Bryant Junior High School - Junior Life Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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40 THE JUNIOR LIFE Our Bryant Tribes Heap Rig Chief, George Johnson, of the Nation, O-Ninc-Be Gas (7B), has arranged for a large pow-wow, summoning members of all the five great nations, U-Seven-Be-Das (7B), De-Sept-Aay-Nos (7A), Sum-Ate-Bay-Sets (8B), Mor-Hi-Octo-Saws (8A), and O-Nine-Be-Gas to meet to discuss their common problems and to reward those who have been outstanding in some accomplishment. They have gathered here about 1000 strong from all directions, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Mexico to Alaska. Each Nation has been assigned a plot of ground for its encampment and there we see them starting their camp-fires preparing a meal, sending the papooses on errands, beating the tom-toms, and having ceremonial dances. Many have brought specimens of their craftsmanship for display. There seems to be quite a little activity around the U-Scven-Be-Das. Let’s go over and see what they arc doing. They have come largely from the Western Plains where their principal occupations are agriculture and hunting. In the early days buffalo-hunting was very common. Now some of these braves will

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THE JUNIOR LIFE 39 A Day in Jazz Here Comes the Sun .................... I’m Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love School Days, School Days..... ... I Apologize............................ At Your Command ....................... Just One More Chance .. .............. The End of a Perfect Day............... Sweet and Hot..................... Lonesome and Blue ....... Happy Days Are Here Again . . Goodnight, Sweetheart ... ........ .... After You’re Gone ..................... .Arising Myself .The old grind Collision in the hall Dear teacher Fail, Fail, Fail Now for home Dinner Home all alone Ah, the doorbell Departure Sleep and dreams The 9A’s have discovered that it is not easy To begin over again To take good advice To acknowledge defeat To admit error To forget the past To be unselfish To be considerate To try, try again To forgive always To make the best of little To sec the silver lining To make the most of everything To follow the Golden Rule But they know that it always pays. My little sister, age 3, was combing Daddy’s hair. Standing behind him she presently said, “Why, Daddy, your neck is dirty. You just come back and see if it isn’t.” I was sitting on the porch with Sister Jean and a neighbor girl. Margaret asked Jean if she was ticklish and Jean said, “No, I’m Protestant.” Daddy asked Jean if she wanted to go to the Park and play horseshoe and Jean gravely said, “Arc you going to use mv new shoes, Daddy?”

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T II E J U N I O K LIFE il demonstrate the buffalo dance for us. It was performed to insure plenty of buffalo and to bring success to the hunters. Hie dancers we see are Kenneth Block, Robert Shouse, Gordon Porter, Herman Rating, Court land Cole, Edwin Winter, assisted by the squaws, Ruth Jensen, Loraine Olsen, Isabelle Nordquist, and Lucille Simpson. Beating the drums we see Robert Johnson, Alice Gunther, Tom Moore, Glen Salter, and Harold Beckman, while in the background are some squaws singing. They are Judith Ornes, Aletha Miller, Harriet Patterson, Adeline Arlandson, Dorothy Page, Gwendolyn Shank, and Margaret Moore. See those groups of children by the tepees. What can they be doing? Why, the boys arc spinning tops. They are Fred Stinson, Burton Shervin, Dean Kennedy, and Robert Schoening. The girls are playing with their dolls: Harriet Hummel, Marion Ball, Marie DeRoma, Cleo Hale, Mary Huggins. Others running around with little to do are Bernice Johnson, Theodore Vasatka, Vernon Hanson, Margaret Williams, Mildred Carlson, and Evelyn Wilde. Upon interviewing Big Chief, Richard Young, we hear many very interesting things about his people as follows: Medicine Men Charles Stamas Burton Frank David Strccd John Kohn John Bcrtclson Runners John Richardson Clifford Lundccn Charles Aslcsen Talmagc Carey Pony Tenders Harry Worth Quentin Hanson Arthur Lowry Lawrence Lund Double Ball (Game) Harriet Friend Mary Du Lac Ruth Grono Betty Stauffer Warriors Allen Autcn Grant Brown John Coffman Donald Martz Howard Day Benny Hclmcrson Courtland Cole Charles Eckcrstrom Leslie Johnson Robert Mallory Cooks Audrey Atherton Anne Matthews Elizabeth Mungcr Grace Johnson Snow-Snake (Game) Karl Randolph Kenneth Haug Harry Morgan Douglas Gibson Bead-Workers Margaret Madigan Helen Ojala Helen Floback Phyllis Campbell Jeanette Isaacson Hunters Lawrence Peterson Eugene Underwood Robert Lykkcn Donald Kjorlicn Arrow-Head Makers Gordon Porter Clyde Jodell Kenneth I.undecn Bill Mich Hoop-and-Pole (Game) ('lark Grover Leon Doskas Malcolm Mueller Edmund Johnson Next to the U-Seven-Be-Das are the De-Sept-Ay-Nos (7A) from the Southwestern deserts. These people are wanderers by nature depending upon wild plants and animals for their food. Fish were never eaten because of a taboo. Those outstanding for their success in raising sheep arc: Floyd Morrill, Leroy Weber, William Brown, Leonard Tuma, Donald Merrit, and Robert Enstad. Among the rabbit hunters arc Lawrence Bohlig, Albert Myers, Mitchell Aaronson, Erling Martinson, and Warren Pickard.