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The Rosebud Indian Celebration. 



Albert B. Reagan. 



The Rosebud Indians, like all othei' Indians, love to feast and make 

 a great display. Feast days are their great days. At the present time 

 but one feast is allowed them each year, that of the 4th of .Tuly. This 

 year (1904) the Rosebud Sioux celebrated at two different places, at Cut 

 Meat and at Butte Creek. The author attended the celebration at the 

 latter place. Below are his observations: 



Medicine Lodge and War Bonnets. 



The morning of the 3d of July the Butte Creek Indians went into 

 camp on the previously prepared celebration ground. This was a circular 

 flat a mile in diameter with an artificial grove and circular arbor in its 

 center. No building of any kind was on it. Nothing only a trader's 



