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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?