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Show Hpliipsg Suzrc27azr3 o&?jim rise? & - !, Jlt& HE recent movement on the ' ppl?lp PI part of the United States v 'Jk j"fl government to get phono- IpCPS ' si 81-11)1110 records of the tri- f -w X " ijt L l5r iflSZbal songs of all nations of if" .T 5'3"V- N ifljL the American Indian sug- f. jfiwx dSll L -5 gested to the Blackfeet f f A 4lAA braves of the Glacier Na- W . v'-f J V J tional Park reservation ' "JW2& 'KfJvV 1 7 the further unique Idea of itM,1 ' mS"!Sfo It ? handing down to posterity a complete llllNk' " ihSmXi ' 'WS'J pictorial history of their tribe. For $ai nearly a year these Indians have been : g working at this with the result that ' '-'"":-v -sbs; ;,: - : ftf they have daubed several hundred JJZZ7fjri7ZlJSZSt2?r '. : " ' Tlllmila rf i. l J t 1 4 jjfk HE recent movement on the R,i part of the United States tin government to get phono-KU phono-KU . graphic records of the tri- fflH bal Bonss o 8,11 nat'ons of -ne American Indian sug-J sug-J gested to the Blackfeet A-)f A braves of the Glacier Na-V Na-V tional Park reservation 7 the further unique idea of handing down to posterity a complete pictorial history of their tribe. For nearly a year these Indians have been working at this with the result that they have daubed several hundred pounds of brilliant colored mineral paints, such as they ordinarily use for war paint, taken from the heights of Chief mountain, upon more than a half-mile of canvas strips. This hieroglyphic hiero-glyphic history of the tribe's war and hunting achievements, some of which is copied from elkskin records three hundred years old, will be hung as a frieze in the unique mammoth log chalets and hotels erected in the new national park. These huge "log-lodges," "log-lodges," which stand upon the erstwhile erst-while hunting grounds of the Blackfeet Black-feet Indians, are regarded by them as monuments to their people. Many of the old skins which bear the pictorial histories of "bow and arrow" braves long since dead wi.l be exhibited at the Panama San Francisco Fran-cisco exposition, which will be attended at-tended by a delegation of the moet notable Blackfeet Indians now living upon the Glacier National Park reservation reser-vation In northwestern Montana. The figures used in this crude pictorial picto-rial language of these Indians represent a hundred and one objects, such as animals, bows and arrows, tepees, corrals, cor-rals, fires, trees, mountains; in fact, they "worked in" everything that figured fig-ured in any way with their life. But it all has meaning, as the following translation excerpts show. This roll of canvas Is divided into about 250 sections, ep h section representing repre-senting in Indian picvarial writing the life history of each of the notable full-blood full-blood Blackfeet Indians, now living on Glacier Park reservation, Montana. In about 3.000 feet of this canvas, on which the Indians have painted their hieroglyphics. In presenting pre-senting this half-mile or more ot hieroglyphic hiero-glyphic history the Indians expressed it as their wish that inasmuch as these huge log "lodges," as they call them, are built upon the sites of the Black- feet's old hunting grounds, u was appropriate ap-propriate the Blackfeet leave this pictorial history upon canvas as a monument to their tribe. The first section depicts the history of a brave Indian warrior named Stingy. In this section are seen red figures of horses with saddles which Stingy stole from his enemies; a personal per-sonal encounter between Stingy and a buffalo, with Stingy hanging to the buffalo, grabbing him by one horn and his tongue; an episode with a grizzly bear which showed fight and stood and looked at Stingy; Stingy grabbing a huge rattlesnake as he was crawling into his hole and breaking him in two; Stingy shooting a grizzly bear in the mouth as the bear was coming at him; a picture of the near-drowning of Sting' through losing his horse in a treacherous stream; a Flathead Indian captured by Stingy and carried by him. to his tepee; battle between the Blackfeet and Yankton Sioux Indians In-dians showing the Blackfeet wounded and the Sioux killed, and the weapons and eelskins captured from the Sioux; stingy with pipe and arrows, which he took from an enemy after he had shot him; Stingy shooting an arrow at an enemy; Stingy killing two men with one shot from his gun; battle between be-tween the Flathead Indians and the Nez Perce and the Sioux, showing the holes which the Indians dug as a place to hide and shoot from. The second section continues the story of Stingy, and shows him in a single-handed fight with the Assini-boine Assini-boine and Sioux Indians on horses; Stingy stealing horses from the Indians, Indi-ans, cutting the picket ropes where the horses were tethered near the tepees te-pees of the Crows, and the Crows shooting at him; Stingy shooting a Crow who was trying to kill him with a long spear; after he had shot him he ran over him; Stingy shooting a Sioux from his horse; Stingy attacking attack-ing and killing some Crow Indians; Stingy with an Indian he had killed, and the spear taken from him. The third section covers the history of Chief Boy, and shows him killing a buffalo with bow and arrow before the use of guns among the Indians; Boy stealing the best horses of the Yankton Sioux, which were tethered near the tepees; he painted these horses after they had been stolen; three mules, indicated by their long ears, stolen by Boy from the Crows, and the buffalo tepee which was the home of Boy. The three horses and riders are Boy and his braves chasing a Crow, killing him and taking his gun away from him; Boy chasing a Sioux and taking his gun away from him while the horses were running; Crow's tepee, with horses picketed around it, and Boy stealing them; three horses with saddles taken from the Flatheads in a fierce battle, and the arms, guns, etc., taken from them; a battle between the enemy and Boy and his braves, the latter hiding in holes in the ground; Boy was wounded wound-ed in the battle. Section four gives the history of Black Bear, a brave old Indian warrior, war-rior, showing him killing Sioux and Assiniboine Indians and taking their horses from them; Black Bear on foot, fighting the Indians; horses stolen from his enemies; Black Bear taking a squaw from a Sioux Indian after he had killed him; Black Bear on a horse, killing a fierce grizzly bear; taking a gun from a Sioux after he had killed him; Black Bear shooting Flathead Indians while asleep in their tepee at night; he detected them by the light of their fire; Black Bear on horseback and a Sioux Indian killed by him; Black Bear fighting with the Chippewa Indians with knives; buffalo hooking Black Bear's horse and killed by Black Bear on a spotted Assiniboine horse, with other horses stolen from his enemies; ene-mies; Black Bear getting off his horse and grabbing a Sioux by the neck and stabbing him; Black Bear hiding behind be-hind his horse killing a Chippewa Indian; In-dian; Black Bear and the Blackfeet surrounding the Yankton Sioux and engaged in battle with them; Black Bear shooting and killing a Kootenai Indian who was hiding behind a pine tree. |