Show NORSE THAN THE SLIPPER punishment meted out to indian boys certainly of the most astren bous nature my grandmother had 1 12 19 9 children ind w one uncle undertook to teach me the art of worship he used to lead me to the sand banks of 0 the missouri river where he would set fire to a pile of driftwood and then taking me by the hand sing sacred songs to the fire and river in the meantime he threw into them offerings of tobacco red feathers and sometimes oak twigs I 1 never knew the meaning of these offerings but I 1 always felt that some living thing actuated both the fire and the river another uncle came to visit us ua periodically and every time he came cama my brother or I 1 suffered at his hands sometimes he would rush to the spring carrying me horizontally under hit his arm and would plunge my head into the water until I 1 almost suffocated its his common form of discipline was to let me hang by my hands on the cross croas cobl polea 13 of the wigwam until my arms ached my body writhed before I 1 dropped this uncle seemed to like best to command my older brother to tie my hands and feet with a rope then he would order me to resist an ordeal that would make us both cry in 19 the winter he would also sometimes roll us in snow naked the punishment of indian children Is usually in the hands of some uncle rather than the parents our punishments were inflicted generally because we had disobeyed grandmother by falling failing to get wood at evening had resisted fasting had fought some indian boys or had bad cried without sufficient cause southern workman |