Word: tribesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Little Wolf (né Tenario), a Navajo tribesman who started as a welterweight (145 lb.) and worked up to heavyweight, is the current red-skinned attraction. The Chief trains on raw meat, spends his spare time weaving blankets, fashioning bracelets and necklaces. Considered the Beau Brummell of the wrestling world, he sports huge sombreros, checked suits, fancy vests, embroidered boots. If his specialty, the Navajo war whoop, fails to prostrate his opponent, he employs the Indian Death Lock, a crushing leg hold...
...Alfred Stern, son-in-law of the late Julius Rosenwald. Last week the Rosenwald Fund helped out Sissle's pageant to the tune of $3,000. Sissle wrote the book for the show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy Moon," "Under a Bamboo Tree"), W. C. Handy. No member of the cast...
From West Virginia he headed into Oklahoma where he spoke at such places as Nash, Jet, Cherokee. Ponca City. At Pawhuska, Kaw Indians were joined by Osages and Pawnees in putting on war paint & feathers to welcome their fellow tribesman. Along the way were barbecues, stomp dances, W. C. T. U. receptions...
...them at night, gossiped with the herdsmen in English, kept an ear tuned for mutterings in the native tongue which he gave no indication of understanding. Having heard all he wanted, last week Federal Agent J. A. Street doffed his disguise, went to one Golney Seymour, 21-year-old tribesman, accused him of the murder. Retaining the traditional calm of his fathers, Apache Seymour confessed that he had started out with Miss Schmerler to the dance, said that when he had offered her affection she had started throwing rocks at him. Then he raped her, stabbed her, choked her, struck...
...camel race in the Sahara and thought it was great sport. Why not a Grand Prix of the Sahara? he asked his friends in Africa, and with their encouragement picked out a course, put up prizes: 2,500 francs to the winner and some gold jewelry (no tribesman is much interested in money by itself); second prize, 1,500 francs and silver jewelry; third prize 600 francs and a certificate. During his foreign tour, Mr. Harlan died, and since on his deathbed a man's mind is always full of the last thing he has been doing, he kept...