The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1919-11 - 1919-12

              the Word Carrier
of Santee Normal Training School.
VOLUME XLVIII
HELPING THE  BIGHT, EXPOSING THE "WRONG.
NUMBER 6
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1919
FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR
Our Platform
For Indians we want American Education! We want
American Homes! We want American Rights ! The result
of which is American Citizenship 1 And the Gospel is the
Power of God for their Salvation !
The book of the year 1919 which stands out
with extraordinary interest and importance to
those engaged in spiritual, educational and
industrial work among the Indian and Negro
people is Francis Peabody's Education for
Life. There are many of The Word Carrier
readers who will not see the book, so we
give on the last page a review which will
be completed in our next number. The
preparation of General Armstrong for his
great work is in a measure identical with that
of the preparation of all missionary leaders
and workers. In each case in answer to a
great need God is preparing a man and his vision of what he can do. It is true the vision
may not lead to a great work As General
Armstrong taught: "Spend your life iu doing
what you can do well. . . Fight against
badness, evil, and ignorance,disease, bad cooking. . . . Doing what can't be done is the
glory of living." The universal appeal of missionary effort is in the words of the author the
"strength of Hampton the indestructible efficiency of consecrated lives."
A conference of leaders in the Y. M. C. A.
and Y. W. C. A. Indian work has been recently held in Denver to plan for making a special snrveyfamong all Indians of the United
States. Miss Edith M. Dabb, Miss Susie
Meek, Mr. G. E. Lindquist, and Mr. Robert
Hall were among those present. Headquarters
of the.Indian department of the international
Y. M. C. A. are to be established
in Denver. The student work
is to be under the direction of
Mr. Lindquist, and the reservation work in charge of Mr. Hall.
Miss Dabb has this fall visited
Schools and returned students of
the Pueblo, Hopi and Navajo
reservations.
How an Aboriginal American Became a
Good American
A worn Bible elaborately marked in red
and blue and black inks naturally aroused interest. It was shown by the bindery superintendent to the Secretaries. The owner had left it to be
rebound. So much
had it been used
that five years found
the cover worn out.
Chief Manitowog,
a full-blooded Indian of the Siwash
tribe, from the state
of Washington,was
its owner. When
he called for the
rebound Bible its
story was learned.
Sturdy and erect of
figure, one could
hardly believe that
he was seventy years
of age. Sixty-five
years had been spent
in rough and perhaps reckless living, partly
in service with Buffalo Bill and various circuses. An engagement at the Hippodrome
brought him to New York in 1914. Here a
concealed weapon found on him led to his imprisonment at Sing Sing. While still in the
Tombs, before transfer to the State Prison,
he was troubled at night by visions. Mentioning them to a fellow-prisoner, he was
advised to speak to the chaplain. Through
the chaplain his request for a Bible was sup-
CHIEF MANITOWOG
which speaks of the service rendered by the
silent messenger of God in turning one from
a useless, reckless life to an active, devoted
effort to be a blessing to others and a credit
to his country—as he put it himself,
An American Indian on a New Trail
My Dear Sir: I am mailing you these five dollars out of
my own earning to want nothing but for the good works ye
people are doing for our Great Jehovah and the Saviour Jesus
Christ by sending the precious Book Bible from pole to pole
among the very savages of this world. It is really best works
in the world, and the Gospel of Jesus must be reached to the
very utmost parts of the world among all nations and tribes.
And I thank to my God, that His Gospel reached my heart
to the very spot where it shou d be touched, that to-day I
am a new-born man in every way. Your great Bible which
was sent to me while I was behind the prison bars for eighteen months, entirely changed my life. It caused me to
lead a better and happier life than I did for sixty-five years,
and I thank and praise the Lord for this wonderful change
in my life. I wish the American Bible Society prosperity
and great success, and may our God blesi all ye people who
are interested in the Lord and His works.
Thank you very much for the good work ye have done to
my eternal and everlasting friend that Holy Bible, and I
feel so proud every time I have it in my hand.
I remain yours a sincere friend in Jesus.—Chief Manitowog, in the Bible Society Record.
The fact that there are in the
United States over forty-seven
thousand Indians untouched by
Christianity, and more then twice
that number not professing to
belong to any church, shows
that the churches of our land
have a great responsibility to
meet.
Our readers will remember
that The Word Carrier gave in
the November-December number of 1918 a review of the book
just published, "John P. Williamson, A Brother to the Sioux."
We call attention to the press notices of Ibis
book which we give on page 16 of this number.
A NEW FLAG POLE. At the Santee Alumni Association meeting Mis. Lizzie Payson
Arthur made a gift to the school of the money
to buy a new flag pole. We got an al'.iminnm-
coated steel mast, the sections of which tapei
gracefully from the base to the gilt ball on
the top, fifty feet above the ground, and the
socket is set in concrete. We raised the pole
a few days before Thanksgiving Cay and immediately after the Thanksgiving Day service
the whole school was gathered around to dedicate it. A very beautiful new flag, also the
gift of Mrs. Arthur, was raised. "Mr. F. B.
Riggs made a short speech and llie whole
school recited a salute to the flag. The Whitney Hall bovs gave their recent I v invented veil
and the Y.'W.   C. A., led by Miss DeboVah
Boys' Cottage, Santee Normal Training School
In our Boys' Cottaere this year we have
thirty little boys, whose ages go from seven
to fourteen years. The names of some of
th^se boys may seem funny to you. We have
a Bear Looting, a Chasing Hawk, Fire Cloud,
White Temple, and a White Bull.
The boys have a wheel which they call a
Merry-go-around. About four can sit on this
wheel and two-turn It. The others, looking
on, say, "No fair to hang on." Accordingly
those riding let go. Then the wheel is turned
and the faster it turns the merrier it
is, for they all fly from their
seats to the ground.
Last year some one sent to
the Cottage patchwork tops for
three quilts. Linings were given by one of the mission ladies.
We cleaned the best cotton from
the worn out comforters and
with the help of the boys tied
the three comforters. This was
done when it was too stormy to
to get out to play. Every boy
wanted one of these comforters
for his bed.
Almost every boy has a suit
case  or trunk  for his  clothes.
Every Sunday evening their suits
are  piled  on  the  tables.    On
Monday   morning   as   soon   as
they have made their beds, they
shake their suits and put them
away in their cases.    Saturday
morning   when  they have done
all the house cleaning, once more
they open their suit cases  and
look over their Sunday suits to
plied by the volume which had now come back see  if any mending is needed.    Then they
, to its original home to be rebound.    The vi-  press their neckties, put them in their pock-
I sions, backed by the story of the Christ, read \ ets,   each puts in a clean handkerchief, and
assiduously through the long days iu prison,
led to a glad change of heart.
For the eighteen months he spent in prison
this Bible was his constant companion and
bore increasing marks of his study as he traced
the passages that impressed him, in varied
colors, according to a system he adopted. The
picture which appears here gives little idea of
the original. Since his release he has continued the study and marking of the Bible,
and has gone about telliug with joy aud effect
the story of his own recent experience and the
greater story the Bible contains. And so it
had come about that the Bible, made thus
doubly precious to him, came to the Bible
House for a new cover.
puts his suit away again, ready for the next
day. It takes time to teach them to do this,
but in the long run it is less work. I try to
impress on their minds why all this needs to
be done.—Mrs. Eunice Baskin, in The Work
at Home, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
For years our Santee school farm has turned
all its earnings into the general support of the
school and almost nothing has been put back
into it by way of equipment. Now, at the very
time it was hardest to do, because of the high
prices, we have had to turn to farm equipment,
and have strained mightily to do it. Our hog
house had been repaired till there was nothing
left to repair.
So this fall we pitched in and
It was a pleasure to present him with the J built an all-new one, according to modern style,
Hall gave their yell. It was very cold and j book made as good as new. A few days after ] with eight nice, sky lighted, and sanitary stalls,
the snow was deep and we adjourned. [came the following letter—another testimony 'each with its outside yards, a pig palace.