The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1912-03 - 1912-04

              The Word Carrier
of Santee Normal Training School.
VOLUME XLI
HELPING THE RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG.
NUMBER 2
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
MARCH-APRIL, 1912
THIRTY CENTS FEB YEAB
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 Salvation !
Welcomed Gifts
This has been an unusually expensive year
for our Santee School. Partly because of the
unusual winter and partly because of the very
success of the school, bringing more pupils to us
than we had means to sup-port. So that we look
ahead to tbe close of the school year with grave
'apprehensions of want or debt. Breaking
ithrough the clouds of our fears comes a flash
■ of sunshine in an unexpected gift of twenty five
dollars from The Hath a Way Club, a circle of
young ladies in Dr. Kingman's church in Clare-
mont, California. This gives us confidence to
believe that the Lord has other helpers in reserve for us. We will rejoice to receive their
■gifts in this emergency. A. L. Riggs.
Indian Federations
We make note with pleasure of the reorganization of the Society of American Indians,
making it more worthy of the cooperation and
support of the christian people of the country
Rev. Sherman Coolidge is now President and
Mr. Arthur 0. Parker Secretary.
Another, evidently less worthy, bidder for
the Indian's allegiance is the Brotherhood of
North American Indians, of which a Mr. Richard C. Adams isithe Grand Sachem, head center, and pretty nsuch the whole thing. Brotherhood Councils are to be established in every
tribe, every member of which contributes half
a dollar a year to Mr. Adams' central society
and puts his legal business with the U. S.
Government into the hands of this Mr. Adams
and a Samuel S. Watson, a lawyer of New
York City. The scheme is quite complete for
capturing business.
One of the leading objects of the Brotherhood, as given in its constitution, is: "To preserve and perpetuate the ancient traditions,
arts, and customs of the North American Indians". Nothing is said about their civilization, to which their ancient customs stand opposed. The last .thing that any true friend of
the Indian should work for is "to perpetuate^
them.
Navajo Mission, Tolchaco, Arizona
During the year we have had nine Indian
children under our care for religions and moral instruction, at our .two stations; our camp
missionary has traveled rap and down our large
parish ( about 100 miles long and 35 miles
wide ) ministering to the needs of the people,
physical and spiritual; the work of translating
the Bible into the Navajo tongue has gone steadily on; the industrial training of the boys and
girls at Tolchaco is progressing; our medical
work is reaching out to a large number of suffering men, women and children.
Again during the year our Indians were sore-
fly pressed by the unjust and illegal encroachments of white men, and we have been able, by
appealing to the authorities at Washington, to
:S6,ve their homes to them.
All .the work in its several departments was
carried on by twelve well-trained missionaries
and three native helpers. We are devoutly
thankful for all that God has enabled us to do
for these people; we are grateful to our friends
who by their gifts and prayers have made this
work passible. But there is yet maeh to be
done. Tlie Navajo is not a "vanishing race"
in th? f&ge of advancing civilization. The lat-
est figures flace them at 30,000. They are not
passing from fche stage of human affairs, but
much of their way lies before them. The
moulding of thai way is in the bands ot tbe
American people. What shall it be? A
mighty obligation rests on the Christians of
America to see that the moulding of that way
be for God.
A recent medical examination of a large
number of Navajos showed that 20 per cent of
them were afflicted with trachoma—a very infectious eye disease—from which many are already blind. There is also much other sickness.
The way their "medicine men" treat them is
by dark incantations, or seeking to drive away
the evil spirits by charms.
T je -combined missionary, medical and sehool
force in this field, under all denominations, is
reaching only about 7000 of these people, leaving 23,000 away back in their desert country
■deprived of the care and blessing that we owe
them. W. R. JOHNSTON.
Early Days at Santee
Having passed a decade of arduous work iu
quarters quite too limited considering our number of pupils, it seemed necessary to continue
to build.
The christian Indians greatly desired to have
their children in a school where the study
of the Bible was made above all else prominent. From the first, we had intended to make
Santee an institution for raising up teachers
for the Dakotas and other tribes, and already
there had gone out .from our adult primary
classes those who were doing good work, and
were through their christian example and teaching, worthy representatives of our school.
Thus the little leaven was working, and the
accommodations were becoming altogether too
limited. Therefore, in ordei to carry out Zit-
kadanwaste's first intention of having the pupils cared for on the family plan, it seemed evident that to have the old°r and younger pupils
in separate dormitories would greatly facilitate
the administration of the school. Although we
had intended to receive only pupils of somewhat advanced grades we soon found that to
begin with the little ones and build np character,
would make a better foundation for fotcre
training.
So it came about that plans were made for a
building that world accomodate thirty boys,
[ from seven to fourteen years of age.
Then we wanted to have the little girls of
corresponding ages where they wonld be independent of the older sisterly dictation they were
receiving in the Dakota Home. Greatly we
enjoyed seeing the work progress on those two
buildings that summer, in hopes that we might
gather in these two interesting families when
school opened the next fall. In the mean time
we were seeking among friends whom we
thought might aid us in securing the right
ones to take care of those houses and mother
the little ones entrusted to our care.
From the first, Zitkadanwaste had cherished
a thought that the little girls' home should be
called The Birds' Meat. A suitable name it
seemed, for a flock of little Indian girls, flitting and chattering, with their shawls flapping
like wings, as they ran omit to meet ns, were not
unlike a flock of little brown birds, and quite
as happy, only they always fly toward ns mot
away.
Previous to this year we were fortunate im
having with ns Miss H. B. .llsley, sis musie feaek-
er. Then during the summer that tbe BWb'
Nest was building, Miss. H. A, Brown esmse top
from Yankton, and the visit terminated in her
deciding to undertake the position of iratowi off
the little girls, A beaudfnl home nmtiker she
proved to be. Miss Shepherd was associated
with Miss Brown for a time, and later, Miss
llsley, as sbe had said "Those little gjbriUe same
very" attractive to me." Happily for aM ®sua-
eerned, our birdlings were well cared for.
During this busy year, Miss Mettfe CMbouu
was an efficient helper, and in after years, site
had the faculty for being ever ready and jtwfc
the one to step in and help whenever and wher*
ever needed.
The Boys' Cottage kept pace in building, with
the Birds' Nest, and by the opening of tliafe
sehool year we bad our little Brownies well
housed, and Miss B. L. Voorhees was the capable housemother for many ymtrn. Hbe felt
the great responsibility, and used to say "Tbe
parents have entrusted to me the most preeious
thing tbey have, these boys to train/'
That same year we built the shoe shop, carpenter and blacksmith shops. If tbe number of
boys was to increase, the facilities for giving
them industrial training, must increase.
The shoe shop was quite an acquisition, and
Zitkadanwaste wm fortunate in securing a faithful instructor, Mr, Iver P, Wold, recently from
Norway, His family soon followed and took
up their abode in tbe mission. The wether
knew not any English, and naturally not my
Dakota, so she most have felt that sbe wm in
a strange land. The children, six girl* and
one boy, with their flaxen hair, deep blue eyes
and rosy cheeks were a pretty eontrast with
the Indian children.
With the new buildings, planned eonveffliefflt-
ly and well built, we were able to earry out the
plans we bad in mind from tbe first, Eaek of
the four dormitories was built with a Mfefces
and dining room so that tinder the w®&r@m>
instructions and management tbe prapsls all,
both boys and girls, did tbe doiwestfe work a«J
had their meals in their respective booses,, tfam
carrying out the idea of family borne We, the
learning to do things deeently and i»order
was, as it still is, an important jtens m <®m
christian training sehool,
6© it was that after tMrteen years off varied experiences, we seemed to have rmksed tike tikm^-r
old of tbe work we imd undertakes,, asad were
ready to go forward with renewed eourage,, laving already seen souse fruits from our lakes®,;
Early in the summer off !$$$„ Secretary lltefe-
by of the American Missionary Agtso^iattJOffl,,
together with the Bev, ArP, Foster, Jfe. ©teafets
Mead, and Dr. William Hayes Wasd, mme to
Santee for the purpose off visiWjsg tike Mkote
Mission which bad been trassfe-red fcw» tike
eare of the Anseriean ESoar% to tkatt of tike A,
M. A, The day of tihefa arrival im %siiii8gi#M,,
Just, ae*<oss the river,, tbere esme up a %$>fe»ii
wind and dust' storms, so stsoaig tfiat ooer gime&fe
were compelled to stay ou ttkaft safe,, wafitfopg fftss*
a change in the weatiker m tikati a ssdfe e»isse¥ffl«
conldbe nsadeto^'tte^wwffiwse^laapJ..'''' Wm
nothing: to ds butt wait,, and look <sv«ff,, tikef
IP
^^^^^^^^^^ inmoaar'
and seeirafflBg to sumte at tikem im tikefac $fikm>sm..
When at last safely aeffsgas and at tike mhmrm,,
Dr, Sfariieby said '""IWs plass* iis sattJter famm®*
sable, its Situ a pwefett, St woflsM kme kem tettto"
to loeate soaaBewlaere else, tit saaaass to me.."''
But we knew ttkatt to esttaMMa onar sAwnl awxsa^
tbe people Winona we looped to Bffljfisgaw® ituMl
kelp, bad beeu a ffi©^ie^$tas»B $w miguvy wseny
wuitMBg tinaiies om tike Tksaiks of ttlte Mfe^swwil.
It was a isappy (^iBeftfeaMtt; tiksA sat #ife Awe
tiere earns© to ttlte Ajgpusy a (^»»ii§^kSM),, Msus..
A, K.. SsffiSley,, fitemu fil St. WMittfe*^',, swffltt<*w«t
by ttkffi ®rM8ii off Iwifetoi Clwiaiflmi^asaiajgi,, sattjl
Prof, €. d Pamsteir,, of ttlte MsfeaMill IHtaoMiw
CoiMfflittes, Alls© at ttlte msue tfiiaw ISfeuwg)
WMiiisrai EL fflme off tike l^i^^lid&ffi mfc^
SMW was ttltem. Ikem gemtihwew,, fos$gMfih&r wliflh
tbe ©f&asas off tike A. M, A-,; IteM s& moi^tasaim
at fflte »»»»,, att -wMsfti tiiime Mr., ^aiiife^ $&.
mBBBfad,, "" Why aoott karn snrfli ai iaw)fiia|K ^mirf
vesarf""   Tke assstt yew ke i^QBail Iflte ifciit ibiw--
Owsr timm&eir to ttlte AiagjriHaiiii Mmiawarty
Assfiiiaattiioim Tisnswn^btt aftwwtt nus>   wtsm unailteftil
efcrasgis im war wm%, Itatt fkajfis'ssstfllife m&g (iff fflte
""Early ft^s?"' wMm tike mtsmm <sff tfliiiitte»n