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- Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY
DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 18
Marlin, Texas, Friday, May 22, 1931
INDIANS INVITED TO SEE AND HEAR TRIO
OF SOUTH DAKOTA REDMEN
HERE.
Three Indians head a South Dakota good roads tour due in Marlin at 10 a.m.
Saturday, the party being scheduled to remain here until one p.m.
Chief Max Big Man, or in the Crow Indian
tongue, Ish-Jah-Heah-Dehah, meaning "Grabs the Enemy's Gun," will talk on the
Falls county courthouse lawn at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, while his two sons,
Sings Above and Black Wolf, will sing and dance, and the public is invited to
hear them. Advance reports state an Austin band will be with the Indians in
Marlin while a number of noted Texans are accompanying them on various stages
through Texas. Inclusion of Marlin in the itinerary was arranged by J. B.
French, former resident of this city now living at Rapid City, S. D.
Max Big Man, said to be an entertaining
story teller, is a full blooded Indian Chief of the Crow of Absaroka tribe, the
latter name meaning Blackbird people.
The Indians tried to make this clear to
early explorers--perhaps by pointing to a crow--so the whites used this short
term and the Indians accepted it as correct, according to the pale-face tongue.
The Crow Indians number about 2000 members
who live on an immense reservation in southern Montana, from which, with the
passing of the buffalo and other sources of food and clothing, they now obtain
revenue through farming and leases to ranchers.
Taking an opposite attitude from that of
the Sioux in the early days, the Crow Indians welcomed the white man.
Their scouts served the United States army and Crow braves made the supreme
sacrifice along with their white brothers under Custer's command. The Crow
country surrounds the Custer battlefield, a national monument.
The Indians have no written language, yet
all of the western Indians of all tribes have always been able to discourse with
each other.
Chief Max was born and has always within
sight of the Custer battlefied. (I believe the word lived was left out of the
sentence-lsc)
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Permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for printing by
The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.
