Central High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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The Signal of Peace HROUGHOUT centuries the Red Man, the native American, dwelt in peace and quiet. Ple roamed the prairies in freedom, climbed the mountains in exaltation., and found happiness in the green valleys of contentment. Plis love for the land of his nativity was surpassed only by his love for his brethren, to whom he was bound by a strong and lasting friendship. These days of unmolested quiet and primitive majesty were not, however, to continue. Wvhen the tread of alien feet on the far reaching prairies brohe the vast living silence of an uncivilized world and the Paleface stepped from out the mists to penetrate the ancestral heritage of ancient tribes, the Indian regarded him as a god. ln his simple language, the fearless chieftain, tall and stately as a mountain pine, voiced to his visitor a cordial welcome to the land of the Redshinj and with spear upraised, in childlike faith he offered to his white breth- ren the signal of peace. 17

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