The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1930-09 - 1930-10

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The Word Carrier
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SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
VOLUME   LIX
HELPING THE   RIGHT. EXPOSING THE -WRONG
NUMBER 5
BANTER, NEBRASKA.
September-October, 1930.
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!
INDIANS LICENSED TO PREACH
MR. AND MRS. CONGER
MARRIED SIXTY YEARS
' Mr. and Mrs, Cassius Conger of the Yankton reservation, are the parents and grandr
parents of many of our Santee p upils. A
few days ago they celebrated their sixtieth
wedding anniversary, and there was a great
gathering of friends from near and far.
Mr. Conger was born in Dubuque, Iowa,
March 12, 1851, and was the son of the first
United States Indian Agent on the Yankton
reservation, from 1865 to 1869.. Mr. Conger
often accompanied the Yankton Indians on
their buffalo and deer hunts, when they
roamed over the vast prairies of the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana. Later Mr. Conger was cowboy for the beef contractors that
drove herds of thousands of cattle up from
Texas and even from Mexico to supply beef
to the Indian Agencies and Forts all the way
to the source of the Missouri River.
From 1882 to 1887 Mr. Conger was game
keeper in the Yellowstone National Park.
Mrs. Conger (nee Julia Bruguier) was
born at Fort Vermillion, Dakota Territory,
in November, 1884, and was married to Mr.
Conger in the summer of 1870. Mr. and Mrs.
Conger have had ten children, of whom five
girls are living: Mrs. Mercy Bonnin and
Mrs. Sybil Vandall of Lake Andes; Mrs.
Georgianna Cote of Dante; Mrs. Alice Keeler of Santee; Mrs. Lucy Bonnin of Augusta,
Wisconsin.
CANADIAN INDIANS
There are two distinct differences between
Canada's and the United States' way of administering Indian affairs; one concerning
Indian land, the other Indian education.
Our government has always worked on
the theory that the Indian has a claim on the
land which he once occupied, whether as agriculturalist or as hunter. In Canada, all land
belongs to the government. When, however,
an Indian tribe is ready to settle down, the
government makes a treaty with them, assigns to the tribe enough, and only enough,
land, pays them a small annuity, and agrees
to educate their children. As soon as individuals are ready to farm, they give them as
much land as they can cultivate, but if the
Indian fails to make use of such land it reverts to the tribe. Only certain outstanding
individuals have received a patent-in-fee to
their' land. This system has saved the Canadian government all the innumerable claims
of the American Indian against our government for taking away from him some of his
land by illegal means. There may be a certain
injustice in not acklowledging the aborigine's
title to any land, but the present-day Canadian Indian, unlike his brother across the line,
is not forever looking for additional unearned
money from the government, unearned, at
least, as far as he himself is concerned.
The other great difference, that in education, is that the Canadian government, unlike
ours, does not itself run any schools for the
Indians, but entrusts this task to the churches working with the Indians. The government furnishes the land and the buildings
and about $150 to $170 a year per pupil, while
the churches furnish the employees and their
salaries. The Federal government yields inspection  of these schools  to  the provincial
During Mission Meeting at Porcupine on
the Pine Ridge Reservation the Dakota Association was in session and gave licenses
to preach to the following:
Guy Buffalo Bridger, S. D.
Edw. Yellowhammer . Standing Rock, N. D.
Harry Hawkbear Cannon Ball, N. D.
John T. Crow   Parmelee, S. D.
Leo Kutepi  Little Eagle, S. D.
Leo Littleeagle Bullhead, S. D.
Benedict Blackhoop Litte Eagle, S. D.
Earlwin Frazier    Parmelee, S. D.
Howard Frazier Eagle Butte, S. D.
Mark Stonearrow	
William Frazier	
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IRON MOCCASIN OF STANDING
ROCK A NOTABLE LEADER
Santee and Reno
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Crooks, full-blood
Dakota Sioux Indians, were married at Santee, Nebraska, July 4, 1880, and celebrated
their golden wedding, July 4, 1930 in Reno,
Nevada, in connection with the double wedding of their two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Crooks
were long-time residents of Redwood Falls,
Minnesota, and later lived with a daughter
who had business in a suburb of Los Angeles.
Mr. Crooks has been a good friend of our
Santee Mission paper, the Iapi Oaye, and has
frequently written for it.
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SON OF OUR INDIAN MISSION
GIVEN AN IMPORTANT POSITION
"Mr. Iron Moccasin is the only one of our
ordained Indian men who received his training in the government schools. His Christian
life began when he experienced a real conversion some fifteen years ago. Turning his
back on all that is evil, he soon impressed
his home community with his Christian sincerity and gift for leadership.
"The very people who had known him intimately before his conversion chose him as
their pastor. He proved one of the best we
have, and when Dr. Reed retired several
years ago as Superintendent of our work on
the Standing Rock reservation, the American
Missionary Association asked Mr. Iron Mountain to take charge of our work on the southern part of that reservation. He now lives
in Miss Collin's old home and acts as advisor
and helper to the pastors and people in four
of our churches there," .
Thus writes.a near friend of Iron-Moccasin
who has watched his progress from close at
hand.—The Congregatidnalist.
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NO PROFANITY IN INDIAN TONGUES
Mr. Evan Hall, the son of Dr. C. L. Hall,
who has been missionary to the Fort Berthold Indians for more than fifty years, has
been appointed assistant commissioner of ag-
j ricultural   development   and colonization for
I the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.  Paul Rail-
I way with office in Chicago. Mr. Evan Hall
i is a graduate of the North Dakota Agricul-
j tural college and has done agricultural extension work since 1911. For eleven years he was
county agricultural agent in the Dakotas and
Wyoming. His father, Dr. C. L. Hall, writes
that he hopes our Dakota Indians, as well as
the white folks, can get in touch with Mr.
Evan  Hall.  The  Milwaukee  railroad  wants
to be of service to all farmers and stockmen
along the line.
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LAST OF THE LINE OF MASSASOIT
.By Nelson A. Swartz, Marcellus, Mich.
From a moral point of view, the Indians
are superior to the white races in one thing:
they never "swear" or use profane language
in their own tongues, for. the simple reason
that they have no words: expressive of ..those
ideas.
Some years ago' Kelsey Isaacs, an Indian
preacher, said to me, "Indians have no swear
words in their language; If an Indian swears,
he has to do it in 'English," and the Rev.
Henry Roe Cloud, a- noted Winnebago preach-
e:r and educator, and a graduate of Yale, said
the same thing except that , he ■ used ' the
phrase, "the language of civilization" instead
of the word "English."        "•;''
Some.years ago, Dark Cloud was quoted in
The Epworth Herald as saying: "I am riot
boasting, but it is true that there is ho profane word in any Indjan -language. We marvel at the works of the Great Spirit, and
wonder that the pale-face speaks lightly 6f
the Ruler of the lightning, the flood, the sun,
the moon and the stars, and we marvel that
when angry, he dares- to use the name of the'
One who, in His anger, can destroy all."—
The Indian's Friend.
governments so that the educational standards
arc at least those of the Canadian public
school system. At the same time the children
are assured of the right kind of moral and
religious training.—Rudolph Hertz.
Miss Charlotte Mitchell, otherwise known
as Princess Wootonecanuske, last recognized
descendent of the Wampanoag Indian chief,
Massasoit, who befriended the Pilgrims at
Plymouth in 1620 and thereafter, died recently at Middleboro, Mass., at the age of eighty-
one years. Her Indian name signifies "Star
of Her People," and was the same as that
of the wife of King Philip, from whom she
was seven generations removed.
For a number of years Miss Mitchell received
a small annuity from the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts in recognition of her ancestor's
service to the white man which Indian Truth
reminds us is "a rare'instance of his inherited
gratitude." The Massachusetts Indian Association also made Miss Mitchell a monthly
grant and kept in friendly communication
with her throughout the later years of her
life.
It is well to remember the "friendly Indian" of colonial days, especially Massasoit
and Samoset at Plymouth, and whatever we
can do as a nation, as states, or as individuals
jto give the Indian of our day-his rights and
a fair chance certainly should be done. We can
never atone for the wrongs which have been
done by the white man in America to the original Americans. Fortunately a fairer record is being made nowadays than heretofore
in our Indian relations.- The Indian problem :
continues to be a challenge to all right-minded Americans.—The Congregationalist.
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SANTEE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
The annual meeting was held in connection-
with the Mission Meeting at Porcupine, on
the Pine Ridge Reservation, August 22, 1930.
The general   officers  were  re-elected:
President ... . Rev.. Amos Oneroad
Secretary JVlr. John Wood :
Treasurer Mr. David Simmons
Contributions made at  this    meeting
amounted to $87.84.