Ferndale Union High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Ferndale, CA)

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Legend of a Waterfall Above the cabin ol' the old trapper with whom I spent each summer there was a high cascade. its waters sung and roared over the rocky face of the cliff as they rushed downward, below to form the limpid pools and foamy falls where we best loved to iish. One sunny day, when my grizzled old friend seemed in a reminiscent mood, I asked him if he knew the meaning of the waterfalls Indian name. He replied, That's a yarn. Would you like to hear it? Well, yes, I 'spose you would. An old medicine man told it to me 'bout thirty odd year ago, when he was huntin' up this way. Dunno as I kin tell it jest as he did, but this is what it all comes to. That waterfalls name, in Injun, means Crying Papoosef' Funny, aint it? Well, tcordin' to the legend, there was once a great chief who wouldn't stand no low-down business in his tribe. He caught five or six of his young bucks in a piece of dirty work CI forgit now jest what that medicine man said 'twas7, and cut them off from the rest of the tribe. That made 'em mad, and they vowed all kinds of revenge in their solemn Injun fashion, and then plotted 'gainst the chief's daughter, for the first thing. The old chief thought a good deal of her, I guess, and they knew it. So they watched from the woods, to see if she wouldn't come out to play or pick flowers, or somethin', and when they did see her comin' they was jest all ready for her. They waited till she wandered off far enough away from the wigwams to be out of hearin' and then caught her, stopped her screechin' by chok- in' her and dragged her off through the woods. Her father didn't miss her for quite a while, but when he did, there was a great time. All the old squaws prayed to the Great Spirit and the braves went huntin' everywhere for the missing papoose. After several days they found her, dead. Her body was hangin' by a rope right in that there waterfall, where she must've died, slow, screamin all the time, I 'spose with the water dashin' over her. They took it down and buried it with all the mournin' they do over anyone that dies in the tribe that they are fond of. They believe the fall is ha'ntedg that the noise the water makes when it runs over the rocks is the voice of the Indian baby as she cried when she was dying, so they named it 'Crying Papoosef'-Ethel Richardson 'll

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Indians are never emotional and neither the girl nor her mother uttered a word of thanks, but both adored him till the end of time for them. In a few short weeks there was a simp e we 1 ,, self in daisies and buttercups and to Gilbert she was more beautiful and sweet than any white girl. Even in later years when people flocked in in great numbers, and he was despised by men and dubbed the Usquaw ma Z4 f?x fat... . - ,M l dd'nU in the old cabin. The Indian girl decked her- n,', he at least remained faithful to his Indian wife to the end.-M. Ring '08.

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