The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1921-03 - 1921-04

              the Word Carrier
OF
Santee Normal Training School.
VOLUME  L
HELPING THE  RIGHT, EXPOSING- THE WRONG
NUMBER 2
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
MARCH-APRIL, 1921
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! And the Gospel
is the   Power  of  God   for their  Salvation!
Neglected Navajo Indians
The Missionary Review of the World makes
significant comment on the neglected Navajo
Indians. When a treaty was signed with the
Navajo Indians, in 1868, according to which
they were placed on a much smaller area than
the one they had been occupying, a stipulation was made that the American Government
would furnish a schoolhouse and teacher for
every thirty- five children. Half a century has
passed aud figures show over nine thousand
Navajo children with less than two thousand
in mission and Government schools. They
are boys and girls of native ability, but seven
thousand of them have never seen a school-
house. There are, in fact, more Indian children out of school now than twenty years ago,
because school facilities have not kept pace
with the growth of population. Rev. W. R.
Johnston was asked a few years ago to make a
survey of the Navajo country, extending from
the Grand Canyon to Albuquerque, and from
San Juan to the Saute Fe Railway, and gather
facts in regard to the young men and women
who had returned from reservation schools to
their homes—about eight hundred in number.
He stopped one day at a trading post for luncheon and an Indiau woman approached with
her blankets around her and her baby on her
back. She spoke correct English and it was
learned that wheu a child of six she had gone
to the Fort Lewis school, in Colorado. She
remained nine years and came home with a
vision of leading her family out of the old pagan life, and sharing with her people some of
the advantages she had received. Now she
was living in a hogan of one room, with no
window, no door, no chair, a pile of sheepskin
for a bed, no knives nor forks, and with a
second polygamous wife and eight children.
When the edueated young Indians lose their
ideals, they descend to a plane below that of
the pagan Indian, and as one missionary said,
' 'It is easier to elevate the camp Iudians than
the veneered pagans that come back from
Government schools." The foundation for
permanent progress must be laid in the Word
of God. In some Government schools the
missionary is free to teach the Bible; in others,
spiritual instruction is barred out. The perplexing problem of the returned Indian student, of creating self-supporting, independent
Christian citizens, can only be solved by placing him under Christian instruction.—The
Wellspring.
A Santee Indian Student Who Is Making
Exceedingly Good at  Printing
Mr. Lawson recently received a very interesting letter from Anderson Cash who was one
of our pupils several years ago. Anderson
was one of our best printer boys and he has
evidently made good in that line. The following lines are quoted from his letter:
"I am rather busy right now as I am in
charge of the printing department of the
Gopher Envelope Co., Minneapolis. I have
four Gordon job presses, two Harris automatic
presses, one Universal press and an old English Self-feeder. Every machine is busy from
8 : 00 a. m. to 12 : 00 p. m., and from 1 : 00 to
5 : 40 p. m. The out-put of each machine is
recorded daily. So far I have made four new
records on the average daily or hourly out-put
competing with all the envelope companies in
the II. S. I have one man with me who handles the automatic presses and jobbers.    The
time of make-ready and the run of the machine is what counts. So accuracy and quickness is what tells. But I oversee that all
machines keep moving and help out in the
composition.
"I am married and living happily."
CHIEF MANlTUWOO AND
HIS BIBLE
Indian Chief Appreciates His Bible
All boys and most girls are interested  in
American   Indians, we venture  to   say.    So !
we.give the picture
of one.   But we do
it   to   illustrate   a
noble    characteristic—one worthy of
emulation    by   all
boys and all girls.
In the July,   1919,
Record     we     told
the story of Chief
Man itowog   and
the worn-out Bible
which he  brought
to the Bible House
for  rebinding.
Chief   Manitowog,
a full-blooded  Indian of the Siwash
tribe,from the state
of Washi n gton,
came to New York
in 1914, to appear
in the Hippodrome.
Sixty - five years
had been spent in
rough and perhaps
reckless living,partly in   service with
I Buffalo Bill and va-
I rious circuses. Here a concealed weapon found
I on him led to his imprisonment at Sing Sing,
j where his reading of the Scriptures led to his
conversion. The following letter needs no
I comment except that the American Bible So-
I ciety exists for the  circulation of the Bible
without note or comment and is supported
■ by voluntary contributions."—Bible Society
' Record,   Dec. 1920.
"My dear Sir:—lam mailing to you these
five dollars out of my own earning to want
nothing but for the good works ye people 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 my God, that
His Gospel reached my heart to the very spot
where it should be touched, that today I am a
new-born 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 wouderfull change in my life. I wish the
American Bible Society prosperity and great
success, and may our God bless all ye people
who are interested in the Lord and His works.
"Thank yon very much fur the good work ye
done to cry 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. ''
of the Creek Nation) as a delegate to Washington. Mr. Hodge claimed that he had met
and talked to every president of the United
States since Andrew Jackson. The greatest
part of the work on the alphabet-dictionary of
the Creeks was done by Mr. Hodge. Every
known word and sound in the Creek language
is found in this book, both in English and
Creek. He also translated the Bible from
English to Creek, the Creek myths into English, and was co-author of a Creek-Euglish
song book. He assisted also in drafting the
Creek constitution.—Indian Leader.
Translator of Creek Indian Language Dies
David M. Hodge, know as the king of the
Broken Arrow Band of the Creek Nation, who
recently died at the age of 70, was a notable
politician among his people. He was several
times chosen by the house of Warriors or House
of Kings (Senate and House of Representatives
Indians Proud of Citizenship
Hampton, Va., Jan.—That American Indians rejoice to become United Stales citizens,
after long, tedious delays and many disappointments, and pledge their hearty support
to all that is best in American life was the
substance of a recent address which was delivered by Clayton Laymon, an Oneida Indian
from Sioux Falls, S. D., in Ogden Hall,
Hampton Institute, where 2000 citizens had
assembled to celebrate the signing, by Abraham Lincoln, of the famous Emancipation
Proclamation.    He said:
"My own tribe-—the Oneida Indians—went
from New York State to Wisconsin many
years ago and there they made rapid progress.
They have received very little from the Government, They have some money coming to
them from what is known as the Kansas
Claim. They were to have received it this last
year, and every other year since I can remember. My own opinion is that they will always
have some money coming to fcfcem'j ..1.1.1: never comes!
"Many people think that all Indians are
rich, but this is not the case, ihe Oneidas receive thirty-four cents a year for the services
that the tribe rendered during the Civil War.
By the time a farmer stops work for half a
day to go after his thirty-four cents, he is
three or four dollars out, and if he goes in
his Ford, he will spend that much and more
for gas.
"When people think of Indians they often
think of them as all living on reservations,
but many live in towns and cities. My own
family has lived in a city in South Dakota
for a number of years, and I could tell you of
numerous instances of those who are success-
full professional and business men.
"In the spring of 1918 an Indian walked into an Army recruiting office and stated that he
wished to enlist.
"The recruiting officer asked, 'Were yon
born in America?'
." 'Yes,' the man replied.
" 'Are you a citizen of the United States!'
asked the officer.
" 'No,' said he.
"The recruiting officer passed him on, describing him as having a big face, dark complexion, and a suit case. The Indian had a
right to fight for his country, but he did not
have the right to citizenship.
"My own tribe were given their citizenship
on January 1, 1920 and citizenship is rapidly
being granted to all tribes as soon as they are
proved capable of taking care of themselves.
When an Indian becomes a citizen he has
the control of his own land and money, but
before that, it is all under Government
control.
"About 225,000 allotments of land have
been made to the Indians, and during the last
three years 10,956 fee-simple patents have
been issued. All the men who fought in the
Great War were declared citizens."—Hampton Institute Press Service.