| Show comment on indian article of covach and his son article brings out some very nery interesting comment which f lirosi s ight I 1 i T flit on diffrient phases of the subject matters bi brought ought up still 11 ill receil e further treatment before the series discontinues SUBJECT TREATED FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES J cecil liter viter milter liter and lecturer sis mr alter la Is the author of the monograph on jim bridger and 14 alir through ough the ile feirt of the scenic jf we 17 he ile is meteorological er ver in salt lake city band nd a student of the west 5 dear mr beckwith sorry I 1 could not reach this ear her lier and that I 1 can give you noth ing new on covach ac believe the words ackey the bibliophile could not find them all 1 1 would not alter his story at all it Is good material and I 1 shall want fant to clip it for tiling filing J cecil alter president alm it R sas I 1 consider mr palmer the best posted man in this part of utah on the indians I 1 have read bis his writ ings in the utah state historical quarterly Quart eily with care and know the labor and thought I 1 e has put into them with constant checking up of his work by referring it to the in deans themselves for comment and correction mr palmer bays says dear beckwith you are struggling with a problem that has vexed me a great deal and you are making headway with it to most indians in the south to bats is the great god the crea tor of all things his home is to bats khan gobats house a cave far off which he NEVER LEAVES shenon or is broth er and friend ot of gobats not son Is gobats messenger he ile comes to earth tu deap to execute the plans and designs of gobats comes does hia his work and then returns to the great one with his report and his further becom ions contacts with people on earth but gobats never does As my ind an friends says more talk about what he done FB contrary to your statement above the indians do have a devil his name is oo 00 nu pit and his funch ions are about what the functions of the white man a devil are he Is the father of lies iles he ile speaks with a de celt ful tongue he ile plants hatreds and enmity as the plants seed he ile may assume many forms sometimes ugly and repellent and seome times delightful and winning he ile may walk like a man or animal or fly like a bird but his flight is usually flickering and uncertain like many butterflies it is not straightforward like the flight ot of quan nants the eagle oo 00 nu pits may lurk in the water or hide in the forest or speak evil into the hearts of all living things he is disease hatred insanity and even death my page is full and I 1 must stop kind regards W R palmer that is very tine fine authoritative ly said and elucidating the aspects of indian belief I 1 have an article to follow illustrating how oo 00 nu pits masquerades as little peo pie and would throw indian in ake and then bilte ot of his prank on the rocks which record we call hieroglyphs or ancient indian rock writing syn ono and I 1 will quote fred erick S dellenbaugh on 00 oo nu pits as understood by him del alenbaugh len baugh went through the grand canyon ith powell on the second trip FB sr gibbs sas josiah F gibbs whom I 1 quoted in a former section says dear mr beckwith it the within hurriedly written ar tide will aid your splendid efforts to reproduce parts ot of indian pap cholody bearing on their religious views etc I 1 will be very glad that I 1 am yet able to assist I 1 often regret that I 1 am not with in speaking distance with good wishes tor for your per onal welfare and success I 1 am cor bially yours J F gibbs As asi a prelude to discussing the at of the indian toward divine recognized alike by savage and cultured races permit a person al clearance of a part of the mists that obscure the reasons tor for the fail ure of white men toi to overcome the reticence of the and the al mast most total failure 0 lo 10 o convert them to christianity indispensable to a clearer of the atti tude lude of nimrod the Pa livant indian hunter barring none there I 1 la no race of people on this earth possessing clear er brains than the north american indiana indians and those of the higher al of south america witness the civilization of the peruvians un der the incas equal to and in many respects surpassing contempo bontempo con tempo carleous ous european civilization equal in courage to the spartans the na tive races of both americas surpass ed all europeans in their higher ideals and practice of morality brief ly in the attribute of intelligence and practice of christian virtues the modern type these native americans were tar far rind nd away in ad vance of the white invaded inva dersi and es specially ally of the type of immigrants that during the past seventy five years have swarmed into these ter states advis advisedly etly asserted another land and chief quality of the indian mind ignored by the gener allty of so called christian proselyte prose lyt ers is that of rare sensitiveness the early spanish missionaries at tempted to bludgeon the pagan els in the fold of christ theirs not mine others with less barbarity but with equal egotism and self assurance with no comprehension of native intelligence or understanding of their religious beliefs and sensitiveness assumed an attitude of vast superiority so un like the gentle nazarene and at tempted to convert cot ivert the heathens to their particular brands of 0 ortho dox rituals while many ot of their rites are even more grotesque than the and other ceremonial dan ces of the why then e and resent ment and resultant resu lant reticence of the indians indians imagine a reversal of con editions and races with the foregoing an attempt will be made to analyze the reverent attitude and word words of nimrod dur ing ng the tempest at the head of clear creek canyon and from his person al viewpoint as subsequently espres sed later in the evening fortunately for the the first draft of pah daquay was not destroyed in the interest of space economy the section containing the evening pow avow wow was withheld herewith Is ili the deleted section un der its original headline under the stars with nimrod it was late in the evening when we reached a suitable camp ground I 1 had been in the saddle thirteen hours and bad had covered more than fifty miles but nimrod s behavior during the climax of the unusual downpour had aroused my curiosity and had postponed any desire for sleep while standing before the camp tire fire drying our clothing and blan bets nimrod broke the impressive silence characteristic of 10 feet above sea level leyel by asking tor for the whiter nans s explanation of the rainbow that in tta its start IlAg mag magnati niti benc tufted ah tha bourth side 4 ot of ait mt baldy over what Is now known as gold mountain and ing downward was iwed in the billowing mist of 0 clear creek can yon the red man voiced his ap of the whiteman a tion of the cause of rainbows by one I 1 word weino unwittingly nimrod had opened 1 the dool ot of his mind aa As abruptly as nimrod I 1 asked why during the height of the storm did you speak of or to shi nobe do you believe that shicobe was in the temperest tem peest and from his bow shot the lightning and thun der silently the untutored student of nature shook his head evidently there were no words in the language with which he could ex press his thoughts after a brief in berval he dropped lis ils drying blan ket raised his arms and looked up ward to the flaming glory of the vis via ible universe then with a ing gesture of his arms and hands as it if to encompass the limitless pan orama of gleaming sums sinns and worlds nimrod turned and vocally ed his reply gibb stenobe too big too busy to be in storms and earthquakes while the redman s reply was all sufficient to the qu question there re bained a seeming contradiction I 1 then asked if stenobe was ras not in the storm why did you speak the words shicobe weino when the rainbow served notice that the storm had passed omitting the colloquial this nar ration will now be condensed nim craod knew that he had a deeply in te rested audience of one and spoke rapidly and eloquently from the familiar mixture ot of Pa livant and english the explained that the words shenon weino were merely an expression of his fils thought that the storm like other natural phenomena was a manifestation of the power of the infinite inherent in the universe that the rainbow represented compensations as sun rise fise after darkness joy after sorrow eternal life after death in brief stripped of anth ropo idal attributes q accredited by to their own and indian dioties the term great spirit defined in its widest and non sectarian meaning more completely expresses ex the pah vant conception of infinite power than any other term iff lit common usage nimrod assured me that fanciful indian legendry associated with their belief in the supreme being is I 1 the result of their limited cocab which precludes the clear ex of their thoughts hence tol to translate their conceptions into erms terms of our comprehension they are to resort to pantomime and symbolic legends that disassociated from their ancient con sections are meaningless and tok tob often corrupted by translation into english josiah F gibbs |
