The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1922-05 - 1922-06

              e Word Carrier
OF
SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
VOLUME  LI
HELPING THE.RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG
NUMBER 3
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
MAT-
JUNE,
1922
FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR
Our   Platform
For Indians we want American Education! Wc
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!
Miss Olive W. Riggs was assistant editor of
the Word Carrier for many years, and then
acting editor for several years more, and always showed the finest feeling for the fitness
of things in the making up of this our mission paper. Now we are sorry to announce
that because of the many and increasing responsibilities of the work that she is in she is
not able to continue her editorial connection
with The Word Carrier.
AMERICAN INDIANS ARE
INCREASING
G. E. E. Lindquist  Speaks  at the Hampton
Indian Citizenship Service
lNDJATS LEADERS AKK NEEDED
Miss Anna L. Dawes Sends dressage of
Cheer to All ludian Students
Messages I'rom Miss A. L. Dawes
Guy Laymon, an Oneida Indian from Sioux1
Falls. S. D., introduced Mr. Lindquist and also read a letter from Miss Anna L. "Dawes of
Pittsfield, Mass., daughter of the late Senator
Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, who drafted the Dawes Act, the Magna Carta which in
1887, pledged citizenship rights to the Indians.
Miss DaAves urged the Indians at Hampton
to help raise the level of the Nation by lifting
up their own race, by discoA'ering their special
gifts, by rendering service to their communities, and by using.wisely the opportunities
offered at Hampton Institute. "By the very
poAver of God himself," said Miss Dawes,
"yon will help to create a new life in all your
race; not by loud assertion, but by quiet expression of character, you will also make a new
world for all the children of men."
Roland B. Sundown, a Seneca Indian from
Akron. M. Y., sang two folk-songs—"Dove
Song" and "Ghost Dance Song."
Hampton Institute Press Service.
By Win. Anthony Avery
Hamjiton, Va.,—Instead of the Indian race
being a vanishing race, it is a race that is
gradually increasing ou account of better attention to sanitation and education, according
to G. E. E. Lindquist, who is in charge of the
Y. M. C. A. work for Iudians throughout the
United States and who, for the past twelve
years, has worked at close range Avith Indians.
Mr. Lindquist, who spoke in Ogden Hall,
Harupton Institute, at the "Indian Citizenship" service on "New Trails for the Indian,"
declared that there are today 76,000 Indian
children of school age, many of whom are
without proper school facilities. There.are,
however, some 26,000 Indian childreu in public schools and many thousand more in mission and private schools, and many iu institutions of higher learning, particularly in the
Middle West.
In addition to some 300,000 Indians in
North America, there are some two and a half
million in Central America and twelve to fifteen million in South America.
With the use of stereopticon slides Mr.
Lindquist presented some of the problems
which representative Indian tribes are facing.
He told graphically the story of Indian industries, including pottery making, basket
making, weaving, silversmithing, and bead
work; Indian religious ideas; and modern
Indian edueatiou, Avhich fits men and women
for useful living.
Indian Outlook is Hopeful
"There has come a new day for a new age,
a new hope for a race that is aAvakeniDg, and
a new future for the Indians who are just emerging into citizenship, "said Mr. Lindquist."
Less than two-thirds of the Indians are citizens of the Republic. The old Indian trail
has not changed much since the days of Cor-
onado; to the new Indian the school house
spells new opportunity, new hope, and new
cheer. In the Indian youth lies the hope of the
race. That is the word of cheer I bring to you
at Hampton."
Mr. Lindquist's message to the Hampton
Institute audience of over 1200 people was
the need of native leadership and the carrying
into action ©f the inseription which is found
on the statue of the Christian student at
Princeton: "For the better service of mankind and the coming of the kingdom of God."
Greenwood Takes the Lead
The Greenwood people have greatly surprised us and given us great joy by just now
sending $230 41 to our Santee School as the
work of the Wayawa Omniciye here. Mr.
Homer Redlightening sends this to us and
writes a very happy letter telling how he and
all the people up there went to work to do it.
Now the Greenwood people have set the
example to all the other Wayawa Omniciye.
Who Avill come up to it or beat it?
We are trying to pay the salary of our
assistant music teacher and baud leader this
year and also to do some more of the finishing
of Memorial Hall.
Santee Notes
Joined Santee Pilgrim Congregational
Church,.11-aster Sunday, April 16, 1922', school
pupils from Mr. Wright's preparation class:
Leo Bullbear, Charles Buckman, Dorsey Like-
him, Virgil LaPointe, Samuel Longfeather,
Lena Whiteshirt, Jessie Whiteshield, Bessie
Warbonnet and Reginald Lawson on confession
of faith; from the neighborhood also ou con
Conference on Work Among Indians
The Conference on Christian Work among
Indians held at Sioux Falls, So. Dak., Apr. 6
aud 7, under the auspices of the Home Missions
Council and the Council of Women for Home
Missions, was a great success. Secretary R.
W. Roundy, especially representing the first
named organization was the organizer and inspirator. Bishop Hugh L. Burleson was elected chairman and Miss Susie Meek secretary.
There was a thorough discussion of the conditions of Christian work among the Indians
based on reports presented by Rev. G. E. E.
Lindquist from the Inter Church World Survey. These covered the conditions and needs
of the Indians in Morth aud South Dakota aud
Nebraska.
A findings committee collected the results
of the conference into recommendations addressed to the denominations doing religious
work among the Indians of this region and to
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
The Conference very Avisely arranged to
further it's efforts by electing a "Continuation Committee" from representatives of the
Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Congregational
bodies, and this committee is to meet from
time to time to consider the needs of Christian
work among the Indians and to report to the
Missions Board or the Home Missions Council.
The committee is as follows: Arch Deacon Kd-
ward Ashley, D. D. chairman, Rev. Jesse P.
Williamson Secretary, Rev. John Clark of
Rosebud, Rev. A. F. Johusou of Pine Ridge,
Sup't Rudolf Hertz of Cheyenne Reservation,
Principal F. B. Riggs of Santee.
Besides those above named the members of
the couucil were: Sup't Chas. Pierce, of the
Flandreau Indian School, who came as personal representative of the Hon. Chas. H.
Burke, U. S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs;
Mr. Isaac Greyearth, traveling Y. M. 0. A.
secretary for the Indian work; E? -v. Mr.
Bolligar, missionary of the Dutch Reformed
Church of America to the Winnebagos of
Wisconsin; Mrs. R. W. Roundy, of Mont -
clair, N. J.; *S iss Hilton, Sup't Hope school,
Springfield, S. D. ;Rev. < leorge Head,pastor of
the  Indian   Presbyterian   Church   at   Greeu-
fession of faith,
Alice McGregor,
Harry Henatsch,
letter form the
Bloomfield, Neb.,
Alexander  McGregor, Jr., j wood, So. Dak.; Mr. Levi Rouillard, Episcopal
Missionary at the Rapid City School; Mrs.
Victoria Simmons, of Greenwood, So. Dak. ;
Mr. Stephen Jones, one of the secretaries in
the Flandreau Indian School; Mr. Miller, Secretary of the Episcopal Church of Sioux Falls.
Catherine   McGregor,   Mr.
Mr. Carl Carson;   and by
Congregational   Church   of
Mrs. Harry Henatsch.   And
at this same service Rev. John Wright baptized these infants: Harry Robert Henatsch,
born Jan 11, 1918, and Elizabeth Ann Henatsch, born Mar. 10, 1922, children of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Henatsch; and Donald Maxwell
McGregor, born April 29, 1920, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Alex McGregor. Rev. Albert Frazier
baptized Margaret Alice Brave, born Jan. 4,
1922, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Brave;
Henry Raymond Drapeau, born Dec. 23, 1921,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Drapeau.
Death of Miss Skea
For several years Miss Anna Skea was one
of our faithful matrons and mission workers
at Santee and Oahe. Later she labored hard
as missionary to the Sac and Fox Indians of
Iowa. Miss Skea was always most conscientiously devoted to her work. During the last
years of her life she has been sick and in
great distress but she never forgot those she
had beeu associated with in Indian mission
work. We have received a letter from Mrs.
Nellie Therme, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who
was a close friend of Miss Skea, and she says
that Miss Skea "never forgot her friends and
tried to dictate a few lines to them as long as
she could altho she was in much pain all the
time." Miss Skea died March 14th, and the
burial was at Shellsburg, Iowa.
Appreciation of the Santee Press
In writing of the great loss to our Santee
Printing Department by the fire of Feb. 28,
Rev. A. F. Johnson, Presbyterian Missionary
at Pine Ridge, So. Dak. says: "Fewpeople ever
stop to consider what a wonderful blessing the
Santee Press has been to the Dakota Indians."
We are nOAv printing the fifth number of
the fiftieth volume of the Iapi Oaye. This is
our missionary monthly news paper in the
Dakota Indian Language (Sioux language)
And many Indians are now beginning to read
our mission paper the Word Carrier, printed
in English, which is now also fifty years old.
We are also printing, for our Episcopal friends
their missionary news paper, the Anpao (Daybreak) in the Sioux language. We have also
printed many missionary and educational leaflets and booklets, which are in use among the
Indians all over the north west.
We can do more for Christian civilization
and education among the Sioux Indians, at less
expense by our Santee printing than in any
other way. Therefore we hope that all the good
friends who are interested in the progress of
these Indians will enable us to recover from
our fire loss. Our first need is an up-to-date
job press, which will cost $425.   F. B. Riggs.
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