Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — THE INDIAN SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT. [ARTICLE]

THE INDIAN SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT.

‘o® pupils of St. Joseph’s Normal Indian School gave a public entertainment, in the Opera House, last Monday evening. Owing to a variety of eanses, such as the very hot weather the p*trar.ti~nnc „ f^ QQ ur Q b- Q ” show on the street, and to insufficient advertising, the attendance was very light, and out of all proportion to the merits of the entertainment and the vast amount of painstaking labor and the considerable amount of money that bad been expended in preparing for it. The programme consisted of two wholly distinct parts. The first was similar to any school entertainment, consisting of addresses, declamations, dialogues, songs <fcc„ all in the English language and the performers wearing the garments of civilization. This part of the program had been prepared for with a great deal of pains, and was rendered in a very creditable maimer, considering that the all used a language which was not their native tongue. The most effective portions of this part of the performance were the songs by the whole school and especially “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “My Country ’Tis of Thee.”

The second part of the program was by far the most interesting. The performers were all dressed in the full war costumes of their savage ancestors, with feathers and war paint and georgeous and many colored raiment. Their costumes were made by the young men, themselves, and were faithful copies of genuine wild Indian costumes. The different items of this part of the performance consisted of a l’ow Wow dance; a Scalp dance; a dance at the execution of an enemy : a Council of War, with War Harangues and War dance; a Danee over the wounded; a representation, with dance, of the first Peace Meeting of the Chippewas and Sioux Indians; Blessing of Meals and a Dog Head dance, and four very fine tableaux representing Indian life: The Wigwam, The Council, an Execution and Penn’s Treaty with the Indians.

It was truly an interesting and instructive entertainment, well worth the cost aiid trouble of attendance, and amply deserving of a farj more liberal patronage than was accorded it. The Indians will repeat their performance, on the afternoon of the Fourth, after the close of the ball game, omitting, however, most of the literary portions. We think it will prove a popular attraction.

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