Thursday, August 17, 1905.
THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
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INDIAN CUNNING.
The Blackfeet Indians' Story of the
Great White Horse.
All Indians who use horses are
very fond of horse racing; and not
only race their own horses against
one another, but they race their own
against those of other tribes and
used to do this even in the wild era
of the buffalo and of constant war
fare. Even at that time friendly
tribes and bands joined in the two
grand buffalo hunts of each year,
and, after the hunting was over, pit
ted the fastest horses of the various
bands one against the other. At one
time, not so very long ago, the
Blackfeet had the very fastest horse
that any one knew of; the fastest
horse of which any one could tell, or
which any one had seen. He was a
source of wealth to the tribe, for
Indians are very fond of betting, and
this animal always won everything
that was bet against him. You can
imagine how proud the Blackfeet
were of this creature. You can also
imagine how envious were the
Stoneys, the Crows, the Sioux, the
Crees, and all the other Indians of
the plains.
Stealing is considered fair between
tribes, and if it can be successfully
done those savage people think it
very honorable, even glorious. The
Blackfeet, therefore, kect the won
derful race horse in a tent at night.
They did not dare leave him out with
their other horses. They bought a
string of bells at the Hudson Bay
Company's nearest fort, put the bells
around the horse's neck, tied him to
a tepee pole inside a big tepee, and
set four men to sleep in the tent with
him. This was the rule every night,
and on no night did the men forget
to close the door of the tepee and
"cinch" it tight with thongs of buck
skin. Whoever could steal that big
white beauty of a horse had to be a
very clever thief, they thought; but,
in truth, they never dreamed that he
could be stolen.
The smartest thief among the Crow
Indians told his chief and the head
men that he was going to try to get
that horse away from the Blackfeet.
One evening he crawled through the
grass to the tall bluff along the Bow
River (north of our Idaho. I think,
was the locality), where the Black
feet had their camp. He saw the
noble horse led into a certain tent,
and he saw the four watchers go in
and close the door. Night fell, and
he crept down the slanting bluff into
the camp. The only thing he had to
fear was the barking of some dog.
If a dog saw or heard him and bark
ed, that would set all the other dogs
barking and he would be obliged to
run for his life. Stealthily, as only
an Indian can move on his softlv
moccasined feet, this arch-thief of
the thieving Crow nation crept into
the Blackfeet camp. He had to step
over several sleeping dogs, and he
did not awaken one. He came to the
tent of the white horse. He looked
it all over. He went to another tepee
and took a travois from its side and
carried it and set it up against the
horse's tent.
A travois i s the wheelless wagon
the Indians use in the summer. It
is made of two long poles with the
upper ends near together; the lower
ends spread apart and drag upon the
ground. You see by this description
that if a travois is stood on end, it
can be made to serve as a sort of
ladder. Thus the arch-thief of the
Crows used the one he put up against
the horse tent. On it he climbed
to the top of the tepee, and from
there he got a view of the interior,
looking down between the tent-poles
that form the sides of the chimney
hole, lie saw the horse dimly, and
even more dimly he saw the four men
beside the horse, all asleep. He
climbed upon the tent-poles; he
poised his body very nicely in the
chimney-opening; he dropped fairly
and squarely upon the white horse's
back!
The instant he felt himself on the
back of the beast, his knife, which
was in his hands, swept through the
cord ... that tethered the horse. His
heels shot in against the horse's
sides, the bells rangs out sharp and
clear, and the horse snorted with sur
prise. But the pressure of the, thief's
heels urged the animal forward, and
as he took one step the man reached
out and slit a gash straight up and
down through the fastened door,
which was only buckskin. The four
Indians leaped to their feet, but the
horse and his captor were now out
in the open groud and like the wind
shot away from the camp. The
watchers ran and yelled, the dogs
barked, the whole tribe rushed out of
the tents, and every man sprang to
horse! But what was the use? There
was no horse that could catch the
animal, and so they all turned sadly
home again after a mad ride of a
mile or two. The thief rode in
triumph home to the tents of the
Crows, and from that day his tribe
owned the great white horse, and his
fame and their riches increased.
From Julian Ralph's "Stories Told
by Indians" in August St. Nicholas.
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