Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1910 — Forbidden by Uncle Sam. [ARTICLE]

Forbidden by Uncle Sam.

Fiercest of all the wild orgies of the aborigines of North America is the fiesta which culminates in the fire dance of the Saboba Indians, a small tribe living close to the Sierra Madre range of mountains, which walls off the seacoast of California from the desert. Up to last year, when the Indian bureau of the United States government flnaHy forbade the holding of these fiestas, the Sabobas had gathered every year at the base of old Mount San Jacinto to sing, dance and gamble, and finally to throw themselves into a pit of fiery coals, roll over and over on the burning bed, and then dance with bare feet on the red hot floor of the pit.