The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1923-07 - 1923-08

              e Word Carrier
OF
Santee Normal training school.
VOLUME  LII
HELPING THE RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG
NTJMBEB. 4
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
July-August, 1923
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!
The American Indian of To-day
Population The Indian population in the United
States is 340,917, an increase of
13,500 in ten years.
There are 200 Indian reservations
and 193 Indian tribes, speaking 58
different languages.
Education Five million dollars is expended annually by the Government for educating the Indians.
There are 91,968 Indian children of
school age, 6,279 of whom are ineligible for attendance, and 20,746
not in school.
Government boarding and day
schools number 251 and have an
enrollment of 24,222; the 81 mission schools have 6,470 enrolled ;
and State public schools are educating 34,301 Indians. Total enrollment, 64,943.
Citizenship Two-thirds of the Indians of all
ages are American citizens.
There are about 50,000 Indian
voters of both sexes.
About 240,000 Indians are still under guardianship of the Government.
The Supreme Court has held that
citizenship is not inconsistent with
wardship.
All members of the Five Civilized
Tribes of Oklahoma (101,000) and
Osage Nation (2,200) are citizens,
as are children born of citizen parents and those who receive patents
in fee to land.
Lands Allotments of land have been made
to 227,000 Indians, a total of
38,000,000 acres.
There are still 125,000 Indians who
have not been allotted land.
The unallotted  acreage of Indian
land is 35,000,000.
Health The Government appropriated
$370,000 to care for the health
of the Indians in 1923.
There are 78 hospitals and sanatoria with bed capacity of 2,400.
There are 150 physicians in the
Indian Service, 80 nurses, 70 field
matrons, and 7 traveling dentists.
The number of Indians treated in
1922 was 20,000.
Death rate among the Indians,
1913, was 32.24 per thousand, in
1920 death rate was 22.33.
Religion 48,000 Indians are affiliated with
Protestant churches, and 59,000
with Catholic churches.
There are 400 Protestant and 200
Catholic missionaries working a-
mong tbe Indians.
Industrial     44,200 Indian  families live in per-
Advance-    manent houses.
ment Indian farmers number 40,962, and
they are cultivating 890,700 acres
of land.
The  value  of all cattle owned by
the Indians is $35,000,000.
Oil and Gas In 1922 there were 28,940,934 barrels of oil produced on lands of the
Osage nation.
There was $11,700 distributed, per
capita, to the Osages in 1922 from
royalties on oil and bonuses from
leasing of oil land.
A total of $111,863,530 has been
received by the Osage Tribe in royalties and bonuses from oil lands.
The production of oil and gas on
land of Five Civilized Tribes of
Oklahoma in 1922 was 8,200,000
barrels.
Irrigation There are 1,392,379 acres of irri-
and Timber gable Indian land; actually irrigated, 366,000 acres.
$25,592,436 has been expended by
the Government on irrigation systems to date.
The irrigation projects now under construction involve 605,000
acres.
The board feet of timber on Indian reservations is estimated at
35,000,000,000, with a value of
$100,000,000.
i Finance     $422,000,000 have been  appropriated  by the  Government for  the
Indians from 1871 to date.
The value of all Indian property is
estimated at $1,000,000,000.
The amount of tribal funds held in
trust on interest at 3 to 5 per cent
by the Government for the Indians
is $25,000,000.
The   funds   of
held  in   trust
$35,000,000.
There  are  256  employees  in
SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL
INDIAN SCHOOL
OP THE
American Missionary Association
OF THE
CONGREGATIONAL   CHURCHES
individual  Indians
is    approximately
Miscellaneous
the
Indian Office in Washington and
5,361 in the field service. Two
thousand of these employees are
Indians.
12,000 Indians served in the world
war.  $25,000,000 have been invested in Liberty bonds by Indians.
—From circular letter of the
Secretary of the Interior.
lay 19=24, 1923
Nevada Solicitous for Education of Indians
To educate the Indian population of Nevada,
the State department of education is cooperating with the Federal Government in encouraging the Inditius to attend the public school.
The 1920 Federal census showed that Nevada
had 2,040 illiterate Indians, accounting for
more than half of the 3,802 illiterate persons
in the "tate. The large number of Indians is
the cause of the high percentage of illiteracy
in the State as compared with neighboring
States on the east and north, according to the
Nevada Educational Bulletin.
The Federal Government, through the Indian agency at Reno, which has charge of all
the Indians in the Nevada public schools, pays
tuition to the school districts for all Indian
pupils at the rate of 40 cents a day for each
pupil. For the school year 1921-22 a total
of $10,720.99 was paid to 31 districts, an
average of about $345 for each district. All
such money is turned into the county treasury, where it is placed to the credit of the
school districts.
The Indian children are as a rule very tractable in school and eager to attend school and
to learn, says the Bulletin. Some of the Indians have ceased to be wards of the Government and have removed from the reservations,
no longer maintaining their tribal organization. These have adopted the customs of
white people and have become citizens of the
State, and in providing education the State
and the counties make no difference between
them and other races.—School Life.
Saturday   -   -
-    2:
30 p.
m. Final Baseball Game
with South Dakota
State Normal.
Sunday     -   -
Tuesday,    -   -
- 7
- 8
30 p
00 p
m. Special Sermon   to
the School,
m. Alumni Meeting.
Wednesday
/
45 p.
m. Musical Recital.
Thursday  -   -
-    1
30-3
00 p. m. School Exhibits
3
3
00-3
45-1
45 p. m. Drama—Pied
Piper.
30 p. m. Drama—Joseph
7
45 p.
m. Closing Program
The close of school program for this year,
the 53d anniversary, was as good as any we
have ever had and in some ways showed some
progress as usual. Rev. John Wright gave
the school a good sermon, fitting the occasion. Santee alumni associations have been
organized for several years over all the Indian country from which we have had pupils,
in North and South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota and Nebraska. In the annual alumni
meeting at the school, held on Tuesday evening, letters were read from several far distant members and many speeches of appreciation of the school were made by those
present.
Musical  jRcrttal
UrourHnair Eumnrtg
,   / a. Eskimo Lullaby,          -       -       -       Gaynor
1- \b. The Cello,	
Marian Lawson
2. Daffodils, Plenning
Nora Antoine
3. Merry Brook, Richer
Alice McGregor
4. Happy Birdlings,       ....      Schmitt
Roslyn Whitebull
5. By the Campflre, Paldi
Reginald Lawson
6. Minuet in G,       -       -       -       -        Beethoven
Margaret and Elizabeth Wright
7. Spring Song,   -       -'■■.-       - Mendelssohn
Rachel Keeler
8. June Roses, - Frezevant
Sarah Reddoor
9. The Glow Worm, Osten
Gladys Ripley
11. Palms, Faure
Phoebe Redlightning
12. Humoreske,     -       -       -       -      - Dvor'ak
Alice Bird
13. Scarf Dance,       ...       -       Chaminade
Edith DeCory
14. Columbine, DeLahaye
Winefred Wallter
15. Les Sylphes,        ....        Bachmann
Edna Frazier
16. Second Mazurka,    - Godard
Ethel Frazier
17. Witches' Dance, op. 17,      -       -       MacDowell
Virginia Benjamin
18. To Spring, Greig
Julia Keeler
The above musical program was one of the
best we have ever had at the close of school.
All of the parts were well played and some
exceptionally well done.    There was an en-
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