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THE PEACE -SEEKER
Certain indian Tfiiaes.FOROHE reason or
ahothkr always sought peace with the white man
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such were the shoshones, whose great heroine,

sagajawea, led the lewis and clark expedition
8et0n0 the rockies to the columbia river.

The* owe a good part of their final peace

with the american government to their great
chief wasnakie.who always sought peace for
115 PEOPLE.

Washakie was first named -shoots straight Soon washakie was leading a band of shoshones.
but his name was changed to washakie the he ordered his braves to make frienos with the
rattler, when he made a rattle 8y putting white mam
pebbles in the skull of the first
buffalo he killed.

Innumerable stories were told of washakie

oelivering strayed cattle to their white
owners. he served them in many ways^ giving
them scouts and guides during their wars
and blackfeet.
"with. .the sioux
Some smoshones joined the bannocks amd When the battle was over and some surviving
WASHAKiE WISt .MEMBERSOF warriors returned, washakie told them that
HIS Tfll.BE 'ORT 6RI0GER they had disgraced themselves he saved
THE WHITE MAN KNEIT THAT HE his people from a suicidal war.
WANTED PEACE.

And then the railroad came across his land-' NOT ONLY DIDTHEY GIVE HIM THE FERTILE WIND
instead of fighting back, as the sioux hao :
... ... . .. . ... . . ..

isked fob a fertile reser- AMERICAN/ARMY. GAVE HIM A MILITARY FUNERAL

vation off the' lines' of travel. AHDNAMEO SORT AFTER HIM,
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"Woke up, son!" Honeen's mother called

to him> her voice broken by a slight cough.

"Breakfast! And you must hurry! This Is the
day of the Great Rabbit Hunt, you know!"
Honeen sat up, rubbing the sleep out of his

eyes. The dog, Keemu, whose long, collie-like many rough miles to cover today! No hunter

fur had helped to keep him warm all night, will have better sandals than my boy."
danced about, yelping joyously. She always "They are beautiful. Mother!" Honeen ex-
shared Honeen's breakfast, even though late- claimed, turning the new footgear over. The
ly it was nothing more than a thin pancake of sandals had double soles, with a handsome
cornmeal. red-and-black design worked into the strong
Hard times had struck Honeen's family. yucca fibres, on top and bottom. Honeen

His father and elder brother had been killed would outgrow them before he wore them
by a wounded bear, early that spring. All he was only ten years old and grow-
out, for

summer Hansen and his mother had done They were sandals to be proud of-
ing fast.

double work in the corn field where the green Honeen would not have been prouder of
squoshes grew between the "hills". No meat them, could he have looked nearly two thou-
had enriched their scanty diet. They had sand years ahead to the day when white men,
traded away all but one thin blanket of rabbit digging in a corner of that same cave, would
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skin for old grain while their own was ripen- find those same beautiful sandals, only a tittle
ing. the worse for time and wearl
Now was coming on, and Honeen's
winter But now the sun was glinting along the red

mother shivered often when the breeze blew rock rim of the canyon. The hunters, men and

cold down the red rock canyon Perhaps, if boys, were gathering for the expedition. Shrill

he killed many rabbits in the Great Hunt to- whoops and the yelping of dogs told Honeen

day, there would be enough skins for a cape that he must hurry. Quickly, he gathered up
fo warm her shoulders. Or a blanker to pro- his rabbit stick, his sandals, and (just in case
tect her from the chill of thehome cave's floor. he MIGHT meet with larger game) his darts

There were two cornmeal pancakes for and throwing-stick.

Honeen this morning. He gave one to Keemu . As the big party moved oul, Honeen fell

in beside a friend of his own oge, named

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the dog, for she would help him in the hunt.

"Here are the new sandals I have been Tupatkee. Tupatkee had a dog, too—a short
weaving for you," Honeen's mother said. haired, black-and-white terrier called Yupat.

"You must wear them, son— for you may have He was a rabbit dog— while Keemu had hunt-
ed mountain lion, and deer and even the the danger!

terrible grizzly bear. But Tupatkee insisted Their atlatls whipped forward. Honeen
that little Yupat would attack o lion, if. he Sad missed! Tupatkee's dart pierced the cougar.

the chance. With a horrid screech he charged— straight ot

The first part of the drive was slow work. Honeen!
Honeen and Tupatkee stayed close together. No time to hurl a second dart! The boy
That is how, in a little draw, they both saw gripped his rabbit slick— hurled it straight at
the fresh deer tracks at the same time. that snarling, brute face. Batting at it, the
"A deer is better than fifty rabbits!" Honeen terrible claws missed Honeen's flesh, but the
whispered. cafs weight knocked him. down. He felt the
"And we both have our darts and AT- hot breath— the pressure of a heavy paw-
IATL5!" answered Tupatkee, his eyes shining Then suddenly he was free! Keemu's sharp
>vith eagerness. "If we miss it, we'll bring teeth had hamstrung the lion. Little Yupafs
home no meat at all—but ifs worth the risk!" jaws gripped the lashing toil. And now, at
For three miles they stalked the deer be- close range, Tupatkee's dart pierced the lion's
fore they saw him— o fine fat buck, browsing savage heart. It was all over!
As if ina dream, Honeen rose to his feet.
BB His life was safe— but he had lost the meat
and the hide of the buck, that his mother

at the fool of a low cliff. The dogs, well needed so much. Tupatkee had won both
trained, made no sound, as Honeen raised deer and lion by his last lucky dart. Those

his atlatl, or th rowing-stick, with a stone- were the rules!

headed dart in place. But before he could "They are yours, Tupatkee!" he said, with

throw, a tawny-gray, catlike shape dropped a catch of disappointment in his voice. "I will

from the cliff onto the buck's back! A moun- help you to drag them home, the lion and
tain lion! After a few jumps, the deer fell, its the buck."
neck broken. But Tupatkee shook his head, smiling.
That was too much for the dogs. Yelping "They are yours, Honeen!" he replied.
ferociously, they dashed in. The big cat faced There is corn to spare in my father's granary,
them, snarling above the dead buck. Hard and have brothers to help me hunt meat.
I

after the dogs ran the two bays. They would Before I cast my dart into the lion's heart I

let no lion rob them of THEIR buck, whatever said: 'This is for my friend, Honeen!'"
YOU THINK J MANT MOONS OF^
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