Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 December 1886 — Page 12

DANCES OF THE DAKOTAHS

SOMETHING ABOUT AM INDIAN NATION'S SINGULAR C^iiEWONIES.!

The Medicine Hen and Their Weird Incantations—Torture that is Terrible and Self TiUIic ted—Meaning «f tlie

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FORT TOTTEN, DEVIL'S LAKE AGENCY, D. T., Nov. 27.—The Indians of the Sioux or Dakotah notion are supposed to number about 25,000. They are scattered over an Immense territory, extending from the Mississippi river on the east to the Black hills on the west, and from the mouth of the Big Sioux river on the south to Devil's lake (Hudson bay territory) on the north.

During my acquaintance with the Dakota ha I have learned something about their danccs and the significance they bear. The study has been an interesting one to me, and I have here set down a few memoranda of two of the more important. They are really weighty ceremonies in tribal life.

THE MEDICINE DANCE.

The waukan wacipi (sacred or medicine dance) is in fact the religion of the Dakotahs. After selecting a suitable spot on a smooth prairie, notched sticks about three feet long are driven a little way into the ground at intervals of about ten feet, forming an elliptical inclosum. Upon these they lay saplings or rails, over which eanvas tents are thrown. At each end of the inclosure a tent is pitched. One is occupied by the chief medicine men or high priests, who are always chiefs of the tribe, and the other by the "soldiers." The meetings of the council are held in the medicine tent, and there the mcdicine or pazuhita waukan is kept. Tbe soldiers' duty is to preserve order, wait upon the dancer?, prevent outsiders from intruding or even leaning upon the barricade, procure needed articles, etc. When needing tents they are allowed to throw down any tent and take it. Should an owner grumble, the tent taken is either burned or otherwise rendered unfit for future use. Those who wish to see the dance may do so by standing and looking over the barricade, but they must not touch it. Should any one loan upon the barricade who is not a member of the dance, he is struck one blow (no more) by a soldier with his stick—not of sufficient force to injure one, but a gentle reminder. Be he a chief or white man, it is all the same, and woe is his if he seek to resent the blow. Immediately in front of the soldiers' tent a large fire is built, where during the dance buffalo and ox meat and wild turnips are eookod. Should a dog come into tho ring during the ceremonies the poor brute is immediately killed, the body painted yellow and allowed to remain in that state to appease tho Deitv.

SINGERS AND DRUMMERS.

The medicine chiefs having taken their places and the soldiers theirs, the members come in by families, and, standing in a line facing the chiefs, in unison throw up their hands and cry. "Brother, have mercy on mel" Then they relate when and where they were initiated into the mysteries of the "holy order." (Each dance, it should be understood, is the ceremony of some religious or other order.) They then intone a sort of chant to the high priest at the same time holding their medicine bags in their left hands with arms stretched across their breasts the right hand is meanwhile raised as when an oath is taken. In t^is the members of each family follow tho motion of its head, then in single file they trot around the circle crying, "Have mercy on me, friend and brother," until they reach the starting place, when they intone another chant, this time to the Gfeat Spirit (Waukantanka), and with their medicine bags point to the four points of the compass. Tfiey then seat themselves on the ground against the barricade, facing the circle, A chief who has been appointed to the office of high priest now takes his seat inside the medicine tent, where ho preaches and sings, after appointing four assistants from among the members. To one is given a small drum, to the second a pillow and stick, to the third a gourd and rattle the fourth assists in singing. These all sit around the high priest They have also a large drum (usually a cowhide stretched over a cheese box or awash tlb), on which seven or eight drummers constantly drum, singing the while without cessation. The priest now exhorts his hearers to good deeds, and speaks of the holy dance as an institution founded centuries ago. When he is done all the members rise and dance by alternately raising the feet with a sidewise motion of tho body, at intervals crying, as at the beginning, "Brother, havo mercy on me!" The officiating chief then takes tho drum and leaves tbe tent, followed by his assistants. Commencing slowly, then faster and faster, they trot around the circle again. All stop in front of the soldiers' tent, facing the west, when the chief brags some more of tho antiquity of the rite and the power of the medicine, declaring that he can at will thrust a bird's claw or a stone from the river mto the body of any ono he wills, thus producing .instant death. To prove this elaborate ceremonies are gone through with. Afterward, at a signal, all congregate around the big drum and dance and sing a monotonous kind of a chant, the women, on the outside of a ring formed by tho men, imitating the peculiar call of the female swan, the men chanting in a sepulchral tone, which seems to lose itself in their throats. The combination is not entirely unmusical.

When the candidate comes out of the medicine tent he is clacflbnly in a breech cloth, very small apron and moccasins. Pour preachers in turn exhort tho candidate, recite the history of tho dance and the order, adding that should.ho be a good member his medicine will be strong. He must givo a feast once a year if not, he will be unfortunate and will meet with sickness and death. If

CANDIDATE. he is good, the Great Spirit will have mercy on him if not, the Great Spirit will be angry and expulsion from the order will follow. After this the receives the holy claw or a stone

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from one appolnted.to cast it, who takes his medicine bag and with it traces the course of the sun, and turns to the four quarters and says: "Now prepare yourself. I am going to transfer to you what I have in my medicine bag and thrusting hi3 bag toward the candiclato says: "How! There goes the Spirit!" (Sometimes this is called "shooting" the candidate.) At thesev. ords tho candidate, who is kneeling on a blanket, falls prone upon the ground, to all appearance dead. The friends and members of the candidate's family, and those wishing to make offerings to the Spirit, now congregate around the fallen man and throw on his body blankets, robes, skins and ornaments—anything they wish to give—until he is entirely covered up. The priest now dances around the supposed corpse, his assistants rattle gourds, and rattle and beat the pillow until the priest says: "I will now show how powerful my medicine is to bring him back to life." Then the candidate commences to move. Finally, resting on his hands and knees, he vomits up amass of froth and blood, in the center of which is found the claw or stone with which he had been "shot." He is now presented with a medicine bag, and is recognized as a member of the order. The candidate must attend the three succeeding meetings in the same costume (naked) and painted in the same manner then he is allowed to appear as he wishes.

They also initiate the spirit of dead Indians, "to set them right to travel straight." They won't say where the spirit goes, but after initiation in the holy dance it will go straight to its destination. After the ceremonies are over, the soldiers take the food and lay it near the medicine tent, where it is distributed. The cutting anddis-' tributing forms the principal attraction to the members, and the kettles are continually replenished during the performance. They always commence the dance at midnight, keeping it up until the following evenin at sundown. Should any ono known to have committed a crimo enter the ring the leaders notify the soldiers, and oxpulsion of the guilty one olio ws. Should be repent ha relates the na- "SHOOTING" WITH THE ture of the crime, MEDICINE BAG. pays a heavy fine and is reinstated. Should any member divulge the secrets of the order his life is forfeited in a nti^that none know the instigator or perpetrator. They have secrets, and, it is supposed, have signs by which one may know another in the dark as well as in the day. During the initiation and again just at daybreak something is whispered to the candidate.

CIRCLING CROW DANCE. S

The Pa-gi-nu-hi-na-ki wa-ci-pi, or the circling crow dance, is called by the Americans straw or- grass dance. Only members of the order participate in this dance, and its councils are secret. It is controlled by three men select at the starting of the lodge from among the more influential members of the tribe, who at death or upon resigning their office select their own successors. The regalia belonging to the three by virtuo of their office is peculiar, consisting of a kind of tunic falling from tho waist down behind, attached to abroad band around the waist, and composed entirely of feathers of the eagle and crow, with beadwork, porcupine quills and jingling bells. Exactly iij the center and resting in the hollow of the back (fastened to the belt) projects a slender piece of wood about eight inches long wrapped with porcupine quills, to the end of which eagle and crow feathers and small bells are attached with long strings—every motion of tho wearer causing these sticks to vibrate and the bells to jingle. This is an emblem of rank, and when invested with ifcona usually gives away a horse. There are four drummers. Bach one is provided with a stick about three feet long, one end notched and wrapped around with quills and beads, the other end sharpened. These are stuck in the ground, and drums with corresponding loops are hung on to them. The dancers seat themselves in a ring on the ground, wrapped in their blankets, the drummers on one side chanting and beating their drums. At a signal all jump up, and, throwing their arms aloft, chant with uncouth gestures and an occasional whoop dance for a few moments, when all but ono seat themselves. This one, standing in the ring keeps on with gestures, wildly waving his tomahawk. Of a sudden he will seat himself, and in a low, monotonous chant recite his exploits of war and chase, after which all will jump up, dance and yell, and the same performances are again gono through with. This is kept up for several days at a time, or until all the provisions have been exhausted. During this dance, if any member wishes a divorce from his wife he gets up. and proclaims that she is no longer his wife, or that he has been deputized by some one not a member (naming him) to say that he has "thrown away" his wife. An outsider by payment can deputize a member to do this. In their own eyes this makes him a brave man and big chief.

The dance is arranged for in this way: A steward is appointed to collect provisions, and no one dares refuse him. After collecting sufficient to last several days he notifies the leaders. They call in the lodge and form arrangements for the dance, and then tho village crier goes around and proclaims that the dance will take place about such a time. If any questions are to be decided the head men discuss it, after which it is put to a vote. One deputized goes to each member present and asks him for his decision, the result showing whether the question is carried or lost. Then the council is closed, outsiders are allowed to enter and the dance begins. An old woman I invited the leader of the straw dance to dance in her tepee, cooking everything she had for that purpose and stating her poverty. He immediately sent the crier around thf camp, and in a few hours all tho members were present, as they will drop any work or pleasure they may have to attend these dances. After consulting in secret all were invited in.

The leader then commenced whirl-

CHIEF, wrrn GIRDLE ing around very AND TUNIC. much like the whirling dervishes, stating the cause of the meeting to aid and assist this old woman. The result Was thirteen blankets, calico, fine cloth, skins, flour and pork.

When any question of importance is brought before the order there are many councils and much pow-wowing. Often another lodge will be called in to help make the decision, which, once arrived at, is

aiways carnea am. euciety is u* late date, but is the most powerful among the Indiana. No member will undertake to be a spokesman for an outsider unless bribed by a present,- generally a gun or a horse, so the- moro influential gain from 40 to 100 horses during the year, but then have to gwe away many to retain their infinanep Women are not admitted to this »rder. f?,rj PAULBECKWITH.

A SdENpfdR AN ARTiST.

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Sharply Drawn Contrast Between Hopeless Uaelessnesa and Industry. Clouds of smoke belched from a gravel heap on Fifth avenue, opposite Delmonico's. A furious fire was roaring in a section of iron tubing under the heap, which it was heating to a proper degree of caloric to be of use to the street paving men. Around the glowing mound gathered as squalid and miserable a group as ever camped by the roadside over in Jersey. Swaddled in rags and shuddering in the cold wind they cracked their cold knuckles over the hot pile, and two or three gnawed fragments of food hko hungry wolves.

With the smoke billowing up in whirling clouds of dun and black commingled, the piles of Belgian blocks, the smoking pitch boilers, the carts and wagons of the contractors, and the bare jark dripping in the November drizzle, the picture was one that no artist could have passed by unnoticed. But it is not the tramps alone who find comfort in the contractor's fires. When the workmen knock off for dinner they gather about them iU picturesque groups.

If you want to note tho contrast between absolute and hopeless uselessness and patient industry you can do it with a glance at these contrasted groups of the men who work and earn their bread and those who do not. The laborers view their squalid neighbors with small favor. The sight of these hulking idlers, with their hands in their pockets, looking sullenly at better men earning their honest living is not calculated to make the better men good tempered. As one bf them put it, "God knows, sir, its no crime to be out of work in this town. But to be willing to be out of work, like those vagabonds, is enough to make any decent man tired. That big fellow there was offered a job to handle dirt this morning. What do you think he told the boss? That he was not a ditch digger. But for three days he has hung about here and not been too proud to pick up the scrap we throw away."—Cor. New York News.

A Familiar Odor.

A woman was trading in a store on Michigan avenue the other day when the proprietor began sniffing and snuffing the air and excitedly inquired: "Don't you smell smoke?" "Yes." "Lands save us 1 but I'm afraid the store is on fire, and I'm not insured 1 It smells like pine wood." "Laws, but you men don't know nothing 1" said the woman, as she calmly sat down. "That's the stnell of meat burning in a kettle back in one of those houses. The woman has let the water bile out. Pine wood! Humph! How much a yard for that factory?"—Detroit Free Press.

:VYi A Great Man. "Does your wife ever pay you any compliment?" asked Frederick Jimson of_ his friend Benderly. "Never," replied Benderly. "Well, mine does She flatters me." "Often?" "Oh, yes, frequently particularly in winter," replied Frederick. "Why does she taffy you so much in winter?" "Whenever the coal fire needs replenishing she points to the fireplace and says.. 'Frederick, the grate.'"—Texas Siftings.

Cyms W. Field at Home.

Mr. Field is still at his country hohSe, but the illness of a daughter kept him in tho city for three or four nights last week. He rises at 4 o'clock in summer and at 5 o'clock in winter. It is his custom to retire promptly at 10 o'clock unless he is out for an evening at the theatre or on some social occasion. As his town house is closed he has \een hunting around at different hotels to find out which could give liim the earliest breakfast. He told me that he was able to get breakfast at the Fifth Avenue hotel any time after 5 o'clock, at the Clarendon any time after 6 o'clock, and at the Hoffman any time after 7 o'clock. Mr. Field came to New York in 1835, the year of the big fire. He has consequently had about 50 years of this early rising and of his vigorous work. —New York Tribune.

View# of the Queen's Gardens.

One way in which her majesty intends to celebrate her jubilee is by filling an album with specially taken photographic views of all the more notable and interesting spots in the gardens and grounds of her various royal residences. Mr. Vernon Heath, who is to execute her majesty's orders, has already set to work at Buckingham palace, the extensive gardens of which .are as beautiful as they are unknown, and will in turn visit Osborne and Windsor and possibly Balmoral. The photographs printed are to be limited to thirty-six copies, "Cfhich will be arranged in aa many albums for presentation to the queen's most intimate friands.—London Figaro.

Chinese Emperor's Throne.

The young emperor of China is to have anew and costly throne at Shanghai. Its foundation pedestal is to be made of gold bricks, and the subprefect of Soo Chow has sent to Pekin 8,000 pieces of solid gold bricks, of the ordinary size of clay ricks, for that purpose.—Chicago Times.

The libel law of Texas is moro stringent than any of tho other states of the Union. A newspaper can be sued in every county where it circulates.

?TWTB ^A^TTE: TERRE HAUTEl INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9,1886.

Qneer Wrinkles. V. LOCAL PRIDE.

A Boston lady, who with her little boy recently returned from a visit to San Francisco, stopped over night at the Palmer house, Chicago. "Now, remember, Waldo," she saki, as they seated themselves at the dinner table, "you are not to say, 'Pork and beans,' but 'Beans and pork.' Never forget, my son, that you are a'Bostonese." 4

A GREAT BLOWER.

Featherly was blowing his tea to cool it off, wnue Bobby regarded him with intense interest. "What is the matter, Robert?" said the old man. "Don't you know that it is very impolite to stare at a person in that way?" "Huh?" responded Bobby.

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was the biggest blower in town. He can't blow any harder'n I can."—New York Sun. EVERYTHING READY FOR HIM.

Fashionable Mother (to fashionably daughter)—Are you going out, dear? "Fashionable Daughter—Yes, mamma "Fashionable Mother—And if the hairdresser should come while you are out?

Fashionable Daughter—Oh, I have left full instructions with Jane.—New York Sun.

DER OAK UND DER VINE.

I donVI TSS preaching voman's righdta, Or ttnydin^ like dot: Upd I likes to see all beoples

Shust gondented mit dhe.ir lot: Budt I vauts to gondradict dot shap Dot made dis leedle shoke: "A voman Yas der glinging vine.

Und mau der shturdy oak

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Berhapa, somedimes, dot may pe tirue Budt, den dimes oudt off nine, I find me oudt dot man himself

Vas peen der glinging vine: Und vhen hees frendts dhey all vas gone, Und he vas shust "tead proke." Dot's vehD der voman shteps righdt in,

Und peen der sbturdy oak

Shust go oup to der paseball ground'ts Und see dhose "shturdy oaks'" All planted roundt ubon der seats— ••k'f

Shust hear dh£ir laughs und sbokes! Dben see dhose vomens at der tubs. Mit fc'othes oud on der lines Vbich vas der shurdy oaks, mlae friendts,

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Cad vich der glinging vines? 4

Dot oak he glings to now

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Vheti Sickness in der householdt conies, L'nd v»*-ks und veeks he shtays, *, Who vas id fightds him midout resdt,

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Dhose veary nighdts und days? ifej Who beace und j^omfort alvays priogs, Und cools dot fefered prow? More like id vas der tender vine

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a an he re el Der boet von time said 5 Phere's leedle dot man he DON'D vant,' 4-., 1 dink id means, inshted ,!.. I'nd vhen der ye^rs keep rolling on,

Dheir cares und droubles pringing, I lie vants to pe der shturdy oak,

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Und. also, do der glinging.

Maype, vhen oaks dhey ghng some more, Und dou'd so shturdy peen, Der glinging vines dhey haf some shance

To help run Life's masheen. In belt und sickness, shoy und pain. In calm or shtojyny veddher, „"V Tvas beddlier dot dhose oaks und vines 4 Should alvays ghng togeddher,

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ftti4 THE SCHOOL MARM.

Oh, School Marm! Thou who teachest the young idea How to scoot, and spank est the erstwhile Festive small boy with a hand that taketfa the trick Who also iammeth hhn with a hickory switch, And crowneth him by laying the weight Of a ruler upon his shoulders,.' Oh! Thou art a daisy! J* Thou makest him the national emblem— Red, white and blue— Thou furnisheth the stripes, And he seeth the stars. Oh, School Marm! We couldn't do without thee, "j And we don't want to try! Thou art lovely and accomplished Above all women, and if thou art, Not married, it is because thou art -1 Too smart to be caught that way4 All school inarms are women, But all women are not school marms, And, angels pedagogic, "1 That's where thou h*jst the bulge on thy sisters 1 Oh, School Marm! Thou mayest not get much pay here below, But cheap education is a national specialty, And thou wilt get thy reward in he^yen The only drawback being that thou stayest there When thou goest after it, and we, Who remain here below for our reward, Miss you like thunder. School Marm.if there is anything we can do for you, Call on us I Apply early,- and avoid the rush. Office hours from 8 a. m.'to 5 p. m. We were a schoolboy once ourself, •, And can show the marks of it.

O—Washington Critic.

A VERY BUSY WOMAN.

She pronounced in sounding platitude Her universal gratitude, a s.£j.i From the tropics to the poles yN\ She felt a consanquinity,

A sisterly affinity. A kind of kith-and-kinity For ull these foreign souls.

,,j For Caledonian Highlanders, For brutal South Sea Islanders, For wet, and ruoist, and dry-landers, v.

For Gentile, Greek and Jew For Finns and for Siberians,

O, it worried Miss Sophronia, Lest the men of Patagonia. Should all die with the pneumonia,

With the phthisic, or chills Yes, indeed, she worried daily, Lest a croup or cokl should waylay Some poor Soudanese or Malay,

Dying for the lack of pills.

And she toiled on without measure,' And with most unstinted pleasure. For the good of Central Asia,

And the Pagan people there But meantime her little sister, Died of a neglected blister, But Sophronia hardly missed her,

For she had no time to spare. -S. W. Foss in Tid Bite.

Brevities.

,'A palindrome reads equally well backward or forward, but the following stanza beats the palindrome in that it reads better back' ward than forward:

Krah, krah, eht sgod od brab, *4 Ehtsraggeberagnimocotnwot Emos ni sgar. emos ni sgat,

Dna emos ni tevlev snwog. -Springfield Union. "The car is full of alumni," whispered Misa Beekonstreet to her friend from the west, as they both journeyed Canibridg$ward in the horse car. "Yes," said the Chicago girl, "and how it chokcs one up, don't it? I wonder they do not open the ventilators."—Boston Commercial Bulletin. "Waiter, is this an old or a new herring that you brought- mo?" "Can't you tell?" "No." '"Well, then, what difference does it make?"— Fliegendo Blatter.

The tenor and the soprano of a Chicago church were married this week. Their acquaintance began in the choir, and as the happy pair meandered up the aisle the jocular organist struck up, "Wo met by chants." —Rambler. "Papa," said little inutile Briefless, "what do you wear when you go to the court house —your law suit?" '*Oh, no, my son," replied the good barrister, kindly. "That is the suit a man puts on when he goes naked.. Only the clients wear that"— Burdette.

A joint canvass—that which covers a ham. —New Orleans Picayune. Moro than 4,000 couplers have been patentI ed in this -imlry, and }*et there are hundreds of thousands of men and women yet unhitched --Ijowell Citizen.

There was a gentle ripple of merriment the other day at a certain religious gathering when a peculiarly staid and dignified brother, in referring to the denominational and doctrinal change in the views of the late Adoniram Judson, one of the pioneer missionaries who started for India a Congregationalist and landed there a Baptist, remarked that the change tn Judson's views occurred when he was haif seas over. Springfield Union.

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