The Word Carrier (Santee, Nebraska), 1901-05 - 1901-06

              the Word Carrier.
VOLUME   XXX.
HELPING   THE   RIGHT,   EXPOSING   THE   WRONG.
NUMBER   1.
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
MAT-JUNE, 1901.
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 I
And the gospel is the Power of God for
their Salvation!
OUR MISSION COUNCIL.
The Congregational branch of the
Dakota Mission has a council of the
heads of the Mission stations and
the New York Secretary in charge
of the Indian field. This meeting is
held in May. It discusses topics of
special interest in the prosecution
of the work, and, taking in view the
needs of the whole field, agrees on
the estimates for the coming year
that are to be presented to the Executive Commitee of the A. M. A.
This year the Council was appointed to meet at Rosebud Agency with
Rev. J. F. Cross. But an epidemic
of small pox stepped in and barred us out. Therefore Santee was
again chosen. The date had been
set for the twenty-fifth. This too
was set aside and our May meeting
met the first of June.
This year we have had the unusual honor of a special visiting Commission sent one by the Association,
consisting of Dr. Win. Hayes Ward,
Dr. L. C. Warner and Dr. F. P.
Woodbury. Mrs. Warner accompanied her husband and was a valuable addition to the commission.
Eighteen years ago Dr. Ward visited
the field, and left a happy memory
wherever he went. So he was doubly welcome this time. We hope
they may all come again in much
less than eighteen years.
The route of the Commission was
via Oahe through our Cheyenne
River mission field under the escort
of Rev. Thomas L. Riggs; on to
Grand River to Miss Collins' station,
then to Fort Yates and Cannon Ball
in North Dakota, under the guid-
ence of Rev. G. W. Reed, thence
down on the east of the Missouri
river by rail to Santee. Dr. Woodbury however had gone a round of
his own; first to Oklahoma to visit
Mr. Wellman, then to Crow Agency,
Montana, to take a look at Mr. Burgess' field, and back southwardly by
way of Rosebud. Dr. Woodbury
and Mr. Cross arrived from the
west a bou t fifteen minutes before the
delegation from the north came in.
Rev. C. L. Hall of Fort Berthold,
T. L. Riggs of Oahe, Miss Collins of
Grand River and Mr. Reed of Fort
Yates had joined in with the Commission along the road.
A morning session at eight o'clock
Sunday morning was a fellowship
meeting with delightful spiritual
communion. The two sessions of the
afternoon took up some of the topics
laid out in the program for discussion. First, a catechism on the
questions, 1. What is the average
unconverted Indian's conception of
Christian doctrine ? 2. What is his
present attitude toward missionary
work in his behalf? 3. How can
any spiritual appetite be stimulated?
Second, the topic: How best to promote the growth and proper development of our churches, the discussion of which was opened by
a paper by T. L. Riggs, leading
chiefly along the line of their financial training and development in
self support.    A late evening ses-
chorus,-
CHEMISTRY-
sion, after the hour of the evening service, was given to reports
from   the  different  fields.
The regular Sunday services were
all attended and the sessions of the
Council were crowded in between.
Dr. Wm. Hayes Ward preached to
the morning congregation and Dr.
L. C. Warner spoke in the evening to the Young Men's Christian
Association, about the organization
of the society in all its different departments and the
wide reach of its
work. Our Y. M.
C. A. held their
closing meeting of
the school year on
the previous Fri
day, with an elaborate program, hoping that Dr. Warner the head of the
International Committee, might be
with them.
Then Monday was
chiefly given up to
the details of the
yearly estimates.
A few excursions
were made in intermissions, to get
glimpses of our
Santee school work.
Two-fifths of the
money expended on
the Dakota mission
is put into Santee,
but less was seen
of it than any other part of the field
that was visited.
One session   for
general discussions
SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
The program for the closing of
sehool, on the evening of June 14,
was a dramatic representation of
actual school work. The geographical and historical presentations were
in the costumes of the times and
races to which they belonged, and
were very effective with the audience.
The musical choruses that punctuated the program were charming.
PROGRAM.
i>-A_:h,t i.
"The Dawn of Day,"       -        Reay
*   *
SCIENCE.
Plant Constituents and  Food Analysis,       -       -       Alice G. Frazier
GEOMETRY—Measure of Altitude,        Fred Frazier
BIOLOGY—Insect Mouths,
Jennie I. Conger
GEOGRAPHY-
-Dress, dwellings, industries, customs and
characteristics of people as affected by
geographical conditions,—represented
by costumes, drawings, modelings and
recitations:
China—Ralph White  and Mabel Jones
Volcanic Islands-
-John J. Howe and
William H. Picotte
Japan—Jessie  H. Frazier and
James M. Baker
The Philippines—Theresa H. Armell and
Edward Youngeagle
Hawaii-
-Fannie H. West and
Albert C. Mitchell
India—Adam Paul and Lucy H. Kitto
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CHILDREN'S    CHORUS—
"Come Away to the Daisies,"        -        Veazie
*   *
HISTORY.
What different Peoples and Times have given to
the World:
HEBREWS-
RELIGION,    -
GREEKS-
KNOWLEDGE,    - ,
-   George T. Firecloud
Minnie C. Robertson
-   Ignatius R. Ironroad
- Howard E. Frazier
Henrv C. Cloud
ROMANS-
OBEDIENCE to Law,
SAXONS—
Self Reliance,
CHIVALRY-
GENTLENESS and Service,
AGE OF ELIZABETH-
DESIRE for Better Material Things,
Mary L. Cote
puritans-
Better Spiritual Conditions,
David P. Flyinghawk
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROMOTIONS  and     -
-    ~    PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES
*   *
CHORUS-
Serenade,
Schubert
gap between Federal and State jurisdiction, practically
anarchy, only modified by the illegal
interference of the
Indian agent.
On Tuesday morning our friends flitted and were gone.
This visit was like
the bright flash of a
summer bird, gone
before we could
enjoy it. From
late Saturday night
to early Tuesday
morning is all too
brief a time to
spend, after traveling so many weary
miles to come together, and with
such intricate problems to consider.
the celebration of Dominion Day. If
this were a general invitation sent out
to all alike whereby the Indians would
go iuto the sports as other men, learn
how civilized nations conduct sports,
and derive the many other advantages
to be gained by coming in contact
with intelligent people, then I should
heartily commend the directors for
their action. Unfortunately, however, such is not the case. Those who
are making arrangements to have the
Indians at the sports, know little or
nothing of the people and care still less,
excepting in so far as they can take
advantage of their ignorance aud inexperience for their own selfish ends.
"Oh," some may say, "but we don't
bear the Indians any ill will, and don't
intend to do them any harm. We
have heard about them and read of
their peculiar manners and customs,
and we would like to see them for
ourselves." Not only disappointment,
but disgust await any intelligent person who may look at the matter in
this light. The Indian who is naturally excitable, and who knows that he is
being paid for acting the clown, becomes hilarious, and his conduct is
neither natural nor edifying.
There are others who will not give
the subject that much thought, but
will sacrifice anything and everything
for money and the gratification of
their ideas of pleasure. What does it
matter to them that by their course of
action the Indians are brought face to
face with all kinds of vice which they
are quite unprepared to resist, so long
as they draw a crowd ? The Indian
falls an easy prey to their schemes,
and what is it to them that he will
return home more degraded for his
visit to a civilized (?) community? I
would like to ask what civilization
has done for man, if it has not lifted,
and does not lift him above taking a
shameful advantage of those weaker
and less favored than himself.
Under the circumstances, I earnestly hope that all who have charge of
these "government wards" will use
their authority in keeping them at
home during the holiday season, when
they cannot do any business and are
likely to get into mischief.
ONE WHO CARES.
was held on Monday. A. L. Riggs
introduced the topic, The relation
of the missionary to the industrial life of the Indian people, in a
paper which appears elsewhere in
these columns. Rev. J. F. Cross
gave a carefully prepared statement of legal conditions on Indian reservations, showing a great
MAKING A SHOW OF
INDIANS.
The drawbacks to
Indian civilization
are about the same
on both sides of the
line. And the evil
results of bringing Indians into our
holiday sports and the utter lack of
conscience in those who do it, are
well described by correspondents of
The Indian Advocate, published at
White Fish Lake, Alberta, Canada :
I notice by one of the late papers
the intention of the "sports committee" to have the Indians take part in
People sometimes say that Indian
pupils cannot learn arithmetic, and
it is indeed very hard for them.
They seem to be, as Hawley Smith
says, "born short" in that direction.
However, we shall, I think, agree
that it was not shortness that
prompted the reply of the boy of
whom this story is told, and we
shall sympathize with him in the
spirit of his answer. The teacher
had been laboring with the class to
lead them to appreciate a fraction
of a fraction. It had been discussed
with the help of circles or "pies" on
the blackboard, and they were making a good effort at understanding
it without objects. The fraction idea
still seemed to trouble them how
ever; and so the teacher again referred to the pie—"If there were
one tenth of a pie, and you could
have one half of that, how much
would it be?" A look of disgust
mingled with triumph came over
Albert's face as he exclaimed,
"Nothing!"
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