1957-03-01 Char-Koosta News

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CHAR-KOOSTW
PUBLISHED BY CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES, FLATHEAD AGENCY, MONT. Application for Second Class Permit Made at the Post Office in Ron an, Montana
Vol. 1— No. 5
March, 1957
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Mr chief can now fT^nimhrrsUa^Q/^ V Why women no more obey um husbanor Now woman all same wear um pants Jaw um husband every time get em chance.
Tribes Camas Hot Sprin Serves 40,000 During 1956
By Thomas E. Pablo
"Big Medicine," the Indian used to say, and today that's the by-word of people who bathe in the wonderful mineral waters at Camas Hot Springs. The healing waters that were the medicine of the Indians have worked their cures on thousands of people who have bathed here. Today, white men come thousands of miles to drink and bathe in the bathhouse owned and operated by the Flatrhead Salish-Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation.
"Many Sleeps," the Indians used to travel in order to take advantage of the ''Good Spirits" that bubbled from the grouncj in the form of mud and mineral water. Long before the white man came to this area, the hot mineral springs were used by the Indians. This was a regular gathering place for various tribes, who congregated, bathed, visited, and held Inter-Tribal games.:
1 The travois has long been replaced by modern means of transportation, and many permanent residents of Hot Springs who first came to derive relief and cure from' the springs, have stayed on. • Camas Hot Springs is well known for its mineral waters which have given relief and cure to many people suffering 'from arthritis, high blood pressure, skin diseases, stomach ulcers, kidney ailments, rheumatism and other similar ailments. .,' prinking freely of the mineral water is a necessary factor in supplying the body with needed minerals and for direct application to disorders of the digestive tract. While some patients experience immediate relief, the majority require frqm 2 to 4 weeks of sustained treatment, therefore a series of 21 baths has been set as a desirable average for best results.
• The spa at Hot Springs has the only patural mineral water and mud baths in the United States with a temperature of 120 degrees F.
The Camas Bathhouse is a new and modern building which boasts streamlined plumbing, mud and mineral water baths, showers, walk-in steam rooms, sweat rooms, massage departments, rest cots, infra red and sun lamps. Departmentalized for men and women. Immense picture windows in the rustic lobby afford a panoramic view of the valley and mountains in the background. The fact
ihat'nearly 40,000 bathers were accomo-lated last year, attests to the growing popularity of the Springs, and that more -Tribal members are now taking advantage of their bathhouse than ever before.
Mention must be also made of the corn hole, the outside foot bath, ever popular, where you are never farther away from home than your next door neighbor, who might be bathing and soaking his feet next to you. It is said, if you want to visit with someone from home, stop at corn hole, where more bulls are shipped and toes are dipped than any other place in the world. Mention is also made of the swimming pool, very popular with the young, as well as many of the older people.
War Bonnets off to the Camas Hot Springs; it is growing, and will continue to grow. The road has been rough and rocky, there have been many who would have done away with all Mineral Resorts, but the cured and the faithful have kept them going, and will continue to do so, as long as "Good Spirits" dwell here.
iriuai Gin ^oiiuiiues Navy Nursing Career
Julia Mary Santos, daughter of Mary Pablo Burrafato, St. Ignatius, completed her recruit training at the Navy Training Center at Bainbridge, Maryland, in February with a rank of second high in her class.
Julia is now continuing her nursing career in the U. S. Navy and is attached
to the U. S. Naval Hospital Corps School at Bainbridge. Her mother recently received a letter from the Commandant at the school which said in part: "Your daughter has recently reported
Long time ago, husband him boss Woman kind, never get cross All time now woman too much talk No more cook, all time balk.
She learn um paleface style . Talk um loud, hear um ten mile Long ago, no talk, just nod um head Now talk um plenty, husband see um red.
Now paint um face, all same nose Paint um red, all same toes No more eyebrows, just black line Then woman think um look fine.
Buck mad, make um big frown Squaw to him look um like clown Squaw no sense, no more shame Squaw call um Buck"Honey" (funny name).
Paleface woman "Hubby" all same henpecked.
Paleface right, me chicken pecked, me cracked,
My squaw put um on funny defections Think um she get um lot perfections.
But me "chief" think um she "phooey" Too much paint um all same screwy Wear um high heeis five inch and hall Make um wooden Injun laugh.
High heels all same woman's craze All time ready to fall on face Little good, no fall on back But feet get um plenty hack.-
My squaw say, "For crying out loud," Shoes good, toes all same look um out Me thnik squaw all same plenty dumb Chief's toes look out, him called "Bum"
Long time ago my squaw wear um
straight hair Look um nice and lot look um fair Now, curl um hair, all same corkscrew All time ready to open um beer, homebrew.  _^
Me Injun chief pretty soon go bugs Woman wear um too much crazy tugs Woman want um to wear funny blouse Then sure 'Injun chief he go bughouse. Shea Hoy
to this, her first duty station after completing recruit training. She is now a full-fledged member of the United States Navy. You have every right to be as proud of her as I am pleased to have her in my command." G. W. Wiese, CDR MSC USN, Executive Officer.
In 1956 Julia was graduated from Mary-cliff High School at Spokane with high honors. During her high school days and for several months after graduation she was a nursing aide at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane.