The Word Carrier (Santee, Nebraska), 1926-03 - 1926-04

              The Word Carrier
OF
SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
VOLUME  LV
HELPING THE  RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG
NUMBER   2
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
March-April, 1926
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An Indian is the Champion
Highway Bricksetter
James Garfield Brown,
a full blooded Oneida
Indian, broke the
world's brick setting
record on a Kansas
highway. He set 46,-
644 nine-pound bricks,
as this picture shows
him doing, in six and a
half hours. His nearest competitor was
Frank Hoffman, an
Austrian, who set 1,155
less brick than that in
the same time. This Mr. Brown is known
as "Indian Jim". When he is working he
keeps six men busy bringing the brick to
him. He laid 218 tons, or five car loads of
bricks in the time mentioned, which was seven
and a half tons more than his opponent.
"Jim used to be a Carlisle foot ball player.
There was a celebration on the completion of
this highway attended by 12,000 people, tho
there was a drizzling rain."    The brick-laying contest was the most popular feature of
the day's program.    Brown did not appear
to rush thru his work.    Each brick was laid
flat   and   snugly   into  its  appointed
Hoffman almost attained with sheer energy
and strength what sinewy Jim did with machine-like prelection."
Brown    received    the
prize of $200 and Hoffman's  share  was  $40
and  expenses.—From
article   by   Develle
Thatcher.    Cuts from
Highway Magazine.
The  Indian   Rights
Association,   of which
Herbert Welsh is president and Matthew K.
Snitten secretary, recently celebrated the
forty-third anniversary of its organization.
Mr." Welsh was a charter member, the idea
being suggested to him and an associate, Mr.
Henry S. Pancoast, during a chance visit of
theirs to the Sioux country in 1882.—The
Native American.
Our   Platform
For Indians we want - merican Education! We
want America: Humes! We want American Rights!
The result of which is Vn'ierican t 'itizenship! And the
Gospel is tlie Power nf <In    for their Salvation!
"The American Indian Progressive Association" is the latest organization to come
to our notice assigning as its object the advancement of the American Indian in citizenship and the promotion of his general welfare. The headquarters of the Association are
at 812 North Hollenbecb Street. Los Angeles,
Calif. A quarterly four-paged paper to be
known as the Okeh will give publicity to the
activities and ideas of its editor, P. Narcha,
and his associates, for a consideration of $1 a
year. We reprint from the initial number
of this paper some statements as to the aims
of the Association and shall be interested in
the future numbers.—The Native American.
Indian Director
A full-blooded American Indian, James E.
Deaton, has been elected a member of the
Board of Directors of the International Railway Company, Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Deaton
was born in North Dakota, is a member of
the Mohawk tribe, was educated at Carlisle
where he was a member of its football team,
and is a veteran of the Spanish-American
war. He is the first employe to be elected
to the Board.—Cincinnati Union.
Conference of the Friends of the American Indian
January 18 ano 19, 1926.
People present: There were perhaps three
different opinions represented here. First,
those who are close to the Government, particularly Mrs. Seymour, one of the Indian
Commissioners. Second, those close to the
practical side of the Indian, especially missionaries, secretaries of mission boards and
the representatives of tbe Indian Rights Association. Third, scientists, particularly represented by Dr. Bates of Cornell and several
physicians. Unfortunately, no Indians were
present.
Organization:   Mr.   Edward   Wistar,  chairman,  Mr.  Matthew K. Sniffin, Secretary.
The following subjects were taken up:
I. Pyramid Lake, Nevada: In short, tbe case
of these Indians is, that their reservation
was established, and afterwards squatters
settled on part of the land reserved for
them. Congress passed a bill for a survey
to determine the rights of these squatters.
The Bureau's report, however, was not satisfactory to the settlers, and at the present
time another survey has been authorized. It
is feared that only the settlers' viewpoint
will be represented before the survey commission, and the conference took action looking toward proper representation of the Indian interests. We understand that some of
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The Beginnings of the
Dakota Mission
In its address to the
Public   in  November,
1811, the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign  Missions   declared   that
their attention would
first be directed to the
Birman empire; and in
the West, to the Cag-
hnawaga tribe of Indians.    At their 6th
annual meeting in Salem, Mass., in  1815,
they voted: "That the Prudential Committee
be directed to employ some suitable person
or persons to visit St. Louis, St. Genevieve
and any other places, as they shall deem expedient, to ascertain and report to this Board
what measures are most eligible for diffusing
the'light and benefits of Christianity among
the Aborigines in the western and southern
parts of our country."
One year later, we read in the report of the
Prudential Committee:- "Although the object
of civilizing and Christianizing the small and
scattered tribes of American Indians bears no
comparison in  magnitude with that of evangelizing the vastly numerous   and   crowded
population of the Eastern world,  yet it is an
object of too great importance  to  be  overlooked, deeply interesting in itself and presenting   very   peculiar
claims upon  the  consciences,   the feelings,
and  the liberalities of
American   Christians.
Nor   should   it  be   regarded   as  a  hopeless
enterprise."
The annual report of 1833 mentions"some
of the tribes situated along our frontier settlements, where no missions have ever been
established, or arc contemplated so far as
they know, b.y any other missionary society;
but which can easily be approached, and
among which they think missions should be
attempted as soon as suitable laborers can be
obtained." Among these tribes are "The
Sioux, a numerous and warlike tribe, occupying the country north of Missouri extending nearly from tbe Mississippi to the
Missouri river. Their number is not known,
but may probably amount to 10,000 orl 5,000.
They are said to be a noble band of Indians,
and very little under the influence of white
men."
Finally in the spring of 1834, Dr. Thomas
S. Williamson, previously a physician in
Ripley, Ohio, and then a student of theology
in Lane Seminary, who had offered himself
as a missionary of the Board, visited the Indian tribes west of the Mississippi and north
of the state of Missouri for the purpose of
ascertaining what could be done to introduce
Christian instruction among them. He started on his tour about the first of May, proceeding up the Mississippi River as far as
Fort Snelling, which is situated at the junction of the St. Peter's River with the Mississippi and about forty miles below the falls
of the St. Anthony, having been kindly
ftirnished with letters from the Secretary of
War, recommending him and his objects
to the agents and military officers of the
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