Franciscan herald (1913 - 1940) . et something to eat. We smoke,chat, feel happy, go to bed, andsleep well. Next morning, I rise,eat again, start for home and saynothing Thats the way the In-dians do. But now see here. Icome to a white mans house. Theylook hard at me. They say, You FRANCISCAN HERALD 305 are an Indian. We can not keepyou. Or they ask. Have you anymoney? No money, no stay. way the white people do. So Iam afraid to be with them when Idie. Oh, Uibaiash, said I, youpaint the white people too am a white man, and I have al-ways been good to the a time I
Franciscan herald (1913 - 1940) . et something to eat. We smoke,chat, feel happy, go to bed, andsleep well. Next morning, I rise,eat again, start for home and saynothing Thats the way the In-dians do. But now see here. Icome to a white mans house. Theylook hard at me. They say, You FRANCISCAN HERALD 305 are an Indian. We can not keepyou. Or they ask. Have you anymoney? No money, no stay. way the white people do. So Iam afraid to be with them when Idie. Oh, Uibaiash, said I, youpaint the white people too am a white man, and I have al-ways been good to the a time I took them into myhouse, gave them food to eat, and than one. Can we blame them ifthey are suspicious and afraid of thepale-face? The Indians nature,owing to lack of training, differsgreatly from that of his whitebrother. The red man is naturallytimid and shy, used to his Indianblanket, and fond of the Indiandance and drum. He has beenreared in the smoky wigwam, fedon Indian rice, has listened to Indi-an stories. Can we judge him. Indian Log House With Sacrificial Pole clothes to wear, and other whitepeople have done the same. There-fore, do not be afraid of the whitepeople, do not hesitate to join thewhite mans religion. Dear reader, you may smile atthe queer notions of the poor , I say, do not judge him tooseverely. Indians have been abusedby the whites, they have beensnubbed and rubbed in more ways harshly if he does not at once adoptthe white mans way of thinking,and believing, if he is afraid to bewith the white man when he dies?Mr. Scott never had a strong con-stitution, and in the last ten yearsconsumption had taken, hold of his life was ebbing away atthe home of John Lynch, his broth-er-in-law. He had recourse to allkinds of Indian and patent medi- 306 FRANCISCAN HERALD cines, paid occasional visits to thephysician on the Reservation, butall in vain. Day by day his condi-tion grew worse. I redoubled mysolicitude for the sick man. OnSunday morning, a
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