to manhood myself in this kind of a tepee, and I had
good health, and now when they give us a house to live in I am not healthy
at all. The reason we cannot have good health in a house is because the
Great Father gave us tepees to live in where we have plenty of air; we
feel smothered in a house. When I came out and sleep in a tepee I can
sleep a great deal better. I am getting old now, and am getting up in
years, and all I wish at the present time is for my children to grow up
industrious and work, because they cannot get honour in the war as I used
to get it. They can only get honour by working hard. I cannot teach my
children the way my father taught me, that the way to get honour was to go
to war, but I can teach my children that the way to get honour is to go to
work and be good men and women. I shall go home and tell the other
Indians and our agent about you."

And thus out of his gruff, austere, and soldier-like personality there
issued words of a plain, homely philosophy that marks the path of success
for all men. "The way to get honour is to go to work and be good men and
women."

[Chiefs Fording the Little Bighorn]

Chiefs Fording the Little Bighorn

[Chief Brave Bear]

Chief Brave Bear

Chief Brave Bear

Brave Bear, in the language of the Cheyennes, of whom he is head chief, is
Ni-go High-ez, Ni-go meaning bear, and High-ez, brave. This name he has
kept to the standard on many a hard-fought field, and in helping to
reconstruct his tribe in the ways of civilization. He is tactful and
courteous, and his smile resembles the sunlight breaking a path across a
darkened sheet of water; it is the most winsome that I have seen for years
on the face of any man.

Showing the Indian's long continued aversion to any speech regarding the
Custer battle, Brave Bear said: "I was in the battle of the Little Big
Horn. The Indians called the General 'Long Hair.' It is a fight that I do
not like to talk about."

Just here it may be well to carry in our minds the distinction between the
Northern and Southern Cheyennes. When the tribe was a compact whole they
were constantly pressed farther into the plains by the hostile Sioux and
established themselves on the upper branches of the Platte River. In
consequence of the building of Bent's Ford upon the upper Arkansas in
Colorado, a large part of the tribe de