VOL. 10 JUNE 19, 1908; NO. 52
Indian Stories From La Push
School.
(Albert B. .Reagan, Teacher)
Once some men; were hunting the
whale's dog. They didn't know that
they hit it with a spear and: that
the thing was going out to the ocean
when they cut the rope. The rope was
tied in their, canoe. They kept going
for many days. When they got to the
Island where the whale lived and the
whale said, "Don't you kill my dog
again.'' That's the time the people
knew that the; whale had a dog. The
whale told them to see that the sun had
pet. The people then went back home.
-Eli Ward.
Once there was a great big ocean
si earner wrecked on the beach west of
this village. Probably one -hundred or
one hundred and twenty years ago. The
old Indians used to play with the gold
pieces; rolling them on the beach and
the white men took the gold away from
the Indians: There were many things
lying on the beach, such as flour and
some other stuff. The whitemen used
t o get ?ome m u scl e c la m s - X h ey w e r e -
very fond of them. One of the white
men married an Indian girl. She died
not many years ago. She was only a
child when she married the white man.
JlMMIE HOBUCKET.
Many, many years ago the old people
used to have war against the Makah In
dians. The Makahs were awful bad
people; they used to be fighting against
the Quileutes, and Clallams, too, every
year and killed lots of . them.
The people used to have a good, time
every few days, singing, medicine danc
ing, and Indian war dancing, and
"Potlatching" such things as blankets
and those large Indian beads. In the
winter season they danced the war
dance; in the spring they danced the
whaling dance; in summer the other
kinds of dancing. And in all those they
danced the Klk dance up the river.
Sometimes they had a good-time; some
times fighting. Maggie Foweattle.
Once upon a time a large steamship
was wrecked on the beach. It had on
board lots of of stuff, such as groceries
or food. The Indians did not know
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