The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1908-09 - 1908-10

              The Word Carrier.
of Santee Normal Training School.
VOIATME XXXVII.
HELPING THE RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG.
NUMBER 6.
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1908.
THIRTY 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! And
the Gospel is the power of God for their Salvationes!
Only One Indian School!
Santee is the only A. M. A. Indian school.
■Retrenchments have cut out the others. Santee
appeals to the Congregational world for a generous support. We must not lose the advantages
of our last hold. A. M. A. educational work
for Indians is not competition with the Government. Christian schools for Iudians are needed as they are for white people. Christian col
leges do not compete with the state universities. Their work is different. Moreover Christian schools are not so important for the white
youth as for Indian young people. The white
environment is Christian, whereas the Indians'
Christianity must mostly come from the school.
Tbe Government school system can not be
Christian and has therefore failed. The Government has made self-support of Christian schools
very difficult by its system of Indian pauperization. Government schools are free of all expense. Tuition, transportation, food, clothing
are all free. Moreover, Indians have been led
to believe that they do a favor to any school they
attend. Under .such conditions Indians, have
been slow to pay tuition in mission schools.
Indians are beginning to appreciate the qualities of Christian schools. They are becoming
more able and willing to pay for the privilege
of attending Christian Schools, as they see the
comparative results of Christian and non-Christian education. The students from Christian j
schools are leavening the people into a genuine
and active Christian civilization, from which
is beginning to come the support of their
own schools. Meanwhile if the Congregational
churches represented in the American Mission
ary Association expect to accomplish anything
in Indian evangelization their school at Santee
is the place to push.
Among all tbe Sioux people the leading Indians of all protectant denominations have come
from Santee Normal Trainiog Sehool more than
from all other schools put together. Santee
influence is reaching strongly to other tribes.
Santee pupils come from the best of the Bees,
Mandans, Grosventre*, Crows, Omahas, Wine-
bagoes, Poncas, and even from Canada. Last
year there were 130 resident pupils at Santee
and 252, correspondence students representing
all these different Indian peoples.
Santee is the only A. M. A. Indian sahool. It
appeals to A. M, A. constituency as worthy of
an adequate support. The best way for Congregational churches to do the most for Indiana
is by pushing Santee
Santee is giving Indian young people the
most practical kind of education.   Santee pu-
 pils are thoroughly
nurtured in Bibb
study. Santee pupils are trained in
all forms of Chris-
. tiau work and Congregational organization. Santee pnpils
are taught enough
history and geography and elementary science to give
them adequate understanding of the
world, especially in
relation to the life
tbey will live. Santee aims to teach its
pupils; the element*
of every useful industry that tbey are
likely to have need
of in helping their
people to a more economical and. thrifty
Christian civilization,   F. B,
Explanatory.
The articles on Mew
Indian religion* are
reprinted from ©mr
August  number to
GENERAL   VIEW   SANTEE   NORMAL   TRAINING   SCHOOL.
tbe Annual meeting
off tbe A.. JM, A,
As Wc Start on a New Year
Santee Normal Training School opened September 12 with a goodly number of new pupils
and new teachers. Miss Margaret McLarty, of
Starkweather, No. Dak., is our new primary
teacher. Miss McLarty was educated in Belle*
vue College, Nebraska, and has been a teacher
and assistant county superintendent in North
Dakota. Miss Eveline E. Ormrod, of Hampton, Iowa, a graduate of the art department of
Cornell College, will teach drawing. She will
also take much of the academic work of Mr. F.
B. Riggs in order that he may teach manual
training.
Mr. E. G. Kendall will be farm superintendent and will also teach blacksmithing.
He brings back with him, as Mrs. Kendall,
Florence Bain, of Lincoln, Neb,, who for two
years was in charge of "The Birds' Nest,"
Mr. F. B. Biggs will have charge of tbe carpenter shop. Mr, Biggs has been studying this
summer the best methods in manual training
at the University of Chicago,
Miss Edith Leonard returns to her teaching
°t History and literature after a refreshing vacation. Miss Josephine Merrill vaHently helped to "hold the fort" at Santee this mtmme,
with only a few days vacation to visit h«r
W»t in Iowa,
Mrs. Harriet 0. Biggs wiU teach voeal and
instrumental musie again. She has beau refreshing her knowledge of the beat methods of
this work by study in the Yankton Summer
school.
Mr. Lawson will teach printing and Mmdimig
as before.   Mr. Eli Abraham will teach Dakota
reading and writing, and assist in eoirrerifimig
j lesson papers of the Correspondent ffebooL
Miss Lois C. Leech, of Beresford, So. Dak.„
is matron of Davis HaDL Miss Leech was edn-
cated at Huron College, and had srje*«wffmi experience as matron of the college dining hsM.
In addition to having charge of Davis Balll,,
Miss Leech will teach ©mr assokong aeehsoL
Miss Emma G. Hmbhard, off Gray's Lake,
HI., is The "Birds* Nest'"' matron." Miss Btob-
bard has been a teacher im Dliinois,
bad missionary experience in Sotntfh
Dakota, Miss Margaret A. Storak
son, Wis,, is matron of the Boys
Miss Storek has had experience in oily maiissik*
ary work and in Y. W. C A. work. Wm H
J, Kennedv and Mrs, Iva Zammmrmmm. mwtismwe
their efficient work as matt-rotas of Whitney
Hall and the Dakota Home. USss Well® W<s«wl-
bury continues her very sunwesisffrailL work as
manager of the laundry.
Dr, and Mrs, Biggs were imrpiwved iki fbsaflttfti
their winter im CUifearmia, They have been
...rking hard all sranDnaer, Miss Olive Biggs
is netanwmg from a European tew which mm
has taken with her sister,, Mrs..  Mabel K.
Have m OH Kite..
Bev.. Jossgnb Browm„ pioneer Sabbath sehool
mnriswrnaiy ffaw (the SStatte off Wisconsin,, now in
charge off Wiione&fflg® Presbytery, las Joust retained ffirtmu a visit to the Indians «rff 0e©nt©
Cfomnmtty,, where he eamne across an iinterestfirflig
The Jndawii with. wIkmsb he stayed white orga-
unMinig a dknrreh aKWMmg thena is gvoamrlian of a
Bible bestowal topsm the Oneida tribe in 17M
halt! rf the E^aissBfiall Ctanieh,, while the tribe
was sttiE Mmtag im Mmmgkwmfii$* The hmk is
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