The Word Carrier (Santee, Nebraska), 1887-01

              THE WORD CARRIER.
NEW SERIES,   VOL. IV.   NO.   I.
Helping the Right, Exposing the Wrong.
PUBLISHED  FOR   THE  DAKOTA   MISSION
Santee Agency, Nebraska.
JANUARY, 1887.
Fifty Cents a Year.
Our Platform.
For Indians ave avant American
Education! We want American
Homes ! We want American Rights !
The result of avhich is American
Citizenship.
f|& Utaaji Cannrito
IS  PUBLISHED  FOR
fusing applications for land upon the
Santee reservation, covered by Indian
allotments. This settles the question
as to these lands. It was hoped by
many that the secretary would reverse the decision and allow entries
upon the lands that had been set aside
for Indians and their children.—Niobrara Axe.
THE DAKOTA MISSION,
in the interest of schools and mis-ions among
the Indians, with special reference
to the work of the
Santee Normal Training School
A. L_. RIGGS,
EDITOB AND  PUBLISHER,
Saivtee Agency, Neb,
Tebms-
-One copy $    .50
Five copies      2.00
Ten copies     3.00
[Entered at the Sautee Agency Postoffice
as second class matter.]
President Cleveland renews his
recommendation of last year for the
creation of a permanent Indian Commission. Not to displace the Agencies already existing for the care of
the Indians, but as an auxilliary to
those already established.
The Secretary of the Interior is
giving up someAvhat his affection for
the old reservation system and is
more heartily in favor of bringing
pressure to bear upon Indians to
make them take up lands in severalty.
Indian School Superintendent,
Riley, recommends supplying libraries to the Government Boarding
Schools and asks for an annual appropriation for at least $3,000.00 for that
purpose. AVe hope he may get it,
but Avhen he does Ave can assure him
that he will have no more difficult
work in his whole superintendency
than the selection of those books.
Many of the newspapers  are remarking upon the  trace  of Indian
blood alleged to be in  Gen.   Logan's
family.    It is a fact  quite  generally
misunderstood    that    Indian   blood
is widely diffused, although in  most
localities  very much  modified.     In
some parts  of  Arkansas,  Missouri,
Kansas    and   Texas   many   of   the
wealthy and influential families not
only bear  strong  marks  of   Indian
pedigree, but take pride therein.    It
must be remembered,   however, that
the  five  civilized tribes  of   Indian
Territory are so different in habits
and characteristics from the uncivilized Indians  as to be  partically  a
distinct people, and that the  better
classes of the former can  hardly  be
regarded as inferior to the Avhites  of
the surrounding states.    The wife of
the wealthiest  citizen  of   Crawford
county, Kan., is a daughter of one of
the Indian tribes, and is the mother
of an interesting family of Avell-edu-
cated children.    It may also be stated
as a curious fact that the last surviving descendant of Isaac Brandt,  the
famous   renegade   in   revolutionary
days among the New York Indians,
is the Avife of A. C. York, one of the
Avealthiest   citizens    of  Fort   Scott,
Kan., a brother of  Dr.  York whose
murder by the Bender family led to
the discovery of the horrible work of
those miscreants and to their extermination.—Sioux City Journal.
Report
School
The whole Indian people of this
country are to be congratulated upon
the re-election of the Hon. Henry L.
Dawes, to the United States Senate.
No people have ever had a more faithful advocate than he. His strength
lies in the fact that is so thoroughly
sincere. He is no partizan, but seeks j r\ent, says,
to know what is right and best and
then follows it unswervingly. It is his
great honor that even his political
opponents believe iu him and trust
him.
The next Government Educational
move is to establish an immense
Indian Boarding School in the neighborhood of the Great Sioux Reserve,
to offset the two hundred and fifty day
schools which should have been established under the treaty of 1868,
and to eat up the accumulated two
and a half million dollars. It will
be easy enough to spend the money.
It is another thing to bring the best
results out of its expenditure.
Secretary Lamar has affirmed j the
action of the U. S. Land office in re
el    the    Indiau
Superintendent.
In his report for 1886 to the Secretary of the Interior, John B. Riley,
Indian School Superintendant,
touches a very weak joint in the
system of Indian School supersision
wheu he says, "I found that the
Indian School Superintendant, who
is held in a great degree responsible
for the successful operation of the
Indian School system, possesses no
authority to director control the
operation of that system." J. H.
Oberly, the preceding Superinten-
The Indian School Superintendent does not possess official
authority that enables him to efficiently control the Indian school system. He has no official powers. He
is a superintendant Avho must superintend by indirection—by inducing
another officer to act upon his suggestions and recommendations."
Mr. Riley   warmly   endorses   the
I boarding schools as the true educators
of Indian youth, and says, "The extra
i expense  attendant thereon  is more
than compensated by the thoroughness of the work."
He gives his testimony in favor of
professional training for Indians,
particularly for the medical profession as follows: "Indian physicians
trained in our medical colleges might
render valuable service for their race
in  destroying the  influence  of the
'medicine men,' and in giving instruction in hygenie laws. Such
physicians would possess greater influence with them than those now
performing this service at the various
agencies, under government appointment. Indian youths Avho haA-e
acquired such an education as Avill
enable them to intelligently pursue
the study of medicine, should be
encouraged to enter the field and
government aid should be afforded
them."
Of the capabilities of the Indian,
he  says,   " That the Indian may be
civilized and made a self-supporting, I
intelligent   citizen,   has   been   fully I
demonstrated, although many, unac- j
quainted   Avith  the   rapid advancement made by every tribe that has
been afforded an opportunity to learn
the  Avays of  self-support, still  look
upon him as an untamable savage or
regard   his   civilization as a remote
possibility.
The story of hundreds of years of
oppression and wrong, handed doAvn
from generation to generation, has
rendered it difficult for them to
believe that the government is actuated by disinterested motives in the
beneA'olent efforts noAV being made in
their behalf. (Heaven save the mark!
It will take many hundreds of years
of such "benevolent efforts" as are
put forth by government to lead the
Indian to believe in " disinterested
motives," as Mr. Riley's own testimony proves.—Ed. )
In conclusion he says, "Nearly
three times as much money is now
annually spent by the Avar department in keeping the Indians in subjection as is expended in their civilization and education. It is not
creditable to us as a nation that so
much should be used to keep the
Indian in subjection, while so little
is used to improAre his condition."
Rev. John P. AVilliamson, on the
adAdce of his physicians, has gone to
spend the remainder of the winter
and the spring in Florida. Mrs.
Williamson accompanies him. AVe
trust he will have the courage to stay
away long enough to regain his full
strength and old-time health. In his
absence, A. L. Riggs edits the Iapi
Oaye for him.
How We Raised the Oebt.
Mother was east and father had
gone to the association at Plankinton;
only Tante was left to keep us straight.
AVe had run through the list and done
most everything except going swimming and the pilloAv fight. There
were several raw September days to
be disposed of.
Putting the play-room to rights,
one day, our throats just ached for
chocolate creams. We would make
Tante pay so much a sight of the
play-room in apple pie order. Tante
wouldn't be taxed, but would like
some jumping jacks and nuns for her
Oahe girls, and Ave could come by our
chocolate creams quite honestly.
'Twould be hard to tell Iioav it came
about, for one said one thing and one
another until out of all the Babel and
confusion we decided on a fair—a
real missionary fair.
Hoav our tongues wagged, while our
fiugers flew!   Hoav the jumping jacks
multiplied and the sedate little nuns
came trooping forth, each with prayer
book and rosary, after Avhole families
of pert looking acorn dolls! As by
magic the bright paper bits grew into
kites, mats and book markers; and
pen wipers and pin cushions—how
could Ave have a fair Avithout them?
The clay came at last. AVe had
from Thursday evening until the next
Monday afternoon. (AVhat a trying
day Sunday Avas. Do you think it
was very, very wicked counting our
jacks and nuns, and seeing Iioav much
they Avould bring?)
The dining-room table mamma let
us have, and • a string running across
the room, made a splendid trapeze
Avhere the nuns flirted and danced
Avith their jacks, the tea kettles
bubbled, and the acorn baskets
turned somersaults; oh! 'twas just
shocking! And the acorn dolls
that kept Avatch over the fancy
articles didn't behave a bit better;
they bowed and courtesied until
their heads bobbed off. Even the
brave potato man, who was marshal
of the day, could scarcely sit still on
his potato horse. Perhaps they felt
good because they were going to raise
the A. M. A. debt.
And it was just as Mabel and Olive
had said. Miss Haynes did buy a
jack and Miss Leonard a nun, and
Miss llsley and Miss Pratt both took
dolls.
Then those who had jacks wanted
nuns, and those who had nuns must
have jacks, and no one could resist
the acorn dolls—their heads rolled
off so easily. Our button-hole bouquets, too, were just one cent, and
little Ruthie Chadbourne's papa and
mamma thought missionary candy
very good for her, so they bought ever
so many little scallop shells full, at
five cents apiece.
Miss Hunter, of Greenwood, was
here, and had to buy out of politeness; and when it was all over, mamma bought us out; that Avas, we are
quite sure, out of kintliiess.
AVe had forgotten to say that father
and mother had come home. They
had to come to help buy the things,
you see.
Now that it is over, all want you
should knoAV what a happy time we
had, and send you our pennies to
raise the debt Avith.
Your friends and co-Avorkers,
Three little Riggs children and
THEIR THREE RiGGH-WaRNER COUSINS.
P. S.—We have forgotten all about
our chocolate creams.
Santee Agency, Neb., Sept., 1886.
Our Artesian Well Water.
Dr. Robert O. Riggs, of AVashing-
ton, sends us the following analysis
of the
ARTESIAN WELL.
Hypothetical Combination, Parts in 1,000,000
Potassium Chloride, K CI     55.2
Sodium Chloride, Na CI     48.2
Sodium Sulphate, Na i So 4  209.3
Magnesium Sulphate, Mg. So4   238.5
Calcium Sulphate, Ca. So. 4  564.7
Calcium Carbonate, Ca. Co. 3   141.8
Calcium Bi-Carbonate Ca H 3 2 Co.., ..    89.9
Alumina, Al. 2 0.3  ."..      4.0
Silica,Si.0.2      9.0
Free Ammonia—none.
Albumenoid Ammonia—none.
1360.6