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Earth!" and straightway the solid land was there.— (From Ximenes.)
CLEAN FATHERHOOD
"This is the sum of everything that is noble and honorable — Clean Fatherhood," the words of Chief Capilano of the Squamish. (Pauline Johnson's "Legends of Vancouver," 191 2, p 10.)
OMAHA PROVERBS
"Stolen food never satisfies hunger."
"A poor man is a hard rider."
"All persons dislike a borrower."
"No one mourns the thriftless."
"The path of the lazy leads to disgrace."
"A man must make his own arrows."
"A handsome face does not make a good husband."
(Fletcher — La Flesche, Eth. Ann. 27 p. 604)
THE MEDICINE MAN AND HIS WAYS
During the later Indian days the army surgeons came into close contact and rivalry with the Indian, and to the amazement of all whites, it frequently happened that the Indian doctor undertook and cured cases which the white doctors had pronounced hopeless. These were of all kinds, broken limbs, rheumatism, consumption, and obscure maladies (see "Medicine Man" in Clark's "Indian Sign Language").
This led to an investigation and a report on the ways of the medicine man. These were shown to be their chief peculiar methods:
1st: They took the patient home, giving him camp life with the daily sun-bath, and with pure air night and day.
