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Show THE INTER-MOUNTAIN REPUBLICAN. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY. AUGUST 16, 1908. PREHISTORIC CITIES ARE BEING RESTORED BY PROF. CUMMINGS'S PARTY IN SOUTHEASTERN UTAH -Skeleton ectcoo Found in Mounds jf If SU ox ve 0000 CTE ge ~ Ancient f Pottery Taken Ruins NSS ‘-Ruined Pueblos Uncovered by Excavators- < Prehistoric cities wherein dwelt] lashed cliff dwellers and kindred races centuries and centuries ago in a high state | dropped I of civilization are now being restored by Prof. Byron Cummings of the Unia smoldering fire versity of Utah and his party of ex-|in plorers in Southeastern Utah. |} an has been | served The p rogress of the party vividly portrayed by Neil M. Judd, | of The Republican's special correspon-|the spirits or dent with the party, and he has sent a|shipers did series of pictures showing the development and result of the work. jrectangular holes accompanying photographs | which Th show an unearthed ceremonial cham- | winds ber, or kiva, technically called, where }up in the ancient race worshiped. oo | stone over the fire in every villa or palace, there is a kiva- priest, spoken a circular room buried below i neva of the earth. It is. characteristic of |comprised the peculiar these places that they are similarly | far constructed almost every place that | made a traces of the ancient race has been "determine. found. Entrance is effected from the. | se top, through ae Toof bullt of poles rs every ruin of prominence the that pre- has uncovered, not only in|ed a skeleton, perfectly U ‘tah, but in other states) companied by th the lost race are found which contained picture shows the rulned the departed spirit of what Was once laid to rest with village Here lived the Mr Tudd took in' the summer time, |} skeleton as it lay their homes in the rocks en. scraped aw: farmed crops and laid in a win-,| The pottery lay and then moved into the One of the rews their cliff homes for the) the excavators is the the ravages of the! manufacture that is raids of the warring | Last year, when work of the excavator|a party into. southe: outline of the wall)|found many ruins and represents an expenditure of effort | for future work that was made solely ‘to/|larger party Into of the life and habits) with much completer outfit race that peopled this tion and is now continent long before the} his effort. One Indian was ever POUR Diep ayiae "steins" eces of pottery. the mounds or burial} toe into iad clay whe He propinquitous to shel the made are eatin ete, ine Cummings party unearththe mounds of. earth that -| heaped over them in for haniint nacigepeen dinaltiDhina cena Indian valls le eving a pe: rfect optline yandals ® | erations and preserved to inspect and e rencece and In 1763 he trott, against cealed f his which Wwweapons Indian gen- WHO 1777, when the Shawnees | treaties were to renew hostilities, and | manded the > that he might side with lands Governor whites detained him |"if Tecumseh were as hostages, but they | whites he might acherously murdered by some | empire that would 2 who were incited by the/ico or Peru " » outrages The last words of | chief were rendered > dying chief were: "Fear not, tny|nor Harrison's the will of the Great} dians at Tippecanoe that we should die here tom) year while Tecumseh _ | South He sided war of 1812 Burying of Red Jacket j ry nd was slain In Indian chief whose final; a Ls oe for eloquence > bee n pre served is Red | when s aaid: ‘Bury me by the (tor and eee) is the-dead Indian," there was rsuppliant eee wer ged intermittent hostility between u the white and the red races until the latter has almost disappeared. was over rant adhant to keep former wife, and let my jtor int - slaughter tell arial to the customs | and Of the representatives of that race, between the Indians and whites, aa dressed and | put John Fiske, the American historian, bent his efforts to secure a new ho He vis a sa | equipped | as my fathe were, that | "you sald Joseph Brant "was perhaps the|for his people in Canada "| the ‘ir spirlts may re Bote © in my coming. | when greatest Indian of whom we have any in England in 17865, sure that my grave be not made by} sit near s "father" knowledge," and that "certainly the |ceived with high honor, < them not pursue mej gun fs , father; history of the red men presents no men as B Jacket, whose Indian} mother." | His more many-sided and interesting chartained a grant of land at Quebec, vas Sagoyewatha, received his} py several well acter."" Brant, whose Indian name was the & Eis ligh name because x British officer| middle name of Thayendanegea, belonged to the MoBrant county and its seat, DORE, him = the time of the}man was Tecumseh. a richly embroid. red scarlet jac ket, which he wore for Story of Black which had so important a part in the ullt by him for his neople, over w Aca ae and revolutionary history of he ruled thereafter and was imAn Indian who proud of. But he was|/after him was © was born about 807 1740 or 1742, on ‘the banks of the Ohio, as a fighter, and even bore |of the Sac trib anaes h, and the monument bears the | of "Cow Ixiller" for al-| 1767-1838. When where his mother had accompanied inseription: "This tomb is erec ted to her tribe on a hunting expedition. The leged cowardice, He was an eloquent} succeed his father the memory of Thyendanegea, 1 became conspicuous in|the Sacs. In 18 statement that he ae a half-breed is tain Joseph Br rant, prnsipal chief and not borne out in history. Whether his wy | the councils of the Six Nations, being |agreed for an father was a chief oe rae his grand- | hie fellow himself. After the death| give up their lands eas father was one of the chiefs who had iielty and ‘attachment to the British | of Brant he had a position of great|sippi to the government, visited England half a century before. late in life he sank into| Hawk refused The youth early showed his superiority Bane ‘at Brantfor d, and became so grossly in- | agreement. In to hia fellows and when only thirteen that he was deposed from|sided with the 886. These last wsore are. eredited years old was with the verre of twenty-six of the lead-|1816 he signed "Have pity on the poor Indhis tribe at the battle ef Lake George ‘If you can get any influence his tribe, who signed alcession of the His older sister, Mary, fs "Miss Molly' that effect In 1784 Red|was not until the ee eer to do them all the 1823 Brant, as she was called, had become ca an impertant figure in ajof the Saes anc the Indian wife of Sir wiilisne Johnat Fort Stanwix, when a treaty|the Mississippi, poaiinineuk to Cornplanter. son and mistress of Johnson nen, and negotiated between this country|gan to settle in : Indian chief in whose honher brother was sent by Johnson to the Six Nations, against] Black Hawk led Dr, Eleazer Wheelock's Charity ‘school which Red Jac ket pelieten an iImpas-|in 1831, and at Lébanon, Conn, out of which grew Vhen a treaty with|which bears his Dartmouth college at a THe date. entire Six Nations was concluded, | were defeated Here Joseph Brant learned Dnglish Washington gave Red Jacket | surrendered in 18: ang acquired considerable knowledge medal, of which he was ex-|other warriors were of books. Hoe also united with the proud, He gave imforma-| After belng taken to se veral clties a Protestant Episcopal church After tion in 1810 of the efforts of ‘Tecumseh! the East they leaving school he went as an interProphet to draw the Senecas| ress Monroe ‘for preter with a missionary to the Incombin: ition with the western | were removed to: a reservation grear Dex dians, and he translated the Prayer in 1812 he induced his} Moines and there party of Seneeas with the Freneh, and Book and parts of the New Testament with the Americans |Iceokuk was a fellow Into the Mohawk tongue. He lived for Brit tish Red Jacket op-|and exerted his at is now Canajoharie, posed ( thristianity and hated mission-|and led his people where he married, and devoted much forsaw the extinction of | Tiipois. He an active part in the border of his time to improving the minds monument was erected | with Black Hawk in the party b and morals of his fellow Indians, But "in Forest Lawn ceme- |} Kast: In 1845 was also a warrior who surpassed » by the historical society | where a-city bears his na me, his fellows, and he aided Sir William in 1884, sas, where he died from Johnson on several expeditions in the Other Noted Indians 1848 French and Indian and the Pontiac Deseribes noted Indian figures in wars. He became, in 1774, the seereTecumseh, the Shawnee Francis Parkman, lary of Guy Johnson, son of Sir Wil, and was. poreraen as a man had a dream of an Indian | voted a volume to "T liam, who was made sa"iperintendent of mor empire to rival and resist the aggres-| Pontiac and the Indian affairs, and went to England in 1 the latter pert oe his life whites on the hunting |Conquest of Canada," the following year. and made efforts to make it|London Athenaeum" Name Symbol of Terror His father, Pukusheno, was] "This is one of When the war of the Revolution after his birth in the Ohio|torles that has been broke out Brant sided with the Eng1768 and he was brought |recent literary lish, as the Johnsons did, and he reup with a hatred of the whites. Hel story of Kirk ceived a commis sion as a colonel from the warfare which pre-| War with Pontiso, Governor Carleto He led so many eession of lands in the} Major Robert Rogers, successful raids Seater the patriotic lef poets aad Logan comGre eenville region to the United States |Savages"' colonists that his name became a 1805 he elaborated his| whose honor the b of terror from the St. Lawuniting all the Indians to} Mich, is named, rence to the slaware. He had an whites Accompanied by] Ottawas and was active part in the Cherry Valley maswhat Js now Weat Virginia, on theOhio Elskwatawa, the prophet, Way squaw, being sacre, the disasterous battle of the Indians were defeated by he visited tribes from the lakes to the became e Z f the Ojlbways Minisink and the battle of Oriskany. : me, andthe Pottawatomies head o n J ; stir them up, and gathered |tawas but Chief Cornstalk won the The poet Campbell in his "Gertrude of seven hundred warriors in|an island at the of Wyoming," credits Brant with the 1810 he had a conference|Clair. One writer ferocities of the massacre in_ that M: H. Harrison (after-| nearly white and another as unusuatly peaceful valley, but that Indian chief vard President, shen pov ern oy of the} dark, but all agree was not there. The best evidence goes caretts ane he | talents superior t position of a portion of his tribe, to show that Brant treated his captives avowed his plan, ap clared ine ae race, although cruel and cunning for future study. to ee eeeeerinate The: re planned tor |the 1 veins ariten FAMOUS IN HISTORY of ny living left resent the sounds in his language He thus secured thirty-flve, added a dozen by various modifications, and invented more until he had eighty-five which represented every sound in the Cherokee tongue. By their use any one can learn to read and write the dialect in a few days, and the same principle was used by the missionaries with other Indian languages, notably those of the Crees and the Chippewas. After more than 10 years of hard work, Sequoya, whose English name was George Guess, and who had been ealled "The American Cadmus," perfected his work and put it into use. ereature. A half-breed Indian who figured in the wars in the southern states in the first half of the last century was Osceola, whose Seminole name was As-se-he-ho-lar (Black Drink), but who was known also by the English save |/name of Powell-that of his father, ‘mourn for a0 Englishman His mother was a ‘reek squaw, of the Red Stick tribe W hen four years old, his mother took inven t{him to Flo : where he early | gained es See intee among the ol coer ea and led them against the | territorial aggressions of the whites. | When, in 1835, his wife, the halfs a hative| breed daughter of a fugitive negro | Slave, was reclaimed by her mother's former owner, Osceola threatened re| venge and stirred up the second Seminoie war He killed Feneral Thompson, Indian agent, and led the Indian forces successfully against | Several white commanders, but was | finally siezed by treachery and kept ; prisoner at Fort Moultrie until he eaalianas | let Of modern day Indians the names Pontiac engage an ‘a and | Prof. oe has gone down into the canvons or out to the mesas with shovelers and is furrowing the earth expose ruined pueblos which are far more interesting and less understood than the cliff dwellings them- Prof. E. L. Hewett, who has been with the Cummings party for a part of the summer, believes that a study of the ancient race can better be prosecuted in the pubelos than in the cliff homes for the reason that the evyidences of living and the traces of daily life are far more apparent in the submerged pueblos than in tne homes in the rock cliff The Cummings party is expected to abound In that region have return to Salt Lake about August 20, the treasurers! and will doubtless bring with it t remarkable collection of relics and a : prevents | great fund of:valuable experience. s, but In order to find more ane 1 ae St Che CRner: has been adopted as habitants of the ancient See | | their patron saint by British motorists. excava- | JOSEPH BRANT, CORNPLANTER, RED JACKET AND OTHER INDIANS nifmber of the men of the race | | with A whom President' Roosevelt recently | so characterized with much aptness as | him: "the oldest Americans,' the aboriginal | had acquired was by Though engaged in many murIndians, have filled a considerable | ficial. place in the history of the country. | derous It is to the late Senator Hoar that the | marked statement is credited to the effect that |istic of the Iroquois. "the Puritan Fathers when they land-|times approved ed on ‘the stern and rockbound coast' | oners, on grounds of public first fell upon their knees and then | was ‘fell upon the aborigines." From that} never w ould time until the statement attributed to | out is w ) General Phil Sheridan, "The only good' children from the tomahawk, and the r general| Pontiae or ta in- | of Geronimo, "Don't t Forget very Sitting thelr} ing Bear are the reSpe wor ! York ‘k'_ Tribune. nice- the Bull most and Stana- familiar.-New Vine REESE |; youthful trim, the arteries of your very being are wearing out: they are grow| Ing weak and thin and brittle: and | often, too, the very exercise you court in order to keep your flesh and muscles In good form, is only weakening more and wore your arterial aystem id a whiskes te led a party w ne lg you will run the race in' the When an artery bursts you are gonel | It Is this fact that makes a family your; cannection so anxious that the elders | Should not be overworked, should not and | be permitted to indulge in rash activi| ties, should be restrained from the -| heated argument, from the heavy task, land relieved from anxieties and overmuch worrtes Tt is this ow Slenic: prosleepless nights for ene tha that causes fa tee younger generations for, algs tha and | They even interference is hotly resented will ride. walk. rush, race-aye, dance when the spirit prompts. Don't forget the veins! ofr was icitled ‘by his own aaciGa: in "selt- | egs excessive baths to meen down self-| s, keen up the self-same mack the bloo d ~ | But is5 kept In good conditton, heavy blood, resulting from im; Proper and over-feeding. a thickened, fluid aas the restsult of | Sluggish sufficient exercise, a eteof sudden rush over-ex ertion, A from -| blood an anery | || Seine Spurt of temper will brin S about unGrow Always if ever he Had Helping Hand entered Logan's cabin old gracefully; a lighter eagerness hun- diet for feadbrehin for respect more leadership.e geen eee admonttion of the younger race, a Willingnes relinquish burdens, Take ee 4 yeurself, Remember. the velns! |