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Pae Twelve East Oregonian Round-Up Souvenir Edition Pendleton. Oregon. Friday, September, 25, 1914 Twenty-eight Page I, "THE PLACE OF THE MORNING GLOW" ! C.nUnufd From r Srvtn) w rio "rnuU-h'nilii" tx-fuddUnf life t vry turn of th dy! Therm U tb 6un of th giuttona nd th monttn. Hv n no unacoount hl Tncn.tMi In modren life? R th rrriit 4 of ft KinKle day'i crime anj ak youwlf what rnnd motives Umptfd hunibn to uch certain J1 urtvr. W ettlmn a whole rigmarole f jnMlvf and Inheritance and en vironment. The Indian hoa It up iy hla dunr- of the mounter. ierhapa one tif the moat beautiful rfrrmonlala la the rorn dance. Pic ture to you rue If the kiva, or raised t!iem platform, crowded with spec tator! The .rl-U cfime down bear ing: Manketn In a circle. The biunket rlnle urrmir.1i the allar fire. The audience it t!rtthl-.s In the dark. Muftirlaus nrlk up a heating; on the tone giirtg. A flute player trills this air The ManheU drop. In the, flare of the altar fire la seen a fitld of corn, riiinJ which the actora dance. The prl-ta riw. The blanket (the Indian rurlain-drop) hide the fire When you look acaln there la neith er pa (rear t of dancers nor fields of corn. 0 the piay gofji on, a dozen acta typifying a down scene In a alnxle nipht (Jood counsel, too. they gave in thoe miracle plays and ceremonial dances. -If mounded in battle, don't cry out like a child: Tull out th ar row! Slip off and die with silence In the throat." "When you go to the hunt, travel with a light blanket. We talk of getting back to Mother Earth. The Indian chants endless songs to the wonders of the Great Earth Ma gtvlan creator of life and crops. Fire plays a mysterious part in all theor ies of life creation; and this, too, is the subject of a dance. Then came dark days. Tribes from the far Athabasca came down like the Vandals of Europe Navajo and Apache, relentless warriors. From Great Houses the people of the south, west retired to cliffs and caves. When the Spaniards came with fire-arms and horses, the situation was almost one of extermination for the seden tary Indiana, and they retired to such heights as the high mesas of the Tusayan desert. Whether it was bet ter or worse for the peaceful Pima and Papago and Mogul when the white man stopped raid by Apache and Navajo, It is hard to say. for the white man began to take the In dian's water and the Indian's land It Is a story of slow tragedy here. In Vie days of the overland rush to California,- when every foot of the trail was beet by Apache and Navajo, It was the Pima and . Papago offered shelter and protection to the white cverlander. What does the Indian know of "prior rights" in filing: for water? Have not these waters been Ma since the days of his forefathers. when men came with their families from "the Morning Glow" to the bo canyons of the Gila and Frljoles? If priar rights" mean anything, has rot the lima "prior lights" by ten thousand years Rut the Plna haa riot a little slip of government paper tailed "a deed " The big Irrigation companies have; and the big irriga tion companies have tapped the streams above the Indian reserve, and the waters have been diverted. They don't come to the Indians any more. All the Indian gets la the oerflow of the torrential rains that only brings the alkali wash to the surface of tha land and does not flush it off. The Pima ran no longer raise crops. Slow ly and very surely he is being reduc ed to starvation in a country over- Wants to Bulldog Steer Under Man's Rules " 't X r V Blanche McGaughey, of Pilot Rock, one of the popular feminine con testants at the Round-up, recently made a challenge to any cowgirl In the world to compete with her In bull dogging a steer, under the rules gov erning the men's bulldogging contest s. She would use the same grade of stet-rs the men use. ; flowing with plenty. In a country which has taken his land and his wa ters. In a country whose people he loyally protected as they crossed the continent to California. What are the American people go ing to do about it? Nothing, of course! When the wrong has been done and the tribe reduced by Inches of starvation to extermination, some muckraker will arise and write an article about it; or some ethnologist write a brochure about an extemlnat ed people. Meantime, the children of the Ptmus and Papagos have not enough to eat, owing to the white man taking all their water. They are the people of the golden age, of "the Morning Glow." We drove back from Casa Grande by starlight over the antelope plains. I looked back to the curmbllng ruin or the Great House and Its five com pounds where the men and women and children of "the Morning Glow" came to dance and worship according to all the light they had. Its fall ing walla and dim traditions and fad ing outlines seemed typical of the passing of the race. Why does one race pass and another come? Christians sy those who fear not God shall pass away from the mem ory of men, forever. Evolutionists say those who are rot fit shall not surylve. The Spaniard of the southwest shrugs his gay shoulders under a tilted sombrero and says "qulen sabe?" Who knows? Agnes C. Lant In The Sunset Known For Its Strength itiinii in urn The iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii First National Ban Pendleton. Oregon kfi f 1 ' .15- i 1 s i i iimmmiiiiiiimiii Oldest and largest National Bank in the state outside of Portland Deposits Over $2,000,000.00 Resources Over $3,000,000.00 SECURITY Sill! 1 ?H 11 It 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 H m 1 1 1 H t II 1 1 1 1 1 H I H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 111! II IMIII II llllll 11IMI Mill! II II III! 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