VOL. 11
JUNE 26, 1908.
NO. 1
Indian Stories From LaPsh
School.
By A. B. Reagan, Teacher
I am now taking hold of my pencil to
write an old story. The people lived at
James Island in the long ago, and I think
they did not stay long at James Island.
I think when the war with the Makahs
was over, the Indians looked for a good
place to stay and make houses, and they
found that good place here. I think this
village site was then full of every kind
of bushes. f
I think the school children are very
glad that they did not see the war. I
am very glad that our village is a good
village, and that the lagoon is a pretty
good place in which to play schooner.
In the long ago I think the Indians did
not have much to eat, because they had
no chance to fish. Johnson J. Black.
Once upon a time Towerlano and his
father and Jack Ward's grandfather and
and some other two I think were hunt
ing eik. They met two .white men and
they killed one of them. The other one
escaped. Probably three or four months
afterward-many soldiers came over here
and they went to Shuwha and brought
down the Shuwha Indians and sent
them to Stelicum. Two of them were
hanged.
Chief Peter Brown, of Neah Bay, was
at Stelicum at that time when one of
the Indians died by sickness. The
white men told Chief Peter to pray to
God and so Chief Peter prayed to God
and told him to punish all the soldiers
who were in the funeral procession. Not
many months after the funeral the white
men went to Idaho to fight against the
Nez Perce Indians and there the Indians
killed nearly all the white men.' After
the battle was over the Shuwha Indians
ran away from Stelicum and walked
home all the way, except when they
could steal a canoe to ride in. Jimmie
Ho BUCKET.
Long time ago the Indians u?ed to do
lots of unlawful t hings, such as lighting,
dancing, singing and giving "Potlatches."
My grandfather was the ver7 richest
man. He used to in vice many hundreds
of Indians from-' different places and
give away many hundreds of dollars
f Continued on Pago 8)