| Show 10 IX 0 mi W fj V a biffi i M e cvar ar ZM an T by ELMO SCOTT WATSON Z N 11 1022 when tile unknown soldier was e ishri ned at arlington 1 cemetery among tile high and other dagni barles who took part in vint impressive ceremony was the figure of an indian chief res trident fit blick calan scalp q 1 leggings logg Ings bonded F f m na anti a war brimet flat swept to the around As lie A A topped forward to place on the white marble I 1 0 all a war bonnat all n coal gilld lit tits native tongue 1 I feel it an bonor to tile red mall that as in ell part lit this great event today because it shows that tile hands of f 1 i alt a 1 arso i t ler s w ll 11 0 f 0 alg 1 1 t in tile gre i t t v ar u r e n pr rc c lat e d 1 y III waite man I 1 nin glad to depre n t t I 1 0 indian of tile united states in pt a C ing 0 th in tal awn warrior this coup M war bonnet every eagle feather of V which represents it deed of valor by will grant that these noble warriors liao lave not given up tip their lives in vain and that there will ile 19 pence peace to nil all inen herent ter this li Is the indians findlan si liopo hope anti and prayer th this I 1 a chief who was chosen us its the of nil all the tribes to place tile the red pil mans mana tribute upon the grave of tile unknown soldier r Is known among ills his people the ab Paro parolees Barol kees poa as aleek aliea whoosh mean ing many blany achievements but tile white whit men who cull call tile the es cro crow w lie Is more commonly known as alls chief plenty coups perhaps the best belt enoi known n indian in the united 8 states artes today today for that reason one of tho outstanding biographies of the alio year benr la Is tho book american published recently by bv tile jolin john ony day company for it Is tile the life story of a orent great indian plenty coups chief of the crows is as lie ho told it to frank it II linderman through tile medium of tin nn interpreter and the sign language in which both plenty coups coup and alln derma are adept 4 american to Is not tile first indian autobiography b but ut it la Is outstanding because bebau 1 I it Is the story of a genuinely primitive driml tive indian when plenty coups was born in montana in the into laa 1401 ills people were still living their normal nomadic life tn ili the days before the buffalo hards were swept away and the ae wild horsemen of the plains were almost untouched by any contact with the whites ills early life was waa lived under tinder tribal conditions but lit tie changed over a period of 0 hundreds hund redi of years in hla early manhood ho the first conflict two ances with their file inevitable v liable x of tile subjugation of tile the red and tile the domination lif t the white and his tio do dining years pro pre being passed in an ern era which la Is seeing a century of history concentrated in a decade so in a sence sense tile the life story of tahl indian chief Is nn an epitome of years eari of american history from savagery to civilization from a wilderness to tile age plenty coups has ined a boy tell tits his life anti the naturalness of childhood Is reflected relec tel throughout ills fits etory what are your our earliest remembrances br anees mr air linderman asked him and the old man milled skilled play ilay lie ho said eald happily all boys bois are much alike rt their bearta are youtie youna anti they let them sing anti and in hla his tell ing of the events of tits hl i boyhood anil and hla his train frix at the hands handi of the he eld ers of file tribe there hero Is food for thought by alie white man who believes that men of ills color are superior in a ony i ny way to men whose skins are red no doubt it will be n chock to most white men to realize that in the eyes eye s of the indiana white children are so disgustedly lit bred so profiting by the example anti and the instructions ot of tits ills elders plenty coups boyhood was spoilt spent la in the kind of piny which was tile beginning ot of tits ills education in ili physical development in plains and wood craft and in ili strict SL belf if discipline of body anti and mind lie he anti the other boys played at making war and with great eagerness lie looked forward to tile the day when lie might go out on tile first war party and have the lie chance for that distinction so fo h desired ly by nil prospective warriors counting coups tills this light be accomplished lit in ono one of several ways lie he might strike nil an enemy with 1113 coup stick bo bow or quirt before otherwise attacking him or take ills his weapon while lie was still alive ile he might count coups by striking similarly tile the first of at the dead or his its breastworks under fire or by stealing horses from the village of nil an enemy unlike the white ninna idea it was not so much an honor to bo be wo ivoun ded in action when a warrior who had been wounded donned nil an eagle feather to commemorate tile event ile he must stain it red anti and such a feather was waa esteemed less highly than ono one which bore the distinctive markings showing liow flow a coup was wag counted plenty coups young manhood inan hood was filled with innumerable skirmishes between the crows and their traditional enemies en emles tho the sioux the tile the Arapah oes and the blackfoot feet ills first real contact with the white men caino when he enlisted as a scout with general crook anti served valorously with will that officer in the grent great battle with the sioux on the rosebud ifor afo americans with their traditional love 0 of good sportsmanship there la Is nil an interesting example in plenty coups attitude towards his enemies in ili nearly every case in which he tells of it a whom tie he fought and killed tie ho ends the story by adding gravely ile he was a good man that sioux and a brave warrior hut but tho the opinions of the white man expressed by this old warrior Is not such comfortable reading for those who fondly believe that the white race ls Is superior to all others hut but Is good perhaps for the exaggerated st self if es teem of the conquering white to read these words of plenty coups anti reflect upon them with nn nil honest mind they spoke very loudly when they sald said their laws were made for everybody but we soon learned that although they expected us to keep keel them they thought nothing of breaking them themselves their priests said we might have their religion but when we tried to under stand it we found that there were too many kinds this bothered us a good g deal until we saw that the white man maa did not take his rell religion glou any more seriously than tie lie did ills laws lawa and ana that lie kept both of them just behind him to use when they light do blin good in ills hta dealings strangers stran geis these were not our ways we 1 liepa ept the laws we made and lleo lived our religion lell glon we have never neer been a ble to understand the white man who tools fools nobody but himself now too late we know that tle tile white mini milli la Is not wise lie ile Is smart not wise lse and fools only himself to in read plenty coups story la Is to realize that lie iiii deserves tile character nation lyntton of a great american by whatever standards stand aids either white or red lie may be judged A part of 0 tits his greatness Bie atnes lies iles in the adjustment lie made between tits his people and ours our s in ili ills bin patience ills diplomacy and ills Is dimness which sied saved th the e crows cious fro from m tho the tragic tingle fute fitte which overtook oer took other indian tribes of them lie he 8 sasi a ys wo we saw that those who made war against the white man always failed in ili tile end and lost thela lands look book at al the striped feathered anois arrows die ei most ot of them thein fire are living where they hate the ground that holds their lodges they cannot look at the mountains as I 1 can or drink good goodwater goo awater water as I 1 do every day ili instead of making a treaty with the white matt man and by it holding thel country which they loved loed they fought ahl how flow those warriors fought 1 and lost all taking whatever the alitt ahtty man would give ghe and when the hearts of the givers are tilled filled with hate thelt theli gifts are arc small the and the sioux who fared a little better liae have always been our ea enemies emles but I 1 am sorry for them today I 1 have hae fought hard against them in war with the white men more than once and often with my own tribe before the white men came but whon when I 1 fought with the white man against them it was not because I 1 loved him or because I 1 linrud ole sioux or but because I 1 saw tills this was the only way we ve cwill keep keel our land and it was ray my dream that taught us the way wa although plenty coups talked fleecy about ills his early life even to the intimate details of tits hla dreams aud all the other elements which make up ud the ot of tile the indian a rati ran occurrence for the red matt to barf ills soul out to the white man ills his book tells little of tits his life after the passing ot of the buffalo the descent into poverty and dependence upon the white mans bounty broke ills his spirit when the buffalo went away the hearts of n m people tell fell to the ground and chef could not tift lift them up again lie he says sas after this nothing happened there was little singing anywhere anil those mournful words are a litti nit requiem for the whole race of et zed tej men |
