THE life of the Minnesota forest and prairie a century 

 ago when the Indian was lord and master was repro- 

 duced in the vivid forms of simulated savagery last 

 month when 5,000 Chippewa Indians celebrated the forty-fifth 

 anniversary of the settlement on the White Earth reserva- 

 tion. Jointly with that purpose of the occasion, was the 

 fortieth anniversary of the institution of permanent peace 

 between the Chippewa and Sioux nations, the latter being 

 represented at the festivities by 70 of their number from the 

 federal reservations at Devils Lake, N. D., and Sisseton, S. D. 



Old Customs Resurrected. 



Indian customs, long since abandoned in the march of civil- 

 ization, were resurrected by the reds to give vent to their 

 tribal sentiments and the proud remnants of a moribund race 

 once more flourished the tomahawk, indulged in the barbar- 

 ous war dance, and filled the air with the weird cries and 

 shrieks that once were the terror of the early white settlers. 



Forty-five years ago Uncle Sam laid aside several sections 

 in the White Earth district for the use and possession of 

 the Chippewas. Part of it was virgin forests and part of it 

 was prairie. Naturally of an improvident disposition, the 

 reds have sold their interests in the wooded land so far as 

 they could and now possess only the prairie land. It is new 

 and equal to the best in the state from the standpoint of 

 fertility, but the Indians prefer to wait for their allowances 

 rather than till the soil and so many whites have been at- 

 tracted to the country for agricultural pursuits. 



The Indians, however, never fail to commemorate the set- 

 tling in the region and that of June 14 to 16 was the forty- 

 fifth affair since the settlement. 



But like their belligerent forefathers, the reds had their 

 domestic differences in celebrating their holiday. The pure 



