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

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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.

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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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42 THE JUNIOR LIFE As these people move about a great deal and transport everything on horseback, they necessarily become very skilled horsemen. Some of them are Boh Stcrchie, Harvey Chapman, Boh Wiik, Glenn GrifTen, Jonas Johnson, Thomas Vlassis. But here comes the Sachem, Robert Grono, with his Medicine Men, Harry Goodyear, Robert Gerber, Robert Helgerud, Howard Gross-man, George Pearson, and Glen Peterson, who can tell us some more. We would enjoy seeing both the Snake Dance and the Corn Dance performed by Howard Barr, Lawrence Bohlig, Glenn Settem, George Nelson, Lucille Aagaard, Betty Gislason, Marcia Rchl, and Helen Grapes. Some of the papooses who are beating time and making quite a noise are Mildred Martinson, Robert Nyvold, Gloria Reeves, Lorenzo Coleman, William MacGregor, Constance Vogel, Dorothy Schultz, Edward Wilde. The sachem asks a quartette of women to sing for us. They are Alice Swanson, Agnetta Erickson, Melissa Lindsay, and Rosemary Werling. We learn from the chief that the following are deserving of recognition for being so capable along some lines. Hunters John Fribcrj; Blaine Lindskog Robert McCormick Raymond Borne Donald Good Basketry Mary Huth Katherine Johnson Theonc Tcory Evelyn Olson Rosemary Doyle Textile Weaving Betty Holtby Linnea Frcdccn Dorothy Bcauprc Doris McDonald Eleanor Casey Silvi r Work Lillian Hostad Carmen Overson Jack Ryan Donald Smith Horse-Racing Thomas Chapman Maurice Tcijiuc Kenneth Zimmciman Robert May But what is this large tribe over here? Big Chief of the Sum-Ate-Bay-Scts (SB), Maxfield Peterson, tells us that they are from the eastern seaboard. Here they are able to carry on agriculture, hunting and fishing. Standing against the tepees are seen several snowshoes, spears, birchbark canoes, toboggans, and long bows, all typical of this particular group. The medicine men accompanying the chief are Jay Porter, Clifford Mercicr, John Williams, and Christ Anderson. Among the leading warriors we find Robert Schonebaum, Clifford Johnson, Cleon Taylor, and Robert Bennett, while the hunters for wild game are Paul Mahoney, Charles Nisscn, and Stewart Ellis. Not all tribes have use for snowshoes but the Sum-Ate-Bay-Sets as well as the O-Nine-Be-Gas have developed them to a high state of perfection. Among the cleverest are Vernon Lundbcrg, Robert Swanson, Howard Donald, and Edwin Keith. Here, too, the birchbark canoe has served as a model for canoes so widely used by the white man today. In making one and manipulating