\ P 606 .S15 Copy 1 /Q ^_ PAGEANT STOKY MAY AUDITORIUM -ST PAUL Pageant of Minnesota History Under the Auspices of the ^aint ^aul institute Retool of airt Auditorium, Saint Paul May 4, 1911, at 8:00 P. M. May 5, 1911, at 2:30 P. M. Book by Miss Lily A. Long. Outline by Mrs. Cordenio A. Severance. Dance of Indian Spirits, Grief Dance, and Dance of the Moccasin Flowers, under the direction of Miss Eleanor Miller. Scenery by Students of the School of Art. Business Manager, Mrs. Frederick Snyder. Produced under ihe direction of Mr. Lee Woodward Zeigler. C ommittees Executive Committee — Mrs. Herbert Davis, Chairman ; Mrs. Cordenio A. Severance, Mrs. Furness, Mrs. E. R. Sandford, Mrs. Frederick Snyder, Miss Lily A. Long, Mrs. Lee Woodward Zeigler. Committee on Music — Mrs. E. R. Sandford. Committee on Costumes — Mrs. Lee Woodward Zeigler, Chair- man; Mrs. Frederick G. Stutz, Mrs. Samuel Gilbert, Mrs. Karl Loomis, Miss Elizabeth B. Bonta, Miss Julie C. Gauthier. 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Youngbauer Pageant of Minnesota History PROGRAMME Chorus (The Spirit of Minnesota) . . . . Mrs. Helen G. Barrows I.— The Indians Minnesota speaks: I am of ancient lineage,— I, the Land. In those far days when yet the unborn earth Panted for life beneath the seething wave, I was among the first to struggle free, To feel the air upon my rocky front, And see the sun in battle with the mists. I bear the records of an age-long war With fire and ice and torrent; but at last— I boast not; all who hear me say the same,— I won, as trophy in the conflict, peace. And beauty all might envy, and a store Of wealth to be an heirloom for all time. My forests caught the winds and played with them; My rivers swept between enclosing bluffs That lay a league apart; my prairies spread Like carpets, flower-bestrewn, whereon the year, With stately steps to suit the season, danced; And everywhere my little lakes were hid. To catch the sky and bring it to my breast. I won my name of Minne-sota so — The land of sky-filled water. Even so. Then came within my valleys tribes of men. They claimed me from the beasts; they fought for me Among themselves till all my peace was rent. My mirrors of the sky were stained with blood. My forests sheltered treachery, and death Instead of springing life, was in my fields. Then Gitche Manitou, the Mighty One, Who holds the wide earth on his steady hand And draws the grass blade from the sod with love,— This Mighty Spirit saw that man's wild heart Was building hate and violence and waste. And hindering the work the gods would do. And so he flung a signal on the sky To call the chiefs of all the warring tribes To one great Council Fire. From east to west, From south to farthest north, he sent the sign. And all the people saw and understood, And called a truce, and sent their wisest men. Their chiefs and leaders and their counsellors. To where the Red Stone crops above the ground To form a circle, open to the sky. They masked their hate with silence, but the wrath Of long-fought wars was in their veiled eyes. Then in the center, where but now was naught, Lo, Gitche Manitou appeared,— a mighty chief, Who looked on them and frowned; and yet they knew As children know a parent's frown hides love. That out of love, not anger, sprang his words. In after days, no two could e'er agree Jx"7u l"'° ^'''^*°" ^^^ ^'■^^^ Spirit spoke,- Whether as thunder echoing down the sky Or as men speak, in words the gods have sent; Ur as an inner silence in the heart. But well they knew the meaning of his words. Ihey hid It in the silence of the heart As men hide fire beneath the sheltering ash lo keep it hvmg through a winter night. My children," Gitche Manitou began. My children whom I set upon the earth 4u^f ^f "''^^' ^^^P ""y ""^P fi'-e burning here While I am on the chase in search of game 1 hat hides beyond the thickets of the stars, How do I find you, when, all travel spent, 1 come again to rest beside the lakes And listen to the murmur of the pines .? You that should war with savage beasts alone, Ur with the storm, or with the winter's cold Or with the torrent that defies your power, ' You have turned murderous arrows on yourselves bo might a warrior do that maimed the hand With which he wields the war club. Doinc so You waste your strength, you fill this earth^I love With bitterness and sorrow, and you han^ A hampering weight and clog upon my a?m I hat should be building worlds and making men. Go now, and see that peace do go with you Go novy to east and west and north and south, lo lowlands by the rivers, and to hills That overlook the sage plains, and to lakes A Tj f, "'°°"'' "'''''''^ ^""O"! the Red Stone. Go And dwell apart in peace, to each his own. But first, the pipe of peace I smoke with you. In solemn bond that no one may forget. And year by year, when autumn comes again, And scarlet run the vines, like clinging flame, Ihrough all the forest, and the nuts are ripe And all the yellow maize is gathered in 1 then will send a veil of fragrant smoke Upon the sleepy land, and you will know «y that same sign that I do hold you bound lo keep the pact that you have sealed with me And with each other, by this Pipe of Peace." And so It was the nations drew apart And each grew strong, and peace was on the land, And plenty in the teepee. And each year 1 he haze of Indian Summer veiled the earth ^n sign the Mighty Spirit held the tribes 1 o that great truce of old. The word went down l;^rom elder to the younger that the gods Detest the speaker with a crooked tongue, And broken faith was counted as a shame. In after sorrow, oft the tale was told Of this, the vanished past, the Age of Gold ACT I. The Legend of the Peace Pipe Gitche Manitou apportions the Earth among the Tribes. Miss Olive Long Time — Legendary. Scene— Red Pipestone Quarries. The Indians are gathered for a war-dance. Gitche Manitou, the Great Spirit, calls upon them to cease their warfare, and bids them smoke the Pipe of Peace. Gitche Manitou Ralph Stokes Chiefs: Charles Baker Tom Blake Walter Ford Silas Jensen Orson Powers fFa Isadore Abrahamson Raymond Anderson Bert Baer Earle Balch Floyd Brink Bruce Brightman Ernest Brimmer Kenneth Caldwell John Conway Roy Dingle Harold Dorrance Tom Farquhar Austin Fields Charles Fuller Harvey Fuller Everett Geer Willis Geib Horace Gibson Herbert Gillard Gerald Hennessy Oscar Hodnot Ned Kilgore Walter Kueffner Oliver Larson Carl McElroth Roy Manley Carl Nippert Harry Oerting Ed Patten Ralph Richards Harvey Rogers Paul Sischo Walter Spriggs Charles Sweitzer Paul Thomas Anthony Tomasek Kenneth Urquhart Leon Weiss 11.— The Vikings Minnesota speaks: The happy seasons came and passed, and still I basked beneath the sky, and thought that fear Had fled forever, and that all my days Would run like sunset ripples on the mar