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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1926
Page
9
In Miami Oklahoma on September 17 Seneca and Cayuga Indians of Ottawa county relived the two centuries old glories in a picturesque festival showcasing heritage and culture with renewed vigor and community participation.
A large gathering near Bassett's Grove on the Cowskin River marked the annual green corn festival. Chiefs from Seneca and Cayuga nations led ceremonies dating to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with guest tribes including Quapaw, Modoc, Otawa, Cherokee and Shawnee. Alfred Whitecrow became new chief of the Bear and continued tribal rituals as three-day games of peach seed dice extended festivities. Chief John Crow officiated naming of babies, invoking the Great Spirit and blessing young lives.
The circus spends $12,000 every year on elephant care including washing, sandal scrubbing, and olive oil rubbing to keep the animals clean and well groomed.
A letter to The Globe reveals a young Oklahoma City woman, formerly a stenographer in Amarillo, longs to return to the Panhandle. She writes of loneliness and a possible wedding soon, noting her father never intended for her to be a typist. A railroad man in a nearby city forwarded the letter.
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