Native American: Entertainment and Ritual - info

• "The Great National Game of the Indians."
  photograph from "The Black Hawk Watch Tower,"by John Henry Hauberg, Driffill Printing, 1927, p. 16.
  John Henry Hauberg papers, MSS 27, box 39, folder 5

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• "Ball Play"
  excerpt from "The Black Hawk Watch Tower," by John Henry Hauberg, Driffill Printing, 1927, pg. 16-18.
  John Henry Hauberg papers, MSS 27, box 39, folder 5

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• "Squaws take a hand at the National Games, to the great amusement of the braves."
  photograph from "The Black Hawk Watch Tower," by John Henry Hauberg, Driffill Printing, 1927, pg. 18.
  John Henry Hauberg papers, MSS 27, box 39, folder 5

  {We recognize that the term "squaw" has translations which make it unacceptable for modern usage. We include it here only because it is a direct quotation from someone writing in the first quarter of the 20th century.}

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "Indians from Tama, Iowa, at Black Hawk's Watch Tower, 1925."
  photograph from "The Black Hawk Watch Tower," by John Henry Hauberg, Driffill Printing, 1927, pg. 14.
  John Henry Hauberg papers, MSS 27, box 39, folder 5

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• "Courtship and Marriage"
  excerpt from "The Black Hawk Watch Tower," by John Henry Hauberg, Driffill Printing, 1927, pg. 18.
  John Henry Hauberg papers, MSS 27, box 39, folder 5

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• John H. Hauberg being adopted into the Bear Clan of Mesquakies, Black Hawk Watch Tower, 9/2/1940. left to right: Willie Poweshiek, John H. Hauberg, Jim Poweshiek, at Black Hawk State Park, 1940, Labor Day. "They braided my scalplock, tied the roach to it, had me smoke a pipe blowing smoke in 4 directions and all indians present filed past & shook hands with with me." Jim Poweshiek died Oct. 1950, aged over 90 yrs.
  photograph from the John Henry Hauberg papers, MSS 27, box 40, folder 5, item 58

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• "Native American dances"
  descriptions from the John Henry Hauberg, MSS 27, box 40, folder 5, item 43