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4 Xv ~- - / " \ ;', ' "V ; ' - - ; y -294 SOTDXKS CUf. (Iffifi) OTBHVIE?.Intorrlow f&i^x ISe<?»"Standing Out Bon^ lir, Oklahoma. ;. I caao from Hontana irlth ny parento, btothor, oioter and aunt; no cafe:> on horeoo T7ith about thirty other Ghoyonno familioo» Uy father.had eight ponies and 170 used four to ride and tho othor four for pack harbgo, Thoro Wore no» «ago$3 so trs were all on horses, Tnoro were large baskets _ sado from willow tree roots to put on the horses to oarry the children.' 10 tepees nore then our homes, so they ^ere always taken trflth'ue ^611 tro traveled and the poles were dratm behind the h*orsea# * o A malse a tepee for- a, large feiaily it took around twenty-five buffalo hides and 'these hides fysre tanned and cowed with our own hands to Mko our heads* Tho buffalo wore so thick in places on our ray frost Bontana that sooo of the young men had to side ahead to, clear tho way for the women and children, so moat and hides were not hard to BO our o. In crossing the rivero and streams one would go in and find a suitable place to oroos and'then the rest would follow in ono continucuo lino, opening their horses to tho other bask. Only bows and arrows rare used

5 - ' ' ' ' 295 B2EJT, (H&tWX&Qt CUT.(tffi3.) HMZIVIETT ' ' ' 8 * for protection*and hunting and who n coat got low wo wo old stop for three days, killing and drying maat for the root of~the trip,, V It took only thirty days to cako tho trip frcn Hontana and i&en tx*.got to th Torritory, to which wo ecus* of our OTTO froo will, 170 ocapod olooo to Fort Supply rjiioh at that tico conoisted of only a fetr houooa a Ed a government trsd&sg pcst» %o trading podt ms in a largo tepee and «as cup or viced by Gocr 9 Bont. tho later boeomo oy husband and cao rao end half I nil on. TTo had six children and thoy all otill livo in Oklahoma* fild chorrico and ourranto woro driod and uded to cake puddinga with in the winter tico* Buffalo hides csro spread on the grotud in the topeoo for beds and those with the fur still on were used for covers* X have novor used whito can*8 csdiolnes; I clrayn ohew herbs of all kinds* Oar fires were made with bark and grass, and by hitting tto pieces of flint together to get the spark to start the fire as there wore no catches* TTo spent our tied making tepees, dresses and shoes or anything else vo had to have which ware, made from hides we tanned ourselves*

6 . '. '. ' '. " v ' ', Effifl, SSSD2$I OUT.(MRS.) istehvieti $&e, graejjlthat grew on tho prairio then was very ^ r * f _ < ',-< '.. ' toll and soft* "Wo ha$ very little trouble with the weather for there were no dust storms* Once in a while there was a oyclono and thoro was lots of enow but there no wind so it did not ooom cold, Tho Indiana have cocured a lot of their English from employees of Hie different Indian institutes. After we arrived in tha territory our group only stayed together a short while, then a one moved one way and another group would move the other* Wo would camp on crooks so we would have water and would, move to another place when water would get low«we called our camps villages and they were fosned by placing tho topees in a oirole* A long time afterwards we were moved to Barling* ton where wa were to be tamed into «!ilto man's ways and they gave us rico, feoffee, flour, eta* I did not like s the food jtnd.n^ej^wiu. because it ws& groat to go out and kill your maat as you waotod it end have * it ooo&ed ovor on open fire* ; fe old not know what ncaoy or silver u«uar3 wore

7 - \. ; ',297 (MRS.) IMtoTiBW it trao chipped in to ua at Darlipston and vo ovon with it beoauoo it rao bright and chiny, 'out now I would know ^at to do with it If I had the 6SB3 oppoi-tunlty