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TV on the Tepee Chief White Eagle and his TV-equipped tepee. JL ROM SMOKE SIGNALS to television signals is a long step forward, but Chief White Eagle of the Iroquois Tribe at Caughnawaga, Quebec, made the transition with no trouble at all. Two years ago, the Chief, whose legal name is Stanley Myiow, collected enough wampum to buy his RCA Victor television set, a twenty-inch model called the "Shelby". The flickering magic of the white man provided good entertainment for White Eagle, his wife and five daughters as they watched the programs from CBMT and CBFT, Montreal. Then word was received that TV stations had opened at Burlington. Vermont and Plattsburg, New York. Being a curious fellow, the Chief began seeking a place to erect an outdoor antenna so that he could receive the more distant American stations. Now many moons ago, Chief White Eagle had gone into the forest and had cut a number of stout saplings. Stripping the branches from the young trees, he lashed them together in his front yard in the shape of a cone forty feet high. Then he peeled the thick white bark RADIO AGE 25 from the trunks of many birch trees and covered the framework with the bark to form a huge tepee. It stood for many seasons by the highway, a landmark for motorists driving to and from Caughnawaga. Looking for a place to erect his antenna, Chief White Eagle's gaze fell on the top of the tepee standing only a few yards from his house. Since the Chief, among other things, is a skilled bridge worker, it was a simple matter for him ro scale the tepee and fasten the antenna in place. Chief White Eagle, born and educated in Caughna- waga, says he is able to trace his ancestry to the first Iroquois settlers at the Indian Mission in the reserve. "I'm one of the few remaining pure-blooded Indians in Caughnawaga," he states. "My forefathers came from New York and Pennsylvania to the Jesuit mission here.' Chief White Eagle is multi-vocational. He can turn his hand to almost anything. Apart from being a bridge- worker, he also prepares secret Indian herbal medicine, he is a professional wrestler, Indian souvenir maker and well-known lecturer on Indian folk lore. And too, he is probably the first Indian to place a TV aerial on his genuine birch bark wigwam. As a result, when night comes on and the fire burns low, and the wind sighs across the marshlands that stretch behind the house, Chief White Eagle and his family sit before their set enjoying Deep Image tele- vision at its best, while outside the lonely tepee reaches up into the sky to bring in the signal from many miles away. In his modest home, Chief White Eagle poses with his RCA Victor television set, connected to antenna on the birch bark tepee in his front yard.