Bacone College - Warrior Yearbook (Muskogee, OK)

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East winds were associated with beginning, fertility, spring and a new day. West was linked to death, darkness and departure. Bacone College is a collection of people who have come from the four winds. W, ,,. 'Jw- M961 hi! ABOVE - Mary Webster ladles out beans to a campus visitor at an Indian Club fund-raiser. LEFT - Rudolph Dedmon casts his vote in a student body election as Senate president Charlene Maxim watches. I

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p sfti Q E s s t MIKEIWASHIN Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds, - Black Elk Oglala Sioux Medicine man For 102 years, Bacone College has been associated with native American people. To the Indian people, the four winds or directions were associated with certain powers or attributes. The north symbolized a place of emptiness, bad weather and absence of life. The south symbolized the opposite: abundant life and good weather. 2 From the Four Winds stroll to the dining hall. in mal 4+ QW S! Q ,Q f CANDLELIGHT, Spaghetti, make for ea pleasant evening meal for Regina Burgess and Judy Seber.

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