EAGUE REPORT Trading Post, Where Indians Are Employed Each Summer to Enter- Reginald and Gladys Laubin, Well T Tain the Tourists
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CONN., R hoped to find One Bull somewhere within these bounds. We thought RECENT VISI first to try to find them in Rapid LAUBINS DESCRIBE City, where they had originally Ef EGATE OF N goneg ti attend a conference, so we headed for that place, On ar- rivin in Rapid City our best bet WITH INDIAN FRIENDS IN DAKOTAS seemed to be to go to Duhamel's EAGUE REPORT Trading Post, where Indians are employed each summer to enter- Reginald and Gladys Laubin, well T tain the tourists. But at Duha s delegate of the 1^T9rwich er known local interpreters of Amer """''""'"'"``'"' "` ''''''''""' mel's we learned that the two Sit- achers league to the cohyention, w i^an• Indian I ' n dancing, i n g. haveav returnedn ti gBu Bull 1 boysb Y (OneO Bull, 87 i s s Mary arE. SShields h has as s u bxn i-t or to the he l n d of the Eastern O Oceane n Y e ar s old andan WhiteW i to Bu 11 92)) hahad tot theh leaguee gu e ana interesting® e tina g a^- 1 after a most interesting visit with left "yesterday," which might unt of the annual convention : of to Chief One Bull, Mr, Laubin's In- >; :;• '''''' `''`'`}s:^^<•^:• mean anything in Indian parlance. e National Educational asocia- to dian "father," and other Indian 1:< 3` ' :. '< We inquired of a number of In- n which was held at Detroit, hi friends in the Standing Rock res- t r dians as to their whereabouts but ich., June 28 to July 3, q^ ervation in North and South Da- without success. Finally a half- Her report in part follows • tY. kota. At the presentp Mr. and Mrs, ^ •h'^• breed came over to us and said he Detroit will alwayes mean to me cl Laubin are .living in their tepee at could show us how to reach the e convention the National p Gardner .:Lake. ;,; camp of some Standing Rock In- Si dians. He was not sure our eo- ucational association. It was the Desoribes Trip y plc were there but thought theyp I rgestth annual attendance convention of any and had the p< The Norwich couple submit the a might be, since the in following account of their recent nvention held in Los Angeles In cl t So we all piled into our little 31. There were over 12,000 pros- at ^< old car and started off. We went t. yc When one goes to visit an Indian several blocks the town , Further strengthening of ^rofes- ea friend on a Sioux reservation, it is <; .,e .., downover o' the railroadra road tracks, s nal organizations was given em- de not gl toyssuch c a simplep matterr as th rough some terrible dirt roads so going to see a friend in the city "?'e'' ; ; ,< asis by all the speakers , natioal,n l ''" ::: <<;::::•a:,,: to a little glade beside Elk creek s te, and local representatives. in There , are no telephonesP to let one vx: and there we found a camp. rville C. Pratt, president of the of el 00e mile visit and you < :€a i: There, sure enough, was a to see some ;1;; :. "'; <: i;. group E, A., in his opening sddress may travel ier only o find ..:..;,. ;:;>r.. of Indians from Little Eagle and inted to the small percentage of old-tinier r only r find that he is ? ,, .>z x„r: hardly did I open my mouth to chers enrolled' in their national of his ow farther on making a visit •,4 ^. ;' sp pea when One Bull came out of ofessional organization as aone of nE of his own. ^, :.,, ..:.... one of the tents. He had recog- th This has been our experience on ^`^``> : ri:<" °`°^:::; a weaknesses of the unified effort p '«> i ;;;< liized mmy voice and was so glad the N. E. A., to advance teachar bu a number of occasions. After tray- • ^"#<.':.^E>;;;; ; to see me that I thought he would elfare, and to improve the public cling 2,000 miles to Little I,agle, ;. '>: 55. : > z;, ;: shake my arm off. He said, "My u pport of education. be South Dakota, there to visit Chief ;.:, °" son, it makes my heart sing to see He announced that the or aniza- tir One. Bull,' my Indian "father," we ;,:.:;:^ :`'' You. I knew you would come." ^ arrived on a Saturday evening to ^ < •' ; •; • ^ :a;;.v ion is takingg stepsp to provide ex- an be •greeted with the news that he •^:>;': ; :. Set Up Tepee ert' service in the fields of tenure, dit snd his family had left for the " We cut poles in the hills and set alaries, and retirement." He said 7 BlackHills g that samen morning :: up our tepee camping t hat class room teachers now far pr, Learning from p the Indian agent i 4: Bull, his. and brntthheh One utnumber other educators in the de that he was expected to return in two old menwexmen were•e born in thee. hills, The embership group, and that steps about a week, we decided to wait }<?'` in Spearfish canyon, and they were us^t be taken . to extend and do 3 < 4} .4:.: .z, at home once day trengthen this and' other types of Sep tar 81 milesx fatherson.orth Dako- ^' busy each daymore recording ing old time c embersh i p, so that theca may be W+ There we stayed with our friend, It customs and recounting exploits of one dominant; powerful, ands wll th( Frank Zahn, the upper Missouri ;a..; : •>? earlier days. It was a thrilling ex- nclusive educational organization Interpreter, whose father was the perience to hear these stories in rhich on occasion could, speak ;au- sea 9 first white man to build a log cab- }' ' our tepee from the lips of the two horitatively for education as ' a" sea in west of the Missouri river. After most famous Sioux Indians still whole." Un taking part in several dances and Mrs. Laubin with her new boy living. On one such occasion One • Problems of Teaching . str Interviewing a number of old-tix91- friend "Makes Trouble" a veteran Bull explained to me that accord-. Secretary Willard E. Givens de- an, ers we received -word one day that of Custer battle. ing to old custom he would no long- fined the problems and possibilities On+e, Bull and his family had Ye- •er bear the name of One Bull, for of the teaching profession at the c i turned• to Little Eagle.' `This` word like It should be and pat'ttaliy re laa i'ven..th^ a ti rrl,. pening morning session of the ne, came from two men, Little Bear v3ved our enthusiasm.when he had , adoHe iEtalked a::,.a fa L+reb 6ntatit^`e de4a^Db1Y' w'^}+gk F:' 8 no and Has Horns, who live in Little good English and gave us accurate surnxners' before. '. This was the aid: Adequate salaries,. for to c r tei Eagle., and whom we met on the directions as to how to proceed to highest. honor he'' could bestow. err axe a wide investment '' In _tht ou street of Ft. Yates, When asked if Cecilia's house. But anyone who The old custom demanded that .future of America, and mental and ac' One Bull had come borne yet, they thinks this portion of South Da- after a man had given away his social security are essential if the replied, Yes, One Bull and White kota to be flat and uninteresting name he choose a new one, but this teacher is to do high class work. A Bull carne back yesterday." There country should visit it. Treeless it is no longer carried out because of good tenure law protects the child- kx was,lto reason to doubt their word, is to a great extent, but full of low the confusion it causes on the ren against incompetent teachers to so . we packed everything, laid in rising hills. We had been within agency records. y prescribing a legal and pr es- of provisions, and were soon on our a mile of Cecilia's place and there - One Bull is a religious leader ional procedure for the , eliminatiop p; way to see the old folks. • is a church -with quite a steeple. among his people as well as a fa- f unfit teachers. In the matter of ti Seek One Bull's People across from it but we had no view mous warrior and chief and his rofessional strength, teachers are ti Imagine our disappointment on °f it from any position on the road brother White Bull is one of the otentially the strongest profession- c arriving in Little Eagle again not until almost upon it. most famous warriors the Sioux group in the United States. In a to be able to find a sign of the The rest of that little trip was ever produced. The two brothers umber they lead all professional v old chief nor of anyone who had uneventful. We soon found our are nephews of Sitting Bull and the sups. There are one milion of seen him or any member of his friend and she was most happy to closest living relatives of that em in immediate contact with I family. There are no hotels there, see us. But she told us that her great chief. One Bull put on the arty million young people, and and knowing no one but One Bull's father was still in the Black Hills Sun Dance last year, the first time ough these young people in c people in this district, it.looked like and would be there all summer.