OCR Text |
Show 11 v . TRIBAL CUSTOM OF SIOUX. Son-ln-Law Rarely Has Speech With ' His Wife's Mother. I'rom tbo Missouri to tho Dig Horn 1,500 squaw men testify that theo Is no wifo like tbo Sioux woman, bo-rauso bo-rauso there Is no mother-in-law like the Sioux raotbor-lnlar. This Is whj many a ranner argues that the Sioux trlho will K slmllatcd by tho whites Facts confirm this prediction, for reports re-ports from tbo reservations are that jnoro than 300 Indian maidens becamo tbo wives of whites In tho last year. A. J, Callandar, ono of tho squaw men and proprietor of a large ranch, declares that he would not trade the dusky woman who presides over his household for any white woman he has seen. . "It Is ono of the oldest customs of tho Sinus; Indians," he says, "that tho son-in-law shall not look on tho faco ot his mothcr-ln-law or communicate with her moro than Is absolutely necessary. nec-essary. The custom Is probably tho outgrowth ot family brawls arising from their crude way of lUIng, huddled hud-dled together In tepee and wigwam. At all ovents It Is an Inviolable rule." |