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Show INDIAN VIEWS By the Old Timer PffiySXX5sSSasS This here weather keeps hanging hang-ing on reminds me of them long cold spells we used to have when I was a nipper. Only it seems to me like we used to have a lot more snow in them days. I can remember one winter when we rode clear into Roosevelt without no roads, over the fences and over the creeks as though they wasn't there. I aint seen snow like that for years. I saw old McKewan the other day and I guess its been a year since I saw him. Well, after I got through greeting him and he says howdy to me, he reaches deep in his pocket and pulls out an old five dollar bill and passes it over. Of course I took it but I looked mighty blank and he just grins and asks if I remember when I give him five bucks a coupla years ago when he asked me for the loan to buy some grub. Well, I'd forgot all about it, but he did-'nt did-'nt and I got my money back. I loaned a lot of money one time or another and most of those old boys paid me back when they got it. I bet McKewan packed that bill around with him for months just to catch me and pay me ' back. Bob Holmes teaches at the Indian In-dian school at Whiterocks and he tells me about how he was asking ask-ing his class one day what a bunch of cattle was called, They says a herd. That was right, so he asked what a bunch of sheep was called. They says a flock. That was rieht so he thought he would get tougher and ho acked what a bunch of camul- was called. One bright youngster waves his hand like a flag in a high wind and when Bob called on him, he sounds off,"A Carton". I guess he wasen't so wrong at that. I was talking to Jim Nevins over to the Fort the other day and he was telling me of what the Indian farmers and stockmen did during the war. He give me some figgers and I thought you might like to see them. Seems as though during the war years from 1942 through 1945, the Indians In-dians living on this reservation sold from their stock, for feed for our soldiers and for our allies. 11,300 head of sheep, 5,350 head of sheep, 5,350 head of cattle of all kinds, 707 head of swine and 1,336 chickens, geese and turkeys. tur-keys. They also produced 77,800 bushels of grain, 15,000 tons of alfalfa, 250,000 gallons of milk and lots of other things such as wool, garden stuff. In addition, they sent the best crop they had to offer their boys over 125 men strong. I say the Ute Indians done a lot to be proud of. . One of my best friends in the Utes is Pawwinnee. He's sort of a head man of the Uncompaghres and a mighty noble looking man he is. Elsie Pawwinnee, his wife is as sweet a looking lady as you're apt to see in many a long days' ride. They was in town Monday when he was buying some feed for his sheep and we got to talking about his sheep! He has a swell band of about a thousand head of ewes. The coyotes coy-otes give him some trouble last year and caused him considerable consider-able loss in his lambs, but even so they was sure a paying proposition. proposit-ion. He is mighty proud and happy hap-py to have his boy, Alfred, back alter three years in the Marines in the. South Pacific. The boy's seen plenty of action, and I was mighty glad to see him too. A fine looking boy with a good herd of cattle and a promising future ahead of him. There's good stuff in all those Pawwinne-es. Pawwinne-es. j I've talked enough for this time seeing as how I got to get out and rustle some kindlings for the missis. She's baking me an old-fashioned apple pie and so I got to hustle. Be seeing you. |