The Word Carrier (Santee, Nebraska), 1885-10 - 1885-12

              THE WORD CARRIER.
NEW SERIES,   VOL. II.   NOS.   VIII., IX., X.
Helping the Right, Exposing the Wrong.
PUBLISHED   FOR   THE  DAKOTA   MISSION.
Santee Agency, Nebraska.
OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, 1885.
Fifty Cents a Year.
Our Platform.
For Indians we want American
Education! We want American
Homes! We want American Rights!
The result of which is American
Citizenship.
Dakota Missions—Statistics for 1884-85.
STATIONS AND OUT-STATIONS,
MISSIONARIES,   PASTORS   AND
TEACHERS.
TnE Word Carkiek is published in the interest of schools and missions among the Indians. It is published for The Dakota Mission,
originally planted by the American Board 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 River, Grand River, and
Fort Berthold, Dakota.
Tha 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 whols field, the interests and
work of our Normal Training School will be
made prominent.
We shall also endeavor.to give a view of the
state of the work under other missionary
societies, and under the 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.
American    Missionary
Association.
Santee Agency Nebraska...
Pilgrim Church	
Bazil Creek	
Ponca Reserve, D. T	
Upper Town	
Oahe.D. T	
Shiloh Church	
Bad River	
Oiglauta	
Cheyenne River Agency.D.T.*
No Bows	
Two Kettles	
Bad Dwellings	
Cherry Creek	
Grand River. D. T	
Fort Berthold, D. T	
Stevenson	
Presbyterian Hoard of
Foreign Missions.
Yankton Agency, D. T	
Greenwood Church	
Hill Church	
White Swan	
Wolf Point, Montana	
Poi lar Creek. Montana	
Deer Tail	
Flandrau, D.T	
Devil's Lake Agency, D. T*
Crow Hill*	
Rev. A. L. Riggs, missionary
Rev. Artemas Ehnamani, pas-
Statistics included above —
Rev. J. E. Smith, miss'nary.
Albert Frazier, teacher	
Rev. T. L. Rig?s, missionary
Rev. S. Yellow Hawk, pastor
David Lee, teacher	
William Lee, teacher	
Rev. I. Renville, miss'nary.
TituB Jugg, teacher	
Mrs. E. Winyan, teacher	
(Tarnence Ward, teacher	
Elias Jacobson, teacher	
Edwin Phelps, teacher	
Rev. C. L. Hall, missionary
Rev. J. P. Williamson, mis'y
Rev. H. T. Selwyn, pastor....
Rev. Geo. Wood, missionary.
Miss J. Dickson, teacher	
Joseph Rogers, teacher	
Rev. J. Eastman, pastor	
Rev. W. O. Rogers, miss'ary
Joun Flute, teacher	
Presbyterian  lioard of
Home   Missions.
Sissiton Agency, D. T	
Goodwill Church	
Yellow Banks	
Head of the Coteau	
Buffalo Lakes	
Long Hollow	
Ascension	
Brown Earth, D.T	
Total.
Church
Members.
Wyllys K. Morris, missionary
Rev. C. R. Crawford, pastor.
Rev. David Greycloud, pastor
Rev. David Greycloud, pastor
Rev. L. Mazawakinyan, pastor
Rev. L. Mazawakinyau. pastor
Hev. John B. Renville, pastor
Rev. Daniel Renville, pastor
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'Supported by the "Native Missionary Society.'
it leave to the missionary societies the
work tbat belongs to them, and stir
them up all it can.
[Entered at the Santee Agency Postofficeas
econd class matter.]
Coming so long after time we feel
like one who has been spared to write
his own epitaph. The hurry and worry
of the work bas made it seem impossible to attend to the Word Carrier in
its proper time. But we still live in
hope that we shall get ahead of the
work enough to tell something of what
is going on. At any rate we shall try,
and we hope our friends will have patience a little longer.
We give considerable space in this
number to the report of the annual
meeting of the Woman's Indian Rights
Association. This association is doing
a grand work in its own legitimate
sphere, that of scattering information,
awakening interest, and helping to secure righteous legislation on the Indian
question. We can praise it so fully on
this line that we regret we cannot do
so in every way. But when this association dabbles in missionary work it
is entirely out of its spbere. We use
tlie word dabbles with careful choice,
for the association has nothing in its
constitution, organization, officering or
constituency that fits it for that branch
of work. And what it has attempted
of this sort of work illustrates well its
thorough unfitness for it. The association has a grand work of its own that
no other society can do as well.     Let
We wish to express our gratitude to
the members of the Young People's
Mission Circle of the First Congregational Church, Mansfield, Ohio, for the
chair, box and money sent to furnish
the girl's sitting room in the new dining hall. The box was full of articles
to make the room cheerful, attractive
and homelike. We wish that our
friends may step in, take a seat in the
arm chair, and enjoy the room with us.
Mrs. Sidney Strong, Misses J. Waldo,
Tracy and Sadie Avery of Mansfield,
Ohio, have presented the dining hall
with a beautiful large clock. As this
clock is to regulate the time for the
entire mission, tbe value of such a
present can be easily seen.
Miss Harriet B. Illsley and Mrs. Mary
B. Riggs, °f this mission, each give
ten dollars for the bell of the new hall.
The sound of a dinner bell is usually
musical to the ear of the hungry, but
as there are degrees even in bliss, we
trust that enougn more tens may be
added to secure one of the best Meneely
bells. 	
A little Indian girl said to her
teacher. "We have not prayed for the
poor." Her teacher replied, "Then we
will pray for the poor." So the little
girl asked the Lord, "please bless the
poor, and make them fat if you can."
The Missouri river has proved itself
as undecided as ever, this year, having
been frozen over so that loaded teams
have crossed on the ice, but the warm
sun and south wind have set the ice
afloat again, and our mail and daily
supplies are coming to us by boat, on
this, the last of December.
A gentleman whose daughter wanted
some Christmas money, was asked by
him if she would be satisfied with one
cent on the first day of December, two
cents on the second day, four on the
third, and so on, doubling the amount
each day until the last day of the
month. She declined the proposition,
as she thought the amount would not
be sufficient for her wants. Now,
what amount would she have received
if she had accepted the offer?
A little girl, nine years old, who
lives among the Indians, wishes the
proposition had been made to the Dakota Mission, because she has worked
out the problem, and finds that the
amount would be, $21,474,736.47.
Thanksgiving at Santee.
To-one who has been accustomed to
observe Thanksgiving day in New
England, a genuine New England
Thanksgiving among thi* Indian people is a delightful surprise, and one
can heartily give thanks to God for his
goodness and loving kindness to us
and to all men.
For a week previous to the happy
holiday, an air of expectancy pervades
the school. Preparations have been
made for decorating the chapel, and
immediately upon the close of the
school on Wednesday, some of the
older pupils took possession of the
chapel, and under the supervision of
the teachers, began to arrange the contributions which had been sent in for
that purpose. The people had been
asked to contribute of the fruits of
the earth as   the Lord had   prospered
the platform. High above this the
flag of our country was skillfully
draped by one of the young men. At
tbe right was a pyramid of fruit and
flowers. The appropriate mottoes:
'O, give thanks unto the Lord," and
'Maka kin Jehowa tawa," faced each
other on the long sides of the room.
Bouquets of dried grasses, clusters of
clematis and long fringes of many colored corn, depending from braided
husks, completed the decoration, making a picturesque whole.
Thursday morning dawned gray and
cloudy,   but  unusually   warm for the
twenty-sixth of November.     All were
early astir completing the preparations
for the day;   and at eleven o'clock the
chapel was filled to its utmost capacity
with an attentive audience.    The  service   was   opened   by   singing  of   the
Gloria, in Dakota, followed by the invocation, also in Dakota.    Then came
the singing of an English hymn, 'Praise
the Lord, '   which   was   sang with   an
earnestness seldom excelled by a white
congregation,   showing   Miss   lllsley's
careful   training,  and  her success  in
instilling the   meaning  of the  praise
being rendered.      The reading of tlie
Scriptures  in   both   Dakota and   English, with a short and clear address in
both   languages,   one   by   our  native
pastor and  the other  by   Mr.  Riggs,
were listened to   with eager  interest.
In addition to the contribution of the
fruits of  the earth, a contribution in
money  was taken  for the  aid of the
church   at  Devil's  Lake,  the maxim
that, lllt is better to give than to receive," having been carefully taught.
Then with the draped stars and stripes
before   them,   all   joined   in   singing
America  and were dismissed with the
benediction.
Tn caring for the spiritual and
mental wants of the pupils, the physical side of their natures had by no
means been overlooked. The matrons
of the four houses had been busy since
early morning, and the delicious odors
of roast turkey was abroad in the
land. Mrs. Riggs kindly remembered
such of the teachers as were spending
their first Thanksgiving at Santee, and
made them heartily welcome at her
pleasant table. Mrs. Steer entertained
the others, thus making possible one
of the pleasantest features of the day
■—the dinner party in the teacher's
dining room, given by six of the
young ladies at the Home, to the same
number of young gentlemen from the
Hall. One of tbe pleasantest features,
because it shows how much has been
done by the earnest workers of years
past, in rendering such an entertainment possible.
The satisfying of spiritusl, mental
and physical wants does not complete
the day. The social side of the nature
is to be satisfied too, and the evening
was given up to social intercourse.
The boys at the Cottage were invited
to the Bird's Nest, where they spent
two happy hours playing various
games; though too shy to talk much.
The young ladies entertained at the
Home, and here there was no lack of
conversation, and the many games
were entered into right heartily. The
young men were gallant and manly,
showing their appreciation of the
courtesy shown them. Music helped
to pass the time happily, and when the
signal for going home was given, all
said good-night, ready to take up the
school work   on   the   morrow, with   a
them, and   generously they responded.
Bags of corn and other grains, squashes
beets, parsnips, potatoes, were heaped jnew inspiration and a warmer zeal.
in a pyramid of plenty in the middle of ! j. e. p,