Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also impressed, and pleased, some rank-&-filers. One of them was Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux Indians. At Cheyenne, the Chief had made Dewey a member of the tribe, presenting him, in a speech in Sioux, with a red-dyed, turkey-feather headdress. Princess Blue Water had translated: "We're a-namin' him Brave Heart. We're for him for President and with what he's a-doin' he's got to be brave...
...Signed) "Head Chief Duck Chief, L. Many Bears, Paul Little Walker, Ben Calf Robe [Blackfoot tribe]; Chief Enos Hunter, Chief David Bearspaw, Jacob Twoyoungmen, Councilors Isaac Two-youngmen, John Powderface, Tom Kaquitts [Stoney tribe]; Councilors Judas Hunter, Jonas Rider; David Crowchild, Eddie One Spot, George Runner [Sarcee tribe...
...flat watercolors of tribal life and lore, like the prizewinning Dakota Duck Hunt by a Dakota Sioux named Oscar Howe. Jemez Indian José Rey Toledo entered a thoroughly detailed illustration of the sacred Zuñi Shalako dance, but Ma-Pe-Wi, a Zia Pueblo, forbidden by his tribe to paint ceremonials, contented himself with a cocktail-bar rendering of a buffalo hunt...
...appointed him Territorial Governor. Alaska took the appointment with steady nerves. The Juneau Chamber of Commerce had the Governor in to lunch. He attended a gathering of Indians at Wrangell's Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, responded politely when one Chief Shakes made him a member of the Tlingit Tribe and renamed him Kitchnahshch (meaning unknown to Governor Gruening). He shipped in dozens of watercolors by WPA artists to brighten the buff walls of the big, old-fashioned governor's mansion, picked a hot desert scene with violet clouds to hang beside his lace-canopied, four-poster...
Francis Cardinal Spellman, already an honorary Osage Indian Chief, made the grade with the Sioux, was inducted into the Oglala Tribe as Wambli Ohitika (Chief Brave Eagle...