The Word Carrier (Santee, Nebraska), 1884-11

              THE WORD CARRIER.
NEW SERIES,   VOL. I, NO. IX.
Helping the Right, Exposing the Wrong.
PUBLISHED  FOR  THE DAKOTA   MISSION.
Sa.nt.eee Agency, Nebraska.
NOVEMBER, 1884.
Fiety Cents a Year.
Our Platform.
For Indians we want American
Education! We want American
Homes ! We want American Rights !
The result oe which is American
Citizenship.
The Wokd Cakkieb is published m the interest of schools and missions among the Indians. It is published for The Dakota Mission,
originally planted by the A merican Hoard in the
year 1835, in Minnesota, but now extended
over Dakota, and into Nebraska, Montana, and
the British Possessions, and carried on under
these several branches:
The American Missionary Association, (Congregational) at Santee Agency, Nebraska, and
at Oahe, Cheyenne Biver, Grand River, and
Fort Berthold, Dakota.
Th; Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions,
at Yankton Agency and Flandrau, Dakota,
and at Poplar Crepk, Montana.
The Presbyterian Board of Home Missions
at Sisseton Agency and Brown Earth, Dakota.
The Dakota Native Missionary Society, at
Cheyenne River and Devil's Lake, Dakota
Santee Normal Training School, at Santee
Agency, Nebraska, is our principal school for
all this field, for Higher education and normal
training. Therefore, while presenting the
progress of our missionary and educational
work in the whole field, the interests and
work of our Normal Training School will be
made prominent.
We shall also endeavor.to give a view of the
-late of the work under other missionary-
societies, and underthe Government. And we
cordially invite the co-operation of those who
have been our friends in the past and of all new
workers in the field.
Published monthly at 50 cents a year. Send
for it to Alfred L. Riggs, Editor and Publisher,
■Santee Agency, Neb.
fEntered at the Santee Agency Postofficeas
second class matter.]    '
The second annual Lake Mohonk
Conference of the.friends of the Indians held at the hotel of A. K. Smiley
was an occasion of much interest, it
was attended by a goodly number of
! representative men and women. And
I'» discussions seem to have been well
fanned and likely to result in more
j unity of idea, and concert in action.
The members of the Conference
|agreed to snpport the Coke bill (Senate
r8)on Indian Rights, and the Davis
f*1" (Senate 1755) regarding the open-
JDoOf the Great Sioux Reservation.
WW are still before the  House and
Mil c,
me up this winter.
jjV more such Conferences like that
H-e Mohonk we can have the bet-
*■ There is still much to learn and
T"'1' to do. Up to the present a great
I °t strength has been wasted in
£""8 at unattainable if not undesir-
eilcls. Sentiment has often overbed sense. But now we believe
■* ons are being brought down to
i hai'<l Dan of practical reality. This
purably so afc least.
|nethl'ng that  has contributed  to
be something more than "'excursion"
knowledge before they can be confident
that they know all the conditions of
the case. On one question, that of Indian Education, they can never give
an opinion that is worth much, until
they have taught school in the Indian
country themselves.
What will be the outlook for Indian
civilization and education with a Democratic administration? Not so very
bad, we think. The Indians can count
some of their best friends in the
Democratic ranks. And, as a body,"the
Republicans will remain on the side of
Indian progress. And now that they
do not have to "run the machine" they
will have more time for the work of
statesmen.
The Sitting Bull combination show
that was touring in the east has come
to an untimely end, and have returned
to their Agency at Standing Rock, Dakota. It turns out, as we surmised,
that it was a private speculation, in
which Agent McLaughlin's wife was
interested as interpreter. Some parties
who were left out of the speculation
kicked up a fuss and secured an order
from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs sending the party back home. At
least, so the papers say.
St. Mary's School.
St Mary's Boarding School for Girls
(Episcopal) was re-opened in October,
temporarily in the old buildings formerly used by Hope School, who are
now nicely domiciled in their beautiful new quarters. Mrs. Jane F. Johnstone, lately house-mother of St. Paul's
School, Yankton Agency, takes charge.
Miss Francis is still the teacher. We
quote from a circular issued by Bishop
Hare in the interests of this school:
''As tbe Indians in the neighborhood
of the former location of St. Mary's
School are comparatively well provided
with schools and churches, it has been
determined not to re-erect St. Mary's
School on its old site, but to transfer
the institution to some point nearer
the large mass of heathen Indians farther west, who are as yet comparatively unreached. The new building has
not been begun^ because it has been
thought wise to wait for the further
development of the railroad system
which is surrounding the Indian
country, and to choose a site only after
prolonged inquiry and personal inspection of locations that may seem eligible.
Miss Ives and Miss Graves (Sister Mary)
have retired from St. Mary's School
and will engage in work more consistent with the ill-health of the latter,
and with the duty which Miss Ives feels
she owes her. Ail who were connected with St. Mary's School have been
inexpressibly cheered by the cordial
sympathy which the burning of the
school called forth, and by the contributions which have been made fori
re-furnish
stone will do most efficient work in her
new position. Though it will be impossible for her to surpass the successful administration of Miss Ives.
New Helpers.
We greet several new helpers at
Santee. Miss Helen A. Dunlap, of
Keokuk, Iowa, a graduate of Wellesley
College comes to take charge of the
new department of Drawing. Her
work will be heard from.
Mr. Clarence F. Dick of the Minnesota State Normal School at Winona,
comes as Assistant Principal, and Superintendent of the Young Men's Hall.
While the young have earned high
praise for the orderly and gentlemanly
way in which they have deported themselves under the supervision of Miss
Kennedy and Mrs. Wood, yet the incoming of Mr. Dick is timely and helpful to all concerned.
Miss Corabeile Fellows comes as a
missionary of the Woman's Indian
Rights Association. She will assist in
various capacities and at the same time
be pursuing her studies in the native
language and become initiated into the
practical part of mission work. Her
church, the First Presbyterian of
Washington, D. C, Dr. Sunderland
pastor, have given her a hearty send
off.
Visitors at Santee.
The Mission Meeting at Yankton
Agency brought several of our mission
friends within range, and we had the
good fortune to "bring them down" at
Santee. Our genial friend, Rev. C. L.
Hall, of Ft. Berthold Mission, beamed
on us for a day or two before the meeting; but we could not capture him afterwards. But we were more favored by
Miss M. C. Collins and Thomas L.
Riggs, of Oahe, and Mrs. Martha R.
Morris and Miss Hyslop, of Sisseton.
Mrs. Morris and Miss Hyslop gave us
a real good visit. For their sake we
wish it had been a month later, as they
were intent on studving the school.
Prof. Albert Salisbury, Superintendent of Schools of The Am. Miss. Association, paid us the visit we have long
been looking for, October 5-8. Such
visits are good and healthy. It was to
be regretted that some of our teachers
were not on hand to be advantaged by
it.
Rev. J. P. Williamson gave us a few
hours on Oct. 17. And in that short
time laid out enough work for a year,
some of which we became surety for.
It must be discouraging to Mr. Williamson to find other people can't keep
their end of the beam even with him.
Mrs. M A. Snider, wife of the U. S.
Indian Agent at Poplar River, Montana, came in November, bringing a
fine delegation of scholars; five girls
and one boy of these are Assinaboines,
the first of that trih
Tlie Carlisle  Tiew.
One of our teachers who was sent
west recently, in charge of returning
pupils, while at an Agency makes the
following observations:
"lam perfectly disgusted with the
thought of trying to help an Indian in
his own home. I do not feel any surprise at the homes or people, but I realize now the impossibility of much improvement even with house, farm, and
church. These three sounded well to
my ears when in the East, but a house
does not locate them, a farm does not
make them industrious, and the church
influence is very weak. I almost believe that with them, being confirmed
is the only thing they have to do in order to be good Christian people, and so
they rest satisfied. Civilized clothes
does not change the Indian. I would
not be an Indian Agent for gold."
On the question of Indian education the Carlisle School is the embodiment of the idea that nothing should
be done for tlie Indian in the Indian
country. Not only is he to be taken
away young and taught, but he ought to
be kept away and never go back again.
The above extract from the Morning
Star is an explanation in part of this
singular and one sided view of the
question. This reveals the fact that
this teaeher and presumably others who
hold the Carlisle view, do not know
what is involved in this work of reclaiming the wild Indian, and when
they gain a glimpse of the actual problem, it scares them, and they rush back
home.
The way to do any hard or disagreeable work, is, not to shut our eyes to
the knowledge of what is to be done,
but if possible to go to the bottom of
the case, and then what is done will be
well done, and will stay done.
An independent young Cherokee has
struck out for himself outside of the
lines, and this is what he writes to his
home paper, The Cherokee Advocate:
"I have bought 46 acres of land and
will soon put up a house and move into
it; where I expect to make me a little
home. I come to the conclusion that
where a man can make a living, and
always have good health, he ought to
be contented, for any ones health is
worth more than anything else. I am
now a citizen of the United States, and
of tbe Indian Territory too: So you see
an Indian has the advantage of a white
man. An Indian can go to the States
and become a citizen without marrying
a Squaw, and a white man can't go to
the Territory and become a citizen unless he does marry a Squaw. "Hurrah
for us Indians."
The result of the recent mission of
Gov. Edmunds and Judge Shannon to
the Yankton Agency is told by the
Press any Dakotaian as follows: "Governor Edmunds and Judge Shannon,
of the Sioux Commission, returned today from a trip to Yankton agency.
They visited the agency for the purpose of conferring with the Indja
relative tc