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The Birney Arrow
The Memorial Day picnic at Birney was postponed till June Is the picnic was held at the picnic ground by the river. Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Bellymule held a peyote meeting behalf of John Redneck, who is in a sanitarium. Mr. & Mrs. Jeffries Shavehead also held a prayer meeting in honor of their son, Christopher Shavehead who graduated at the St. Labre’s Mission. The meeting was held in a tepee on June 5th. Four different tribes attended. Henry Sandcrane had another meeting in the same tepee. Elmer and Grace Limberhand were back in a matter of minutes soon after they left for Ashland, they brought with them hailstones a lot bigger than marbles they picked up while in Ashland. Annie Medicinebull went to the Wind River Reservation at Riverton, Wyoming to do some visiting with relatives and daughters. The news for the Birney Arrow weren’t written last week, because Mrs. Liberty has to attend meetings at Ashland and are written this week to avoid delay till next week and because of the awards at issue. Supt. Jensen gave an address on the adult education program. Fourteen Birney adults were awarded certificates and five Ashland adults were awarded certificates. John Woodenlegs, Pres. Of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe presented the awards and also made a lengthy speech on the adult education program. Charles Sittingman made a short talk on the fine program carried on at Ashland by Mrs. Norma Coon and the students. The Indian Dance began immediately after the awards were presented. The usual specialists of the chant kept time with the beat of the tom-tom, nearly anyone who know to dance and want to dance took the advantage, even Mrs. Coon, Woodenlegs and a Navajo visitor, whose identity I don’t know, were dancing Doug Glenmore, August Scalpcane of Lame Deer; Charles Sittingman, Bill Runsabove of Ashland; Elmer Fightingbear, Norman Wolftooth, Lockwood Standingelk of Birney and Two Birney girls comprised the dancers in costume. There were other dancers who felt the urge to dance, that we guessed that they appreciated the pow-wow to show the visitors. There were visitors from Oklahoma, also Miss Grissom and Miss Jeffries from Billings. MIKE AT THE MIKE. Mike Sunbear blares out what’s what during the intermissions. Lunch was served before the end of the dance. All in all, the presenting of the awards and the Indian Dance was well attended. Whose unthinking is to leave the gate open at the Tie creek fence on the Ashland road. JUST PLEASE SHUT THE GATE, Everyone knows the gates are intended to keep stock in the respective pastures. Johnnie Youngbird is reportedly working at the Quarter Circle U ranch and Herbert Bellymule has taken his family to 4D to work maybe all summer Michael Sandcrane wrote to Burt Medicinebull from Fort Ord, California and would to get the Birney Arrow regularly and Francis Wolfchum also wants to receive the Birney Arrow. Robert Goombi, pres. Of the American Indian Exposition writes to get word out to other Indians to come and take part in the exposition at Anadarko, Oklahoma. Aug 18-23. Thanks should go to James D. King for the use of the public address system on Wednesday night’s dance.
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