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Show Page 33 Chapter 6 Night Ride While Ann was growing up there were few clashes with the Indians in the area of Brown's Park, toward whom Ann felt great warmth. Most of the Indians belonged to the Shoshone tribe and were called Utes, a word meaning "the upper people," or "the hill dwellers." What problems arose between these people and the white settlers resulted mainly from government game wardens trying to keep the Indians from hunting wild meat. Ann was smack in the middle of one such incident. Indians had been living in Brown's Park for generations when the white settlers arrived. For the most part, the newcomers respected the dignity and human rights of the Indian. As a result the races lived together in peace, the whites learning many useful things from the Indians: how to use herbs for medicine, how to make jerky, how to use bone marrow to tan hides. Ann's mother in particular was a "heap good friend" of the Indians, who called her Magpie because, like her feathered namesake, she "all-time talk." Ann, too, had close |