Show STRANGE SIG SIGHTS HS I STARTlE INDIANS Remarkable Contrasts Between Past and Present Seen at Powwow VOW in Nebraska Neb Keb Oct 7 That t That they might show sow the younger generation how low their fathers and mothers lived before the advent of the white men In Indians lans of or ten tribes havo o Just closed the biggest powwow hold held In Nebraska since the time Spotted Tall TaU Talland Talland and the Sioux SIous mot root the white commissioners commissioners commis commis- for the purpose of signing a apen apenes a. a pen treat treaty awa away back in 1868 The Omaha Indians upon whose reservation the powwow was held had lad issued invitations to all tribes within reach and there was present Sioux from South Dakota Crows from Montana from irom Wyoming omin from South Dakota from Nebraska Otoes and lowas from irom Oklahoma from Tom the Niobrara country and from roin over the Missouri river hills hUls For two weeks all the Indians lived in tents and eschewing the ways was of civilization civilization tion ion returned to the habits and customs customs custons custon's cus cus- toms tons of their tat fathers hers As a finale the Indians enga engaged ed in a a. abig abig I big buffalo hunt but instead of or tho the shaggy monarch of the plains the I game gamo consisted of half halt a dozen steers which were chased around the IndIan race raco track b by a hun hundred red or more Indians of the old school In this chase blunt arrows were used instead of or the time old-time tipped iron-tipped shafts and after the steers had been theoretically killed tilled a dozen times or so they were finally dispatched with rifles and then barbecued Contrasts Contracts The Tho contrasts exhibited wore were those between semi semi- semi barbarism barbarism and civilization civilization civilization tion between the Indians of or half a century ago and the educated Indian of or toda today the follower of ot the war warpath warpath warpath path and the up-to-date up lawyer lawer or physician There were Indian girls In n dresses made b by the thc city modiste with hair done b by a professional their theil hands lands car carefully manicured and with the he bearings and carriage of or a society bud oud and with them thom were blanket Indian girls with all that the term blanket Indian carries with it There were Indian women from tom the tho plains of ot South Dakota dressed in calico call cali co co their glossy black hair In two stiff stift braids and their feet teet in moccasins and with them chatted in their own lan language a polished Omaha Indian woman who has practiced medicine for tor twenty years ears and has Ims han hanging banging in her office diplomas from the tho big medicine colIC college e of the east Here passed an Arapahoe mother from Wyoming her par papoose strapped onto her b bick ick as in the days of or old And yonder went an Otoe lad lady from Oklahoma with her ber bab baby sItti sitting in the tho latest style go cart with rubber ber tires tires- There were old bucks Ii who could not speak a a. word vord of English and there were graduates of or eastern colleges with the latest slang phrases on the tho tip o of the tongue In one place a dozen old Indians who had the whites hites and whoso whose feather teather decorations showed thru that they had taken scalps in battle squatted on the ground and s nt around and around the time red reI pipestone calumet each cach one takIng takIng taking tak tak- ing a whiff in his turn And near them stood tood another dozen Indians dressed as ordinary business men dress Several were wore lawyers lawers one a count county commissioner commis commis- yet another was a graduate of or orthe tho the l Michigan an law school and stands high In his profession one is a grain broker and another a newspaper man Some of them smoked cigars and others Some Sone Came In A Automobiles mm to Some of or the Indians came camo to the scene of or time the powwow on ancient Indian ponies others came in wagons and not nota a few tew whirred up in their automobiles The big camp was made on tho time I rounds grounds of or tho ho Omaha Indian Race naco Track association association asso asso- elation and the discipline of an Indian village of ot fifty years ago was main main- tamed Some old Indians came camo to the powwow powwow powwow pow pow- wow wealthy men and ond went wont home as poor pOOl as the time proverbial church owing to revival of or the tho old custom of or winning honors b by giving away everything one was possessed of These gift meetings s wore held every cry day du- duIn In Ina a great tent a tent a regular circus affair arrall Because of tho the insight Into th the old customs received b by tho the younger cr generation gen gen- en- en II the Indians have hav decided to tomake tomake tomalee make malee the powwow an annual affair and next year they will wUl all aU meet with tho Crows over in Montana durin during tho the full moon of Au August JUtt Your Tour want ad should make malce your our property prop prop- erty salable salable and and it will if It should be Do ble |