The Birney Arrow

February 27, 1959

(Note to our readers: We are sorry for the delay in reaching you with this copy of the ARROW, but we have met with a setback. The government equipment formerly made available to editor Don Hollowbrest in typing and duplicating the paper is no longer available, due to a policy decision in the Lame Deer office. Accordingly we have and much more involved and complicated. Any philanthropic soul who knows of an old typewriter which might be furnished Mr. Hollowbrest so that he can continue to type the paper would vastly speed up our production process by letting us know of it. Currently Don must gather the news and hitchhike over to my house at Birney; I type it and send the carbon off to the duplicator; they mail back the copies, I address and send them, and Don picks up a few for the village. As you can see the bottlenecks are numerous and we beg you forbearance. M. P. Liberty)

The road to Birney from Lame Deer was being cleared of snow, also the side roads in the Birney village and the road patrols proceeded to Ashland Thursday and Friday last week after nearly everyone was snowbound after the recent storm.

Gene Phillips, the associate county agent was in Birney Friday.

Claude Rowland, George Wilson and Georgie Nightwalker brought the commodities to Birney early last week for distribution to tribal members.

Mr. and Mrs. John Killsontop of Lame Deer were visiting the David Strangeowl family Sunday afternoon.

The Privates Daniel Fisher and Francis Hardgound as the informant says are now stationed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Complete details of their transfer are lacking. So far four Birney boys are serving in the Armey at present.

Recalling the All American Indian Days at Sheridan Wyo. The summer of ’57, the Indian artists seen in Sheridan are Brummit Echohawk, the artist writer cartoonist and historian, also master of ceremonies, a Pawnee Indian of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Lefty Wild Eagle or Wilder, Klamath tribe of Oregon; Fred Beaver, Creek Seminole tribe of Oklahoma; Woodrow Crumbo, Potawatomie tribe of Toas, New Mexico, Al Momaday, Kiowa tribe of Jemez, New Mexico, and Rex. Godfrey Broken Rope Sioux tribe of Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Limberhand and Arthur Teeth (Mrs. Limberhand’s son) were weekend visitors in Birney Sunday night, Arthur is attending school at St. Labre’s Mission in Ashland.

Word of the Indian dance at Lame Deer Monday night on Washington’s birthday has been confirmed. The birthdays of Lincoln and Washington have been celebrated in the past with Indian dances.

John Woodenlegs and James King, president and secretary of the Northern Cheyenne tribe, are calling a meeting in Birney Thursday afternoon for an important tribal business.

Accompanied Herbert Bellymule to Busby last Tuesday for some supplies at the Tongue River Boarding School commissary and say the mural of war bonneted Indian in the old school dining room I painted in 1930 or 31.

Frankie Sooktis has been recalled to report for work at the First Americans, Inc. at Ashland. The doll factory is the only major activity at present in the reservation since the Tongue River Lumber Co. saw mill burned at Lame Deer last summer.

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