The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1904-03 - 1904-04

              the Word Carrier
OF Santee Normal Training School.
VOLUME   XXXIII.
HELPING   THE   RIGHT.   EXPOSING   THE   WRONG.
NUMBER 3.
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
MARCH- APRIL, 1904.
THIRTY CENTS PER YEAR.
Our  Platform.
for Indians  we  want  American Education!
we want American Homes!    We want Ameri-
Rights!     The   result   of which   is American Citizenship!  -And the Gospel is the power
of Cod for their Salvation!
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deliver-   The appeal that we began in No-
Fund,     vember continues to bring hearty
response from the friends of San-
Though the government Indian  schools
been  multiplied  tiR   there  is  no  more
for them, on the other band the need of
mission school work is continuaRy great-
Christian Indians are more and more ap-
iating another kind of training, which the
mment schools  can not give.    And it is
encouraging to find that there are an basing number of white people who appreciate
e conditions, and understand the need of
orting the mission school till the Christian
ns are strong enough to do more for them-
,   Since our last publication the following
ions have been made to our  deliverance
, all of which are very greatly appreciated
use we know that they mean much sacrifice
incere desire for the work.
:om Center Street S. S., Haverhill, Mass.,
•); Marjorie Warner, Washington, D. C,
00; CongT. S. S. Manitou,Col.,$9.00; First
eh Ladies, Colorado Springs, Col., $34.00,
; A. C. Wales $10.00,  S. S. $6.00; E. M.
son, Sag Harbor, N. Y., $10.00; Plymouth
or C. E., Denver.Col. $10.00, Junior $5.00;
:hurch C. E., Denver, Col., $5.00; Cong'l
Hayden, Col., $2.00, C. E. $1.50; Corban
ty of Aurora, 111., CongT church, $5.00;
■s of First Cong'l church, Washington, D.
1.00; Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hall and others,
■woods, N. D., $9.00, Mi-, and Mrs. C. W.
.nan $5.00, H. B. llsley $1.00.=$136.50.
$1336.50.    Only $63.50 more needed.
Misiiihded The Indian Rights Association and
Frier-is of other friends of the Indians are
the Indians, misguided in thinking that they are
doing the Indians a kindness in demanding a higher price for the Rosebud Reservation land that is about to be sold. The bid
that, is being pushed in Congress aRows $3.00
an acre for the land. It is said to be worth
from $10.00 to $30.00 an acre. However that
ma; be, it would be better for the Indians to receive only three doRarsfor the land, and better
yet if they received only three cents. For, as
the editor of The Southern Workman recently
Baid, "The Indian wiR make no material progress until the last acre of land has been taken
out of the reservations and put into an individual farm, anduntR the last doRarinthe federal treasury to the credit of a tribe has been distributed."
If the Indians must be paid for more land the
money should be deposited in an absolutely non-
get-at-able place for not less than a thousand
years. Ninty-nine years would not do. Nine-
tenths of the Indians woidd settle themselves
down to loafing the time out. Our government
has already made the Indians very accomplished loafers. And if there are to be continuous
prospects of getting money from the Government it wiR soon be not worth while trying to
do anything for the Indians. The Indian Rights
Association should set itself to discover how
the Indians may be prevented from getting a
single doRar other than by the sweat of their
own brows.
done with the useless school buildings when
the money is all spent! In most parts of the
Indian country there are not enough Indian
pupils to fill the government schools already
built, and only about half of those pupils are
fit to be in any school on account of their diseases. Better that the government should
leave off building schools for a whde and
make  sanitoriums instead.
Unnecessary
Indian Schools.
Congress has made an appropriation of $100,000 for an Indiau
agricultural school at Wahpeton,
North Dakota, and $40,000 for an industrial
school in Nevada. Another poRtical puR for
the spending of Indian money!    What wiR be
Our Representative Dr. Riggs is with Clark's
at Jerusalem. Kurfurst Cruise attending the
World's Sunday School Convention in Jerusalem. Many of our Word Carrier readers see the Sunday School Times and
understand all about this delightful tour to Bible lands. And we feel sure that all who are
acquainted with Dr. Riggs' long and faithful
work at Santee will rejoice that he is having so
refreshing relief. No one ever needed a vacation more. He has earned it by thirty-three
years of the closest and most self-sacrificing
labor in Indian missionary and educational
work. We are hoping that he will renew his
youth and be able to continue his work with
even more abundant success.
When Dr. Riggs started on this tour he was
in such poor health that we were all very anxious about him. But as soon as he left Santee
he began to recover. The further he went the
more he regained his strength. He crossed the
Atlantic without any sea sickness. He wrote
from Madeira, Gibraltar, and Algiers; then
from Malta and Athens, each succeeding letter
indicating a more lively enjoyment of the journey and all connected therewith. He joined
the chorus that was being trained on shipboard
to sing at the service on Mars Hill. He sent us
flowers that he picked in the Parthenon and a
Greek newspaper that we suppose he read at the
breakfast table in Athens.
But while this is being written he is on a horseback tour through Galdee and Samaria to Jerusalem. And when we speak of Dr. Riggs on
horseback the Indians all smile. It has been so
many years since he was on a horse that the
present generation think of it as an impossible
combination. Dr. Riggs will recaR his early
days in the Indian country as he horsebacks it
down through Palestine. But that is the land
of his greatest interest, and every step of it will
be a delight. And the Indians are anticipating
great revelations when the one whom they caR
Chief Pastor Teacher returns, for "he has seen
there all those places that the Bible teRs us
of!" temporary editor.
Indian Becoming Civilized.
Gen. Custer made his last stand at the battle
of the Little Big Horn, where the savage red
man laid him low. That same savage red man
is going to make his last stand here at the
World's Fair, across the lake from the Phdip-
pino, and farther to the westward, on the anthropological tract. The Indian is becoming
eivdized. Uncle Sam wiR show you that fact
this coming summer. He wiR prove it by exhibits of Indian schools and Indian products,
Indian industries and Indian arts. He wiR
show you that the American aborigine, the
first owner of the Louisiana territory, is becoming fit to be a voter, to go to congress if
he can win his election, and to be President,
of United States as a true-born American if
he be caRed to that high office.—St. Louis
Worlds Fair Bulletin.
A memorial to the Interior department is
being circulated among the mixed-bloods, and
full-bloods, too, who are self-supporting for
a settlement in full with the government, and
full-fledged citizenship.—Rosebud, fS. D.J New
Era.
Santee Normal Training  School Press,
Santee,   Nebraska.
Extracts from Dr. Riggs' Palestine Letters.
"I have made the acquaintance of Dr. Henry
Jessup and his wife, of Beyrout, now returning
home. They are guests of the cruise and as a
return he lectures almost every niglit."
Dr. TrumbuR in the Sunday School Times,
speaks of the many good lectures that they
have on shipboard preparing the Pilgrims for
the places they are to visit.
"Madeira, Funchal the queerest city. The
island a mountain six thousand feet high, and
a city of 30,000 straggling up the sides and in
the ravines of the mountain. Came ashore in
the tender. Visited the post office, the cathedral, the public gradens, the Scotch Presbyterian Mission Church. Now gathered in the
theatre for a grand meeting.''
"We had a fine day seeing Algiers. Especially
interesting was the Moorish quarter: narrow,
steep, winding streets, with holes in the walls
every few feet which were either shops or homes;
and all so dirty! And the veiled women with
their exceedingly baggy dirty white cotton
trousers looked so absurd "
"I have Bought a field glass. I found that
the definiteness of a hill or town a few miles
away was entirely changed for those having a
good glass. And I want to make the most
of the Palestine ride and not have it a mere
procession of shadows."
"This is the third day on the 'Mediterranean
and it has been beautifully quiet and blue. Today (March 22) is like a day in June at home.''
"Yesterday was a rich day at Malta. First
we landed at Valetta and took a little railroad
seven miles to Citta Vichia the old capital.
Saw the way the people farmed as we went
out there. There are no trees except a few discouraged ones in the parks. The fields are
walled up in small patches to break the force
of the hurricanes. St. Paul's bay is on the
northwest corner of the island. It was so
early when we passed in the morning that no
one could see it. But the captain kindly went
back on his course fifteen miles to give us the
chance to see St. Paul's Bay, which we did just
before dark."
"Had a grand day in Athens yesterday (March
25). It is five miles away but the Parthenon is
in sight of our ship."
, Moral Training in Primary Schools.
It must be admitted that the work of the primary school in the past has been too exclusively
inteRectual. Moral and religious instruction
have been largely relegated to the church and
the Sunday school, while the school has assumed
responsibility only for the child's intellectual
progress. Happily the conviction is growing
that the primary function of the school is not
intellectual training, but the development of
character by inducing in the child self-determined and habitual lines of behavior. The
training of the intellect alone will never produce an exalted character; neither wiR the
training of the feeling alone. The school
must train both intellect and feeling, thought
and emotion, if an ideal character is to be
the result.
The child must know and feel the difference
between doing a thing and doing it weR;,
between saying a thing and saying it well;
between mere passive obedience to authority
and conscious volitional effort in thought and
action. He must actuaRy feel pained in the
inaccurate, and the wrong, in thought, word,
or conduct. This makes the difference between
good spelling and poor spelling, between good
English and poor English, between the neat
and the slovenly, and between good conduct
and bad conduct. We may caR this element
pride, interest, ambition, or what we wRl. In its
ultimate analysis it is a combination of the moral
judgment and the artistic sense; it is conscience
in work.—From "The Southern Workman."
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