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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1933)
V. Xc CHEMAWA AMERICAN Printed at Chemawa, Oregon, and Devoted to the Interests of Indian Education WEDNESDAY, OCT 25, 1933 VOL. XXXV GHOST BRIDE The Pawnees were ready to leave the village for a hunt, when a young woman suddenly died, so they had to get her ready for burial. She was dressed in her finest clothes and buried. A party of young men had been off on a visit and were on their way home. They knew nothing of the departure of the tribe and the death of the girl. As they traveled on they met the tribe and all joined them except one young man, who went back to the deserted village. As he was nearing the village he saw someone sitting on top of the lodge and as he got nearer he saw it was the girl he loved. When she saw him she got down from the lodge and went inside. The young man began to wonder why she was alone. When he got close to her he spoke and said, “Why are you alone in this village?” She answered him: “They have gone off on a hunt. I was sulky with my relations so they left me behind.” Then she told him that the ghosts were going to give a dance that night and that he must not be afraid. It was an old custom of the Paw nees. All was quiet in the village until the ghosts began their dance. They went from lodge to lodge, singing, dancing and hallooing, and soon they came to this young man’s lodge. They danced around him and he became badly frightened. Sometimes they touched him. The next day he persuaded the girl to go with him and join the tribe on their hunt. They started off and the girl promised the young man that she would be his wife, but not until the proper time came. They overtook the tribe and were near the camp when the girl stopped and said: “Now we have arrived but you must go first to the village and pre pare a place for me. Where I sleep, let it be behind a curtain. For four days and nights I must sleep be hind curtains. Do not speak of me. Do not mention my name.” The young man left her and went into camp and told a woman to go out to a certain place and bring in a woman and she began to inquire who the woman was and to avoid speaking her name he told who were her father and mother. The woman in surprise said, “It cannot be that girl for she died some days before we started on a hunt.” The woman went for the girl, but she had disappeared because the young man had disobeyed her and told who she was. If he had obeyed, the girl would have lived upon the earth the second time. NO. 2 That same night the young man died in sleep. Then the people believed that there must be a life after this one. — The Indian Craftsman. ORCHESTRA AND SINGERS AT STAYTON The school orchestra, the girls’ quartet, and Cath erine Bailey, reader, journied over to Stayton by school bus and private cars and staged a program for the Parent-Teachers’ association of that city on the evening of Thursday, October 19. Numbers were all rendered well and received enthusiastically by the audience, and at the conclusion of the evening the Chemawa group received many fine compliments and were urged to return again. The program was as fol lows: The Maharajah March---------------------------------------------- Zamecnik Singing While Weeping---------------------------------------------- Moreno Orchestra “When ‘Rubie’ Played”---------------------------------------- (Reading) “Picket’s Nell’’----------------------------------------------------- (Reading) Catherine Bailey Indian Dawn______________________________________ Zamecnik Glow Worm----------------------------------------------------------------- Lincke Girls’ Quartet Chicken Pickin’s—Negro Characteristic_______________ Alien Orchestra Everyone had a splendid time and represented Che mawa creditably on this occasion. FOODS CLASSES LIKE NEW HOME The cooking classes are now in full swing and thor oughly enjoying their new laboratories in Hawley hall. There are two large laboratories. One is fitted with five unit kitchens each supplied with equipment for two girls to do meal preparation and is for the use of the most advanced classes who are also doing all detail club work and table serving in connection with Miss Hoptowit’s work. The other laboratory is fitted for individual work. The girls in Mrs. Melovidoff’s classes are graded on progressive wall charts and are required to repeat the preparation of each food until a standard product is made. The girls working in the club have proven themselves willing and capable workers and the home economics department is con fident that this opportunity of real practice is going to prove extremely valuable to them. MissHoptowit has been -working hard and under many handicaps due to moving, etc., but that also is getting settled now. What do you think of our new club?
