The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1910-07 - 1910-08

              the Word Carrier
of Santee Normal Training School.
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VOLUME XXXIX.
HELPING THE RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG.
NUMBER 4
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
JULY-AUGUST, 1910
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A Notable Missionary Memorial
e placing of a memorial monument by the
regational Missionary Society of Montevi-
Miunesota, on the site of the old Lac Qui
i Mission, was a notable event     It distin-
ied that community for its high degree of
rie and missionary sentiment, far beyond
of most western communities.    From the
rt given elsewhere  of what was done on
iccasion, it must have been a most interest-
iffair.    And the historic review given in
Montevideo Leader of Aug. 19, is remark-
dear and correct.    On some minor points
are mistakes.    Thus  Hazelwood  and
>w Medicine stations were two miles  apart
not the same locality.    And it was not the
■ Huggins but his son Amos who was kill-
Lac Qui Parle.    In the translation of the
into the Dakota or Sioux language, the
his dialects of the Sioux nation were not
ded  into one, but the dialect of the  Miu-
a  Sioux,  through the translation  of  the
•  into it, became the literary language  of
■anches of the Sioux nation.    In the early
i of the mission the Pond brothers render-
eat assistance in getting hold of the lang-
und gathering a vocabulary.    But in  the
work of translating the Bible, Dr. T.   S.
iamson and Rev. Stephen R. Riggs shared
lly the labor of it.    It was  finished  just
re Dr. Williamson passed away.
Decoration Day Indianized
the Sioux Agencies of the upper Missouri
rive- and the interior, "decoration day" has
bee' widely taken up. But it is not so much a
mil ary memorial as a day of general re membra e-e for their dead, and customs that have
Ion prevailed among these Indians in commemorating their dead are gathered to thisoccasiou.
Oft n they have a service at the churches and
the; a dinner is served at the cemetery. They
use dowers in decorating the graves and call it
"Selling up the flowers day." Gifts of goods,
and money, or horses, are given away iu public
on lids day in the name of the deceased relative
or friend they would honor.
After last Deeoiation Day our Sautee school
received five dollars from Cheyenne River
Agi ncy as a memorial of Mary Tielupiwin (One
to whose house they come) who was formerly
a member of our school aud an inmate of the
Dakota Home. So her name goes on our honor roll.
S. C. Gilman, widely known as the author
of The Conquest of the Sioux, is now a full
fledged Presbyterian minister serving in Nevada. His interest in the Indians goes with him
and he speaks of an encouraging visit to the
Piutes at the Wads worth Indian Agency. The
prospect is not so bright in regard to the detached group of Shoshones who live neglected
in the outskirts of Elko, Nevada, where he now
works. He will arouse an interest in them
among his people if any one can.
Lac Qui Parle   Mission 1835
The above chiseled inscription now appears
on a large granite rock that was placed on the
site of the old Mission Chapel, erected at Lac
Qui Parle three quarters of a century ago. The
stone was purchased, inscribed and placed there
by the Congregational Missionary Society of
Montevideo, and was put in position with appropriate ceremonies last Wednesday afternoon,
J"Jy 20, at which time the society held one of
Jts monthly meetings there. The matter of
marking this historic spot has been contemplat-
ed for a long time and it was most successfully
carried out on Wednesday at a meeting and picnic held there for that purpose. The stone is
set by the side of the winding road, immediately in front of the old Mission site and only a
few rods east of the old Bauchmann Minnesota
river ferry which was replaced by a bridge
years ago.
The mission site is just back of the marker,
in a plum grove and the cellar excavation is
plainly marked. Just in front of the stone, in
what is now the roadway, stood the little home
of Mr. Williamson, the Missionary, while on
tbe hill near Mr. Anderson's house is the site
of the large mission house. All of these buildings were burned or destroyed before or during the Indian outbreak, as also was another
important building, some distance away.
The dedicatory exercises Wednesday afternoon were held in the shadow of the trees,
that have grown up on the old mission site,
and were as follows:
1 The placing of the inscription stone.
2 Hymn, Rock of Ages.
3 Prayer, Rev. Walter M. Swann.
4 Missionary Hymn.
5 Reading from "Mary and I" by Miss
Hannah Griffith, giving a description of the
Mission house and of their first trip to Lac Qui
Parle from Fort Snelling.
6 Reading by Rev. Swann, descriptive of the
founding of the mission by T. S. Williamson,
in July 1835, and of the experiences of the
Missionaries there during those early days.
7 An original poem, in Hiawathian verse
by Mrs. F. Brinkman descriptive of the trails
and experiences of the early missionaries of
Lac Qui Parle.
Following the exercises those present visited
the old flat rock, the old Indian dam and other
historic spots and then all gathered on the
lawn in front of the hospitabla home of Jas.
Olson and his daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Anderson, where a splendid picnic
supper was served.
The day was a most delightful one, the roads
were fine and the country "most glorious to behold." There were about fifty present, most
of them from Montevideo. Among them were
Mr. and Mrs. Crandall, Mr. and Mrs. L. G.
Mover, Mr. and Mrs. Browning Nichols, Mr. and
Mrs. Dunbrack, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, Dr. and
Mrs. Bacon and son, Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain, Mr. aud Mrs. Wm. Kent, and daughters,
Mr. and Mrs. Hoard, Mrs. L. R. Moyer, Mrs.
Zimbeck, Mrs. Whipple and daughter, Mrs.
Brinkman and daughters, Mrs. Warnock and
daughter, Miss Hannah Griffith, Miss Bessie
Crandall, Miss Mabel Gladwin, Miss Lillian
Letts, Miss Sherdahl, Rev. Walter Swann,
Principal R. E. Nichol, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Clare Sherdahl and several others including Mr. Merrill and Mr. Gould and their
ladies from Lac Qui Parle.
Altogether, the occasion was a most delightful one and thoroughly en joyed by all. The
ladies of the Missionary Society desire us to return their heartfelt thanks to Mr. Browning
Nichols for valuable assistance in locating the
exact site for the monument and for other favors
rendered, also to Mr. Jas. Olson and Mr. and
Mrs. Anderson for numerous courtesies extended, which are truly appreciated.—Montevideo,
Minnesota, Leader, July 22, 1910.
More About Lac Qui Parle Mission
[From The Montevideo, Minnesota, Leader, Aug. 26, iqio.]
The following interesting letter from Rev.
John P. Williamson was received here too late
for last week's issue.
Greenwood, S. D., Aug. 16,1910.
Mr. H. E. Hoard:
Dear Sir:—I have your letter of August 10th
in which you  inquire   if I am the son  of Dr.
i Williamson who established the mission to the
I Sioux Indians  at Lac Qui Parle in   1835.    I
' answer, I am and I was born at Lac Qui Parle,
Oct.. 27, 1835. That was my home till I was
eleven years old, and I visited the place often,
afterwards, until the massacre of 1862, since
which time I have lived in South Dakota. I
was not, however, born in the old mission
house you speak of. That was not built until
1836. Some years before, a French half-breed
named Joseph Renville bad been supplied with
goods by the American Fur Company, and had
established a small trading post a half mile
nearer the lake than where the mission houses
stood. Mr. Renville being anxious to have his
children taught, gave father the use of one of
his log cabins the first winter, and in that I was
born.
Lac Qui Parle became the headquarters of
the mission to the Sioux and continued as such
for nearly twenty years. The support of the
mission at that time was given by the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
which was then maintained by Presbyterians,
Congiegationalists, and others, and the list of
those wlo labored there a year or more would
include most of the missionaries to the Sioux
in Minnesota. Accompanying my father and
mother when they arrived, were his wife's
sister, Miss Sarah Poage, a teacher, and Mr.
Alexander G. Huggins and wife and their two
children. Mr. Huggins' duties were to labor
for the material improvement of the Indians,
especially in agriculture; and his "labors were
not in vain in the Lord." Some others who
labored there a year or more, were Eev. S. R.
Riggs, D. D., and wife, Mary, who, I think,
labored there more than any one else. Also
the brothers, Rev. Samuel W. and Rev. Gideon
H. Pond ; Rev. Moses N. Adams and wife; and
Elder Jonas Pettijohn and wife, Fanny.
Now I feel grateful to know that the present
inhabitants of that locality take enough interest
in the early church history of that region, to
raise funds and erect a monument to the "Lac
Qui Parle Mission" in which I was the first
white child born; and it inspires me with a desire to see the spot again.
As to the hearthstone of the Dakota Mission,
the story of it as I remember is that father did
not discover it till after the logs of the house
were up, and when tbe oxen snaked it down
the side hill, it was found to be so large that
the door would not admit it, and some wished
to discard it, but he persisted and had them pry
up the logs and take one out, to admit the
stone. As to its present locality, old Dr. Riggs
was the last occupant of the house, and his son
Alfred, now principal of the Indian Training
School at Santee, Nebraska, claimed it by right
of possession ; and some years ago had it shipped to that place where it adorns the campus.
His address is Rev. A. L. Riggs, D. D., Santee,
Nebr. Yours truly,
John P. Williamson.
Marriages
Lewis-Ormrod—In Fort Collins, Col.,
August 29, John Herbert Lewis and Eveline
Elizabeth Ormrod.
Boyp',r-Wold—In Portland, Ore., June
23, Robert Roscoe Boyer and Gaeta lsorda
Wold.
Moore-Eastman— In Sisseton Agency,
So. Dak., August 24, by Rev. Joseph Rogers,
Oliver Moore and Grace Olive Eastman.
Nepf-Bain— In Lincoln, Neb., August 20,
by Rev. M. A. Bullock, Mr. Natt H. Neff and
Katheiwn Bain.
The family of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Riggs had
a most enjoyable reunion during the first two
weeks of August. Mrs.Cora Waples, with little
Rachel, came from Cody, Wyo., Mrs. Mabel
Stead and Mr. Stead from Jacksonville, 111.,
Mr. Stephen Riggs from Seattle,Wash., joining
with those already at home, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Riggs and Winona, and Miss Olive Riggs.