Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1920 — An Indian Santa. [ARTICLE]

An Indian Santa.

The jolly Old Saint Nick of white children did not visit the Indian reservation in central New York this year. In his stead there was a real Indian Santa with a headgear of feathers and other garments worn by Indians when Santa first came to America. He was trimmed with corn tassels and in place of a whip, which to the Indian children means cruelty, he carried a corn stalk to drive his team. None of the little red babies on the bleak reservation were forgotten. He left them arrows, snow snakes, com bread stuffed with fruit, cookies shaped like pinfe trees and chipmunks and a" kind of Sausage made from the livers of wild animals. Honey made up for the lack of sugar. Syracuse churches, the Indian Welfare Society and other allied organizations were active in preparing this Christmas.