Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1914 — INDIANS AT PENN MONUMENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANS AT PENN MONUMENT

Many of Biackfeet Tribe Pay Reverential Respect to Memory of Great Man at Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Pa.—A dozen Blackfeet Indians from the Glacier National park reservation, in Montana, visited Philadelphia recently en route home from the Shrlner’s convention, which they attended in Atlanta. The Indians visited Penn Treaty park and enacted a tribal peace ceremonial before the Penn monument in perpetuation of the memory of the founder of the City of Brotherly Love and his fa-

mous peace treaty with the Lenl Lenapes which was signed on that spot in 1683. This photograph shows Medicine Owl, “Spirit or Medicine” man of the Glacier park tribe, and Chief White Calf, paying their reverential respects to the memory of Penn. Medicine Owl Is shown praying to the “Great Spirit of Peace.” 1

Indians Honoring Memory of William Penn.