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r- fci THB SUNDAY CONSTITUTION MAGAZINE Sunday Marches 1923 I Vi I 3 Tayiah Eads Daughter of an Returns to Her Tribe Bringing With Her the Ways She Has Ao i wl T7t-r Tn the White Mann an lop of ri a ctf UT In Oklahoma there Is a woman who is sitting on top of th world. to speak. With an time Indian barbecue this woman was made thief of her tribe. Amid war cries softened- by time amid war dances which are now a symbol of nothing whatsoever a few weeks ago she was made chief of a people who are spent and ha forgotten the fire of a life passed notkso long ago. Mrs.

Lacy Tayiah Earls takes her place as chief of the Raw in- dials. She comes bad from the world of the white men to become the ofher vanishing people. And at the ceremonies which elevated II it M- her to her high position she spoke the white mans language which was inter. rreted' to. the older members of her tribe.

7 he new chieftain talked to her people in English. She talked to them in the Ian- guage of the people whose life she. has taken whose ways she Ids traveled. Chief Lucy has forgotten tile old language of the smokers of peace pipes. She has.

forgot ten the writing' with characters and pictures and symbols whichmeant this and thatn2t- everything to the tribe thai has been7 lost on the plains. The white men un claimed her. She has learned their Language their customs their varied trod sometimes colorless asor- merit of folk lore. She has learned towaljt their ways. She has married John a cousin of James Dcuaa Eads tie bulls er of the great Eads bridge witch spansT the MtetoslpplafSuTljojrfs And now she has come home to Lies tbitf hr who have nogone the djrWmf' And lice taw IrtdJinsf Just a tribe on obaY land reservef beet I fal Women lazy men arfSt dlrty6 children.

almost any traveling surface- sUminc American will tell you. They live' colorlessGes drab it weren't Tor hefr brilliant blankets and beads. Their eyes are dull and their faces are unintelligent. That is what the white man. in will Sly of them.

There art only two hun- cared or so of these Caws all Uut. left of a big tribe. Of course there are the schools set op by the white man. The children go there and many of them learn. Some of them win become wide-awake new Americans.

Dot the older generation Well it seems to be wailing for the end of the Red Man. THE fad is the Indian can not suddenly take over the white mans world. If you talk quietly with one of tile older ones you will Und that he not dull that he is quid and flash in his remembering. Stupidity his come over the Indian with this new lift The white man US that if he really were anything at alt he would brace up and adapt himself to modern conditions Out the while min is stupid about many things. lie does not know the life of the man whose laud he invaded.

lie does not know and he does not understand. The old Indian whose eyes art keen with remembering will tell you of a day when hi fathers owned the whole of the out-of. doors. They were straight med his lath- era and fine men. You will see by his talk if on un think beyond the white maws sphera They knew the is one of the best of the veniment schools for Indians.

the woods where you know only the streets of the cities which hive teen named and labeled for you Then one day came upon them the palefaces. These new white men were strange and not to be understood but thy hid come and surely one might smoke peace pipes with them. The world was a great place. There was no worry in any In dilns mind as to borders and confines. But later more white men pressed in from the east.

Use Sioux were rustled back. The other tribes of the west resented the fact that the Sioux encroached upon their hunting grounds. There were wars and wars and war paint and feathers. There was much fighting with the pale strangers. but the stringers had brought with them something that was more deadly ban poisoned arrows.

The white man did not know how to fit lit from behind the trees but he had with hits a llaanig he uUD.t-J LLiipawder and against this an iwdiia mmiisftt oat tight in- delnitdy. So a there was no more fighting anJ Ifcr men froum cross strange seas who haJ feat Df1 the first Ameri cans par elf uJJJ1 ylnAf tafd and slid to the Red Alan Jn- thet fr straight and fine and free ia saup yre and on the level plains. I1ete 7 a may- Jtjv within these borders. IN 1St3 the tfe tul a new allot- metal in taianara Ea ti-rtitoryr so old Chief Washurga If Ja rcvplt to that new place where the lr. rjnfl rs Sf only ht wins- en lazy men .1 fusty eJiiLIren.

It was this chief t1JB itd ptrf Lncj Tj iih and hr brother. Emrne- After the laO hl ted the n'-irlL In the tribal ts. eJ Wiihhunji understanding li if terry were to five in a white ns ssry they must be given a chance to re. of11It rant of it sent them to Haslrli inr- riiSr wKcfc you man- kr. iw THEN Lucry came h- rn.

from the roaring city came home to live in the little village of Wshunga in the Kaw country where used her brother Emmett. Suddenly there was a stir of new life. The younger generation took on a new ambition. The older generation nodded its head and said juite wisely Perhaps after all the red ml may leant the mans ways. Lu.

k- JJ among ner people- lie I the he rrtaas world with hr Ttafis her the KJC cm find out whit it is all ahoul his ne mode of life which vjrrfjnJs ihfr little territory. So Iucv is chief Ci II sTutcIiiii rt-mtuiU a rue that a orce ilurt a- free a the world in lTch the. uruel Ant the ts that trtsc hid 11" hid ce hl" Jeiih Vj U-e a quick- rnr of the i' that had niK1 lug- rh The I I. SUNDAyCONSTITUTIOliIIAGAZ1 March 25. TI rim a n' 7 "I' 0.

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