REDSKINS HAUNTED BY CITY NOISE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17759, 1 February 1926, Page 7

REDSKINS HAUNTED BY CITY NOISE.

«TOO MUCH HURRY ” IN ENGLAND.’ “I live in dreams. When I quit, and go back to my own lan’. I find there plenty space, no big noise. Here, too much hurry." This impression of England was expressed in a box in the London Pavilion recently by Mr Henry Kills-Enemy-by-Night, one of the Sioux Red Indians seen when the circus started at Olympia on December 21. Five weeks ago Henry Kills-Enemy-by-Night, who speaks English with a strong American accent, had not seen a train, a tram, a telephone, or any of the things of civilisation. To him this rush and tear of modern life is like a dream. Did he appreciate the subtle human art of Delysia? His bronzed face, with its handsome aquiline features and flashing eyes, gave little sign. But now and then his massive frame, as he sat with clasped hands, and the large headdress of eagle feathers, like a giant shuttlecock, quivered and revealed excitement. “It is good, good." he muttered. The entrance of Henry, as a brave, in full dress rather startled the audience. In his belt was a tomahawk. “Squaws made the clothes we wear,” he told me. “Instead of thread they use the sinews of buffaloes.” "What do you do at home?" I asked, The question puzzled him, for it turned out that in the Indian Reservation iii South Dakota, the men do nothing. A little hunting, fishing, and much eating, with plenty of smoking—that is ail. Whisky, or fire water, was difficult to procure, but Henry was not a teetotaler. After the performance he was introduced to Delysia. who intends to visit America next year. “How!” was his greeting with uplifted hand. “When you come to us,”, he told her, “we give you Indian name— Laughing Water Great Heart.” The chief of the eighteen Indians at Olympia, Daniel Black Horn, is ninetyseven, although he looks as fit as fifty. He was one of those who massacred Custer’s army in 1576.