covering co about the tho loins About tho the head the dancer ancer is decorated with tassels and antI eagles eagles' feathers Each dancer has a whistle made from the feather ather of an eagle cagle wing wing- and this he lie blows constantly From forty to seventy sev sev- S 1 enty enly nt Indians engage one In the dance an and standing on tiptoe with eyes directed toward tho tiro top ot of the big pole they dance to and fro to and fro Cro with witha a brief brIer br breathing spell ever every ten minutes minutes min min- utes or so In one ono corner of or the corral corral cor cor- 1 ral to the left ot of the entrance are aro WO squaws who keep up a u. continual I chant The Tho dance as before stated j. j r lasts three days daya and four nights an and never a biro of or- food nor a drink of oC water do tho dancers touch during J. J all aU those hours Ono One by one the weaker weak weal or er fall by the wa wayside sl c and those who still have luwe plenty of or strength left stand aroun around about the exhausted and antI blow their whistles hoping to bring back bacle vigor Igor and freshness of or life liCe At the great finish there are arc but few who have withstood tho the ravages of the heat the pangs of or hunger the parching parch parch- t K- Silt ing thirst and the nervous nelOuS strain The dance concludes es with a big feast and antI r the victor is declared the time medicine man Among AmonS' tho the distinguished visitors at atI r I this Sun danco dance wn was Ignacio Ignacto chief of ot iw V tho Southern Utes of or Colora Colorado Colorado o. o lIeIs He lIe HeIs Sj f r r 1 Is a 0 man mon about seventy years old an and andla i 4 1 la is ono one of the most noted leaders In t the tho west Tabb Tabby was the last chief of tIte tie He died about five I I years ago Tecumseh who lives JIves on 01 I rt the reservation is a son of or Tabby Captain C C. G. G Hall ag agent nt at White White- Whiterocks I t rocks IH has S given out the Information n that tho the renegade e who ran away soon after the reservation was opened for tor entry and antI who are ale arenow arenow now at Rapid City S. S D. D will return to tho the reservation in about six weeks There Thero are arc 37 of or these In Indians Indiana lans more orless Soon after they left here thc they were captured and held as prisoners of ot war at Ft Mead At one time there were wre sixteen hundred soldiers rounding rounding round round- In ing them up The Time government leased T lands lantIs from the time Sioux tribe on the Cheyenne river re reservation er and put them there When Ohen they return to the reservation here tho they will 1111 go upon the theland lands land to them thorn before tho they ran u. u away wa |