'Nodie' and 'Suzy' INDIAN TEPEE 'NODIE' ROBINSON When John Heber and Lenora 'Nodie' Robinson lived on the bench farm north of the present Warner farm, they became 'next door neighbors' to Chief Little Soldier and his band of Indians. Each Summer the disky-skinned natives camped on Dry Creek where they hunted, fished and picked the wild berries growing along the creek bank. They also learn¬ed to barter with Heber and Nodie for their surplus milk, eggs, butter and vege¬tables. Nodie and Heber were generous people and shared their skim milk and other farm produce with the Squaws camped nearby, coming daily for the milk, bringing along their own containers—all, that is, except Suzy. Nodie, being kind hearted began loaning her pans and buckets to Suzy until she ran out. Then she would have to go to the Indian village to retrieve her property. This business of loaning unreturned pans and buckets began to be an old story. Nodie was a fiesty little woman. She would only take so much, then things had to change. This particular day the brown skinned ladies lined up for a portion of the skim milk. As always, Suzy did not have a container. Nodie had had enough, she was not going to be imposed on any longer. With a malicious gleam in her eye she greeted Suzy with the oft repeated question, "Did you bring your bucket?" Suzy grunted, shook her head and mumbled, "No, me no bring bucket." "Hold out your shawl," Nodie commanded and Suzy obediently gathered her shawl into a 'basket' Nodie poured the foaming milk into the shawl, then watched the results with a gleam in her eye. The milk began to dribble through the material and onto the dusty ground. Suzy started running for her tepee, her brood of brown-skinned papooses trailing behind, 352