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Show HOW INDIANS MADE HISTORY Only In Tradition Does History Live and Only On Version of Story -.w,4.lvC Hard,.H If we could only get at the facta of the hltory of our Indian tribe. It would be of Interest to compare thee j with what Is related as the fortune of most civilised nation. It I only In tradition that tha history of the In dlan live, and only one verlon of the tory 1 ever heard. Sometime thla I so true to nature that no room for doubt can be found. Such I the following chapter from the annals of the Beaver, a Canadian tribe. One day a young chief shot hi ar row through a dog belonging to another an-other brave. The brave revenged the death of his dog. and Instantly a hun dred how were draw n F.re night had fallen some eighty warriors lay dead around the camp, the pine wood rang with the lamentation of the women; the tribe had lost It bravest men There wa a temporary truce. The Mend ()f O n hi,,f whose arrow had killed tho dog yet numbered some nlxty people, nud It was agreed thnt they should separate from the tribe nd seek their fortune In the vat wilderness lyln to the outh. In the night they began their march; sullenly their brethren saw them depart, never to return. They went their wy to the shore of the lesser Slave Lake, toward the great plain which w re ald to be far southward, by the bank of the wift rolling Saskatchewan. The tribe of the Beaver never aw Ihl exiled bnd aaln. but a hundred years later a Beaver Indian who followed fol-lowed the fortune of a white fur hunter found himself in one of the fort of the Saskatchewan. Strang Indian were camped about the pall sades; they were member of the great Blarkfoot tribe, who. bunting ground lay outh of the Saskatchewan. Saskatche-wan. Among them were a few brave who when they conversed spoke a language lan-guage different from that of the others; oth-ers; In thla langlage the Beaver Indian In-dian recognized hi own tongue. Harper Weeklr. |
