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SAVAGE SON
by Oren Arnold
Dawn silence was broken this day in 1871
when fire suddenly crackled in the Apache Indian
wickiups. Ancient enemies, the Pimas, had set
the whole village ablaze! Arrows streaked, guns
roared, men and women came out fighting. Hun-
dreds died, and in the melee a Pima warrior on a
horse snatched up a 6-year-old Apache boy as
captive and took him away.
Two months later this little son of the savages
was sold to a white bachelor for 30 silver dol-
lars. The lad was christened Carlos Montezuma,
then taken East and educated. He became a
RD
STORIETTES
ES
distinguished
physician in
Chicago, and
won national
fame working un-
selfishly for In-
dian reforms.
People scoff-
ed at him; his
long campaign
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Back:
SAVAGE SON (Concluded)
to aid the American Indians was a failure.
Ill health struck him, and he came back
West and died in an Apache wickiup, broken
hearted and alone. However, squaws knelt
at his grave in a weird wilderness chanting
that means "a prediction of victory to come.
Twenty years after his death the U. S.
Government began a series of Indian reforms
-almost exactly the same as Dr. Montezuma
had planned!
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