The Gopher Volume 16 ; annual publication of the student body of the University of Minnesota

by University of Minnesota. Students

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 ...to the moon of stags the young bucks danced the war dance, and the war paint was never washed from their faces. One time, as the Igh-Ogh-Aghs prepared for the battle and the bravest warriors danced before the fire while the old men told of their deeds of valor, the two chief medicine men, McCutcheon-the-Manager and Knipe-the-Coach, sat apart in their tepee making medicine that should destroy their hated rivals. They shook the sacred rattle and muttered prayers to the Great Spirit while they wrapped themselves in the skin of the great wolf, killed by a sacred arrow in the dark of the moon. As McCutcheon-the-Manager went to the door of the tepee to see what answer the Great Spirit gave, he beheld a wondrous sight. Not far away stood a young buck in all his war paint and feathers. He bore upon his breast the sacred eagle and carried in his hand the shell of the magic turtle. With sixteen strides he reached McCutcheon-the-Manager and, giving him the shell, "O brother of mighty imagination! here is the sign of your conquest. Let no one else behold it." And so speaking, he vanished. McCutcheon-the-Manager hastened to wrap up the token in the sacred wolf skin and then made known to the warriors what he had seen. Their hearts became glad when he told them that sixteen scalps should be theirs, and a great feast was prepared for the braves. Next morning the boasting warriors and the medicine men, with the sign of victory, departed for the conflict. When they came to the wigwam of the haughty SkighUgh-Maghs, the stalwart medicine man, Jones-Who-LikesAthletics, came to meet them and upbraided them with bitter "Squaws with the lying tongue, the brave warriors of the Skigh-Ugh-Maghs, at whose very name all the tribes tremble, will not fight wi...

68 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012