Sacred Spring Festival Tree and Gift Giving Among Indians
Early American pioneers witnessed Indian children entering to see a sacred cedar tree called Grandmother where gifts such as moccasins pelts and shawls were hung. The practice marked a spring festival tied to prestige and communal sharing, and the tribe protested by drifting Grandmother on the Missouri River. The white Christmas fascinated tribes who called it The Big Eating and French traders named it Kissing Day.
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America
North Dakota
Big Medicine Lodge
Missouri
Dear Santa Letters From Comanche Children
A collection of handwritten wishes from Comanche Texas residents to Santa. Each message requests toys such as a basketball, sleeping bag, three wheeler, bow and arrow, blue truck, football, and more, with notes of being good throughout the year. The letters cite names like Armando Salazar Patricia Smith Samia Biggs Joe Hector Lombrano Leslie Wommack Susan Thompson Charles Hill Ralph Leos and a general appeal to Santa.
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Santa
Patricia Lynn Smith
Comanche
Samia
Scou Biggs
Allen Hornell
Sama
Hector Lombrano
Charles Hill
Leslie Kay Wommack
Ralph Leos
Message to Lana From Roger Howerd Creek
A note from Roger Howerd Creek expresses a wish for a record player the Six Million Dollar Man and the new Biconic Repair Station addressed to Lana.
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Lana
Roger Howerd Creek
Comanche
Be Good This Year Wish List From Comanche Voices
Melinda Kaye Marshall of Comanche sends a holiday message hoping for records and a record player. Lon Wilson signs a playful note wishing for a watch and a six million dollar karate man addition.
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Santa
Melinda Kaye Marshall
Comanche
Watedo
Lon Wilson
Dear Samia Yearend Wish for Army Set
A reader writes to Samia expressing a holiday wish for an Army Set and signing as Jesse Escobar Love Sania Coman che. The message reads warmly as a personal note.
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Samia
Jesse Escobar
Sania
Comanche
Christmas Bird Feeder Decorating Ideas
Holiday ideas to help birds during winter include cranberries and popcorn treats and decorating a small tree for color and food. Suggestions cover holiday doughnuts with holly, popcorn strings on heavy thread, cranberry circles, and orange half decorations with pipe cleaner loops.
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Texas
Karrirate
ArmAndo Salazar
Susan Thompson
Comanche Funeral Home
Harold Adcock
Mgr
West Grand
Dillin Children’s
Nursing Home, Inc
Buddie
American Plant Food Corp
el Hee
Comanche, Texas
Messiah
Clemons
Fred Brown
Larry Brown
Tom Brown
Mancel
Richard Crane
Don DeBusk
Ira & Mae
Johnnie Ellis
Kent
Ronnie
Arthur Gutierrez
J. R. Gryder
Merlin Harrington
Jr. Marett
Mike Marett
Jackie Richards
David Robinson
Loretta Smart
Jay Wall
Steve
Bill & Mary
Goodson Insurance
Herbert Goodson and
David Goodson
West Central
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