The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1915-05 - 1915-06

              The Word Carrier
of Santee Normal Training School.
VOLUME  XLIV
HELPING- THE  RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG.
NUMBER 3
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
MAY-JUNE, 1915
THIRTY CENTS PER YEAR
Any surgeon will find this to be epicanthus and
can remove the disfigurement by a simple operation. The deformity of the muscles of tbe
eyebrow is not infrequent in the white race.
Au analysis of the formation of the skull
aud of the facial index shows no evidence that
the Ameriaan Indian is Mongolian.
There have been theories that the Indians were
the lost Welsh colonists, that tbey were shipwrecked Japanese and even the Ten Lost Tribes.
Science has proven beyond question the foolish-
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Tuesday, 2: 00 p. m.,
Tuesday, 4: 00 p. m.,   -
Tuesday, 7: 45 p. m.,
Wednesday, 1: 30 to 3:00 d. m.,
3: 00 p. m.,  -
7: 45 p. m.
Alumni Meeting.
Beginners' Musical.
Musical Recital.
Art and Schoolroom Exhibits.
Games and Lawn Social.
Closing Program.
Our Platform
For Indians we want American Education! We want
American Homes! We want American Rights ! The result
0f which is American Citizenship! And the Gospel is the
Power of God for their Salvation !
The Red Man is not a Tanned Mongolian
By Arthur C. Pabkek, (An Indian)
Archeologist and Ethnologist
University, State of New York.
The Red Man of America is uot a Mongolian
according to  the  Indian Commissioner, Hon.
Cato Sells.    Judge Sells is correct .	
and several of the school book historians are wrong, foolishly wrong.
There wex-e native Amei-icans,
American Indians, in America thousands of years befox-e there were any
such races as the Chinese or Tartars,
Manchus or Turanians.
When the first Americans entered
this continent in remote geologic
times there were no distinct races.
AH the individuals of primitive humanity were of tbe humau stock,—
plain primitive human beings.
As branches split off from the par-
en stock and became isolated in vai-i-
ous geographical areas races of humanity commenced to form. Food,
cli uate,habits and geography all conspired to mould the various races.
That the American Indian is not
a Mongolian is common knowledge
to every anthropologist. Any similarity that the Indian has to the
Chinaman, for example, is merely a
superficial similarity. Every argument pi-esented by ill-informed theorists falls when the truth is brought
against it. The idea of such similarity originated in an odd way with
Cuvier who divided the human family
into three gx-aud divisions. Happy
thought was this to Cuvier who separated tin- black race fx-om others because it was vegative,—it filled its
stomach and just lived; the yellow
race was bouy and sinewy, and was active, while the white race was brainy,
and sensitive. The Indians and Malays being left outside were shoveled
over into the sinewy and bony race
and dubbed Mongolians.
Now it seems idle for the writer,
who professionally is an anthropolo-
gist, to repeat the well known arguments against the alleged Mongolian
affinities of the American race. However, to catalog them we shall first say
that there is no evidence in language.
,:Oh, yes, there is," says someone.
"So and so says there is." But, we
still answer that no student of languages known to the world of science
has found one single thread of evidence of similarity. The linguistic
systems of the American tribes are
far different in grammar and word
compounding from the Mongolian. So great I ness of these theories, and auy text book used in
authority ou Ural-Altaic languages, Dr. Hein-1 sehool or college that repeats these errors is now
ffll0Htng Prugrant, WpiWiiiiatj Eimtttuj.
Chorus—Spring Song Veazie..
Recitations by Pupils receiving Eighth Grade Certficates.
All in a Day's Work Pres. King.
Mercy Iyageicunwin Jones, Santeet Neb.
(Plucks a bunch of fruit.)
Every  Pay Patriotism, I E- D. Mead.
Jonah Isnalawica Long, Cheyenne Eiver, So. Dak.
(Only-man.)
Every Day Patriotism, II E. D. Mead.
George Winthrop Harding, Santee, Neb.
Transformation Man has Wrought N. D. Hillis.
Simon Zuyawawokiyena Jones, Rosebud, So. Dak.
(War-helper.)
Music a Necessity Etude.
Eva Canpa Flyingearth, Standing Pock, So. Dak.
(Cherry.)
Higher Academic Training for the Indian, I Lucy E. Hunter.
Lucv Walicalowin Rouillard, Santee, Neb.
(Blue-flower.)
Higher Academic Training for the Indian, II Lucy E. Hunter
Sybil Wanske Wabashaw, Santee, Neb.
(Fifth-born.)
Defences of Civilization Congregationalist.
Frank Itewetate Blackhoop, Standing Rock, No. Dak.
(Wind in-the-face.)
Chorus—Girls' Trio—Row us Swiftly Campana.
Recitations by Pupils receiving Graduation Certificates.
The Saloon Must Go Congregationalist.
Joseph Najinyanpi'Standingelk, Rosebud, So. Dak.
(Brought-to-bay.)
Make Your Life a Masterpiece, I O. S. Marden.
Alice Wakancekiya Lonedog, Poplar, Mont.
(Prays-the-IIoly-6ne.)
Make Your Life a Masterpiece, II O. S. Marden.
Bertha Hapstina Robertson, Santee, Neb.
(Third-born.)
Efficiency and Life E. E. Purinton.
Martin Monpaseholajega Brown, Winnebago, Neb.
(Cliff-dweller.)
Work and  Efficiency E. E. Purinton.
William Mhinihononik Brown, Winnebago, Neb.
(Little-cloud.)
Chorus—Graduation Song Hanson.
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rich Winkler, positively denies any similarity
American Indian mythology and material culture are not Mongoloid in any x-espect.
Some persistent theorists may point out the
color of the skin, the eye and the color of the
hair in confirmation of his views, but the Indian's skin, whatever its varied hues may be,
whether flesh, copper or ciunamon is not Mongolian yellow. The black hair of the x-ed man
is not Mongolian because it differs in shape,
as a cross-section shows under the microscope.
Viewed iu reflected light Indiau hair shows an
underlying tint of red-brown ; the Mongolian, a
blue black. In a few instances an arrested development of the eyelid causes the "slanted eye,"
seized upon as evidence of Mongolian affinity.
relegated to the heap of out of date books.
Great Universities, such as Pennsylvania,
Berkley, Yale, Harvard, Chicago and Columbia,
have special coux-ses in American anthx-opology.
They maintain immense museums of archeology
and ethnology and have upon their teaching
staff scores of men who have made a life study
of these questions concerning the American
race. No ethnologist known to the writer
believes that the Indian is a sort of acclimated
Chinaman or a deseendent of the Mongols of
Asia, but he may believe, and likely does, that
the Indian descended from the same parent
stock that produced the Mongol, aud for that
matter the Caucassian and Negro.
Those who persist in asserting the Mongolian
affinity of the Indian should study modern books
upon tbe subject, or confer with men who are
specialists in the science of human development.
No, the ludian is not one of the Ten Lost
Tribes, his skrll, his language and his character is not that of the Caucassian Semitic people.
The American Indian is not a Mongolian of auy
branch of the Yellow race. The American Indian is the aboriginal American and in bis various divisions constitutes what is known to scientists as the American Race, the most widely dis-
. tributed race in the world. As such
it inhabited two continents, which
is to say the entire new world of
the western hemisphere.
Government Indian Schools as Agencies
of Pauperization
One of the largest problems of the
Mission school is to educate the Indian parents up to a willingness to
pay toward the support of their children in school. The Government
has so persistently pauperized the
Indians in every way that it has become well uigh impossible to make
men out of them. Government
schools are not free schools in the
same sense that the public schools
are free. The public schools are paid
for by the taxes of the people who
patronize them. On the other hand
the Indians pay nothing for anything that they need most; it is all
paid for them aud they are thereby
persistently taught that there is not
much value in what is really of the
greatest value. Instead of paying
for the privilege of sending their
children to school the Government
has often actually paid the Indians
to send their children thru the very
pernicious method of paying parents
for transporting their own childi-en
to the school.
Indian school children are transported by the Government free of
charge, regardless of distance, perhaps across the continent, and kept
in school for many years entirely at
Government expense. There they
are clothed, given free board and
medical attention. Then to further
baby tbe people the Government
school allows pupils to have their
parents and even distaut relatives
or friends come to visit them and
receive free entertainment at the
school.
Meanwhile the Mission school is
struggling to train Indian people to
pay their own childrens' tx-aveling
expenses,furnish all their childrens'
clothes and pay a part of their childrens' board with view toward paying it all as soon as possible. Mission schools cannot afford to make
feasts at the schools for the parents
or entertain them at the school and would not
do so if they could on account of the principle involved. When parents come to visit their children in a Mission school Ihey must go to the
hotel at their own expense. The reasons for
that are the hardest of all for the Indians to
understand. Tbe Government school has taught
them a false idea of hospitality, which was easy
to do because it falls directly iu line with their
own notions. And when the Mission school
trys to explain to them that it is enough for the
school to feed their children almost free, without taking the parents in also, it seems to them
a poor excuse. The Government schools have,
done much harm by pauperization of the Indians in general and more harm by persistently
perverting all their ideas of economics in relation to education. F. B. Riggs.