is field are Farwell, Troyer,
Lieurance, and Cadman, the last of whom uses the native airs as a motive
for more elaborated songs. His "Land of the Sky Blue Water" is charming,
and already very popular. Harold A. Loring of North Dakota has recently
harmonized some of the songs of the Sioux.

Several singers of Indian blood are giving public recitals of this
appealing and mysterious music of their race. There has even been an
attempt to teach it to our schoolchildren, and Geoffrey O'Hara, a young
composer of New York City, made a beginning in this direction under the
auspices of the Indian Bureau. Native melodies have also been adapted
and popularized for band and orchestra by native musicians, of whom the
best known are Dennison Wheelock and his brother James Wheelock, Oneidas
and graduates of Carlisle. When we recall that as recent as twenty years
ago all native art was severely discountenanced and discouraged, if not
actually forbidden, in Government schools, and often by missionaries as
well, the present awakening is matter for mutual congratulations.

Many Americans have derived their only personal knowledge of Indians
from the circus tent and the sawdust arena. The red man is a born actor,
a dancer and rider of surpassing agility, but he needs the great out of
doors for his stage. In pageantry, and especially equestrian pageantry,
he is most effective. His extraordinarily picturesque costume, and the
realistic manner in which he illustrates and reproduces the life of the
early frontier, has made of him a great, romantic, and popular
attraction not only here but in Europe. Several white men have taken
advantage of this fact to make their fortunes, of whom the most
enterprising and successful was Col. William Cody, better known as
"Buffalo Bill."

The Indians engaged to appear in his and other shows have been paid
moderate salaries and usually well treated, though cases have arisen in
which they have been stranded at long distances from home. As they
cannot be taken from the reservation without the consent of the
authorities, repeated efforts have been made by missionaries and others
to have such permission refused on the ground of moral harm to the
participants in these sham battles and dances. Undoubtedly they see a
good deal of the seamy side of civilization; but, on the other hand,
their travels have proved of educational value, and in some instances
opened their eyes to good effect to the superior power of the