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With war whoops and hoopla, the braves arrived on horses bedecked with war paint and feathers. With more whoops and hoopla, they were followed by Big Chief White Scout, the colonist who loved and was loved in return by Wetona. He was “heap big chief of heap big tribe of White Man, and he be heap friendly with Indian Chief Hawksbill.”
As the medicine man counted the ponies offered for his daughter, Hawksbill acknowledged that "all big chiefs must lose papoose some day.” Maidens danced to tom-toms, and when the count was finished. Big Chief White Scout was the winner with his proposal of 50 ponies. He wrapped his bride with a beautiful Indian blanket and held her while the singers finished a blanket chant and the medicine man led a joy dance around the fire, handing each dancer a cup of his choice firewater concoction.
“Heap good white friends. Ugh! Heap brave Indians. Ugh! Heap good squaws. Ugh! Hawksbill now wish all at campfire to join in feast and be much happy,” the chief intoned, inviting the Skyland guests to eat. “As the great full moon rose higher in the sky, groups wound their way back to the settlement. By midnight, all was quiet and the spirit of Wetona and the great Hawksbill were at rest for another year,” the program concluded.
With the same energy he put into his programs, Mr. Pollock lobbied the movers and shakers to choose the Blue Ridge as the site for a national park, playing host at Skyland to senators, congressmen, the governor of Virginia and upwards of 150 delegates to the annual National Conference of State Parks — all at his own expense.
He was as successful as a lobbyist as he had been as a producer and director. The bill passed by Congress auSee
Pollock, Page B-3
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