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...McClarty farmhouse, hiked li miles to school each morning through snow or mud with two of her pupils, Homer and Percy McClarty. The three clung together for mutual comfort: she feared the farmyard geese that "hissed and nipped at my legs above my buttoned boots"; they feared the somber Blackfeet Indians, who fished in the Flathead River. The trio hurried along, since before every class Miss Blachly had to put all the lessons on the blackboard in her neat, round Palmer script for the students to copy-no one had a textbook...
...fourth and final volume of his Frontier People of America, the paleface invaders were "morally more savage than their Indian victims." On one occasion, a trapper found rivals following him to learn the most lucrative beaver streams. His solution was to lead them through the country of the Blackfeet, who ambushed and dismembered the rivals' leader...
...America. He took along a young Swiss artist named Karl Bodmer to draw and paint what they could see. Their trip, which lasted a year, was filled with marvels of scenery and encounters with the Indians. At Fort McKenzie, in what is now Montana, Bodmer made portraits of the Blackfeet who came to trade there. One dawn the Blackfeet were attacked by neighboring tribes, jealous of the Blackfeet's trading privileges. Bodmer sketched the massacre-the best eyewitness scene of an Indian fight ever made-while the prince set down notes: "We were awakened by musket-shot upon which...
Over the last four years, Reporter readers have learned to expect such gamy fare from the paper's correspondent in Heart Butte, a tiny Indian community (pop. 250) hunkered in the hills of Montana's vast Blackfeet Reservation. The Heart Butte correspondent, 65-year-old Weasel Necklace, never lets them down. Writing under his other name, John Tatsey, he produces a column so lively, if ungrammatical, that it is widely reprinted. Sample Tatseyisms...
Flying into Claremore from Washington to address the business-suited Blackfeet, Apache, Sioux, Mohawk, Chinook, Zuñi, Cheyenne, Chocktaw, Kickapoo and others was Commissioner Glenn Emmons himself, onetime New Mexico banker and a longtime neighbor and friend of the Navajo. Listing such Indian advances of the recent past as better health care and improved educational facilities, Emmons declared his own "confidence in the native capacities of Indian people-in their ability to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps if they are only given a decent opportunity." But, predictably, Emmons' words of encouragement fell on ruffled feathers...