Merry Christmas!

An Indian Christmas!

An Indian Christmas

(A legend of the camp by the spring)

On Christmas night the encampment was a noisy place. The fires were burning brightly in every tepee and shouts of laughter told of the good time that was being had by everyone as a part of the celebration that the old priest had taught them to have.

Outside the wind was blowing cold, with skiffs of snow. A strange boy wandered into the camp. He stopped at the tent of the Chief and asked that he be admitted and given food and allowed to get warm. The Chief drove him away. He went to the tent of Wolf Bow and tried to be admitted but Wolf Bow grunted and his boys drove him away with whips. He then went to many of the tents including those of Poor Elk and Black Feather but none would receive him, one even set a dog upon him. His feet were bare and tears were frozen on his cheeks.

He was about to leave the camp when he noticed a small tepee made of bearskin off by itself. He walked slowly to it and quietly peeped in. Inside he saw a deformed Indian who was known everywhere by the name of Broken Back. His wife sat near him preparing a scanty meal for them and their children. The children were playing on the ground but were watching their mother closely, for they were hungry. The fire was low and the boy started to turn away but broke a twig that lay on the ground.

Broken Back ran out and stopped him as he was about to turn away.

"What do you want?" he said. The boy commenced to cry.

"I am so cold and hungry," he said, I have been to all the tents and they will not let me in."

Then Broken Back took him by the hand and led him into the tent, they divided the food with him and built up the fire until he became warm and happy. They urged him to stay all night until the storm was over.

So he sat on the ground near the fire and talked and played with the children until it was time to go to sleep.  Then he stood up and they all noticed that he was tall and as they looked they saw that he was a man instead of a boy. His clothes were good and over his shoulder hung a beautiful blanket and over his head was a strange feathered bonnet.  As they looked, he reached out his hand and said:  "Broken Back you have been good to a poor, cold and hungry boy. You and all of yours shall have plenty." Broken Back stood up and he was deformed no more but was large and strong and well and his wife stood by his side. Both were dressed in the best of Indian clothes. The children jumped about with joy as they noticed that they were at once supplied with many things that they had always wanted. "Broken Back" he said you shall be chief of your tribe and all of your people shall love and respect and honor you. Your name shall be Broken Back no longer but shall be Standing Tall."

As they talked, all of the tribe came marching about his tent shouting in gladness, "Great is Standing Tall our Chief forever." As they shouted the man disappeared and they saw him no more.  The next day the good priest came to the camp, they told him what had happened and he said, "It was Jesus."

Have a Blessed Veterans Day!

You Don't Know Jack!

There seems to be some confusion on who Captain Jack is!

Before the Meeker Massacre and before the Battle of Milk Creek was

a Modoc Chief named Captain Jack by Judge Steele known as Kientopoos.

Some have used the likeness of Nicaagat, (Jack) of the White River Ute Tribe thinking it was

the same person as Captain Jack of the Modoc Tribe from Oregon and California.  This is not true and is an injustice to both of people being confused.  I have posted pictures below of Nicaagat from the Ute Tribe. 

“The Battle of Milk Creek began on September 29, 1879, in northern Colorado, and lasted several days as the United States Army and warriors of the White River Ute tribe engaged in what was to be one of the last true battles of the so-called Indian wars.”

“By September 25, Thornburgh having been given only the vaguest of orders and possessing an equally imprecise knowledge of the situation at the Agency, dispatched a message to Meeker informing him of the column's location and requesting Meeker meet him on the trail for a strategy session. On or about this same date cavalry outriders reported seeing mounted Ute warriors in the distance; the buffalo hunters under Nicaagat, or Captain Jack, a young part-Apache sub-chief at the agency who had been raised by Mormons and served as a scout under General Crook.”

“Ultimately, the army failed to prevent the Meeker Massacre and the Utes lost their horses and lush mountain reservation and in 1881 were removed to the Utah desert. The army and militiamen lost thirteen dead and forty-four wounded, most of them in the first twenty-four hours of the engagement. Eleven soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor and approximately thirty were decorated for heroic conduct in one of the most decorated battles of the Indian wars.^[10] Chief Jack estimated that nineteen warriors were killed and seven were unaccounted for^[11] though other sources say the Utes lost thirty-seven killed in both the Meeker incident and the battle”

Pictures Below are of Nicaagat or known as Jack some called him Captain Jack,

Sub Chief of the Ute Tribe.

Shayy Lee will be holding our Nation's Flag at the California State Capital. Thank you Dear Sister! Modoc Blood breaks all the barriers! One Nation,One Tribe, Modoc Nation!

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