The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1913-01 - 1913-02

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The Word Carrier.
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SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
VOLUME  XLII
HELPING THE  BIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG.
NUMBER  1
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1918
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 Salvation !
A Year's Record
The annual meeting of the Santee Pilgrim
Church was held on New Years Day in the
Chapel. All members, those usually in attendance at church services, the youug men of
Whitney Hall, and the young women of the
Dakota Home were cordially invited to attend.
Service was at ten o'clock. The pastor, Rev.
Francis Frazier, spoke sti-ougly of the past prosperous year, and what great cause of thankfulness there was for the community and the
cfmrcu for benefits received. Special vocal music was given by Mrs. Harriet C. Riggs and
Mr. Philip Frazier. Following the service reports were given of all the various chux-ch work.
This society of Indian women has twenty-
seven membex-s. They have held their meet-
Native m? evex-y week of the year ou Wed-
Women's nesdays, meeting fx-om ten to thx-ee
Missionary at the home of one of the members,
Society eacn being hostess in turn. Often
thi' weather has been stormy, the roads bad
for travel, and the distances between homes
long, but these faithful women have not omitted a meeting. They made dui-ing the year
twenty-four quilts, three comforters, childrens'
clothing, aprons, and Indian buckskin and bead
work. At the close of the year they held a sale
and served supper. By this sale and by giving
dinners at suitable times for taking iu money
they earued so good a sum that they were able
to give to the Dakota Native Missionary So-
ciety $180.00; to the Santee School $10.00; to
Foreign Missions $5.00; for x-epairs on pastor's
home $37.40; and closed their accounts with a
balance on hand. It was a report of devoted
work which might make the membn-s of many
other societies thoughtful
The membei-s ai-e the mothers and home
keepers of the families of Pilgrim Church, and
some of the Mission woi-kers. Also
Mothers' a few 0f ^e y0Ung women of the
Endeavor Dakota Home attend the meetings
and find them helpful. A study is
made of the care of children, and housekeeping problems are talked over. Lately there
have been demonstrations given of first aid to
the injured, and paper bag cooking. Ofteu
special music is arranged for, and once a year at
the time of election of officers light refreshments are served.
Though not large in numbers the church Y.
M. C. A. reported a good year in that all wox-k
had been done harmoniously.    The
CJ™.r^ meetings are usually at the homes
Association of the members. They have contributed money for Foreign Missions,
care of the sick, for sending of delegates to
church meetings, and for the Dakota Native
Missionary Association.
The school Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.
gave  good  reports  of the  Sunday afternoon
Association  hour at Whitney Hall
Chris0.' aml the Dakota Home.    The Associ-
Associations ations ax-e well organized and the
committees are slowly learning to
become mox-e efficient. Many of the young women are striving to gain in strength of leadership .so that they can plan their work with
more individuality and lead the meetings with
more px-ofit to the younger members. It is not
easy for Indian young people to work for this.
In the school there are four missionary societies whose aim is not so much to give money
to missions as to train the pupils in
M0i a simple knowledge of wide work
Societ°iesary     that is being done all over the world,
and to give them a desire to have
a shax-e in the great work.
The  Girls'  Senior Missionary Society had
regular meeting during the school year and
took for study the lives of missionaries.
The Girls' Intermediate Missionary Society
sent a contribution of $8.00 to Africa Missions.
The Girls' Junior Missionary Society of but
twelve members earned by their work $18.00
which they divided between Home and Foreign
Missions.
The Boys' Missionary Society has thirty
members, the younger school boys. They
have for their motto Awake for Christ, and
have active committees at work. A newsboy
committee distributes papers among the Indian homes each week, a clipping committee
watches for interesting items in the papers aud
cuts them out to use in their meetings, a mis-
sionary committee plans for the meetings.
A Temperance Society has been organized
this  year among   the  boys  at   the   Cottage.
Eighteen boys have joined pledging
*?oys themselves not to take God's name
Society m vain, not to use tobacco, and not
to touch intoxicating liquors. They
asked the members of the chux-ch to remember them in prayer that they might be strong
enough to say 'no' when tempted.
Reports wex-e given from the Boys' Junior
and the Girls' Junior.    Special attention is being given in these societies   to the
Ch'°r learning of Bible verses and hymns.
Endeavor Part 01? *ae Sunday afternoon hour
is given each week to memorizing
some hymn and passage from the Bible. This
is also doue at morning prayers each day at
the dormitories and in regular school room
wox-k, but too much stress cannot be placed
upon it.
There are seventeen members, ladies fx-om
the Mission and Agency. It is the one hour of
the month when all plan to leave
The Women's their work and gather together in
Untoi°nary Davis Hall parlors for the study of
mission work in other lands, and it
is an hour which is so helpful that it could not
be dispensed with. The book of study this
year is China's New Day. Of contributions
$21.90 went to Foreign Missions, $6.00 toward
mending the Chapel ceiling, and $3.80 to Home
Missions.
Dr. Riggs has ofteu said that he aimed to
make  the Sunday School the chief
Sunday part 0f ^e school.    It is the basis
of all the work done for the young
people. The classes were reported as alive to
study aud the time allowed only too short.
The work at Ponca has been of an uphill
character. The Ponca Indiau families are scat-
tex-ing, many have already sold their
land and moved away and white settlers have come in on their farms.
Drinking and the use of the mescal bean are fast demoralizing the community.
While thei-e have been some encouragements
the outlook at present iu that field is mainly
discouraging.
After these reports one elder and two deacons, all to serve two years, were elected
Then dinner was served in the Chapel. Fx-ied
chicken and rabbit, sandwiches, coffee, cookies,
pie, apples, and candy were passed by white-
capped and aproned waiter girls. All was done
in a most orderly, expeditious manner, and
there were none present but were bountifully
supplied. It was also a chance for pleasant
intercourse among all the church membex-s and
congregation.
At the close of the dinner Rev. Francis Frazier moved that word be sent to Dr. and Mrs.
A. L. Riggs in California that all there gathered together were remembering them, though
so far away, and sent them their New Year's
greetings and-a friendly hand shake. It was
unaniihously cai-ried.
The meeting was closed by the benediction.
Alaskans Progressive
What the Indian, once divested of his racial
1 tribal  superstition   and  given   opportunity to
I make his own way, is capable of becoming is illustrated anew in Alaska .    A new village has
: been formed at Hydaburg by young Indians of
of the Hydah tribe from the villages of How-
I kan, Klinquan  and  Kansaan.     These  insur-
I gents insist on following the ways of tbe white
! man, despite the efforts of the older chieftains
i to keep up the tribal customs and practices. At
1 the new village regular municipal government
has been established under the law of congress,
with  regular articles of  incorporation and a
full set of officers, all, with one exception, Indians.    The Indians of the village have  ineox--
porated   a   tx-ading  company and   established
stores, they furnishing the capital from  their
own savings from work as fishermen and in
other capacities.    A lumber company has beeu
established and a sawmill will be among the
first industx-ies of the town.   Starting as they do
it is almost a safe conclusion that this new village will be a thriving and prosperous one comparing favorably with white settlements in most
respects.--Seattle Times.
Ponca
Mission
Station
An Indian's Cause for Thanksgiving
Over four hundred years ago Columbus came
to the land of Indians, then other white men
came, and soon Florida, New Mexico, Virginia, Massachusetts, Delaware had their little
colonies of white men. These discoverers were
not all good men, and misunderstandings and
ti-oubles and bloodshed happened, and for a
long time it seemed as if an evil thing had
happened. But with these men came also
one thing of blessing—the spirit of Christ, the
son of God, the Messenger of peace on eai-th
and the great brotherhood of Man. So it was
that with the many evil things these men of
the boats brought over the sea, there was oue
blessed thing of more value and power than
all the .evil things. Before the white brothers
came, thex-e had been much evil among the
red brothers. Famine and sickness destroyed
whole vill-iges. Power, pride and greed shed
much blood and made widows and orphans and
empty tepees. The arrows flew back and forth;
slaves were taken and toiled for hard masters.
Women and children were traded and gambled,
or given away like dogs and knew not their
own home or rest. One winter on the cold,
stony shore of the water of the sunrise, came
some white men. Being thankful for good crops
after hard struggles they set a day of Thanksgiving and the next winter they did so again.
This became a yearly custom and other colonies
of white men did the same. Then wheu the
colonies joined as a bundle of arx-ows for the
common defence—all for one and each for all
—and formed the United States this was a regular custom. Now we red people see we may
join in this day gladly. We see that famine
has passed away. The great God has sent us
the wisdom for health,the terror of fear by evil
spirits is no more. The arrows are warped aud
the bow is broken. Thei-e are no mox-e slaves,
aud all are free and at peace. No more need for
the watcher over the camp. No more dread of the
enemies' war-whoop and the scream of tbe women and children. We are at peace, and every
trail that any man of the States may tx-ead, is also
free to us, and to our children. Yes, we have
much for which to thank our Father in Heaven.
The clouds that have darkened our country and
the blindness,have rolled away. We ax-e now in
the NewDay of the great Brotherhood of America.
"Happy is that people whose God is tbe Lord.
Praise, Honor and Glory to His name."—Carrier Pigeon.
Died, December 9, 1912, at Los Angeles, Cal.
| of pneumonia, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Irvine.
' She had just passed her eighty-ninth birthday.
j Mrs. Irvine was the mother of Mrs. Thomas
I L. Riggs. She was always especially interested
• in the wox-k of the Dakota mission.