The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1920-07 - 1920-08

              the Word Carrier
OF
SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
VOLUME XLIX
HELPING THE RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG
NUMBER 4
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
JULY-AUGUST, 1920
FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR
Our Platform
For Indians we want American Education! We wan*
American Homes! We want American Rights! The result of which is American Citizenship ! And the Gospe'
is the  Power  of  God  for their Salvation !
Commencement for Santee
Reservation, and one from Rosebud. Graduation certificates were presented to Josette Coe
and Jesse Rouillard from Pine Ridge Reservation, Ethel Manydeeds from Standing Rock,
and Mary Tuttle of Santee.
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50tlj AmtttrerHanj
ilag 2fi-2r, 1920
( Taking Father's Place-
Wednesday,   8: 00 p. m. \ A Farce in One Act,
I By W. C. Parker.
I 2: 00 p. ni., School Exhibits,
Thursday,   -     -     -    -j 4: 00 p. m., Musical Recital,
( 7: 30 p. m., Closing Program.
Santee Normal Training School was founded fifty years ago this spring by Rev. A. L.
Riggs, D. D. One of the Jubilee features of
the closing of school this year was a faculty
and alumni reception in the Art Room and
Bible Room of Memorial Hall, Tuegday evening, May 25. Many brief and interesting
speeches were made by alumni and former
students and members of the faculty.
The programs for the rest of this 50th Ad-
niversary are given below. Wednesday afternoon our boys played baseball with the Southern South Dakota State Normal School of
Springfield, S. D., and the score was 5 to 7
in favor of the visitors. Our Santee boys
had won every school game they had played this season, and were too sure of them-
■elver
The short play on Wednesday evening was
well done, and everybody wished the affair
had been longer.
There was the usual school exhibit for two
hours Thursday afternoon and it was unusually
good. The exhibits were well displayed and
very interesting in the geography and history
rooms, and in theart room the sewing and
manual arts exhibits that Mrs. Lawson had
prepared, were exceptionally attractive. In the
laboratory was displayed the exhibit that has
been just lately prepared to send to Boston to
form a part of the exhibit of the American Missionary Association at the International Con^
gregational Council. In the permanent exhibit room on the third floor there were additions representing this year's school work
that gave fresh interest to the large display
that is always there.
Our school band gave several selections
on both Wednesday and Thursday afternoon.
The Musioal Recital which has usually been
in the evening was in the afternoon, attended
by a large and appreciative audience. The
rnusio department has made good progress
during this school year, and this was in evidence in the quality of the recital.
In the final program Wednesday evening, instead of the usual recitations and declamations
by the pupils, we had a commencement address
by Rev. A. C. Warner, of Springfield, So. Dak.
Mr. Warner spoke of four spheres of life, Industrial, Citizenship, Intellectual, Spiritual,
in language simple enough for most of our
Indian audience to understand. His message
was very fitting to the needs of our pupils and
their parents and we hope they will long remember it. Mr. Riggs then made a report of
the school year, announced the promotions
and awarded prizes. Eighth grade certificates
were presented to Sybil Bird, Eva Conger,
Emma Frazier, Mellinda Owens, Elizabeth
Shields, Emily Soldier; two from Santee, two
from   Sisseton,   one   from  Cheyenne   River
A PLAY
Taking Father's Place—A Farce in
One Act.
By W. C. Parker.
Henderson Edwards A Merchant
George Wilson
Charlie Edwards His Son
Jesse Rouillard
Mr. Grabbit  A Customer
Ora Frazier
Tom Jones .. A Bookkeeper
Ben Brave
Dennie An Office Boy
Eugene Arconge
Tessie Rosebud A Stenographer
Josette Coe
Gladiola Penrose A Book Agent I
Emma Frazier
Mrs. Edwards Wife of Henderson j
Ethel Manydeeds
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PART  I—FIRST YEAR PUPILS
1. Little Waltz Richter
Alice Bird
2. Night Song Noble
Phoebe Redlightehing
3. The Tented Field Norris
Jackson Ripley
4. Song of the Rosebud Dodds
Eunice Drapeau
5. The Meadow Brook  Kern
Viola Bingham
6. Children's March. Leaforth
Gladys Ripley
7. Les Sylphes  Bachmann
Florence Enoch
PART II
8. Song of the Cello Craminond
Ethel Frazier
9. Jolly Harvester Spaulding
Melvin Morrison
10. Shepherd's Dream Heins
Edna Frazier
11. At Break of Day........
Dora Hopkins
12. Merry Daiice......■.	
Winona St. Cyr
13. Alia Mareia	
Agnes Hensley
 Dore
...... Coerne
...... Rogers
PART III
ii. Tftrantelle in A minor Dennee
Eva Conger
15. Humorsque   ........;...   ..... Devorak
Julia Keeler
16. Fifth Nocturne  ..... Leybach
Sybil Bird
17. Arbutus . *...........  Bliss
Josette Coe
18. First Taran telle Op. 13........,... Mills
Virginia Benjamin
19. La Seranata  Herbert
Emma Frazier
20. Impromptu Mazurka  Lack
Fannie Frazier
(Eloatng program for
QHjurafcag Sofntng
Chorus—Praise of Our Alma Mater. .Stewart
Prayer
Commencement Address
By  Rev    A. C. Warner,
Pastor of Congregational Churches
Springfield and Bon Hoinme, S. D.
Girls' Chorus—Ebb and Flow O.  King
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The Future of Santee
Only a few years since the Indians were so
backward in showing any results of education
that, to any people without vision, work for
them was discouraging. It was a matter of
custom. It was not the fashion to talk English or show signs of civilization. But the
fashion has changed rapidly, (and there are
no other people more bound by custom aud
precedent, in other words Indians are the most
fashionable people iu the world.) Now it has
become the fashion with Indians to talk English so that not only the younger ones who
can, but even the older who can't, attempt it,
and they are becoming an up-to-date people
in material affairs far beyond their means.
This new responsiveness is encouraging but
involves difficulties and dangers.
Many thousand Indians are becoming part of
the body politic of South Dakota and they are
capable of becoming worthy. All the reasons
there are for the other Christian schools in
South Dakota—college and academy—apply to
Santee. The public or government school does
not do all we need for the whites, and the
government schoal falls shorter on the Indians. And right now the Federal Government schools for Indians are being closed several at a time. Those that remain are ceasing
gradually to pauperize the Indians and are
requiring them to pay as much as they are
able toward their school expenses. This is
making it easier to get our Indian constituency to pay more in our Christian schools, that
too on account of the Indians having a growing appreciation for education.
This is the time to advance in our Indian
educational program because of the aforesaid
opportunities and because now there arises a
crying need for native leadership; of a quality
far better than we have ever had before. There
is so great a demand for this that an interdd
nominational oonferenee on the subject was
called at Wichita, Kansas last October.
Most of the Indian preachers, teachers, elders, deacons, missionary helpers that our missions and those of our Presbyterian friends,
and many of those of the Episcopalians, have
had in the northwest, Nebraska, South Dakota
Minnesota, Montana, during the last half century, have been for longer or shorter periods,
students at Santee.
How have we been trying to do this? Half
of our schooltime is given to industrial and
half to academic teaching. In the academic
we have ten grades which are similar to the
public school grades and different too in several essentials, one of which is that we teach the
Bible, Bible History, Bible Geography, Bibli
interpretation, etc. in all the grades, and we
have a graduate course for two years beyond
the regular ten years. This Bible Department
is the Presbyterian part, in their partnership
with us at Santee. We also have a Bible Correspondence School with about 200 students^-
several courses in Bible study. Then in the
attempt to meet the immediate need of giving
better equipment to the present native preachers and missionaries, till there is time to turn
out men trained in our regular Bible Department, we have a mouth of Bible Institute into which we gather the native preachers, Congregational and Presbyterian. We have had
also several Episcopal Bible students in our
regular Bible Department.
So much for what we have been trying to do.
We have been all this year very short-handed.
The head of our Bible Department, Rev. E.
J. Lindsey, was very sick all the fall and
winter till he died the last of February. We
must have a well trained man who is a good
preacher to school pupils, who is also a good
teacher and who appreciates his great opportunity for missionary work, as head of our
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