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(urn the diamond aide of tlie'mink or diamonds, but the worn-pc-lals under. knows lluy're there." TO DONATE EYES DUNCAN, Okla. W)-At the Rapid City, S. 0.. Daily Journal 5 Sunday, January IS.

1951 "It the same theory as the1 I Stephens County Fair, 153 persons mink-lined rainccat." says Sih-i Hirst Jacobs ai.d F. A. Bonsai isianed cards aareeina to donate security tax we didn't have much Change! com Bov Tie And Tails To Moccasins And Feathers Not Hard would dangle good. Then we would ride past at a full gallop, shooting as many arrows into it as we could as we rode past. I had a pet coyote and a pet skunk but I'm afraid no one but I ever became very fond of them." Schooling Billie got hit elementary school lumberger.

"Diamond lined, both trained three stakes winners their eyes after death to the Okla. lKff Billie was elected president of i Jwolrv- The public can't see Ihe'during Maryland racing In 1957. noma eye bank. the Brotherhood of Christian ing at Day School No. 21, which was about four miles northwest Br EMILY H.

LEWIS ALLEN William Fire Thunder, of where Allen now stands. Years ago this was a village much older than Allen and known as Corn Creek Community. It was to this three quarter! blood Sioux Indian born on the Pino Ridge Indian Reservation In south western South Dakota, it veteran of 14 trip to Washington, D. C. on businest for the Oglalla Sioux community that in 188fl the body of Crtzy Horse, borne on a travois made of blankets fastened across Unity at their annual convocation held last summer.

"Bishop Gesner is taking orders from me now," Billie jokes. Billie's grandfather William Weasel Bear was a chief under Crazy Horse. His grandfather Fire Thunder a sub-chief and relative of Red Cloud, signing two treaties with the United States government, putting his name under the name of the only man in the world to wage war with the United States Government and come out the victor. May we not expect that perhaps some day the grandson of these chief may give the chief business a face lifting and a new look? tribe, See Our two pole and drawn by a horne was brought after his death at the hands of the soldiers at old "I can wear tail and a bow tie," layi Billie, "and eat a aeven course banquet with senators and representatives and use all the proper tools, then come back Fort Robinson. ci The boy, Billie, had been at Haskell Institute a year when Mary Weasel Bear went to join her ancestors in a land where here to the reservation and put on moccasins and feathers and eat wojapt with as much gusto BIG REXALL the buffalo were plentiful and white men were conspicuous by as any of the Indians.

Handsome In appearance Billy Fire Thun der Is a handsome man, of medium build, height and weight, balding little (his white heritage), very dignified upon dignified occasions but in private life jolly and human Billie Fire their absence. He graduated from Haskell, did post-graduate work at the University of Kansas, taking courses in sociology. Biblical literature and pre-law, then took a night school course at the La Salle School of Lew In Chicago. Then came World War 1. Billie Men Seldom Buy Jewelry For Women By DOROTHY ROE AP Women's Editor Pntnnnfl ffMinn In thi rnn.

"FIGHT COUGHS Thunder who holds his age well and enjoys his Jokes, whether rr they be on himself or on some one else. was drafted and sent to Camp AND (OLI trary, men seldom buy Jewelry fnr wnmpn cava Jcnn Srhlnmhpr- William Fire Thunder was born the year after his maternal grand father, William Weasel Bear, died Funston with the 88th Division. Later he was sent to Demlng, New Mexico, and was on the border during Pancho Villa's raids. Mustered out in 1919 he taught parochial school on the Crow In of wounds received at The Battle ger, who designs some of the world's most expensive Jewelry. "A smart man wouldn't dare nlrk nut nWwA nf 1fuilrv fnr of the Little Big Horn.

His grand mother, Mary Weasel Bear, asked permission of his parents to dian Reservation in Montana for awhile, then worked for the IHC in Billings. He spent much time keep the child and bring him up Ad In Today's Colored Comic either his wife or his girl friend," says Schlumberger, a Frenchman who has designed everything from tiaras to wedding rings for the most glittering members of the in the best traditions of the Sioux interpreting and testifying be as befitted the grandson of two international set. fore committees to help his fellow Indian get their rights as veterans. He was one of the first "About 85 per cent of my customers are women who rnmo in Section Indian veterans to be granted chiefs. "Being trained to follow In the footsteps of my ancestors was rather rigorous pro cedure.

but I wouldn't have missed a minute of It" states Billie proudly. "We lived Just across the canyon from my alone to order specially designed citizenship, the same being granted to him at Hardin, Montana, in jeweiry. ine omer la per cent also are women, who bring their husband along. Billy Fire Thunder 1921. After his return to the Pine You'll Find Many Money Ridge Reservation in South Da the festivities at a place on White I ve been designing Jewelry since 1937.

and I pan rmomhor kota, he served as assistant boss- Clay Creek, about three miles other two grandmothers. Tall Grandmamma Fire Thunder and Short Grandmamma Fire Thunder. My two grandmoth only two men customers who came CMiiinn farmer at Kyle and at Allen, for south of Pine Ridge. They were just sitting down to dinner when aione to oraer jeweled pieces made up. One was a man who Wanted me tn Hps! on a Inwolul a messenger en a lathered horse several years as his father had before him.

In 1933 he was married to Stella Pulliam, of Kyle, and they have lived in the vicinity of Al galloped up. rat for his wife. The other wanted He tied his horse on a long picket rope and came running up ers Fire Thunder sometimes disagreed with my grandmother Weasel Bear on the proper upbringing of a potential chief of the Sioux Nation." Billie laughed softly. "Grand a jeweled cat, also for his wire. The rat was rather nice, as it turned out.

I designed in gray sapphires." Schlumberger divides his time between his sal fin nnsl hie to where the guests were assembled. He harranged lengthily about the battle taking place (the len since their marriage, Stella has been head cook at the American Horse Day School at Allen for a number of years. of my class. I was down on my hands and knees playing I was a horse and jabbering away like a magpie in Sioux. "Suddenly a hush fell upon my little playmates.

I couldn't see the cause. Cautiously I looked around. "Standing right beside me was an enormous pair of store bought-en shoes with the trousered legs of the teacher pillaring above them. "I too, was stricken dumb. "The teacher spoke kindly to me in English.

I said, "He said something else to me and I again said, "A third time he spoke to me and a third time I bowed my head and said the English word, The teacher patted me on the mamma Weasel Bear taught me to rise early. Winter or summer. Honored While taking a summer course guns could be heard), and advised everybody to get to Pine Ridge as quickly as possible so as not to be mistaken for hostiles. I must unwind myself from my war blankets and come outside in law in New Mexico he wrote a theme paper on how his grand the teepee door to greet the sun mother made dyes. Eight years as it rose from behind the eastern later, to his great surprise, he re hills.

She taught me to stand office and laboratory in New York, where he dreams up half-mlllion-dollar baubles. Schlumberger is known for his originality of design, and bis spectacular combinations of colored stones with diamonds and gold in three-dimensional and mobile designs. He believes also, at times, in understatement, and at such times he makes something like a ceived a citation from the school "He finished with the usual 'Kloak' (It has been said) and rushing back to his horse he leaped onto it and dug la his heels. The horse kicked gravel getting flying start but when iher came to the end with my arms raised above my head, palms turned to the sun and say these words: 'Grandfather, have pity on us, of Popular Botany at Barcelona, Spain, the only one of its kind in the world. He also holds a citation and a medal from Congress, an honorary membership from my father, my mother, my sisters, my brother and my grandmother MILLS DRUG STORES SOUTHSIDE DOWNTOWN WESTSIDE BAKEN PARK of the picket rope horse and rider turned head ever heels on the hard ground.

head and walked away. My classmates were openmouthed with If we had company I must enum j-carai goia cigarette case chastely covered in nlnln hisnb "Now everything was confusion awe and admiration. After only erate them, too) 'that we may the American International Academy of the United States, for humanitarian accomplishments. This is the second citation of its kind ever awarded anyone by Con among the wedding guests. Sol two days of school I had con live a long leather, or a diamond daisy with movable petals, so that when she Is feeling modest a woman may versed fluently with the teacher "It was frustrating in other diers had made mistakes before and killed friendly Indians.

Men and women rushed for the horses, ways, too," Billy continues. "As gress. soon as I was big enough to shoot game with my bow and arrows Fire Thunder was vice-president stampeding some in their haste, of the National Congress of Amer (about five or six years old) I The first wagon to get the proper number of horses attached to it ican Indians from 1944 to 1948, must bring it to my grandmother. president of the Sioux Tribal found itself loaded with 13 grown She would then prepare a feast Council two two-year terms, com people beside some children. in my honor and I must sit and watch the guests devour my mander two terms of the Ameri "Everybody lashed his horses in English! Every boy had a herd of liorses" that he played with," Billie continues.

These hortes were the coffin bones taken from the feet of dead horses. We ran races with them, went to war with them, stole them, corraled them and tended them as carefully as our fa- then fend older brothers tended their real horses, the idea being that if we took care of our bone horses we would take good care of our real horses when we got them. can Legion Post at Pine Ridge madly toward Pine Ridge. 1 That game, singing my praises all the time, while I ate potatoes and South Dakota. In 1935 he was in evening after the excitement had vited to dedicate the Museum of somewhat died down my father cereal or whatever I could get.

Natural History at Columbus, discovered he had left his gun back on white Clay Creek Ohio. He has written several articles on minority groups, some This was supposed to teach me nobility of character and self sacrifice. It also caused me to learn to cook meat over a camp- Mounting his horse he soberly of which have appeared in maga jogged back to the deserted feast There he found a tiny boy, An a drew Makes Good, crying his "We played games with our heart out because he could not ft. bows and arrows, too. One game, find his mother." called The Run of the Arrow, we liked especially.

In that game -v r-- ii i Vii, I 1 One Word zines of national circulation. Last summer while en a promotional tour through eight southeastern states for Universal Pictures for the film. "Run Of The Arrow." Billie. with Frank Fools Crow, Daniel Dull Knife and Norma Shields, visited with Elvis Presley at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. It Is hard to believe, after one of us would shoot Into the ground a few yards away.

Then listening to Billie's fluent English fire at an early age." Wounded Knee "I remember," says Billie, "my father, my mother, and my grandmother telling me many times about the Battle of Wounded Knee. "It couldn't have been long after the Agency was moved from old Fort Robinson to Pine Ridge, then called Red Cloud Agency. Most of the followers of Red Cloud or The Loafers' as those who still followed the teachings of Crazy Horse called them, were we would wait until we thought and almost perfect diction, that when he started to school at the the 'enemy' had time to run to tvril tm i i the arrow, then we would all age of six he knew only one word of English. Says Billie, "In all we traveled give the warwhoop and charge after the imaginary enemy, shooting him full of holes, of course. "My grandmother knew only i v.

i i 1 Hi I i .4 ii Jim. I 1 about 5,000 air miles in the two weeks we were gone. They (Uni one word of English. She taught me over and over, Yes, means Huhn! Yes, means When we got old enough to versal Pictures) paid us a nun dred dollars a week and all ex living at or near the Agency, One day shortly after school have horses we played Shoot the Moccasin from on horseback. In this game we tied a moccasin to the branch of a tree so that it penses paid, but after they took end everybody was gathered fo.

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