INDIAN CHIEFS WEDDING IN PARIS.

Evening Star, Issue 14631, 29 July 1911, Page 11

INDIAN CHIEFS WEDDING IN PARIS.

Sioux , and Iroquois braves paraded the streets of the Paris suburb of Neuiliy on June 15, in full war paint, uttering piercing war whoops, somewhat to the terror of the small boys who followed the procession. The Indians were not on the warpath, but were bound for the maint, where Silting Bull, one of the chiefs, was to be married to Mario La fore, the daughter of the Iroquois cliief. The Indians arc at present domiciled in a native village at the Zoological Gardens. The father of the bride and his warriors were all dressed in native costume, a bunch of eagle’s feathers decorating the brow of the bride’s father. The bride, too, wore the native costume, some pretty, knick-knacks in the shape of iewels adorning her neck. A pow-waw was held in front of the mairie, for the policeman on duty, fearing that the oncoming redskins were bent on sacking the mairie, and perhaps scalping the mairo and the officials, had closed the door in the face of the bridal party. An interpreter explained tbo peaceful mission of the visitors. There was a good deal of native exuberance about the proceedings, for on the door being opened the bridegroom and his friends, uttering a wild war cry, dashed up the stairs to the apartment where the civil ceremony was to be performed. After the maire’s representative had pronounced the Indian couple man and wife, they next proceeded to the local church of St. Pierre for the nuptial benediction. Here some of the party were denied admission by the verger on the ground of being too scantily attired for a place of religious worship. On the way lack to their wigwams in the Zoological Gardena the Indians bought up the stock-in-trade of a vender of toy balloons. These were distributed among the “ braves,” and attached to their headdress, Daily ChramcteV Faria