THE BIRNEY ARROW

Jan 4, I960 Editor: D. Hollowbrest Rates I.50/I0 issues

Birney, Montana

The members for the I960 Christmas Club have been elected and they immediately took over the Indian dance held in the community hall Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights to celebrate the New Year I960 in Birney. A sinner followed the dance shortly after midnight. After the feast there was more dancing to be followed by the singing of 49’s and a Rock N’ Roll held by the teenagers.

The Eugene Littlecoyote family were the only visitors form Ashland Thursday night. Mr. an Mrs. Ted Bison, Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Zwiethe, Joe and Gene Redwoman, the Killsontops and the Bigback family were those from Lame Deer. Everyone at the Pow-Wow Thursday night had a nice time in welcoming the New Year I960 and are bound to repeat Friday night.

The Medicinebull family enjoyed a dinner at heir home in the village on Christmas day with Mr. and Mrs. James Onebear of Busby and Ernest King of Lame Deer as dinner guests.

Alight snow fell on Thursday night covering the ground less than an inch deep and it turned a bit cold.

Burt and Fred Medicinebull were in Lame Deer attending the NAC meeting held at John Woodenlegs’s home Thursday night returning Friday afternoon.

In the Dec 26 issue of this paper we misstated that he Haskell students home for the Christmas vacation were mostly girls, actually there were four boys; Thomas L. Whiteman, Daniel Oldbull, Daniel Foot, Rufus Killsontop and one other girl, Pauline Flying, besides Irma Wolftooth and Dolores Headswift, accrding to VO HE HEV.

Andrew Birdchief, a Southern Cheyenne from Watonga, Oklahoma was a visitor in Birney Christmas day.

The Indian dance held Friday night, by all appearances was a Farewell Dance for the Haskell students Irma Wolftooth and Dolores Headswift who are returning to Lawrence Kan Saturday morning Jan 2. The dance was followed by a lunch of sandwiches, apricot desert and coffee served by the girls with Irma an Dolores helping, after lunch there was the 49 round walk and Rock N’ Roll held by the teenagers.

Gilbert Littlewolf of Busby who won a third prize in the dancing contest on the night following Christmas dinner was the winner of I00.00 first prize in a contest over afield of several tribes last July at the Arapaho Pow Wow in Arapaho, Wyoming.

Raphael B.Lefthand, the announcer for the Indian dance on the New Year night was handed a typed paper with the announcement that The Birney Arrow will again be published after New Year and some of the readers who had shared reading The Birney Arrow with us were Dorothy Johnson, Montana State University, Missoula; Mary Dempsey, Research Editor Historical of Montana, Helena; Mrs. MM.E.Mueller, Nothern Plains Indians Crafts Association, Billings; Norman Green, Gallup, New Mex who says his Navafo friends also read it; Fr. Peter J.Powell, Chicago, Ill; Laverne Nadigan, Association of Indian Affairs, New York and Mrs. E.Mygatt, New York, but Raphael did not read out the names of the following individuals, probably because of the difficultly in pronunciation Raphael is doing a good job of announcing in Cheyenne and he should improve providing he uses common sense.

Jacob Twobirds of Busby is visiting his niece, Mrs. Burt Medicinebull in Birney for a few days till his sister, Mrs. Hector Knowshisgun retruns who we guessed is spending the Christmas holiday in Spokane, Wn with her daughter, and son-in-law.Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Spang.

The Northern Cheyenne historian, according to the Lame Deer-Birney correspondent to The Forsyth Independent Mrs. Forrest Liberty, that John Standsintimber of Lame Deer was featured recently in a Sunday Edition of the Great Falls Tribune in which was carried the story of the Cheyennes. The Birney Arrow and its "writer" will be featured in the same paper the Great Falls Tribune some time in January.

Mrs. Ellen Medicinebull suggested the name Hen House where the cokking classes were held under the adult education program (The Adult Education program in the Northern Cheyenne Indian reservation was terminated by the Indian Bureau officials in Billings in early November due to lack of interest on the part of the Tribe) and Paul Threefingers suggested the name for this newspaper The Birney Arrow as he was the typist with Francis "Minnie" Hardground and Michael Sandcrane as reporters all are now in army. The reporter for (then Published) the Cheyenne Tri-Weekly under Mrs. Norma Coon, was Ina Mae Whitewolf—reporter from Busby who reports mostly of weekend visits, trips to towns, those in classes for the day and what’s cooking.