The Word Carrier (Santee, Nebraska), 1889-11 - 1889-12

              The Word Carrier.
VOLUME   XVI1I.
HELPING    THE    BIGHT,   EXPOSING    THE    WRONG;
NUMBERS   1 l-l».
SANTEE AGENCY, NEBEASKA.
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1889.
FIFTY CENTS PER YEAE.
OUR    PLATFORM.
For Indians we want American Education! We want American Homes!
We want American Rights! The result of which U American Citizenship!
And the Gospel is the Power of God for
their Salvation.
Dr. Dorchester finds enough 'to
do in the State of Washington to
keep him on the Pacific coast all
winter. He will not reach Dakota
until next spring or summer.
At our Bosebud Mission they are
rejoicing in the completion of their
Chapel. They held Sabbath School
and Church Services in it for the
first time on December 14.
The Board of Directors of the
Congregational Sunday School and
Publishing Society haA'e honored
themselves by passing a minute in
memory of President Joseph Ward
in whicli they say they "desire to record their sense of the great loss to
the work of this Society as Avell as to
that of the denomination and to the
interests of evangelical religion in
South Dakota, and to tender to his
family and to his felloAv Avorkers in
that State their fraternal sympathy. He has left his monument
in the religious and political institutions of the State in Avhich he
was a pioneer."
Delegations of chiefs and head men
have gone on to Washington from
all the Agencies interested in the
Great Sioux Beservation Treaty.
For Avhat purpose is not evident, as
the agreement for opening the reser-
vation is completed. But it will, no
doubt, promote good feeling. On
the other hand it may work some
mischief.
The delegation from Santee Agency, Ave are sorry to say, is a very bad
select ion. Judge Campbell is a very
pleasant gentleman, and Philip
Webster is one of our enterprising
farming Indians. Both will personally do credit to our Agency. But
they belong to the reactionary party, Avhose strength is in looking
backAvards. They do not represent
the better part of this people. And
the manner of their selection Avas
not straightfoi'Avard, nor with due
and full notice to the Indians of
this Agency. There was too much
suggestive of political trickery m
the Avhole affair to suit this Agency. We are beyond that sort of
thing.	
The Missionary Review of the
World for December closes the second year of this magazine under the
editorship of Drs. Sherwood and
Pierson. Its career thus far has
been brilliant and successful m an
eminent degree. It is the acknowl-
edged authority on world-wide missions, and has really become a power in the church of God. The present number so abounds m matter
of interest and information that we
can only notice its contents in a
general way. Among the eight leading articles Ave specify Hans Egecle,
by Dr. Laurie; Christian Unity and
Christian Missions; the Ministry ot
Money (a sketch of Wm I. Thaw),
by Dr. Cowan; The Land of Esther,
4 Dr. Pierson; Dr. Elhnwoods
article on the Indians; the Current
Conflict with Slavery; and Boman
Catholic Encroachments on Protestant Missions.   Then follows amass
of rare Missionary Intelligence. Dr.
Cracey's department gives the Mission to the Hindus in the Island
of Trinidad, and Changes in China
affecting its progress.   Dr. Pierson
treats of Syria, the Union Church in
I BeirutandMissioiisamongtheJeAvs.
: Ihe Editorial Notes are timely and
I good.   The Statistics of Missions
| are a marvel in variety and fullness.
The last reports of 23 Missionary
Societies are analyzed and present-
! ed, together with four full pages
. (tabulated) of the Missionarv Sta-
! tistics of Christendom. These tables
represent weeks of patient, painstaking labor, and will prove invaluable   to the friends of missions.
Every student of current history,
and every lover of Missions avIio is
able, to do it, should send $2.50 to
Funk and Wagnalls, 18and 20 Astor
Place, NeAV York, and subscribe for
it for the coming year.
One of the United States Indian Commissioners, a Protestant, who has been
lately treating with the Sioux, pays a
glowing tribute to the work of the Indian mission at Standing Kock, Dakota.
Among other complimentary words, lie
iays: "I talked to about 200 Catholic Indians on Sunday at the request of Mrs.
McLaughlin, the Avife of the agent, who
is herself about one-fourth Indian—a
woman of cultivation and earnestly at
work Christianizing and civilizing the
Indians. The meeting was that of a society of which she is president. Those
in attendance Avere well dressed, and several of the young men made speeches.
They spoke of their desire to adopt the
ways of the white man and lead Christian
| lives and become self-supporting. The
married ones had been united by the
Catholic priest. Upon the whole, I am
decidedly of the opinion that the Catho-
: lies are doing more towards civilizing the
i Sioux Indians than all otl er religious
agencies combined.   This is due in part
j-to the liberality ofthe Drexel sisters,who
are spending large sums of money in
founding schools anil missions."—Dakota
Catholic.
Such  statements as   this   have
much to  do with the   misunderstanding of the  real work being
done by the Protestant churches.
So far as their efforts to acquaint
themselves Avith it last summer go,
: no one of the Sioux Commissioners
are qualified to give any opinion
in regard to Christian work.    At
Bosebud, Pine Eidge, Lower Brule
and Cheyenne Biver Agencies the
Commissioners  held   councils   on
I Sunday.   At Bosebud, though Bis-
! hop Hare Avas holding services, and
! confirming his new converts, the
Commissioners, instead of going to
: church like white men, attended an
Indian dog feast and dance.    And
Avhen at home they give utterance to
such statements as the above.  And
: it is on the basis of such statements
that appropriations are made to fa-
! vor the Catholic work.  No man has
i the right to give utterance to such
| a false statement.
We trust that none of our friends
| will believe the above. Let the
! Commissioner give his facts. An
• opinion is worth just what the facts
!on which-it is based are worth.
This opinion is not based on facts :
it is therefore worthless.
So far as Presiden t Harrison's present intentions control the adininis-
I tration of Indian Affairs, there will
be no change in the plan of giving
contracts to Mission Schools. He
says in his message, just delivered
to Congress:
"That cooperation between theO ov-
ernment and the Mission Schools,
which has wrought so much good,
should be cordially and impartially
sustained."
Two things, however, may pre-
A-ent the continuance of this policy.
The first, that his subordinates in
office may not carry out his ideas.
President Cleveland had very good
ideas on Indian matters, even on
tbe vernacular question, but the
very opposite of his ideas ruled to
the end. This cannot be so in this
Administration, in the same way,
through the ignorance and perversity ofthe President's subordinates;
but still circumstances and practical
conditions have so much more regulative force than intentions, that
the ship may go Avhere the helmsman does not steer.
The second and chief difficulty in
carrying out this scheme will come
from the very party it is intended to
appease, the Bonianists. That the
Government cooperation with the
Mission School should be" impartially" sustained is just what they cannot
abide. They now draw three-fourths
of the GoA-ernment money that is
disbursed in this way, and are filling
the air with groans and imprecations
because they are not allowed to have
seven-eights of it, and soon, all of it.
The present proportion given to the
Eomanists as compared with all the
Protestant denominations put together is so glaringly partial that it
cannot be continued. Then what
can be done? The Eomanists are
not satisfied with things as they are
noAv, when they get three-fourths of
the Avhole, will they be better satisfied when they are cut down to one-
fourth ?   Hardly.
So that, the President's plans to
the contrary notwithstanding, Ave do
not expect to see the contracts to
Mission Schools extended beyond
the present year. The logic of
events Avill be stronger than the
President's Message.
Dr. Washington Matthews,Surgeon
U.S. A., made Santee a visit, November 17-19. His son Berthold Matthews accompanied him from Yankton, where he is attending Yankton
College. Dr. Matthews is one of
the most careful students in Indian
ethnology, and is one of the few reliable original authorities in that
field. He sees many marks of progress since he Avas here last, fourteen
years ago. We hope his next visit
may be not so long deferred.
Contracts were let at Santee Agency, December 7, for lumber, horses,
and coavs, for Santee, Flandrau,
and Ponca Agencies, amounting in
all to $14,253.00.    The most of the
! lumber Avas taken by the Sioux City
Lumber Co., T. H. Stevens, Agent.
■ We are glad to see that our old time
friend, SamuelC. Shelton, of Springfield, S.D., secured some of the con-
! tracts. A. B. Yantis, of Niobrara,
furnishes the hardware. Strange
Brothers, of Sioux City, furnish the
coavs and mares.the mares at $90.00
a piece, and the coavs at the astonishingly Ioav figure of $13.00 a head.
Forty of the mares are for Santee
j and twenty for Flandrau.   The six-
' ty coavs go to Flandrau.
KliOM  A  FORMER IT I'll..
Well, I suppose yon are surprise
to hear from my teach ingthis school.
It is getting tirst rate. This school'
il is good deal like mission, and was
interest. And I suppose when I get
through teaching, and go back to
school at Santee, some my scholars'
wanted to go Avith me. Some are
my cousin, and Hoffman's cousin,
too. This scholars are very interesting and industrious, and they
were interest their lesson. They
was going sent at Genoa school,
but they knoAV is not good school'
there. Those who came back at
Genoa they did n't intend to go
church; they just walking around
where they please to go, and no
work any.
Berthold, their store keeper, are
going move very soon because
there is nothing buy ; some few at
store, but the people can't never sell,
and (hey have to go at Coal Harbor,
where they can get their food.
Major Jones are going home very
soon. He receive telegram last
Saturday when 1 was at Coal Harbor. There was crowded people
who Avent after oats to his Agent,
and some people to north to bring
their goods, food and some other
kind.
This people are getting white
men's ways; their hair are short
like at Santee people. And they
Avere scattered all over where they
can find to work to make Government school. They getting paying
their work. They receive each fifteen
dollars a mouth. They are going
commence to talk English, too.
We have one hundred and eight
scholars, and we expect to-get some
more Gros Ventre scholars. We
had some last week; a feAv girls and
boys. I have tAventy-seA'en scholars
in my class. Some learn Iioav to
write, to read, too. I teach writing,
both class, in forenoon and afternoon. Wanted to try drillin the yard
this afternoon at four o'clock; they
never saw that kind drill.
Last Sunday we did n't have meeting or Sunday School, only singing
in afternoon. Sometimes I am so
miserable it makes unhappy Avhen
we do n't have prayer meeting. Mr.
Hall comes once a week, then we
have good meeting. I wish we have
meeting every week like at Santee
church.
A steamboat was here; he had
brought our goods from here, and
for Mr. Hall, too. Steamboat did n't
go up at Berthold because the water
so lower so can't go.
Please tell Miss Douglass I get all
right from her picture, and I am surprise to get it. I sent one first and
then I get from her.
I am try to bravo, to do Avell done.
E. C. Hopkins.
The allotment of land in severalty
at Ponca Agency is progressing Avell
under Agent Charles Hill. Forty
allotments have already been made,
and others will be made soon. Some
are waiting for the survey of the upland region, Avhich has some choicer
land than even the river valley.
''.Inst as God leads me I would go;
I would not ask to choose my way,
Content with what he will bestow,
Assured he will not let me stray.
So as he leads, my path I make,
And step by step I gladly take.
A child in bini conliding."