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VOLUME EIGHT FOR NOVEMBER, 1907 NUMBER ONE 

CO~TE;,\TS: 

Quotation of Cw;hman K. Da' i, 

Fronti'piece. Hentoh. Chilocco\ "Hiawatha" 

Indian Tradition, of The FIOlxl llIu,trated - HI Lucien ~l. Lewi, 

..I. .' 1Il(-Original- By ~lar: {'ollill' 

Sonl(' of The Brollll Children HI" Fmnce' Den'Ill()l~' 

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..I.nlllllll ~leding of the L'lke ~Iohonk ('ontrrelll~' 

hool and Agenc.' ;'\ew, ;'\ot", 

The Chilocco Hillllatha 

A, ,een Il\ II GII",t 

..I. Lullaby Original HI" I,abel ~kArthur 

Ta-y...lI-no-k .... Ubt Wyandot Chief lktl'oit S" ...\·Tl'iIJII'" 

Ke,·r-a-oak. Annu...1Fi""ta of the YunHb Frank T. Le.... in SOl/tilt I'll Jrol'klflfll/ :j:1 

Indian B..,ket Handicraft-.J"",ie Juliet Knox. in H011l1 

J/ogtd" 

The Commi"ioner's Policy- Report of Round Tuble Conferenl'e ...t 1.0' Angele- 41 

The Indian Habit of Iping-By an Old Plain,man 

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The Educational Department 'ernl Good Article 

The ;'\ews at the Chilocco 

hool 

Official Report of Change. in the 

nice for Augu,t 

Official Report of Change. in the rvice for ptembcr 

Photograph, of Hiawatha. the Ojibw..... Play. produced b.1 the ~tud"nl, of 

the Chilocco Indian. hooJ. 

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\& of our own 

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a photo of one 

of those we are 

selling in our 

endeavors to 

aid all worthy 

Indians to create 

a demand 

for their handicraft. 

It is 

one of those 

TESUQUE 

RAIN GODS 

you have heard 

so much about. 

They are made 

by the Indian 

of Tesuque pueblo, 

New Mexico. 

They are 

odd; made 6 to 

8 inches tall, in 

several colors 

and decorations 

We get from 35 

to 50c each for 

them. They are 

worth 50c more 

end for one 

THE INDIAN PRINT SHOP 

PART or THE U. S. INDIAN SCHOOL AT CHILOCCO, OKLA

HE men who have 

achieved success are 

the men who have 

worked, read, thought 

more than was absolutely 

necessary, who 

have not been content 

with knowledge sufficient 

for the present 

need, but who have sought additional 

knowledge and stored it away for the emergency 

reserve. It is the superfluous labor 

that equips a man for everything that 

counts most in Iife.-Cushman K. Davis.

HE;\TOH, CHIIOCCO" "HI.\\I' \THI.'·

VOLUME EIGHT FOR NOVEMBER, 1907 NUMBER ONE 

INDIAN TRADITIO S OF THE FLOOD 

I TH E story of the flood a If!,..nd or was 

it an actual o

12 THE ISDIAN SCHOOL JOURNAL 

lated by "Clallam Jackson". an Indian 

nearh one-hnndred years old, 

"\"e were the fi':-t people created by 

the Great Spirit and hal'e alway, liled 

around Port Angele'. \\'ashington, ~Iany 

years ago our people were warned by the 

100rering of tile water in the strait, that a 

great delmre was at hand. The Indian 

were greatly alanned. roru;eqnently they 

stored their canoe; with prol'isions and 

anchored them to ~It, ~[inhootan (a mountain 

near Port Angeles) by means of 

ropes made of cedar root.. 

"Searcely had the Clallams anehOl'ed 

their canoes when the rain began to fall. 

It seemed to the Indians that the lerl" 

sky abore them wa, a great sea pouring 

llpon the unfortunate people, The rain 

rontinued for more than a month and 

when it ceased but few of the Clallams 

were alil'e to tell the storr, 

"\\'hen [ was a boy 'some of our old 

men predicted anotller flood, Our people 

became frightened and tied their canoes 

to the top of this same mountain, They 

kept them in readiness nearly a month 

for the flood which ne"er came:' 

The Zunis of"ew ~Iesiro beliere that 

in another age they liled under thi, earth, 

and that when they' came abole ground 

they were led by a dragon-fly which flew 

before tllem to select a site for their ,'illage. 

Unfortunately the lillage was not 

built at the center of the eartll as it should 

hal'e been and the gods were lery angry, 

The Sun-god hid his face from hi, children 

and the storm-clouds gathered and ol'erspread 

the sky'. 

The rain fell until the rillage was 

covered with water and the people were 

compelled to Bee to Toi-a-li-ni. a high 

mo'untain about three miles from the lillage. 

Only a remnant of the people succeeded 

in reaching the top of the mountain 

a., the water wa.' rio ing so fast that manr 

werewa.shed away a they' strugl(led up th~ 

steep trail. Among the few who wen' 

saled were priests who pra,red in lain to 

the angry Sun-god. but pra~er was o~ no 

avail for the water rose steadIly untIl wlthill 

a few inches of the mountain-top, 

HOW-A-THLUB. 

CHIEF PETER OF THE MARAS, 

. dbeauti- 

At last the chIefs noble son an, and 

ful daughter were sel~tedasa. c~:: 

thrown into the ra~~g flood" 'led urgod 

accepted the offerI~g and .un d!be 

his children. The ram ceased an 

water .1011'11' . sllb>ided, . c I f~"" 

~ 0 "lUI'"' 

Then it was that two pmna fth roOUJl" 

were seen rising from the SIde 0 n:ad beED 

tain atthe ,pot where the chJ!d~ d I' t!Jest 

cast into the water, To th15 ,a. ebil- 

. I k' s the "caclqu , 

pmnllc es are 'no\\n '" ._ t the Indidren" 

allli stand a' a proWL'" 0, bedtans 

that the world will nerer ag,"n 

,troy..l by water, 

--- 

Chief HO:o-ti-nez of the :>a raj th 

flood 

their 

. 

,-erslOD 

. 

0 

f th 

e on 

'gin ,If e 

follows: 1 d wn of ae-- 

"Far hack in the ear.y a

THE INDIAN SCHOOL JOURNAL 

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lion the ~avajos lived in a third world I·The men wert> \ err indifrnnnt alHl 

. '" 

just helow this. The)' had previously lin>d talh,1 the mllller OHr until far into the 

in a 6r.;t and second world from which night. They nnlllh- ,It-eidewhere all the hOllle f~r thelll'eh < . 

•'a"ajo> were happy and pure ,IUd contented. 

There were fiel had tweh-e equlllly ,wift, 

chief,. two of whom. the hea,1 chief,. had "Early !H:xl monlill~ the III n made 

married ,isters. These two rulers lived in 

raft, of log, nllli deE>rski'b. allli ,ticking 

a la!';:e hogan, larger and better than any 

a stalk of corn in l",ch of tl"ir ginll

14 THE INDIAN ScHOOL JOCR.'IAL 

cause of this unusual disturbance. The 

:-Iamjos crossed the rirer and calling the 

risitors around them said. .Who are you 

and where are you from?' TIle COyote 

said. '1 come fr~m the east. the mOrJ~ing 

light gaI'e me hirth·. The Swift replied. 'I 

come from the south and that hlue cloud 

on the horizon is my mother.' 

"The Silrer-fox 'pointed to the West 

with the remark, 'That i. where I am from 

and that ~-ellow streak ga"e me hirth: '1 

come from the :\orth: said the Badger 

where it is dark and cold. I am the offspring 

of the :\orth wind: 

'"The two men were then questioned and 

the one with the large trumpet said, 'I am 

from the fire; my life was lighted hy a 

spark'. .And I.: said the ~rer of the 

little trumpet, 'come from the ashes'. 

"The ~al'ajo then told the strangers 

that it was their chief wish that they 

should come to his hogan, whereupon the 

visitors consented and were rowed across 

the river. 

"The chief welcomed the strange ri itors, 

explaining the situation, requesting 

them not to again ero - the stream. 

"The fourth year was a trying time on 

the twelle women, for their corn crop was 

a total failure, and they were compelled 

to subsist on roots and berries. E,'ery few 

da)'s the)' would come down to the'river TE-8lAL-LL"p. CLALLAII CmEr 

and beg the men to remore them. 

THE UST OF A DYIXG RACE. 

'"Finalll- the chief called a council to 

determine 'what should be done. Thev committinz depredation, and" ~ ~ 

pointed to the fact that if some actio~ 

. t·hi· ... J "· 

uallv caus "trouhle. On ODe 0 : . 

was not taken the tribe would soon become 

extinct. The question was put to the water. ..he~ the two great n le 

he s~w two 'bahy ma:;todoll> playJn~ J 

a vote, the •'arajos deciding by a large crossed. He qUletiy 

. 1'.-1 ,tole oot 

s Jpl''-U up.. • tht 

majority that the women should be of them and swam awar. He too '. 

brought QI'er. 

~ittle mastodon to t!'e camp· ~Jno 

"The next dav the women were rowed It concealed under hI' arm· -a 

across amid g~t rejoicing, when they one wa anre of its P cc: a 

were suhjected to a four days' ceremony "In a few day' the ' '"aJ'" th t 

of purification, after which they again terrific roaring 'in tile rirer and • ~ • 

~ Tin' ..t>' 

became the wires of the tweh'e chief.. the water n.•. la.h~ into oaDl. arr b . 

They promised that in the future the~ caused bvthe mfuriated m,,,iodon 'et


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"In a short time the white light extended 

clear around the horizon. Thi> 

so alarmed the chiefs that they sent four 

men to investigate. \\"hen th~y returned 

they reported that this white light If"," 

water slowly rising all around them. 

"The chief then ordered his people to 

repaIr to a high mountain in the east 

I~It. La Plata, in Colorado). When the' 

came to this mountain they found birds 

and wild beasts &om the f~ur corners of 

the world gathered there. 

"The water continued to ri>e and in a 

short time some of the . 'a,'aj"" an. 

"The Turke." wa, nearl." wept away'. 

the water ,weeping o,'cr it until the foam 

,tuck to it: tail. Thi. i, wh\'. '0 saY the 

, 'a,'ajo'. that the tail feath~rs of the tur, 

ke,- are alwa" white. 

'''The head chief wa., h'l'CllUy alarmed. 

and turning to the man with the large 

trumpe!. ,ai

16 THE INDIAN SCHOOL JOURNAL 

hal'e stolen the offspring of the mastodon'. 

He then reached under his arm 

and brought forth the young mastodon 

wrapped in baby's clothes, 

"The man, after carefully examining 

the baby mastodon. commanded the COYote 

to take it to the ri\'er, blow on 'it 

four times, and then set it free. The COYote 

did so and the water immediateiy 

began to recede. 

"In a few days the water had all disappeared, 

but it was so muddy and there 

was so little I'egetation that the ~a\'ajos 

decided to mo\'e to another country. 

"In the meantime, the reed which the 

man had stuck into the ground, had 

grown into a large tree. The head chief 

obserl'ed that this tree led into a world 

over head. and, pointing up to the opening. 

said. 'How about that country' up 

there? Who will go up and inl'estigate?' 

"One of the men, who could take the 

form of the locust, volunteered to go. 

Climbing the reed and passing through 

the opening at the top, he found himself 

in a strange country. Four sea-gulls sat 

watching, one at each corner of the new 

world. In the East was a large gull 

with feathers white as snow; in the west 

was a smaller gull with feathers like gold, 

A long-winged gull with black feathen 

sat at the North, while in the South, .. 

one with plumage blue as the sky, 

"When the white gull saw the locust 

he came up to him and sadly said:\\'holll'e 

)-oU and what are you doing here' 'We 

do not allow strangers here', The locust 

then explained that he was from the 

world below and wanted perm' ,ion tor 

the Navajos to settle in the new country'. 

"The gull drew two arrows from a 

qui\'er, and holding them up in the sunlight, 

said..You ma)- bring your peo~ 

here if you will do as I do with tbe!e 

arrows': The locust took the arro 

thrust them through his body four times 

and returned them to the gull, then 

swam awaY to the &st. Wben the locust 

retunied and made known!Ji, di:,col' 

ery to the ~avajos they at onre decid

SO GS OF THE BROWN CHiLDRE 

By FR!L~CES 

~...--. ASTENED securely in its 

papoose cradle or cuddled 

in its mother's arms 

the Indian baby hears its 

first song. It is a gentle 

crooning, with a bit of 

the prairie wildness in it. and a JI:l"eat 

deal of the mother-love that is in the 

teepee as well as in the sheltered home. 

Sometimes the crooning melts into 

braver measure and the mother sings 

of the warpath, she sings of the warriors 

who have gone forth decked with 

the war-paint and returned with many 

scalps, and as she sings of their valor 

she hopes that her baby feels in his 

little heart the thrill of their victory, 

so that some day he too may become 

a warrior. 

As the boy grows older he joins the 

little circle around the evening fire. 

sitting on one end of a fire-log instead 

of lying curled up among the puppies. 

Sometime grandfather tells the children 

to dance, marking the time by 

slapping hi leg and singing a song 

that has served for many more tately 

occasions. Thud. thud. go the little 

moccasined feet, and el'en the smalle 

t boy learn to shout he sharp "yi ! 

yi!" that gives reality to it all. 

Grandfather hums other songs that 

the children love, and hey all sing 

them when the little feet are weary 

with dancing. The rabbit song is always 

a favorite, with its question, 

"Rabbit. where are you going?" and 

the reply. "They have gone away to 

the spirits." Then there i the song 

of "Why the e)'elids of the squirrel 

are white," and the merry song which 

is ung when grandfather tells the 

story of how the Beaver stole the 

luskrat's Tail and put it on himself. 

DENSMORE 

Grandfather says that the Gopher 

made up the song and all the other 

animal learned it houting it to the 

poor .luskrat. who went about crying 

because he had lost his tail. The 

words mean; Ground Tail. Ground 

Tail, you who dragged your tail over 

the ground. Ground Tail, Ground Tail. 

Indian children have never been 

to a kindergarten, but they sing as 

they play their game of tossing a 

pebble from one hand to another, or 

scamper around the village in a merry 

chase, playing "Follow my leader." 

One of the proudest days in a boy's 

life is that on which he first joins in 

a social dance. The old men are there 

and the women, as well as the warriors, 

and they all dance in a circle 

while the pounding of the tom-tom almost 

drowns their singing. The boy 

tries to look quite at ea e, but he is 

thinking that perhaps orne day all 

the others will be itting down while 

he dances alone, singing: of some gloriou 

victory he has won. Then he 

will wear eagle feathers in hi hair, 

and carry a tomahawk in hi hand, 

and the women will hout "ha-aha!" 

in the chorus of hi - war-song. 

Among the Omahas it i- the cu tom 

for a boy to undertake a \;gil when he 

is about twelve years of age. During 

thi - I;gil he sing- a little pra:er taught 

bv hi mother, and he seeks a vHon 

that hall determine hb future career. 

It i a solemn ordeal and he must endure 

it. fastinz alone on the prairie. 

• '0 one compeL him to undertake this, 

but he know' that it L expected. and 

when he feel. him"elf ready for it he 

take- hi-little blanket, and for protection 

he carrie hi, bow and arrows. 

Far beyond the camp he goe'. beyond


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the place where his playmates are he sees his yi ion: guided by it he 

-hooting their blunt arrows, beyond 

the herd of ponie -far out where the 

may become a thunder dreamer, a 

warrior, or a hunter. 

unbroken prairie tretches away to Perhap in hi vision he hears a 

the horizon. . song: he learns it, but no one ever 

There he wrap' his blanket around hears him ing it about the camp. He 

him. singing the little prayer-song, believe in the poll er of thi yi ion 

the words of which mean. "Wakanda song and re erve it for hi - hour of 

(God), here poor and needy I stand greatest need, keeping it as his mo t 

waiting. " The day passes and the treasured secret. 

darkcome soft-footed acros the plain, Year pass and the boy becomes a 

putting its arm around him, it hand man, but into his manhood he carries 

oyer his eyes. leepless he hears the the little prayer- ong and the song he 

ghost whistling byand crying to each heard in hi vision. When the midnight 

storm ways the teepees he 

other, but he is not afraid, for he 

knows that they are poor unea y souls sing to'Wakanda in hi fear of the 

who, during their lifetime, failed in 

tempest. and the song is the little 

their religious observances. 

prayer his mother taught him. 

Th~ 

A coyote's call? Who knows what 

war party goes to meet the enemy, 

there is the ambush and the 

strange creatures prowl abroad when 

the watchful day is p;one! At last the 

battle, yells and shrieks fill the air, 

morning comes, and the noon and the 

arrowS whirr past him: he ings his 

twilight, and his little song to Wakanda 

rises less brayely than at first. He 

rallying cry, but still the fight seems 

going against him, only one hope remains-the 

song of his vision when he 

shudders as he remembers a man who 

saw the moon in his vision and was 

watched alone on the prairie and saw 

himself a victorious warrior. Fiercely 

forced to work with the women all his 

he flings it out, dashing into the thickest 

of the battle. There can be no de 

life! Will Wakanda how him the 

symbol- of the medicine man. or will 

feat, for in him the boyhood I;sion 

he send one of the animals that are 

has become the power of the man' 

his messenp;ers to speak to him? 

Weary with hunger and waiting, the victory- 

Such are the song' of the brown 

little form in the blanket relaxe , the 

children. The poetry and the beauty 

song is till and the patient stars take 

and the power of them are in the Indian 

race to-day. but the songs them 

up the vigil. Two, three, or even 

four day and night a boy may be 

selves are pa 'ing into the silence. 

able to endure the fa t, until at last 

TR.-\\'EL 

Time tmveb ill .Ii"" l>IIt'" with di,e" pe un_-Shakt pta r - 

ere he hath 

\\'hen a traleler retumeth hume. let him not lea th :0 I tr, 

BafOfl. 

trarded .Ito"ether behind him, but maintain a c ITP5J'O I ,ce 1)\ I tt 

,.. 

of .t ri to the ufface 

\\ 

'h h L_. 

e" tr.-,.) a_ unu 

,m'· II theri h 

like cream.-SI. /riai'll-

LAKE MOHONK ANNUAL CONFERE CE 

THE annual meeting of the Lake 

lohonk Conference of Friends 

of the Indian and Other Dependent 

Peoples was held October 23 to 25, at 

Lake Mohonk, . Y., as guests of Mr. 

Albert K. Smiley. The meeting, as 

usual, was a very successful one in 

every way.' The attendance was good 

and much interest was manifested 

particularly in the present Indian affairs 

and the condition of things and 

people Philippine. Below we print 

the platform adopted by the Conference: 

The Lake Mohonk Conference at the close 

of its twenty-fifth annual session congratulates 

the people of the United States upon 

the progress made in the education and development 

of the Indians in the last quarter of 

a century. The general poticy toward Indians 

adopted by the o"vernmentin these later 

years was heartily approved. It establishes 

the Indian in citizenship, in a home of his 

own, charges hIm with responsibility for the 

ordering of his own life aDd the management 

of his own propert)· , while for a term of 

years it protects hi~ title to his land and 

helps him to begin life as a citizen of the 

state in which he lives. 

ReceDt legislation which rt'verses the order 

cODtemplated in th Dawes Severalty Act, 

and grants citizen"hi to all allotted Indians 

only at the discreti,,:of the Department or 

at the expiration fIr the period of protected 

title, is contrary to lb, convirtions of the Mohonk 

Indian .CoDfer"",e as expressed in other 

years and w,1I ten,1 t proIon~ indefinitely an 

Indian Bureau wh",!:I. we hOpe to see discontinued 

as early as II" 'ble 

~I . f th 

We have confid. h the officers 0 e 

-,ce D f- 

Government entru t d""th the duty 0 cart)- 

ing out our general L,.. n llOlicy. We hearth 

llUl~' . now 100d 

ily commend t e g. ter emphaSIS 

upon labor by India,,:as a means of self-support 

and preparati" for dtizenshil'; and the 

effective measurea 1\ .d to prote~t Indians 

against the evils "ftt: he 

illidt liqUOr traffi~ 

To keep clean, hon.~t t efficient that WO\ 

of administration Whi"~ ,; noW the chief tas 

of the Government, \Ve I

Act of Congress. Land titles guaranteed by 

law have given a new stability to businessen 

terprises. Local self-government has been 

firmly establisbed in every civilized community, 

and the Philippine ,'ational Assemblv 

has lately been elected and organized. W~ 

are grateful tbat insular adminstration has 

not been an issue between political parties in 

the United States, and that the insular service 

has been placed upon a basis of principle 

and merit rather than upon one of politics. 

We urge tbat patriotism. good morals and 

good policy shall make this course permanent 

and strong. 

The problems tbat still confront us in tbe 

insular dependencies are moral, educational 

and economic. While our Go'femmentenacts 

necessary and just legislation, tbe people of 

our country should recognize their duty to 

aid in tbe solution of these problems through 

those methods and llj(encies of christian education 

and evangelization which contribute 

directly to the formation of that moral character 

upon which all stable society must rest. 

By legislation which we regard as directly 

at variance with the moral duties we owe 

to the Philippine Islands, Congress has imposed 

upon them great and unmerited burdens. 

While all commodities coming to the United 

States from Porto Rico and Hawaii are admitted 

free of duty and those from Cuba at 

twenty per cent of the existin~ tariff, a tax 

of seventy-five per cent of said tariff continues 

to be imposed upon two of the principal 

products of the Island-, while a third 

produced there alone and therefore not in 

competition witb products of United States, 

is admitted free. This glaring inequality 

does not, we believe, reflect the prevailing 

spirit of the American people. 

While Congres made provision for conferring 

Filipino citizen.ship upon persons 

resident in the Island.> at the time of our occupation, 

no provision has since been made 

enabling persons to acquire citizenship who 

have come into the Islands since that time. 

pedal naturalization laws for Filipino citizenship 

are urgently needed. 

We respectfully call the attention of the 

President and Congres- to the following 

recommondations: 

1. We urge that our Government shall 

steadfastly adhere to the principle tbat moral 

responsibility which we c."not neglect and 

which is higher then all commercial considerations 

requires us to legislate and to administer 

so as to promote the highest welfare of 

the people of these Islands. 

THE INDIAN SCHOOL JOURNAL 21 

2. We urge that Congress shall without 

delay legislate so as to effect a radical reduction 

of the duties now collected on products 

of the Philippine Islands. 

3. We advise that the greatest educational 

emphasis be put upon the primary schools 

and the preparation of teachers therefor, and 

that such in.struction hall have special reference 

to industrial training. The utm!l t 

effort should be made to secure the enrollment 

and attendance of all children. We 

maintain that it is the duty of Congress to 

provide adequately for such education even if 

the nece -ary monel' were to come from direct 

appropriation, hut additional funds to 

those now raised in the Islands would become 

availahle there for educational purposes by 

the increased amount of taxable property 

which would be accumulated as a result of 

the reduction of existing duties. 

4. Education in the duties of citizenship 

is an essential element in social and political 

progress. So fast as the Filipino demonstrate 

their political capacity, powers of selfgovernment 

should be granted and enlarged. 

5. We recommend Congressional enactment 

to enable a larJ{e number of persons in 

the Philippine Islands to be naturalized as 

citizens of said Islands. We believe that provision 

should be made by Congress whereby 

educated and duly qualified Porto-Ricans mal 

become citizens of the United States. 

6. We urge upon Congress immediate legislation 

to protect the inhabitant of our insular 

posse:,sions aRainst the great e\;!s of the 

opium traffic ana the opium habit, which already 

threaten them. 

7. We recommend hat the application 

of the Coastwise hipping Act be permanently 

_uspended with refer

22 THE INDIAN SCHOOL 

Opening remarks of Albert K. Smiley. 

Opening addres' of the presiding officer, 

Andrew S. Draper, LL. D., commissioner of 

education of the state of New York. 

e Remarks of Hon. Francis E. Leupp, United 

States Commissioner of Indian affairs, introducing 

the following speakers representing 

his department: 

• 

Mr. Charles E. Dagenett, supervisor of 

Indian employment. 

Mr. William E. Johnson, special officer engaged 

in suppression of liquor traffic among 

the Indians of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. 

Mr. H. H. Johnson, supt. Jicarilla Agency, 

Dulce, N. Mexico. 

Mr. Horace G. Wilson, supt. Klamath 

Agency, Oregon. 

Mr. DeWitt S. Harris, supt. Cherokee 

school, N. C. 

Mr. William G. Malin, supt. Sac and Fox 

Agency and school, Iowa. 

Mr. Edwin Minor, supt. Kickapoo school, 

Horton, Kansas. 

Discussion of "ThE' betterment of religious 

work among the Indians," by Rt. Rev. W. 

H. Hare, Bishop of the P. E. Church, Sioux 

Falls, S. Dak. 

Rt. Rev. Joseph H. Johnsou. Bishop of the 

P. E. Church, Los Angeles. Cal. 

Rt. Rev. E. R. Hendrix, Bishop of the M. 

E. Church, Kansas City, Mo. 

Rev. Charles L. Thompson, D. D., •'ew 

York, Secy. Presbyterian Home Missions. 

Rev. James W. Cooper, D. D., New York, 

Corr. Secy. American Missionary Assn. 

Hon. John J. Delany, New York, Representing 

Roman Catholic Indian Mis.ions. 

Mr. E. M. Wistar, Philadelphia, repre enting 

Friend's Indian Missions. 

Rev. E. E. Chivers, New York, representing 

Baptist Home Missions. 

New rim For Judge Ry.u. 

Judge Thomas Ryan of Kansas, who for 

ten years has been first assistant Secretary of 

Interior, will be transferred to Mu,kogee with 

the title of speeial assistant secretary at a salary 

of $5,000 a year, Official announcement 

of this change, which was agreed upon at a 

conference between Secretary Garfield and 

Judge Ryan, has recentl)' heen made. The 

office pays only $4,500 a year, but by speeial 

act of Congress additional compensation was 

given Judge Ryan. In addition to his compensation 

of $6,000, in his new position, Judge 

Ryan will receive traveling expenses. He 

will be much of the time in the field. 

Sec-ew-y Garfield, in reorganizing the d.. 

par found it essential to bave one thor· 

oughi. ersant witb tbe business of e 

depar.:JIle!lt to operate in the field. For semal 

yem Jndge Ryan's bealth bas been poor 

and' ban been neces..",,')' for him to 

have -. the government service unle~ a 

pia"" in the fie d had been pro,ided for him. 

He has Oeen regarded for years as one of the 

invaluable men connected with the department. 

The position he now holds was created 

for . and changes in administration bar> 

never a:ected him, He began his smice 

under etius Bliss and continued itthrou~h' 

out Seoretarv Hitchcock's administration. 

J \lOt: Rp;n will be especially adapted to 

con - e important work of the depart' 

ment :he Indian territory until tbe allait'!' 

of the· . 5 with the government are IJ](JTe 

nearrr SEttled. This will be his first import' 

ant' and may keep him employed for 

severa. years, although there will be added 

to h - lndian Territory duti es ccnsiderable 

work· er territories. 

Tbe :nanner in whicb Congress fixed the 

salary I the first assistant secretary of the 

inten G unique in legislative history. It 

wa . ted that it should be $6.000 a l'ea,~ 

"so. aG it is occupied by Thomas Ryan, 

Upo e Ryan's retirempnt the uroal 

, , '-'~JI) 

com non for ass15tant s:ecretarle~ .... 

a year provided. - Dispatch, 

Aud Print by In..... ~ 

Tm ~IAN SCHOOL JOUIC'AL, Chilo«: 

Okl "A Magazine printed by IndiaJ15· 

is the to come to our table this year. 

In 'cal make-up, tbis was the he,l 

And It I' 

paper ""t came to us last year. . b 

. 1 NrtstJe 

print..a y Indian apprentICes. 0 d 

paper i>ck.ing in highly interesting ":h l~~ 

matter. Vf course it deals prlDclpally Wlbjects 

dian eand history. The folloWID~ su sli ht 

from the table of contents WIll gIve a ..{lie 

idea f.-bat the magazine conlaledns:. "Tbe 

Indiu and the Trader-IIIU3trat 'R " 

Indius f Today" "The 'ani.hlDg ,ace,JO' 

"Th e ' ales 'F1 m 'd " "The . ara 

OT1 a. La!< Lahonj· 

IndiaL!n," "Destruction of d' e to the 

tan, ., I Id by Indians." In ad IlIOn magalarge 

.tity of lilera')' malter. the in~ t 

zlDe - local news notes pertaJl!rnroent 

the at Chilocco an~ other go" on a 

a~e It is print~ In clear tl~I' athIgh 

_ e paper and IS made e;pee'mineDt 

trac 'e y a number of CU~ 01- pro icraft. 

Indi...and of products of IndIan ha~~anent 

We to be fafored With a pe excelplace 

lent 

Chris' 

:he exchange list of such an T..'" 

",I journaL-The CollegIan. 

[niversity, Waco, Texas.


23 

choof and Agency News 

Round v.u.., Ripplrs. 

Our plant had many admirmg visitors during 

vacation. 

We look for a bigger, better school in every 

way tms year. 

Commi -ioner F. E. Leupp and party were 

visitors here two days in July. 

Many of our girl and boys made from $15 

to 2il picking hops m the home fields. 

School opened October first and witb pupils 

coming in every day we will soon have a full 

attendance. 

Sl13an Perry left tbe 1st of the month for 

Santa Rosa, Cal., to attend the Courent 

school of tbe Ursaline Sisters. 

Rev. R. W. Byrne is temporary teacher in 

room No. 1. MIss Katnerine EJan, .. T. J.. has 

been appointed but has not yet arrived. 

Mr. C. I. Johnson took a little pleasure 

jaunt to Willetts the first of the month. He 

is at present suffermg from poison·oak. 

Ben.'eafus got"" pusy "Cow boying" 

that be took no other leave of absence, but 

reports a fine outing on the U. S. Corral. 

. ~r. James Purry spent his vacation circulatmg 

between the reservation and Santa 

Rosa, with Willetts and Ukiah as resting 

points. 

. Matron Monroe spent her vacation campmg 

witb the familv of Rev. Alen MacKay at 

TWJ R)u, E1C.lIyPtus Grove. near Petaluma, 

California. 

~lr. James W. Wilson, clerk, and Beulah 

Smith, assistant cook went to Willetts, 

Ukiah, and .Frisco for' a couple of weeks of 

their vacation. 

William Perry is tbe proud owner of a new 

2J--3) IV nch"t,r with whicb he brought 

down a deer. We enjoyed the tenderloin 

steaks he sent us. 

The annual exodu- of our Indians for the 

hop fields of Ukiah was not 50 large thi- year, 

wnicn wa' well for them for they are much 

better off at hom., . - 

We regret tbat owing to ill bealtb. Ella 

Perry will be out of school this vear. Ella 

was a bright scholar and good in all tbe indas 

trial department-. 

Willie Hoxie, a former pupil, ,pent his ,-acation 

here with his parents, returning to 

Oakland, Cal.. to pursue hi studies in eleetneal 

and merhanical eng-iDeering'. 

Mrs. Wolf, seamstress, is trailing sO close 

to tbe source of supplv that she didn't leave 

the front steps all su·mmer. .. ·ever rnindthere's 

another vat:atioo in twelve months. 

. There has been a shift of positions in our 

mdustrial dinsion.. ; Mr. Perry is ~arden~r. 

Ben.'eafu disciplinarian, wbile the g'nI~1 

Carlino Smith take Ben' former work In 

lhe stables. 

Mr. and Mrs. Leger, nigbt watcb and boys' 

matron, went "down the pike" about a mile 

and spent their vacation on the ranch of a 

relative. We walked down several evenings 

and filled up on water-melons. 

Miss Myrtle Beam, a former teacher here, 

i- in Bellingham, Wasb.. attending iState 

... ·ormal. She 'Hites in glowing terms of her 

progress, and expects to reenter the Indian 

Service at the close of her course. 

MISS Mary E. Horton, Del., has mail coming 

In for her, so hhe mu~t be enrtJute. lier 

eommg ,,",11 reheve MI' Janette \\-right of 

the Covelo Hign School, who IS In charge of 

tbe hIgher graaes. "Ith toe commg 01 tbese 

two teachers our school torce Will be complete. 

Mrs. Theina Tuttle, our laundre53, rusticated 

upon her Sister's farm where she put 

up "goodies and knick-nacks" for the mess, 

after whIch she attended Conference at Pa 

Cific Crove, Cal., With Rev. R. W. Byrne and 

family. iSbe reports a fine hand-shakmg cordial 

time. 

Donald ,ulwider had an attack of inflammatory 

rheumatism In early summer which 

left hiS right leg so stiff as to nece.sitate tbe 

use of a crutch. Don IS one of our brightest 

and most wilhng boys and we hoV_ he will 

soon be able to throwaway his "wooden leg" 

and return to school. 

The work on our tank house, situated on a 

ridge amid a bower. of live oak and madrone 

trees, IS finished, glvmg a n~at and ~ubstantial 

appearance to same, wrylle .the ~Ig reser 

Yoir, built up on the mountam SIX miles at ~ur 

springs, im5ures us clean, pure water of whIch 

we ha"e an abundance. 

Fourteen of our advanced pupils started 

East October th to >ehIJ?I, five girls. gOing 

to HaskeU, one girl and elgbt boy. gomg 0; 

to Carlisle. \Ve were sorry to lose the treasures 

of our scbool, but glad thel saW tbe.advantages 

of the broader equipped IOstltutlOns 

we wish them success and contentment. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, our cook, is back, 

reporting a good time at .Santa Rosa IlLd 

Mayfield, Cal., wbere he \'i._Ited ber brothu 

and Yi~ .Myrtle Beam. a former~ teacbe~ 

here. Mrs. Robmson returns to ~ta~ on1~ 

to ? o\'"ember first resi~ing to take up other 

wo~k which \\;U' afford h.r a needed r'W. 

he has been with this ,chool sut years. e 

all wish her succe~s. _. 

"'e had a ,light blaze Monday at , a. m., m 

our 

" 

new Commis~ary 

. b 

UI 

'Id' 

ll!g. cau 

sed b.. 

.e-fta 

falling against a stove-pIpe•. Ben. - 

g ed . • 11 alarm' the chIldren ....re 

fus turn In a "t-" nd 

at breakf..-t and the fire boys sPbrang np a 

h d" room ran to t elr .""gn ed 

O1r of t g~t ~~~;~tin~lshe~ a~d were in tbe 

t:~~i5~ary in Ii minuteS. OWing to promptnes~ 

no damalte wa.;; done. . . . 

Company A uniforms are be~~l( tB"k~'::; 

white suttach braid.. Comp. l ed' b 'd 

h. d waists tnmmed m r raJ . 

h;:~e:ng-room force is bu-)" making schfl 

dre,,~es of our new mdlgo ~lue J!E:rca. e.~ 

La;~' girls have nine-gore .klfl- WIth b,.,


folds, piped with white around the top of 

hem, while the waists are Gibson. Small 

girls have full skirts and dainty tucked 

waists. Company B have two sets of school 

aprons, made slip-over style, with a strap 

which does away with all buttons and buttonholes 

save one. Tbey are stylish and we expect 

our little ladies to make a showing 

when they get into their new out-fits. 

I Mr. H. J. Johnson, our agent, left for 

Haskell, Carlisle, Washington, D. C., and 

other Earstern points the th of October. 

He will De gone about three weeks returning 

by Oklahoma, where he will visit relatives 

and friends. He was accompanied by Miss 

Jobnson who went to assume her new duties 

as Normal Instructor of Indian schools. 

This is tbe only position of the kind in the 

Indian Service and was created by Commissioner 

V!upp upon his visit here after ,eeing 

her metbod of teaching. That this promotion 

is a reward and compliment of the bighest 

kind is sbown by the fact that sbe was 

chosen for this work after an extensive inspection 

of Indian schools throughout tbe 

west by Mr. Leupp. 

'OLF. 

Utes Mast Work or Sum. 

We do not know wbether the following 

copy is a correct expression of the views of 

the gentlemen quoted or not, but they are 

our views exactly. Give the Indian a white 

man's chance to work and earn an honest 

livelibood, and if he spurns the chance let 

him pay the penalty. 

"Ute Indians on the Cheyenne reservation 

must work or starve. This decision was 

reached after a conference at the White 

House of the president, Secretary Garfield, 

Assistant Secretary Oliver of the war department 

and Commissioner of Indian Affairs 

Leupp. 

"Mr. Leupp pointed out that two opportunities 

had been given to the Indians for employment 

in railroad grading, both of which 

had been comtemptuously refused by them. 

"Mr. Leupp's statementwas supported by 

Indian Inspector McLaughlIn and Labor Supervisor 

Baganee, who were present. The 

Indians take the position that they are ward, 

of the government and so will be cared for 

whether they labor or not. It is now stated 

that they will be given one more opportunity 

to earn their living, and it is intimated that 

if they do not accept this the government 

will make little more effort ill their behalf. 

"There are 370 of the Indians, 200 of whom 

are mdn and boys capable of bearing arms. 

Mr Oliver said there are between 100 and 

200' troops on the ground, and others could be 

quickly dispatched there. , 

"Troops will be kept there as a polIce precantion. 

The government holds that the.y 

shall have work if they accept It, but that If 

they will make no effort in their own behalf 

the government will not support them. The 

Indians have been paid the annual allowance 

of $18 per capita from their own f,nd, and It 

is practically exhausted, These Indians are 

part of the same band wbo have been making 

trouble for the past forty or fifty years," 

C!wIfes .t the Ki.... AfCOCY, 

John P. Blackmon, Agent for the Kia... 

Agency, died on October 10, I90i, after an 

illness of five days. He was operated upon 

for appendicitis on the morning of the 10th 

and died two hours later. His body ...s taken 

to his old home in Georgia. He leaves a .-idow 

and two small children. 

John Powell Blackmon was born in Alabama 

thirty-four years ago. In October, , hf 

entered the Government service in Washington, 

D. C., as a messenger in the pension 

office. While employed in this capacity he 

attended the Columbia Law School, of Washington, 

and was graduated in 1899. He .... 

assigned to dut)' as Leasing Clerk at !be 

Kiowa Agency in 1899, and in May, lOOt .... 

promoted to agency chief clerk. HIS 10lJg 

and efficient service for the Government .... 

rewarded by his appointment as Indian Agent 

to succeed Colonel James F, Randlett, resigned, 

assuming charge on Xovember l,l!1'\i, 

and holding the ollice until his death. 

He was a man of excellent moral character, 

unimpeachable integrity, and IVase..r ....tchful 

of the interests of the IndIans und~th~l 

charge. They have lost in him a fal 

friend. His sudden death is sincerely regreted 

by the community in which he hved. ed t 

Supervisor Charles H. Dickson amv a 

Anadarko, Oklahoma, on October 16th, ::d: 

sume charge of the Kiowa AgencY pe If 

tbe appointment of a successor to the la 

Agent J. P. Blackmon. 

int- 

Press dispatches state that the a,: t 

ment of Indian Ag-ent has been lend:; or 

and accepted by Lieut. Earnest t('C er, 

Fort Sill Oklahoma. Lieut. lecker has, se

THE CHILOCCO HIAWATHA 

o MORE fully ex 

~~~~~ plain the illustrations 

of scenes 

from the Chilocco 

As SEEN BY A Gt:E T 

three hundred yards in width and a 

quarter of a mile in length. Here a 

large platform, or . tage, probably 

eighty feet wide and forty feet deep 

Ojibwa Play, "Hiawatha," 

which 

wa built on piling. about a hundred 

and fifty feet from the we t shore. on 

are presented in 

which tiers of eat were erected for 

thi number ofthe the spectators. 

With much labor the Indian tudents 

transformed this platform into 

JOt:R.'AL. we here 

print a report of a 

staff correspondent. 

from the.'ew York un. who wit 

a forest. At each side on the edge of 

the fore t tood a white tepee, and at 

the door of one blazed a fire. From 

nes ed the performance at our school 

the shore to each end of the stage 

this summer: 

were strung cables of incandescent 

Indian students at the Chilocco Indian 

Agricultural School, maintained at 

lights, while electric reflector flooded 

the stage with lights when the incandescents 

were darkened. 

this place by the Federal Government, 

gave a performance of "Hiawatha" 

Long before twilight visitors began 

at their recent commencement. It 

arriving from the country and nearby 

was the first time the story of Hiawatha 

was ever told on a stage by In 

towns in carriages, automobiles, 

wagons and on horse-back. The seats 

dians south of the Great Lakes. 

were all filled when the performance 

The performers were all full blooded 

Indians. At Chilocco there are 

began at eight o'clock. 

The Indian tudents eated themselves 

on the soft turf at the shore 

eight hundred students of both sexe , 

representing forty different tribes. 

of the lake. They repre ented mo t 

The young men and women chosen 

of the important Indian tribe of the 

for the parts entered into their work United tate-- ioux, Cheyennes, 

with great zest. Thev were drilled 

Chippewas, Pimas.•'a ·aios. enecas, 

by their teachers. The text used was 

Delawares. Poncas. Otoes. Wyandots, 

Pottawatomie-. Sauk and Foxes, 

adapted from Longfellow's poem by 

Chilocco teachers. 

Cberokee-. Arapahoe~. Oi ibwas, 

About forty young Indian men and 

Apache, Kiowa -. Comanche and 

women were in the cast. Their costume 

were hHorically correct. Hia 

the beauty of the .cene, and talked 

Pawnee -. They :at entranced with 

u:atha wore portion of the historic in whispers of what they aw. Rippling 

in the nil(ht wind, the waters of 

and sacred wampum belts of the Wyandot 

tribe, which descended to him the lagoon .eemed to jl"0 rushing past 

a heirlooms. It is asserted that the magi land like a 'wift river, 

the-e .hell beads were made a- early the wa e parkling in the electric 

as the fourteenth century. 

glow ClU: by the lamp . 

T perf!111ll Ct: was given out of 

The cast ent rely of Indians, wa 

d I a little cal e near the 

as follows: 

schoo! b ings I a goon about

111,\.W,o\.T11A AT ('11I1.{)('CO ,V\.SIIISG {)F TilE \VA.1t l'i\IN"I'. 

•

Pau-puk·kee-wi". "The ....torrn Fool." 

Xa·ahn·loo. Cbippe .1 

13£00. The Bo ,a..ter al1o. StOT:," Tt>ller 

~aD·i·to-...ahb Cbippe 

:\fqodamin. 'The ~plri )f tbe (',(Iro . . 

Cbiblabo, ..T' J'd ji go-nob ('''bippe 

" ~weel '10 er 

.Ie..·kwa-da-re CblPpe 

The arrowmaker Lt'~ienx Cblppe 

Hia\t"atba. tbe child 

Wa,~o-ra. E. Cherokee 

Hiawatha. ~ komi... tbe bin' . . . a-wa-ta·pi·a-..!. :,bawnee 

Minnebaha 

A-nab. Oneida 

Pa-ebe·ita. SbawDfOe 

Sb Warrior-. _ and G'le..t--. Ki·lit·j·ka. Peoria 

ee tab·l?;e·..hee. Chippewa Yo-ne- ....l.. Pima: Wee· 

abm., Chippewa Gh e-moD~. Chippewa' Bo-ne-b· 

cum-Je.gurn. Chippewa T...kil·"nh Pawnee: Tn-",a· 

wa·pee, Comanche Yo-nk,"eb. Ea...tern Cherokee: 

~b-~e.me-queh Cbippe'll"a Gl'"el·"e Ea..tern Chero..ee: 

o--we-nee CblllJltwa. The BlackNbe. Trapper... 

and Other... 

The play opened with an Indian 

council. A new moon was shining in 

th.e west, and the sky was brilliant 

WIth stars. At the door of the tepee 

bl.azed Pukwona, the signal fire of 

Gltche Manito, the Great Spirit 

whose voice could be heard calling i~ 

the night to his people. 

From out the darkness moved softly 

g!iding canoes, mystically white, 

bearmg the warriors to the council. 

On each canoe was painted the name 

of the tribe to which it belonged-Decotah, 

Pima, Cheyenne, Seneca, and 

others. The voices of the speakers 

could be heard a' distinctlv aero the 

water as if they were onl;' a few feet 

distant. 

The effectivenes of the performanc~ 

was heightened by its fidelity to 

Indian cu tom. The drumbeating 

had the oldtime sound familiar to person 

who have \-isited remote Indian 

reservations, and the dances were 

tepped to the queer mu ic of the Indian. 

The young men and women 

spoke their line" ea ih- with much 

expression and witho~~ embarras 

ment. 

Landing at the island, the warriors 

heard the voice of Gitche .Ianito admoni 

hing them to desist from their 

wars with one another. The pipe of 

peace was pa d round the circle, 


,0mE' accepting and others rejecting 

it. 

A,? n it was passed and all the 

warriors smoked. Laying a ide their 

:'ea~ns. t.hey knelt in a long line by 

he lwerslde and wa hed the paint 

fNm their faces. The forest island 

hung glowing in the darkness, washed 

by a cele tial river. 

Perhaps the prettiest scenes wathe 

wedding feast of Hiall'Utha and 

J1innchaha. The Indian maidens sat 

winnowing grain. pouring it into 

wooden bowls as they removed the 

husks. The young waTriors, home 

from the chase, played at native 

games, jesting with one another and 

telling stories. 

The wrestling of Hiau'fJtha and 

Mondamin was highly impressive. 

Alone they struggled with each other, 

Hiall'atha faint from fasting and unable 

to overcome his adversary until 

the moment when hope seemed futile. 

Mondamin sank to the earth and the 

fruitful corn sprang from his grave 

to bless forever the people of victorious 

Hiawatha. 

Distance, the light that fell upon 

the island and the intervening water 

lent illusion to the scene and ob cured 

defects that othenvise might have 

appeared in a performance of amateurs. 

The visit of Hia catha to T/ e 

Arroll'-Jlaker. father of JlinTichaha. 

wa - a pretty picture, 

The Arrolf-Jlak r -at beside hi 

camp-fire fashioning arrows. occasionalllv 

holding one to his eye, and then 

pas~ing them to Jrnllel aha. who attached 

the feathers that -hould guide 

their flight. Hia catha appear' from 

out the shadoW - in h'- :wift canoe 

and fasten it at thE' river': edge seathimself 

beside T/ Arro r-Jlaker 

and asks for the man's daughter. 

He wins her, and the two float away 

in a white canoe. The Arrou'-Jlaka


CHILOCCO'S MU.~EHAHA. 

standing alone on the shore blessing 

them with his uplifted hands. The 

farewell and departure of Hialcatha 

from his people- 

On a long and distant journey, 

To the portals of the sunset. 

To tbe regions of the west windwas 

impressive. Clasping the hands 

of his kinsmen one by one. he departed 

with a song on his lips, standing 

erect in his canoe, his face toward 

the home of twilight, and was lost in 

the darkness. 

Many of the scenes of Longfellow's 

poem were laid on the Tahquaro enon 

river, which runs through Luce and 

Chippewa counties in the upper pe~insula 

of Michigan. The river I~ 

about seventv miles long and most 0 

its way is hidden in deep forests. . 

It was on this river bank that HIawatha 

built his birch bark canoe. It 

was also on the Tohquameno n tha~ 

Kwasind, the strong man who. ha 

helped Hiawatha to clear tbe rIver. 

met his death at the hands of the puk 

Wudjies, the little people \~~O kne~ 

the secret of his vulnerability. an


CHILOCCO-LARGE Boys' DORMITORY. 

pelted him with the cones of the pine 

and fir trees. Where the river enters 

Tahquamenon Bay is a beautiful 

beach of pure white sand. There 

stood the wigwam of Tokomis, and a 

short distance away is the ford across 

the river where Hiawatha killed the 

red deer. 

For centuries this river, forming a 

natural pathway to the "Big Sea 

Water "(Lake Superior), was the 

camping ground of the Ojibwa tribe. 

Nor has the ground changed since the 

days of Hiawatha. Civilization has 

not encroached on its primeval beauty 

nor robbed it of its wilder charm. 

A LULLABY. 

By ISABEL McARTHUR. 

Early in de mawnin, when de roo:itahs crows. 

Daddy take a scythe, an go out to mow, 

Up an do~ de mead~er you can heah him go, 

SWlSh- s_w+s-h-S-W-I-S-h. 

Mammy take de hucket an go out to milk•. 

Sit down hy de moo cow wif her hIde lak SIlk. 

Splashin in de bucket you.can heabdat mIlk. 

W_h_l_s_h. w_h_l_s_h·w-h-l-s-h. 

Go sailin down de ribber in Daddy canoe- 

Heah comes a ole flat boat-w-h·o-o. w-b·o-o; 

But dey can't catch Daddy-just beah hIS oa s go 

s- p-l_j_s_h. s_p_I_i_s.h_s_p-l.l-s-h. 

D t I know how to wuk em' See dat kinky head 

Drappin off asleep on de fat featheh hed-;- . 

evah would a-happened if mammy hadn t saId 

R.s-h. R-s-h-R-s-h.

A 

TA.YAW..'O.[(A, WYANDOT 

Dttroit Xews-Tribune 

LONE in a little h : me five 

miles north of Amherdurg, a 

bent and lonely ligure guards 

the old Wyandotte graveyard, 

where e braves of 

his people are . f£ping, close 

to the runnin aters. 

Here Ta-yaw- ka, the last 

chief of hi race. spends his 

remaining days mu ing ~er the former 

glories of the IndiaJl5 and the valor 

of his once proud race. 

"To write a history of my people; 

to tell to the white man the legend 

as I have received m from my 

fathers; to tell to the pale-face the 

traditions of this lana as only the 

Indian knows them-yes i is this 

that I shall do while I anger here... 

These are the words f Ta-yaw-noka 

(the warrior), better known, perhaps, 

as Joseph Warm.., e oldest 

member of the once ponrful Wyandotte 

tribe, and the lineally-descended 

chief of his people. 

"Many things I know and much 

could I tell about these lands -he white 

man has taken from my a ers." adds 

Joe. "Stories I can relate about the 

cities, the woods, the great waters, 

the big wars and treaties:, ries about 

old Fort Detroit, as to d y my people 

while they paddled their canoe- up the 

river to dispose in the _ttlement of 

the game and skins for \\'hich the 

whites were ever ready ro barter. 

Many times I have star.M 0 do thi , 

before the Great Spirit ralli me, but 

paper and ink one canno aInys get, 

and so, oftentimes, I hale ro 'top." 

Chief Jo eph Warrow :< the son of 

the famous warrior Fran " Warrow, 

and comes from a long line of braves 

whose brilliant exploi ' \\'ere signal- 

CHIEF 

ized in the early war between the' 

French and the English settlers. In 

these struggles, Joe proudly maintains, 

his people were frequently the 

only means of salvation afforded the 

little colony at Fort Detroit. 

All the legends and traditions of the 

red men and the lands about him Joe 

has learned with the red man's instinct. 

He ha stored away in his 

memory what he claims are the nonspurious 

chronicles of those stormy 

days of the pioneers, as well as many 

intere ting details concerning the old 

stockade at Detroit, and these he purpo 

es to relate in his book. 

Any inclination the visitor may have 

to smile on hearing of such a vast 

undertaking is quickly di pelled, once 

Joe has spoken. Just cross the river 

any summer afternoon, follow the 

Canadian shore pa t the trim Petites 

Cote garden shining like checkerboards 

of green and white, until you 

come to the little cemetery known as 

the Wyandotte burial ground, and 

there, a few paces to the left, is Chief 

Warrow's hut. Most any evening at 

sunset Joe can be found at his door. 

smoking his pipe. He is friendly and 

courteous in manner and loves to talk, 

bearing no grudge against his white 

neighbors who now own all his former 

lands, even the little patch on which 

he lives, which he rents from them. 

Two dogs bound out to greet the 

\isitor, a pony with pronounced rib' 

neighs from behind the hut, a big 

black cat majestically waves its tail 

to emphasize Joe's love for animals. 

and Joe himself shuffle' out. greeting 

his guest with the Indian salutation. 

"Bo' jou'... A thin wreath of smo~e 

curling upward and the 00". of bOil·

ing coffee add a homely air of occupancy 

to the place, which otherwise i 

enveloped in an atmosphere of sohtude 

and lonely neglect. The little 

half-forgotten cabin, with its primitive 

sides of mortar-chinked logs and 

the tangle of shrubbery surrounding 

all, is in strict harmony with the figure 

of the ancient chief as he stands 

olemnly bowed within his doorway. 

Besides his native tongue, Chief 

Warrow speaks lind writes both French 

and English perfectly. He is well informed 

on history and makes a s~ial 

point of keeping thoroughly abreast 

of the times. 

When asked for a short sketch of 

his life, Joe drew out pencil and paper. 

and after a few moments returned the 

following history, written in clear, 

firm characters: 

"A short sketch of the Warrow 

family, written by Joseph Warrow, 

son of the late Chief Warrow of the 

Wyandotte tribe. 

" I was born of a family of 11 children, 

of which three only are living: 

Thomas of Grosse, Ill., Mrs. Catherine 

of Detroit, and the writer, who was 

born on Feb. 8, 1 23. My birthplace 

i on lot 19, on the first concession, 

where is now located the burial 

ground of my people to the number 

of about 200. Yes, I was born in the 

same old log house that my father 

was born in on August 15, 1805. His 

death occurred on June 18, 1868. 

Grandfather Francis Warrow was a 

good warrior and took an active part 

in the war of 1 12. He was the first 

Wyandotte to settle down and build a 

log shanty on the reserve in 1798. 

~hief Laforrett, who also participated 

ID the war of 1812, built the second 

log house on the reserve. It will be 

quite a task to briefly trace the origin 

of the Wyandottes. Nothing now remains 

to tell whence they came but a 

THE INDIA SCHOOL JOURNAL 31 

Jition that lives in the memory 

few among the remnant of this 

"Far back, about three centuries 

and a half the Wyandottes were inhabitants 

of the country along the t. 

Lawrence river when it was discovered 

by the French in the year 1535. 

Beyond that period all trace of them 

has been engulfed in the tide of 

oblivion... 

Joe conclutled his writing with the 

paragraph which is reproduced on this 

page just as it was set down by the 

old chief's hand, and to thi brief history 

he attached his Wyandotte name. 

"Ta-yaw-no-ka," which in English 

means warrior, and from which the 

word Warrow has been derived. 

The publicationof the reminiscences 

which he hopes to present in book form 

will not be his first venture in authorship. 

Many years ago, in conjunction 

with Peter Clarke, another Wyandotte 

Indian of considerable learning, Chief 

Warrow wrote a book entitled "Traditional 

History of the Wyandottes, and 

Sketches of Other Indian Tribes of 

orth America." As the edition was 

limited to a couple of hundred copies. 

the book is noW extremely rare and of 

considerable value. In this book are 

contained many remarkable passages. 

some of them very curious. The following 

is from the preface: 

"To some this work m~y" appear 

new fledged-but while polsmg.ov~r 

its uncertainty before the publ~c..it 

may have enough wings to susta;n ~- 

fla them in the face 0 t e 

~elf, d p d knock the mi site of the 

mtru er, an h' ,. 

." . to oblivion. To suc 

we sa.. 

?~~~~~whoo! what then! If ~'ou thi~k 

't better why don t yOU 0 

yOU can d 0 I 

it yourself?' " "b rk 

. "The Wyandotte tn e, I e 

Also. 

. t Indian 

.'b 

tn es \\ 

'ho once 

the differen. f N rth America 

inhabited thiS part 0 a


to the Mississippi, have all faded away 

like clouds passing over the earth. 

The story of their fate has passed 

into the history of this world. It is 

the irresistible fate of nations." 

Joseph Warrow spoke proudly of his 

race and Of the important part they 

played in the settlers' early welfare. 

Later, in the war of 1812, they were 

equally conspicuous. Francis Warrow 

always acted as special messenger between 

the American general, Hull, at 

Fort Detroit, and the leaders of the 

Wyandottes. His son, Joseph's father, 

fell heir to the chiefship on his death, 

and in a final rally led a contingent of 

braves against the invaders in the socalled 

"patriots' war" of1837. He was 

also an influential member of what 

was styled the "Deer Clan" whose object 

was to restore the Indians' supremacy. 

Concerning any hope of restoration 

of his rights or property Joe has 

little to say, although of the sixty 

miles of territory he once owned, 

some of which was taken, he says, 

without regard to title or claim, he 

doe not even now possess a square 

inch. He seems to aecept the 

situation with the childish simplicity 

of the Indian when once lie is convinced 

of its impossible alteration. 

"Ah," said he, "yes, once when I 

was young I did think-But now I 

am old I see-we could fight the white 

man with knives and tomahawks, but 

with laws we cannot. The Indian 

could not do what you have done. 

Once, some years ago, I went to Detroit. 

I saw the big cars and stores 

and all the lights, Then I came home 

to my woods and smoked my pipe. 

, 0,' said I; 'no. It is best.' " 

When asked to what cause he attributed 

the downfall of his people, 

Joe paused for a moment. As the 

distant br-r-r-r of an electric car was 

heard, he indicated its final note of 

progress with a broad sweep of his 

arm. Some distance away rested a 

large dark object with outlines not 

unlike those of a big black jug. His 

gesture may have carried a more significant 

inference. 

Joe is a Roman Catholic, and is a 

familiar figure at the little village 

church, which he frequently attends. 

His chief care is the old Wyandotte 

cemetery, where his people lie at rest. 

According to the old legend this is 

close beside the river, for the Indian 

believes no one can dream happily unless 

he sleeps close beside running 

waters. 

Doubtless many a forest king lies 

there in his forgotten grave, who once 

woke the forests with his savage warcry. 

Followers of Tecumseh, brave 

and unconquerable foes, men who 

stood invincible beside the guns of 

Fort Malden when Procter gave his 

order to retreat in the war of 1 12, 

and manF a painted ally who sold hi' 

allegiance to the French settlers in 

Detroit's early days-all rest together 

beside the waters of a river whose 

entire length they once claimed. 

"The bones of the great Chief 

Splitlog are here," says Warrow, who 

speaks of that chief as one of the 

greatest of the Indian allies. "History 

has never given him the credit 

due him," continues Joe. "It was 

Splitlog, not Tecumseh, who was the 

greatest warrior." 

Most noted men among the other 

graves are those of Mondoon, a celebrated 

chief known by the English 

name of White, and Peter Clarke, one 

of the authors of the Wyandotte history. 

"Here, too, shall I rest, said Warrow," 

when the Great pirit shall call 

me to my people. "

KERR·A.OAK, YUMA FIESTA 

FR"''iK T. LEA, "'i Sonthern Workman 

MONG thp Indians on 

A the Fort Yuma reservation 

which is situated 

in the extreme 

southeastern corner 

of California and on 

the overflow lands 

of the Colorado 

River, the greatest 

social event i the 

Kerr-a-oak, or Fiesta, 

which is held 

every two or three years. This is 

attended by many members of neighboring 

tribes-Mohave, Pima, Papago, 

Cocapa, and the Degino-as well as 

by many white people and Mexicans 

from the town of Yuma, Arizona. 

The term Fiesta is of course a 

Spanish name, a relic of the time when 

this part of the country was under 

Mexican control, and the purely Indian 

name, Kerr-a-oak, is only used by 

the Indians among themselves, while 

the former is used entirely by the 

whites and by the Indians in conversation 

with whites and Mexicans. 

As far as we can learn from their 

traditions-there seems to be no authentic 

history-this ceremony dates 

back to about one hundred and fifty 

years ago, when a great Cocapa chief 

came up to Yuma and got into some 

trouble in which the Yumas killed 

hi~. and not only scalped him but 

skmned him as well. This led to a 

bitter war which lasted for about two 

years and was continued between the 

tribes with alternate defeats and victories. 

Finally the Yumas won a 

great victory and ended tlie war, after 

many had been killed on both sides. 

It was to commemorate this victory 

and to honor the dead warriors that 

the Fiesta was established and has 

been held every few years since in 

much the same manner except that 

now it is extended in scope so a to 

include a memorial service for orne 

of the people who have died since the 

last Fiesta. This service consists of 

making images of the departed and 

burying them at the close of the ceremonie. 

In order to understand this it must 

be borne in mind that mo t of the 

tribes on the lower Colorado River 

claim to have a common creator, "Kokamot," 

who made all Indians, and 

set them down in different locations 

to become different tribes; then, seeing 

that if they kept on increasing 

there would be too many for the land, 

he instituted death by dying himself 

and directing the people to burn his 

body and to burn all dead bodies, that 

all might in the end come to him. So 

these tribes cremate their dead, usually 

making the fire with the logs of 

the house in which tlie person lived 

and died. Clothing, bedding, and all 

other property is burned and standing 

crops are given away. Formerly 

horses were killed and burned but the 

Government will not allow this. so 

now they are usually sold when a 

person is near death and the money 

useO to purchase material to be burned 

or given away at the funeral. ~r 

a body has been burned the fnend 

and relatives are not sup~sed to 

mention the departed exc~pt m connection 

with the next Flesta when 

thev rnav be honored. They do not 

car~ to have the sorroW brought back 

to mind in any way; this also account 

in a measure for their dislike of having 

pictures taken, a the person pho-

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35 

tographed may die and a relati\'e see tion works, it was not hard to get together 

the picture afterwards, 

a goodly company-a nearly 

The time of the celebration is in September 

a we could estimate, a thousand In· 

or October, the Friday, Satur 

dian. A prominent feature of the 

day and Sunday nearest to the full Fiesta, ~ now conducted, i the exhibition 

moon, and during the height of the 

and final burning of a lot of 

watermelon sea on, as then food for images or models made to represent 

the crowd is cheap and easy to get. those who have recently died, and 

By some it is supposed that this is a whose relatives wi h to commemorate 

"harvest home" festival after a season 

of good crop', but inasmuch as seventeen of varyin~ size', represent 

their deaths. In this case there were 

the Indians begin to plan for it in the ing people of different ages, The 

pring before the annual overflow has work of preparing them is done by 

come, it would seem that this can hardly 

be the case, 

someone killed in that particular line; 

it is started a long time beforehand 

The lead in the management is generally 

taken by one of the older men 

and is semi-secret. When finished 

the images are hidden away somewhere 

in the bushes until the final 

who has recently lost some near relative, 

In the Fiesta of last fall the 

day of assembly. Apparently there 

lead was taken by Captain Charlie, 

was a central stick, about the height 

of the person represented, with a 

who had lost a brother, a daughter, 

crosspiece to make the clothing han~ 

and a grandchild inside of a year, and 

nicely, The head was small and covered 

with muslin like a rag doll, with 

though not a chief nor even a captain 

now, is one of the older men and one 

features in black and decorati\'e painting 

such as they u e on their faces, 

of considerable influence among his 

people. His daughter, Nelson Rainbow's 

wife, died early in the spring 

as both men and women paint when 

dressed in their be t, All the images 

and we have been hearing of the 

had hair powdered very irregula~IY, 

Fie ta ever since, other people of 

apparently with flour. The clothlllg 

course joining in to honor their relatives. 

was in the style be-t liked by the departed, 

only much more elaborate and 

About the first of September a preliminary 

gathering was held to make 

expensive, The women were represented 

in bright-eolored dre: es of 

final plan and set the date, and 

cotton or silk with handkerchIef or 

though it was a very rainy day and silk shawls, and nearly all wore handbead 

collars and ornaments. 

not manv were out they had their 

dance a~d decided t~ hav~ the Fiesta some 

'ell 

The image' of the men were II" 

on the next full moon, when melon dressed in ready·made clothes and 

would be ready. It was also planned bead collars, We were told .that 

to hold it on the ground where.'elson I all the images had mone) and 

and Captain Charlie had their homes near y _' the pocket", all of which 

and fields at the time of the death of 

watches In 

were finally burned, 

n to 

the wife, when houses and even FridaY morning the people bega _ 

fences had been burned. .Iessengers 

bl e orne 'Imply camped be 

assem ' d J P 

were dispatched over the country to side their wagon or un er 

announce the time and place, and, as others put up booth for 

there were many outside Indians at 

o 

some put up large booths or te 

work near Yuma on some large irriga-


be used as restaurants. A large centrallevel 

place that had been Captain 

Charlie's field was cleared off and 

burned clean as a parade ground: at 

one end of this a shed about twenty 

by thirty feet was put up for a mourning 

place. Early on Saturday morning 

two parties were sent out to get 

material for the ceremonial house, 

while the old women and a few men 

stayed in the mourning house and 

kept up a most dismal crying. 

About nine o'clock some mourning 

was heard in the di tance and soon 

there appeared a stately procession 

of about twenty men, led by an exchief 

who marked time with a cane. The 

men carried on their shoulders posts, 

logs, and poles with which to build 

the house. Close behind came Captain 

Charlie bearing the two poles 

and ring used by his hrother in the 

great Yuma gambling game, as that 

brother had been a prominent gambler. 

These poles were kept in a prominent 

place during the whole ceremony and 

were finallv burned with the other 

things. Then carne about ten women 

wearing red flannel monkhoods each 

tipped with a white feather; and last 

of all ca me two women carrying small 

fancy bags of shelled corn which they 

scattered over the procession as it 

moved. All were weeping or singing 

a dirp;e. 

After crossing the open space they 

stood the posts up and held them while 

they continued to mourn. Soon 

another party was heard in the distance; 

they were formed like the first 

except that the men carried large 

sheaves of dried weeds to make the 

roof of the house. In this group were 

some of the old men dreS5ed for war 

\\;th feathers. bows and arrows, and 

water gourds at their wai to. After 

stan . s top;ether for a short time, all 

the materal was laid down and the 

people went to the farther end of the 

ground and joined the other mourners. 

About noon the men tarted to 

put up the house and roofed it half over 

leaving the other half to be put on at 

sun-dvwn. 

During the whole three days some 

of the party kept up a constant dismal 

mourning. The night was occupied 

in singing, dancing, and wailing in 

preparation for the finaland great day. 

By Sunday a large crowd had a 

sembled and many had brought wagon 

loads of melons to sell, and they had 

a good trade a it was very warm, 

with only one little well of muddy 

water near at hand. About eight 

o'clock a proce sion bearing the images 

appeared from the bushes. They did 

not come at once to the ceremonial 

house but stopped near the mourning 

house and spent about half an hour 

going through some slow, ~tately 

motions, accompanied by a rattle made 

of deer hoofs which has been in use 

for many years. The march was again 

started toward the other house and 

after four halts for singing and lifting 

the images up in the air, and walking 

several times around the house, the 

images were deposited in a row in the 

center of the hou e and covered 

with a white cloth. During the entire 

cererr.ony the people who took an active 

part were occasionally sprinkled 

with corn by some of the women. Then 

for a time, all was quiet except for 

the weeping, and more people kept 

coming including many whites from 

the town of Yuma, onlv. 

a few miles 

away. Shortly afternoon prepa;ations 

began for the mimic war, which 

is supposed to represent the two years 

conflict between the Yumas and Cocapa. 

The war party was composed 

of old men in full war dress: young 

men wearing red hoods and armed 

with bows and arrows; and a partY


37 

of women with red hoods, two 0 

whom carried bags of corn. Four 

of the young men had bare legs and 

were apparently to be used as fast 

messengers; four others on ponies 

wore elaborate feather war bonnets. 

They went slowly to the parade ground 

where they divided, about half seating 

themselves at each end. 

Then ensued a long council of war 

led by an old ex-chief, the horsemen 

standing by their ponies in the rear 

of the party. Finally, two old men 

were sent from one group to the other. 

They carried bows and arrowS, and, 

studying the ground carefully, covered 

their tracks by scratching them out 

with the end of an arrow. When they 

returned and reported signs of the enemy, 

the whole palty moved forward, 

representing a day's march. This 

was done three times and on the fourth 

scouting trip a red blanket was 

found covering a bundle of sticks, 

with a bow stuck up in the ground; 

this was the Cocapa chief. He was 

killed and skinned, and at this moment 

the Cocapas appeared and scattered 

the Yumas. (The scouting party 

represented Yumas and the others the 

Cocapas.) The skin, the red blanket, 

was thrown up in the air with war 

whoops, and a general battle ensued, 

?artly on foot and partly on horseback, 

In which it was impossible for a witness 

to tell I"ho was victorious. This 

whole exercise IVa gone through again 

just before dark, at the close of which 

the final dance began. 

All through Sunday night there was 

an alternate ong and dance, entirely 

by the men. The song was ung while 

the men were sitting in the house on 

one side of the row of images; the 

dance was on the other side of the images, 

sometimes in the house and some 

times just outside, while a line of men 

and women stood and sat close to the 

images, keeping up the mourning. 

The song was accompanied by the deer 

hoof rattle and the men swayed backward 

and forward in perfect time, 

both of body and words. 

The younger men who could speak 

English said they did not understand 

the words, so we could not get the 

meaning of the ongs. At the ending 

of a song, about a dozen men with fur 

crowns and a little wand with feathers 

at the end would get in line and begin 

a very stately side-step dance and 

go backward and forward, singing all 

the time in a rather monotonous, regular 

way. Around the performers 

was a dense circle of several hundred 

people who did not seem to lose interest 

but stayed all night to see the end. 

A big funeral pile had been prepared 

close by on which the images were to 

be burned. About four o'clock Monday 

morning just as the first streak of 

dawn was appearing, the dance suddenly 

stopped. The images were picked 

up and carried out of the house, 

which was immediately set on fire, 

making one of the wildest scenes imaginable. 

By the light of the fire 

more elaborate exercises were ca;rled 

out, ending by the runners shootmg a 

lot of arrows into two target representing 

men, after which they.. thr~w 

down their bows and ran. "~th m 

creased wailing and crying the Images 

and targets were put on the funeral 

pile and it was lighted, a well as t;e 

house at the other end of the groun . 

h d round the fu- 

The crowd gat ere a . . d 

I fi d as the heat mcrea~e 

nera re a~ Th one of the 

the circle Widened. en d ' 

d in and starte m on a 

orators teppe .' the departed 

dd 

- praISing 

long a res., to be ready. 

and warnmg other~ images on the 

Th 

se who had put t e . 

o d 't taking off theIr 

fire walked aroun I t'"me and casting 

I th 

a piece at a I 

c 0 es: he f1aT.ling pile a' an 

each piece on to t


offering. This was kept up until 

many of the old men and women were 

almost naked and some one would give 

them an old skirt or cloth to wrap up 

in, as it was a cold night. By the 

time the fire had burned out, nearly 

all the people were gone except some 

of the old women who were completely 

exhausted and dropped where they 

were to sleep and rest after their three 

days' mourning-and thus ended the 

great Yuma Fiesta. 

Two days later as I passed the place 

the ashes were all being swept into 

pits and the ground raked over to obliterate 

all trace of what might bring 

sorrow to orne bereaved friend or relative. 

INDIA 

BASKET HANDICRAFT 

JESSIE JUUET KNOX, IN Home Magazi.,e 

A MO G the primitive art nothing 

IS of more intere t than the 

basketry of the Indian-, 

expressing as it 

does their artistic 

nature, and showing 

the re-ults of infinite 

patience. While the 

brayes have fought 

and hun ted. the 

squaws have ever been the homemakers 

and inventors: all the intensity 

and zeal which her pale-face sister 

throws into the function of society, 

the red woman puts into her baskets. 

It is her only way of expre sing the 

artistic instinct within her, and of 

sending forth the expression of her 

deepest imagination. Besides being 

a thing of beauty. abasket i the most 

useful artic e which the Indian possesses. 

From the swaying branches 

of a tree, the papoose is swung in a 

neatly woven reed basket and while 

the gentle breeze rve- as a nurse, 

to rock him leep. the nearby stream 

in which reeds grow, murmur a gentle 

lullaby: B t the - uaw has other 

duties not :) pleasant as ba ketmaking, 

such as carrying wood, fish, 

nuts, fruits, etc., and in all the eduties 

she uses a basket. E,"en water is thus 

carried, when the basket is closely 

woven and covered with pitch. Many 

of the domestic baskets are made with 

the coil weave, which gives almost 

as much strength and firmness as a 

wooden vessel. 

Baskets range in size from the tiny 

one for trinkets, about the size of 

one's fist, to the immense ba ket used 

for storing grain and holding half a 

ton. They are divided into three classes, 

"burden," "domestic" and "family-jewel" 

baskets, and in these are 

used seven kinds of weave. Burden 

baskets are made of willows in fishnet 

weave. They are usually conical 

in shape and often used for catchinll; 

and carrying fish. There are 

deep round ones used in heating water 

by throwing hot stones into them. 

There are also caps make to protect 

the head while bearing these burden 

baskets. The domestic baskets sholl' 

a wonderful variety in form. There 

are large ones for storage, often as 

tall as a man, delicatelv. 

ornamented 

with different ign and symbol-. 

There is the wicker winnower, large 

and hell-shaped, used in separating 

the grain from the chaff, while the 

baskets for sifting flour are used by 

Chinese merchants for sifting tea.

THE INDIA 

OOL JOURNAL 39 

The quaint bottomless basket, rna 

to fit over a hollowed-out tone, is u ed 

for grinding corn and acorns. Family 

jewel baskets, which are u ed for 

barter at the marriage ceremony or 

for funeral gifts. have bead pendants, 

tips of small particles of abalone shells, 

quill top-knots for a frill, and a line of 

white wampum around the rim. 

Besides the regular baskets, there 

are large plaques, which serve many 

purposes. •-0 form of Indian basket 

shows more weaves and greater variety 

of design than the plaques. They 

are used at ceremonial dances, wedding 

feasts, burial ceremonies, as a 

fray in the home. or are placed on the 

village altar, laden with gifts to the 

gods. They are also used for gambling, 

with walnut shells for dice. 

There are basket makers in all tribes 

but they are more numerous in California 

than anywhere else. There are 

many fine weavers in the Yosemite 

Valley. The basket of the Piutesand 

the Yokuts are similar and are not 

easily distingui hed from each other 

At the "Cahuilla," - well kno\\ n 

from the pages of "Ramona"- can be 

found same ven' fine basket makers, 

though not so fi~e as the Yokuts. 

The DiggerIndian , however, excel 

all others, and hi tory will speak of 

them as adept in the art. When vegetable 

fibers do not seem to be sufficient 

for the perfection oftheir baskets 

they add feathers of the yellow-hammer, 

which is their sacred bird. 

Other tribes use feathers from the 

quail. duck, woodpecker, lark, bluebird, 

and oriole. The Pima wea\'l!r 

uses wampum in connection with 

feathers. The Poma Indians use the 

slough gra s for wrapping splint, 

brightly colored and very strong. 

The Merced Indians make use of a 

spider-web de ign. The principal colors 

used are white, black, brown, and 

w. All basket of the coil weave 

are decorated with the terns of the 

maiden-hair fern, tule root, or red bui. 

The fern is very black and is much 

n favor with them. The tule becomes 

black after being buried in willow 

ashes for several hours. 

Every line on an Indian ba ket is 

pregnant with meaning, but they are 

not readily understood, because they 

are differently interpreted by differenttribes. 

Some de-igns repre entthe 

rippling stream, the lightning zigzagging 

across the sky. mountains, valleys, 

trees, birds, and sometime the 

human form. Even the cooking basket 

is a marvel of beauty. with flowing 

streams and serrated mountains 

embellishing its contour. When a continuous 

design runs around the basket 

you may see a 8mall space, which 

might indicate a mistake, but in reality 

the space has been left purposely for 

the "coyote" or e\'il spirit to escape. 

But the primitive art which has been 

transmitted from mother to daughter 

for so many generations is, unfortunately, 

dying out, since civilization is 

removing all desire on the part of the 

Indian woman to devote the time and 

patience required in the plodding art. 

They have discovered that they c~n 

procure other receptacles which Will 

_ ul'te as well as 

sen-e their surposes q ,... 

the basket. so they are beco,mm g ne\\ 

. " and are abandonIng all unwomen, 

- . h t 

neces 'ary work. Another ~1l1~ is t a 

the material for basketry I' bell1g de- 

e settling up of the counstroved 

bY th 

, H the increasll1g 

. 

vaIue f 

0 

trv ence .f 

the' baskets. and one mu-t ~asten I 

. h to procue a collectiOn, for. 

thev 

'h 

WIS 

ent rate thev Will 

- 

soon be 

at t e pres " 

priceless, . - t' its 

This Indian art for It IS ar Il1 

-t sen'~ might also be encourag 

.' d govern 

true, 

ed' the variouo mls iOn an 

Il1 hool with gratifying results. 

men t

THE COMM 

• •'OTE: Tbi... conference 1I"a.. be d immetliatt'i 

after tbe adjournment of a ...eueral ..e....lon. which 

c(lDcluded with a paper aD . -atioe Indian Art n;3d 

by Ml ...... ADRel Det:ura. and a k .....OD dernou.. lral1olC 

p.ractical oran~e cDllnre, prl:'"-eDled b~' ;\Ii..... ~lalZ£1~ 

. aff with a cla .....of indian pupils. and the prell ml 

nary remark ot tbe l'omm· .....ioner refer to tbe..e 

eurcl es. 

SIO ER'S POLICY 

Bdllf a rtpOrt of proceedings of a RoooHabl, Confer.." 

coo.lucta! by Mr. l.copp at th, Los Aorel" IosUlol, 

EARLY everybody else has had a demonstration 

here, and now I want 

one of my own. These two boys 

(calling two pupils to the front) are Cr~m 

Oraibi, where the old hostile chief, Yukeorna, 

told me last year that his follower, were 

not going to let us have any children from 

their Pueblo. I ventured to disagree with 

him; I thought we ....h,luM eontinlle to have 

Oraihi pupils in our schools. These two boys 

are here, as you see, and have been showing 

you what they have learned during the last 

year. C/Uf,f1 ffaff dlmo-ll'~',(/,,,hfll/. 

These boys, like the others at Sherman 

Institutp., are learning not simply the lessons 

taught in books, but more valuable thingshow 

to carry responsibility, how to take care 

of themselves, how to hold their own against 

the whites. I am glad to see that monogram 

on the Sherman Institute banner (pointing to 

the Sherman flag containing a monogram 

composed of the letters S. I.) [t comes 

pretty near being a dollar mark. Sordid as 

it may sound, it is the dollar that makes the 

world go around, and we have to teach the 

Indians at the outset of their careers what a 

dollar means. That is, in some respects, the 

most important part of their education. 

We are doing it everywhere. Last year we 

sent about forty bo} s from Fort Defiance 

Navaho boys-into the beat fields of Colorado. 

They came back a month or two afterward 

with some $1600 jingling in their pockets. 

Every one of those boys learned a valuable 

Ies on. Moreover even" one of those dollars 

has been invested'in sheep; and when those 

boys COlDe to make their homes they "ill 

have sometlring to slart on-something they 

own themselves, and something that they 

got by their own labor. That i- the reason 

we are trying to teach these Indians such 

practical lessons as we bave had here today. 

I want to say just a word aLoot Miss Angel 

De Cora's address. When it is printed 1 

hope you will all read it, because Miss De 

Cora could not speak lood enough for all of 

you to hear, on account of the condition of 

her thnlat. ~ omet.ody came to me this 

morning and wanted to know if I had seen an 

article in the local pre::; in which doubt was 

expressed whether ~he "ould ha·.e the support 

of the authorities in such work as ~he is 

doing! As the idea of re,iving-. or perpetuating. 

Indian art and its ideals was one of m) 

earliest aspiration~. and as I had to struf!~le 

hard with .liss De Cora to induce ber to leave 

the private practice of her profession and 

come in with us and take up this task becau. e 

I thought her better fitted for it lhan anp,ne 

else I knew, I Ceel that 1 am reasonably safe 

in prOphe5ying that. throuRh this administration 

at least, she will have "the authorities" 

behind her. 

]\ow I 5hall be very much Illeased to hear 

from anyone who has any critical or other 

thought to expre:is. or any inquiry to make; 

and I hope you will Corg-et all aboot oor relative 

official rank and treat me with perfect 

freedom. We are all here together as fellowworkers, 

standing- on the same footing, tT) 

ing to do something for nor Indian people. 

and if we can hflp each other in an out-andout 

talk 'in this way. it certainly will be a 

very weH-spent time for me and I trust will 

be for you. 

C/1#:ot.UJl (,.IIU tJ,t' d"': For how longa 

time has this idea of teaching the Indians to 

take care of them:ielves been agitated! 

.I.,U' : In a theoretical way.~t ba.' been 

worked on for a long- time. but we ha\"e been 

trying lately to carry it out in a more pracllcal 

fashion. For an example: lru;tead. of 

herding the Indians together and keepIng 

them awa)' from the whites, e have tried to 

get them mi. ed in with the wh.te people to 

the hope that they will ab,orb a. "nod deal of 

valuable knowledRe from experlen(e not alway" 

the bestlhat thewhit"have, but!lOm.. 

thing of importance to th..r hfe work instead 

of shutting them up m. a hot-hO:~ 

~nd 

. t tra,·n them artlfi~lall," by UTDl:-btrymg 

0 • h 

ing them with soecial implement' .and teac . 

ervthingelse, weare tI1lOg tornake 

ers and e" - I 

them learn right out in the op


Colorado beet fields: we sent them to dig on 

the irrigation ditches; we sent them where 

they could work aPbuilding railroad embankments, 

and in all those ways tried to accustom 

them to the working habit· of the wbite 

man. 

It does tbe boys and girls good to go out to 

work away from the scbools even during the 

schoo! months. I am perfectly willing to 

credit a school \\ith all their children put out 

in this way. becau °e it is quite as e ential a 

part of their education as any' thing they can 

learn from books. My policy includes not 

only the sending of Indians out among the 

whites to learn their ways and break aW3,y 

from reservation life, but I have procured 

from Congress, as probably some of you do not 

know. two or three pieces of legislation co\er· 

ing other phases of the subject bnt all pointing 

to the same general direction. One, for instance, 

permits us to give an Indian, as soon 

as we as satisfied of his capacity for taking 

care of his own affairs, his patent to his land 

in fee; another, to give any Indian, when we 

are satisfied of his ability to care for himself, 

his share of the tribal fund. In that way we 

are trying, just as fast as we can, to take 

.each Indian out of the mass and set him on 

his feet as an mdividual Citizen just as soon 

as he is able to take care of himself. We 

should do for the Indian precisely what we 

are doing for the white man-give·him the 

rudiments of an education, teach him what 

money is, teach him the value of things, and 

tben let him dig out his own future. Of 

course it means that a considerable number 

will go to the wall. but those who survive 

will be worth saving. 

It. Wha~ is being done in the schools and 

on the reservation:; in the way of temperance 

work? 

A. Only the I(eneral teaching of temperance. 

I think perhaps the most ~aluabIe work for 

temperance is to I!et hold of a consciencele5 

dram eller here and there and put him in the 

peniteDtiar,Y. That i;; a more practical lesson. 

as a rule, than t"",hinl( what are the ingredi· 

ents of alcohol and ..-bat effect it has on the 

human system. WE: were beaten in one big 

legal fight on thi subject in the spring of 

1905. But although the dramseller in that 

case won, the Government had at least the 

satisfaction of learning that ithad put him out 

of business and left him 1500 in debt. If we 

could simply break up the trade of everyone 

of these fellows, I think we could keep them 

from debauching the Indians with impunity. 

It. 1 was reading an article the other day 

in which it was said that the present idea wa 

to transfer the Indian schools from the jurisdiction 

of the United State Government to 

the care of the different States. Is that s01 

A. 'Ihat is in a measure true. hut of course 

no such sweeping statement should go unchallenged. 

What I am aiming to do is to 

take the non-reservation chools-which, as I 

aid a day or two ago, are on the road leading 

downward and turn them over to the tate 

or local authorltes, A plan I should like to 

pursue is this: to get theStatesto takeany of 

the non-reservation schools which we can 

spare tand there are about twenty of these) 

with the understanding that they shall be preserved 

as educational institutions by the 

State or local authorities, and that for, say, 

the next ninety-nine years, any Indian who 

wants an education there shall have his 

tuition free he to furnish his own board 

and clothing, books, etc, If I could induce 

the States to take them in this way, and the 

United States Government to give them up, 

I should achieve something I have been looking 

forward to for a long time. Dartmouth 

College in New Hampshire started as an Indian 

school, and I believe it has in its charter 

as a college a provision that any Indian who 

wishes an education there can have his tuition 

free. That was what gave mp my idea many 

years ago, for I saw that in that way we 

could get out of the tangle into wbich we have 

fallen. The non-reservation schools, most of 

them, are simply kept in existenceby sending 

out runners in every direction to gather the 

children in by main strength, if they have to 

be half-torn to pieces in the process when two 

or more emissaries get after them at the 

same time. I want to get rid of that sort of 

thing as quickly as I can, and bring our wor~ 

down to the point where every school WI 

stand on its own two feet, and derive itssupport 

from the fact that it is actually needed 

and fills the want. The resolution of mne- 

. bools 

teen or twenty of our non-reservatlon sc . 

into State schools for whites and Indians ,ndlscriminately 

would tend to the same end as 

the labor program already described, of mingling 

the races tCJ!(ether. 

With regard to the schools on the reservations, 

they will gradually merge into State 

and local institutions also. In time we sball 

put one reservation boarding-school after another 

out of commission. Then will come the 

. 't?" 

question: "What shall be done With I . 

The local authorities will probably say, "We 

would like this for sueh-and-such an instl tu -

THE INOlAN SCHOOL JOURNAL 

43 

tion," and the Government will simpl. ell It 

for that purpose; or, if it is to be, nt filled 

as an educational institution with such a provise 

as I spoke of, the Government would 

doubtless he willing to make a present of it 

to-the State. Finally our little day schools, 

which are at the foundation of our whole 

system, will in all probability merge, in the 

coune of twenty years or twenty-five years, 

into little village schools continued by the 

local white I(overnment. but conducted for 

all the people alike; they will become a part 

of the great common school system of the 

United tates, which has done so much to 

make our country what it is tooay. 

'I- You spoke of putting the Indian upon 

his own feet 0 that he can take care of himself 

and children. When we give the Indians 

land and tell them to work for themselves, it 

seems to me there should he someone to look 

after them and see that they progress in the 

right direction-someone to look after the old 

Indians. It seem to methat there should he 

white people on the reservation from whom 

the Indians can learn how to live, and do 

things properly not because they are forced 

to. 

_I. If I understand you correctly, you have 

struck the right note. It is good, sound sense 

to let the Indians do their own self-improvement 

just as far as it can be done. Bring in 

among them the whites who willl'uide them 

and steer them, withdrawing the guidan,e 

and steering a it becomes less and less necessary, 

and the Indians will learn in that way 

that they must take care of themsel"" 

There is nothing in the world that does a boy 

or a girl, an rndian or anyone else. so much 

good as taking care of himself. The Indian 

will never get one step further up 

while someone else is taking ,are of them. 

My notion is to pot them on their feet and let 

them do for themselves. with only a little encouragement-as 

we hold out a finger before 

the tottering child that cannot quite walk. 

Let them get on in that way instead of being 

tied to the apron string' of the Government. 

I,i. If the Government physician on a reservation 

could be made a health officer. 

authorized hy the law to see that thmg s are 

kept clean and make the Indians understand 

that hiS sanitan' rules come from the Government, 

I think' the question of sanitation 

would he greatly improved. I find that the 

Indians on our reservation think that everything 

that comes from the Government is the 

thing to do. Often when I ask them to do 

things, they say, "~Iaybe Washington not 

'"ke it. It If the physician can be made a 

health officer, then he can 1(0 further, with 

the aid of the field matron or missionary. to· 

ward helping the Indian. 

.1. That is a 1(000 ioea. I ,hall he I(lad to 

have you write me a Jetter about it when 

I get back to W..,hinl(ton, and I will take it 

up at once. The agency ph~ sieian is already 

by virtue of his office. the health officer of the 

resen:ation. and ou~ht to be so understOOtI 

and respected; but if it be nec",,;aT)' to clothe 

him with more uf the insi~nia of authQrit~. 

I will ghoe ever~ ph}'~ician a large parchment 

with a broad blue ribbon and a big redeal 

altached to it. and if that doe~ not impres~ 

our red brother. I do not know what will. 

(.J. YOll ~poke about J!iving OVH c~rtain 

schools to other authority. Did ~ ou mean 

that the Indian pupils must furni,h their 

own books, board and clothes! 

.1. I meant just that. The present practice 

of feeding and clothinl( and IOOI(;nl( an 

Indian free in order to make it easier for us 

to force upon him a degree of learning which 

he does not wish, and of which in mO:'it C3l".eS 

he can and will make nO use, is all folly. It 

only cultivate:; the


ment .tarted out with the idea that the IDdians 

at one time OWDed all tbe land, so, when 

the land was to divided up, every Indian must 

have a piece of it. Now as that piece of 

land is not going to be in tbe city but in the 

country, what shall tbe Indian do with it? 

We must require him to farm it, of course, 

because farming is the oDly use the open 

country caD be put to. So it was decreed 

that every Indian must be put upon bis piece 

of land and required to make his own living 

there. 

Now what would happen to us is we were 

each set down upon a piece of land and told 

to make our living out of it regardless of our 

wishes or abilities? I know what would happen 

to one man-I sbould starve to death. It 

i the same way with the Indians as with us; 

they have as great a diversity of talents as 

we. One is a mechanic, another is an artist, 

another takes kindly to the law, another does 

clerical work exceedingly well. To take all 

these people indiscriminately aDd say, "You 

must plow your land and sow it, and reap and 

market your provisions. and in that way make 

a living, II is about as sensible as to decree 

that all the people of the world should follow 

one pursuit. What we ought to have done in 

tbe first place was to ahsorb the Indians into 

our civilization, never recognizing them as a 

separate people, never making special laws 

for them, but making them subject to all the 

laws that were made for all tbe people. We 

ought to have treated the Indian just like 

any buman being. just as we treat any foreigner 

who comes to this country, only showhim 

a little more favor, perhaps, because he 

was bere first. Had we started with him in 

that wa)\ as soon as he had come to want 

land and a home be would have earned them 

hy his own good right arm, as other men do. 

Then he would have appreciated them, because 

the impulse to own bis home would 

have come from withiD and Dot been forced 

upon him by an overcharitable Government. 

As I have said, we can't get away from 

the mistakes which an e3rlier generation 

made; we are obliged to deal with condition, 

just as we find them; but what we must do 

now is to work back by degreeS mto the rIght 

path, leaving the Indians, as soon as practicable 

to make their living for themselves. 

And ;hat is why, when some of you superintendeDts 

call on me to allow you to erect 

new huildings, to establbh an electric lighting 

plant, to install a new laundry or a steam 

cooker hecauseit saves labor, or to buy some· 

thiDg else which the Indian will never have 

or SEe at his home on the reservation, I do 

Dot allow you all you think I ought to. When 

you feel, sometimes, that I do Dot treat you 

very generously, it is not because your request 

is had in itself, but because the particular 

principle that I am strugl(ling to carr)' 

out is exactly opposite to that represented by 

your request. We are tryiDg to deal with 

the Indian just as we find him on his own 

ground-to frame his schooling with a view 

to what he is going hack to when he leaves 

school. By the same process of reasoning 

I want to put the Indian hack upon the same 

footinl( with the white man, and with every 

other man of any race or color in this country-where 

he must, if he goes to school. pay 

for his OWD board and lodgiDg and clothes. 

UDless the local government extends some 

special privilege to all its people I don't want 

the Indians to get it. I want to take him out 

of the category of curios and make a maD of 

him! 

Q. I have read several things that you 

have said in regard to abolishing all the Donreservation 

schools, and we at Haskell have 

been quite anxious about it. There has been 

considerable unrest; the people don't know 

whether the school is going to be abolished 

next year, or whether it is going to stand for 

a number of years. Is your policy a sweeping 

one? Do you believe in abolishing all, or 

do you believe there is a place for a few? 

A. As I was telling the superintendents 

the other day, I should like to make the descent 

gradual. I should prefer to get rid of 

one school at time. and should put Haskell 

among' those last on the list to be abolished. 

I want to say with regard to Haskell that it 

is doing good work, just as Riverside is doing 

good work. I have seen Riverside's demon~ 

strations here, and have no doubt that Mr. 

Friedman could get up and give some from 

Haskell just as good. Haskell is making quite 

a specialty of its clericai course, which is one 

that I like very much indeed, because there 

are a great many young Indians who are taking 

most kindly to different sorts of clerical 

work. They make excellent stenograpbers 

as well as bookkeepers, and they write well, 

as we all know-doubtless due to the manual. 

training the Indian has had through his many 

generations of ancestors who have had to 

make everything they used with their oWD 

fingers. Haskell, I feel safe in saying, will be 

among the last to be abolished, because its 

geographical position is such that it ministers 

I

to a large population of Indians who are likely 

to take to clerical occupations. I think that 

hy degrees some of the branches wbicb are 

now taught at Haskell migbt be turned over 

to some of the other schools. but I don't tbink 

Mr. Friedman need pack his trunk for SOllie 

time to come. 

Q. Do I understand you tosay thatthe outing 

system should be extended to all boarding 

schools? 

A. The outing sy


more valuable than any they could do in the 

class-room. I shall every time be very glad to 

give the teacher the credit of havingdone his 

or her whole duty if the children are brought 

to the school, started in the rudiments, and 

then sent out to places where they can be 

tau~ht actually to do something for profit. 

Q. Should the old Indians and their child· 

ren be educated, and is it to be foroed on 

them' 

.4. Some of the old Indians have learned 

a thing or two of late years, particularly 

those who have come into close contact with 

a school. That is where the da)'School is doing 

the great work. It is right under the 

nose of the old Indian. and after a while he 

learns to respect it. Of course, there is still, 

among some of the old Indians, a very great 

opposition to education. or to what we style 

education. The old-fashioned Indian wants 

his child to follow Ihe cld Indian ways, and 

believes they are better for it. We have to 

put the school proposition on very practical 

ground with him. First we appeal to his instinct 

of self-protection. We say: "The 

white people are coming into your country, 

and unless you and your people know the 

English language and are able to read and 

write and cipher a little y'ou cannot hold your 

own aganist the whites. Now it will do no 

good for you to say the whites ought not to 

come-that they oUl:ht to stay away and 

leave you alone-for they are coming, and 

are here." After we have appealed in that 

way. if he still resists, we say plainly to him 

that his children must >(0 to school long 

enough to learn the simple things, whether 

he likes it or not. And if he then still does 

not Ii ten to the words of the Government, 

we send the policeman or the soldier to show 

him that we mean busine~. 

Q. Is there uniformity in the treatment of 

the different tribes throug-hout the L'nited 

Stat...? And how, for in ·tance. does the 

treatment of the California Indians by the 

Government er from that of the more 

savage tribes! 

_4. A full answer to that question would 

be pretty comp L The tribes differ, of 

course, as do different peoples of the Caucasian 

race, and ..e have to adopt a variety of 

methods suited the re;pective tribes. We 

treat an agriculllll':l! people like the Hopis, 

who for many years have been ubsisting in 

a poor way by tbeir own labor, in a very different 

fashion fr that in which we treat the 

proud warlike :. The California Indian, 

in my judgment, to a better position today 

than nine-tenths of his brethren in the United 

tates, and he is - because the Government 

has done less for h'm. He has been stripped 

of pretty nearly ....ery·thing-a blessing in 

disgUIse, for by' virtne of that he has been 

obliged to get do n and work for a living; 

and I look to see m re Indians of California 

tribes saved than of any other group in the 

United States. 

Q. I have been \Cry much interested in the 

outing system, aod I should like to ask you 

this question: oppose a person comes to a 

large school to get fifty pupils to work for 

him, what i, the basis of choice by which a 

superintendent or teather should choose 

fifty? What sbould lead him in his choice? 

A. I will tell )"011 ..hat rule [ should apply: 

I should stud\' mv children to kllow who 

among- them w·vuJd"recei\"e most benefit from 

going- out-that i.-. whitb ones show some 

capacity for appretiating the advantages 

of such a chance to toncb elbows with the 

world. When a child sbow' a disposition toward 

progress. be -bould bave tbe benefit of 

the outing ratber tban the one who will 

simply take a le--", becau.;e yOII require bim 

to, and let it ru" t of his mind as water runs 

oIf a duck's bact. It is a mighty good plan. 

whether you are dealing with children or with 

adult . to give yonr belp not to tbe inert, but 

to those who> w s me interest in belping 

themselves. 

THE Fa' 100 

TAP. 

By ISABEL McATHUR. 

Go way from heah. boys 

Quit·a-makin' dat noise- 

Why dis chile's eyes am big as di mooo 

An all em duds, 

Yet in di suds- 

I wont git dis washin out fo'noon.

THE INDIA 

HABIT OF SCALPING 

By AX OLD PLAINSW,\1' 

O 

take one scalp of a ramoU!~ scout or army 

F the origin of scalp-taking but little is 

officer who has successfully chastized themfor 

example, Custer, ully, Miles or Crook 

known, and that vague and indefinite. 

"early evel1' tribe has some wild, 

than a dozen scalps of ordinary white men. 

weird legend to account for the custom, but 

There are many in t2.nces on record where 

these traditions val1' widely as to the cause. 

men have been scalped and yet survived the 

That "raising the hair" of an enemy is of 

terrible ordeal, but in evcry case the 

great antiquity there is no doubt, for in the 

scalper supposed his victim dead, the latter 

Bible it is related bow the soldiers tore the taking good care that his foeman should not 

skin from the heads of their vanquished foes. 

be disabused of the supposed fact. 

With the North American savage there In 1 7 a party of Indians took up a rail on 

appears to be some close affiliation between the Union Pacific railway and laid obstruc· 

the departed and his hair. I have often asked tions on the track. After dark a freight 

many a warrior why he should care for a train ran into the trap and was wrecked. 

dead man's hair, says Capt. Henry Inman, The engineer and firemen were instantly 

in the Kansas City Star, and invariably a killed. The conductor and brakemen jumped 

number of reasons have been assigned. It off to find themselves beset by a band of yell· 

is an evidence to his people that he has ing savages. They ran into the darkness and 

triumphed over his enemy. The scalps are all escaped except one, who was pur:sued, 

very prominent factors in the incantations of shot and fell. The Indian who had fired dismounted 

from his pony, and straddling that 

the I'Medicine Lodge," a feature of religious 

rites. The savage believes there is a won· unluck\' man's body, scalped him, stripped 

derfully inherent power in the scalp of an him of all clothing but the shirt and shoes 

enemy; all the excellent qualities of the vic· 

and rod away. 

tim go with his hair the moment it is wrench· Earlv lD the morning another freight train 

ed from his head. If the victim is a renowned 

",a fl~ ged by a hideous looking object, 

warrior, so much greater is the anxie y t 

procure his scalp for the fortunate posses,or 

which turned out to be the brakeman who 

had been shot through the body and scalped. 

then inheri all the bravery and prowess of He had recovered his senses. and knowing 

its original owner. 

that the train was due, walked some distance 

I never knew of but one instance in all my down the track to save it from being wrecked. 

experience amon!! the Indians, con:ring a He was taken on hoard and the train ~O\"~ 

period of more than the third of a century, 

where a white man. taken prisoner in a bat 

up to the wreck. which. alter plunderIng It. 

the Indians left, just as It was thrown o.. er 

lie, escaped dealh. It was a great many 

years ago; the party, a dear friend, still li,· 

inl(, a grand old mountianeer, but the homeliest 

man on earth, probably. He was redfaced. 

wrinkled and pock.marked, with a 

mouth as large and full of teeth as a gorilla, 

and there was no more hair on his head than 

there is on a billiard ball. 

He was captured in a prolonged fight and 

taken to the villa~e of the tribe where the 

principle chief resided. That dignitary gave 

one disgusted look at the prisoner and said 

that he was "Bad ~edicine," and if not the 

"Evil Spirit" himself, closely related to it. 

Tne chief ordered his subordinate to furnish 

the prisoner with a pony, loaded him with 

provisions, provided him with a rifle and told 

him to go back to his people. 

For the reasons stated the Indians of the 

plains and Rocky Mountians would rather 

through their devili,h aet. 

I saW the unfortunate man ~me months 

afterward. He had perfectly recovered, but 

'th horrible lookin~ head. He stated that 

;:e b:llet. althoul(h knocking him down had 

and the greate...t 

t made him unconseiou~. 

~~al during that awful night" as ~e nece:;51- 

_ d d h not dartnlt e,-en to 

tv of shamming ea. e , h' . 

• h'l the Indian was ",wln~ at 1, 

groan w Ie 

'f 

1 'ith a verv dull bulche r knl e. 

sea P"other instance whi h has c:ame under 

The b er"ation i, that of Robert McGee. 

mY own 0 :- ,. f 1 d 

_ tJ.S: I Gee a ~lender strtpln ~ 0 a a , 

In 1 .~ "'e~worth. Kan.. ~eekin~ employcame 

to h:t town was the ba.::-~ of ~~~'frnment. 

T . _frail the frontier military 

ment sllpphet- 0 wa\" as Arizona. A freight 

posts even asf:\~at 'lime loading for Fort 

caravan :"as a The wagons and whole outfit 

UOlon.•. ~.


were owned by a contractor named H. C. 

Barret, but he would not take the chances of 

the long and perilous trip of more than 700 

miles through the Indian infested plains unless 

the Government leased the train outright, 

or gave him an indemnifying bond and 

assurance against loss. The bond was given 

and Barret proceeded to hire teamsters a 

hard task on account of the danger attend'ing 

the journey. Young McGee was among the 

number engaged, and the caravan started 

July 1, 1864. 

It took the old Sante Fe trail, striking the 

Arkansas river at the Great Bend of that 

stream, near it confluence with the Walnut. 

The region was very rough and called the 

"dark and bloody ground," for some of the 

worst Indian massacres in the history of the 

plains were perpetrated tbere. Some insignif. 

icant skirmishes with the Indians bad taken 

place, but nothing to cause any serious alarm, 

and now, as the caravan was approaching the 

vicinity of Fort Larned, its proximity was 

believed to be sufticient protection from further 

possible danger. 

On the afternoon of July 18-it had been an 

excessively hot day-the caravan w ,t into 

camp at an early hour. The escort- troops 

stacked arms .bout half a mile d,slimt, but 

in full view of the train. The "en should 

have kept a good lookout for surprises, probably 

did in a way, but there was a feeling 

of security in the knowledge that a regular 

attack by savage, is rarely made until the 

early hour of the morning when sleep is 

heaviest. 

About 4 o'clock, however. a band of Brule 

Sioux, under tbe lead of Little Turtle, de· 

scended from the sand hills in all the fury of 

a tornado. uttering their wild war whoops, 

and of all the small army of men employed 

by the caravan young Robert McGee alone 

came out alive to tell the story of the massacre. 

Every individual was shot dead and 

scalped as be lay or sat at the m""s table. 

The mules of course, went to swell the herds 

of the savages, but tbe wagons weredestroyed 

by fire, their canvas covers cut up into 

breech clouts and the flour with which the 

caravan was loaded emptied from its sacks 

on tbe prairie. 

Young McGee was attacked by Little Turtle 

himself and knocked to the ground by one 

blow of his tomahawk. As he lay there. 

partially stunned and bleeding, Little Turtle 

fired two arrows into his body, pinning him 

to the earth. Then in a transport of fiendishness, 

he took Robert's own pistol and shot 

CALPS TAKE:" BY L"01""s. 

him, the bullet lodging in his backbone. Not 

quite satisfied that he had made a good job of 

it, he stooped over the prostrate boy's body 

and running his knife around his head, lifted 

64 square inche 0 his scalp, trimming it off 

ju t back of the e. 

BelieVing his VIctim to be dead by this time, 

the ch'ef abandoned him, but others of the 

band in passing hacked him with tbeir knives 

and poked holes into bim with their long 

lances. All the others in the train were long 

since dead, killed outright, and their bodies 

mutilated. 

After the savages had completed their 

work they rode, whooping and yelling, away, 

and the troops that had witnessed the whole 

affair from their vantage ground came upon 

the scene to investigate and learn whether 

the Sioux had heen properly met or not by 

the ill-fated men of the caravan. Theofticer 

in command was very properly courtmartialed 

and dismissed in disgrace from the service. 

Be never g-ive any satisfactory reason 

for his outrageous and cowardly conduct. 

The ollly part the troops took in the affair 

was to bury the dead. When they attempted 

to put young McGee under the ground they 

found a very lively corpse, despite the fact 

that he was scalped and had received 14 distinct 

wounds, anyone of which would have 

terminated the life of an ordinary man. 

After interring- the dead the solaiers hastened 

to Fort Larned, 30 miles distant, where 

young McGee was placed under the care of 

the post surgeon. It was three months before 

he was able to be moved from tbere.


Durinl( tbat time be had fair command of bis 

mental faculties, and was ;ufficiently stronl( 

to tell all tbc incidents of the attack. 

Barret, the owner of the caravan, wbo had 

remained in Leavenworth,

tbucationalll J)tpadment I 

EVERY EMPLOYEE IN THE SERVICE IS INVITED TO CONTRffiUTE PAPERS TO THIS DEPARTMENT 

I SPECTIOl 

OF DAIRY HERD 

By CHAS. S. DAVIS 

THE object of the schools established by 

the National Government for the education 

of the Indian, as has heen well stated 

by Supenntendent Reel - to fit him in the 

best way possible "to rope with his environment". 

Cmmissioner Leupp states that in 

doing this "Our main bope lies with the 

youthful generation who are still measurably 

plastic". He furtber observes: "Of the 

30,000 or 40,000 Indian cbildren of school al(e 

in the United States, probably at least threefourths 

will settle down in that part of the 

West which we ,till style frontier;" and 

adds that "most of these will try to draw a 

living out of the soil"_ The importance of 

agricultural instruction is tberefore manifest; 

and, of tbe differentiated lines of agriculture, 

tbat of dairying is admittedly well 

adapted to tbe Indian's needs. 

In words which have received the express 

approval of Superintendent Reel, an account 

(which may be regarded as typical of Indian 

schools in general) bas been given of what 

is being done at Day Scbool No.2, by 

Edward S. Weatherby, teacber. He says: 

"The children relish milk to drink, and 

last spring, when our row was fresh, we 

gave them all they could drink three times a 

week. If the day schools were furnished 

two cows the cbildren mll!bt bave milk all 

the year, and becoming accustomed to drink it 

at school, would try to get their parents to 

keep a cow at home. Enough corn, turnip!', 

beets, carrots, etc., could be raised in the 

garden to keep the COlfS in winter, and the 

cbildren could thus learn to care for cows. I 

do not plan to substitute tbe garden products 

for rations, but to supplement tbe regular 

rations and give the children a full dinner." 

A consideration of the great value of milk 

and its products as arlitles of food, and their 

natural comformity to the needs of the developing 

children assembled at these schools, 

empbasizes the wisdom of carrying on in a 

practical way the processes of dairying at 

tbese schools as a means of economically and 

properly providing for tbe daily Fubsistence 

of the pupils. This need is now so well recognized 

that dairying is indeed practiced at 

most Indian scbools and quite extensively at 

some of them. Mi Reel (Course of Study, 

p. 95) speaks of dairying as an e ential to be 

taught to Indian boys and girls. All Indian 

schools may therefore be regarded either as 

having dairy cows or as working toward getting 

them wherever the eooditions warrant 

such action. 

That the methods pursued with these herds, 

in the beginning especially. may in some cases 

be primitive and waEteful '- perbdps to be 

expected. The improvement of these methods 

and their maintenan.,. at the bighest 

standard of practical efficiency is a duty of 

grave importance, for the reason, if ~or no 

otber, thatin teaching ad1ild to do a tblDg he 

should be taught to do it in tbe rigbt way. 

Adaptation of methods to tbe conditions incident 

to the localitv sb Id alwal's be kept 

in mind, and metbods sb be taugbt wbicb 

will result in the greates --ible retum for 

the efforts spent. Th, itvention of macbmery, 

and especially the introduction of the 

Babcock test, have prucluoed a revolutIOn tn 

metbods in recent years. and those wbo practice 

primitive metbods are bind the times. 

The number of dairymen who do not reahze 

the radical nature of -e cbanges- who 

have yet to learn their full meaning-is 

greater than it hould be. If a dairyman tn 

charge of even a sinl(le of these Gove.roment 

school herds is laboring under the impression 

that the separa' of cream by 

machinery removes ge ~ f disease froD! 

the milk his error needs rrection at once. 

, . . f ted 

Every animal suspected f bemg m ec 

with tuberculosis should be tested, and prop-


51 

er measures taken to eradicate the disease, 

if found to be present. To neglect this is in 

the nature of a crime against innocent and 

helpless children. The prevalence of tuberculosis 

among the Indians calls for a thorough 

investigation along these lines. 

To cooperate with the Office of Indian Affairs 

in such investigation. and in the proper 

instruction of officials having charge of herds 

at the Indian schools, in a matter of such 

moment, would seem to be a function of the 

Department of Agriculture. best executed 

by its experts. Ill5pectors should be appointed 

to take the field. visit the differentschools 

(particularly the large nonreservationscbool s , 

01 which there are twenty-five,) and remain 

at each long enough to become thoroughly 

acquainted with local conditions. Each inspector 

should report conditions as he finds 

them, and if further action is needed should 

advise with the Indian Office, with superintendents, 

or with school dairymen, farmers, 

or herdsmen, as is most practicable in the 

premises, looking to the introduction of such 

reforms or the modification of methods locally 

in vogue as in his judgment would seem 

advisable in the promotion of sanitary conditions. 

Primarily charged with the duty of 

investigating dairy management, the sphere 

of action of these inspectors need not be 

limited to dairy berds, but might include all 

farm animals capable of being- carriers of in· 

fectious diseases, and especially of cattle or 

hogs designed to be slaughtered for human 

food. Indeed. the intimate connection existing 

at most schools between the affairs of 

tbe farm and the affairs of the dairy would 

make it difficult if not impossible to draw a 

hoe of di5tinctioD. 

It would not be well to limit the action of 

these inspectors by too much red tape. If 

they are the right sort of men their methods 

of procedure can safely be left to develop 

as the knowledge gained by their investigations 

progresses. Regulations formulated 

in accordance with existing law and 

approved jointly by the Secretaries of Agriculture 

and of the Interior would suffice. It 

is true that there are now inspectors or supervisors 

charged with the duty of making 

the rounds of the schools in an official capacity, 

to check up accounts, to inventory property, 

to condemn and dispose of tools and 

implements no longer serviceable, and the 

like, but the test of their qualifications, it 

seems, does not contemplate the performance 

of the duties touching farm and dairy management 

herem suggested. To discharge 

these duties successfully, in addition to being 

com'prsant with business methods, an in· 

spector would need to be a practical dairrman, 

a man of mature judgoment, well grounded 

in modern dairy practice. and capable of 

imparting instruction in the econ(lmie:i (If 

of both dairying and farming. He ought to 

be an expert in the diagnosis of dise..-es of 

cattle, competent e.pecially to apply the 

tuberculin test and to instruct ,thers in its 

application. Moreorer. hi> persunality should 

be such as to beget confidence and in,pire 

enthusiasm among those with whom he comes 

in contact. He should be well versed in the 

literature of dairyin~. Considering the ease 

with which it can be done, it woula be weIl 

for him to insist that every school library be 

provided with the following GO"ernment 

publications: 

1. As many of the very excellent series of 

yearhooks of the Department of Agriculture 

as are now to be had, 

2. Annual reports of the Bureau of Animal 

Industry for late years. 

3. Special report on the diseases of cattle 

by the same Bureau. 

4. Farmers' BuJletins (such as relate to 

dairy subjects) issued by the U. S. Department 

of Agriculture. 

These can all be secured free of charge b) 

applying to Senators and Representatives 

in congress, to whom qu~ta5 ~re regularly 

assigned for distribution 10 thIS way. The 

advisablilty of extending the hst IS well 

worthy of thoughtful cOllSideration. 

A writer in World" Work for January. 

1907, pertinently states: " f 

"There goes on ftlrever an exte~l~n 0 

governmental function that i. di,qwetmg to 

old-fashioned thought. 

But it must be so, 

because new duties arise that can ~e don;,~~ 

no other agenc)', or at least that w"l be, - th 

b no other. Among such new duties L5. e 

:ark that the " ational Government IDJ~ht 

d to preserve the public health, not onl) to 

o . rtation of diseases but to 

prerent the Impo d s


now being made in Washington and vicinity such functions will be their extension in the 

under the direction of Chief E. H. Webster, manner herein indicated, through cooperation 

of the Dairy Division of the Department of with the Department of the Interior, to the 

Agriculture. This inquiry is referred to as Indian schools. It is obvious that the milk 

the first one of this kind to be under- supplies furnished to communities of Indians 

taken by such authority. The motive to ac- under Governmental care need rigid inspection 

in this instance is stated as being "the tion no less then supplies to other people. 

belief that there is great need the country That the supplie to the Indians are produced 

over for better sanitary methods with regard under Government sanction yet without such 

to milk," and that the Capital City should be inspection indicates a neglect of plain dnty. 

a model in this respect. Assistant Secretary The "great white plague" which tile Govern 

Hays, who is said to have general oversight ment is organizing to fight is the plague of 

of the inquiry into the local milk supply, is the red man well as of the white and the black. 

quoted as emphasizing the educational value What avails it if we purge all the rest of the 

of such investigations and as saying: 

world of disease if we leave one open door 

I'The time has come when it is necessary for reinfection? The one source of infection 

that more money be expended and more ef- to which attention is herein directed is suffort 

and energy in improving and protecting ficient to reinfect the whole lump. 

our animal food supply. Thisapplies to both The plan herein outlined is intended to go 

meat and milk. Milk is a ready culture to the root of the matter, so far as the Indimedium 

for bacteria, and disease is easily an Service is concerned, and calls for action 

communicated through it. A clean milk suj>- on account of its im¢rtant hearing on the 

ply is very important. It is not proper to health of Indian pupils and employees in 

blame anyone in particular for present con- Government Service. The need of inspection 

ditions, butlocal health authorities should take is manifest. It will be worth all it costs on 

hold of this question and see to it that the account of its educational value alone The 

milk supply is protected thoroughly. Places duty of its performance can not reasonably 

where milk is kept for sale in cities should be rest elsewhere. Jurisdiction, therefore, can 

subjected to careful inspection. City meat not ultimately be denied. The very excellent 

markets likewise should be inspected, and result.. that flowed in educational and other 

should be kept as clean as the cleanest ways from the action of officials of the Kansas 

kitcben." 

State Agricultural College, wbo by heroIC 

This would indicate tbat authority to pro- measures, in 1897, eradicated tbe taint of 

ceed with sanitary investigations as related tubercnlosis from their berd, foreshadowS 

to the milk supplies of communities in gene- the results of putting tbis plan into execuno n . 

ral, in order to meet the urgent need for in~ - T' I ical 

formation relating thereto already exists -.cba.... s. Da,"j... now with the U. :,. Geo og 

. . ' . • ~sur;eT (editorial clerk) Wasbingwn. D. C., ~ 

and 1S vested In the Department of AgrlCul- forme~l" in charge of tbe dairy at Chilow> Indian 

ture. A logical outcome of the exercise ofl : b.lO!. Oklahoma. 

A RESERVATIO BOARDI G SCHOOL 

o MOST people school means a place of 

T 

books, a place where mental training 

is made paramount. To many people 

of Nevada an education must surely mean a 

conversance Wlth books of some sort, an 

ability to use the brain, but certainly 

excludes the probability of useing the hands 

at the same time or at all perhaps. "You 

had better teach tbe Indian to work ratber 

than take him to school," is so common a 

remark, and not always on the aside, that 

most solicitors from tbe scbool will recognize 

The Xev: Indian 

it at once. A school witbout work would 

certainly be a bad place and I speak ad~lsedly 

when I say that Carson Indian Trallllng 

Scbool bas that very praiseworthy end m · neW . 

when it prays and pleads with tbe lnd'~ 

parent for permission to educate hIS chdd. 'f 

this prefalent notion of school were correct, I 

we taught our children only from 

books 

' 

we wonld even in that case, try to instill correct 

habits of work-for every scbool- room 

in Stewart is verily a work shop, but tbe 

schoolroom work here seeks only to SO tram

1I1.~\\ I\TII!~ \'\ lllll.Ol'lO 'IIII': L,~\). III \\\ ~TII~, U',\HSI.·C; TO \)I\KCI':,


tbe mind tbat it may intelligently direct tbe 

hands in tbeir efforts. In common withotber 

government training scbools, Stewart Institute 

is essentially industrial; while the object 

of the government in maintaining non· 

reservation boarding scbools i most certainly 

dual, it is quite as true tbat little attempt 

at higher education even in its secondary 

form is tbougbt advisable or attempted. 

It is distinctly the pUI1",se of Carson Indian 

Scbool to teach every cbild wbo comes under 

its care tv do some useful work witb tbe 

hands, and to tbis end it maintains various 

industrial departments in addition to tbe 

regular academic work. Of tbis last I need 

not speak, as barring the necessary difference 

in instruction due to the difference in the 

child's hereditary characteristics the work 

of tbe classrooms is very similar to tbe 

lower grade work in public schools, baving in 

view the same end, namely, the formation of 

correct habits of thought and action. When 

the child enters this school, he is put to work 

if he is old enough to be l(iven systematic 

hand training, and very few enter before 

they are six. Here they are taught to do, 

correctly, little bIts of work, at an age when 

the white child has done nothing but play. 

As soon as the Indian child is old enougb he 

is detailed to work regularly at some useful 

handicraft, and under the direction of an instructor 

he. if kept in school long enoul(h, attains 

a proficiency whicb enable him to earn 

a wage sufficient for his support when old 

enough to leave school. 

Many tbings are taught to boys and !(irIs 

alike. As soon as the youngster enters 

school, he is impressed with the importance 

and necessitl' of personal cleanliness. He is 

taugbt to bathe and change his clothes regu1arly. 

He is taught to proper!l' attire himself 

for bed and to correctly made his own 

hed. 

An attempt is made to teach every girl 

general housework, WIth varying degrees of 

success of course. Sweeping, dusting, mopping, 

bed makinj(, window and wood cleaning, 

mending and darning, they are taught. Almost 

as general is the instruction in f:etting 

tables, removing and washing dishes and 

keeping the diningroom in order. Tbe scbool 

is not so well equipped for teaching family 

cooking, as the food must be prepared in such 

large quantities here. However, many of 

the more intelligent girls are given a domes· 

tic science course in which the pteparation 

and serving of meals form no small part. Indian 

girls take kindly to sewing and every 

girl m j; taught at least tbe rudiments of 

tha Irt. Many of them become very proficien 

needlewomen, and can, by the time tbey 

leaT' sdlool, cut, make and mend any garm 

~ry to a woman's wardrobe. 

EYery rirl wbo graduates from this school 

m1l5 _, cut and make her own graduating 

cl Thus the Indian girl when she is 

boo! can do for berself what the 

pam:' and dresomakers must do for the 

al' t: .hite girl. even when he is completing 

IDj!b scbool course. Laundering 

is almost as generally as is sewing. 

The nilinj!, stitching, ban!(ing up, taking 

do f . g and ironing of white clothes is 

car.f . and systematically taught each girl. 

sh. IS forth.. taught to properly wash colored 

..oolen clotbes and also cooking; 

mall] do family washing and some of the 

heltor ;;if - can do family washing and ironiug 

very sa6factory, so well indeed that tbe def 

r !(irIs trained here in the school is 

al..... .astly greater than tbe supply..Tbe 

hon..'f·ocpcrs of tbis communit)' want our 

girl; and want to keep tbem. 

There are people in Neveda, thougb, who 

say wt an education only harms an Indian. 

Such ,tatementa might be pathetic if they 

wore so amusing. They often come from 

who are most insistent in asking for 

help from the school. 

as much care is taken that the boys 

Ie • do something useful with tbe hands 

Tattend school. ~Iuch shop work is 

d :"ell done as the carpenters, hlackshoem~kers 

are as much wanted 

ers as are the housekeepers. The 

'te as good carpenters as the girls 

>lre""Iak.ers. Constructive work seems 

b The bol'S under the direction 

of' 

~ workme~, do notonly do all the 

• "-rk of the chool but much of the 

_ as well. thus ge;ting experienee ill 

earpontering. blacksmithing, ~ 

harness making are taught manY 0 

l', not merely the theory, but the 

nrk of the hops. ••ot all the boys 

in the ,bops become proficient wo~e 

many of them do not stay Ul 

enough to master a trade, how 

..er y must work as long as the y do stay· 

A • per cent of the boys work on tbe farm 

a."e taught much as white boys would be 

ne to do the same kind of work. Tbey 

m' earo to take care of cows, horses. 

harne;, and tbe farm implements. Irrigatirg 

an ~ening are taught not only by the 

f in cbarge but by every classroom


teacher too. so that the girlsas well as the boys 

learn that department of farming. "We 

learn to do by doing." 

What I have mentioned does not exhaust 

the utilities which are taught Indian child, 

ren in government schools. but it ought to 

convince the fair minded person that we are 

not attempting to train the Iudian child away 

from necessary and useful work; but instead 

to teach him to work and what is of as much 

importanee. ,to help him t" form the habit of 

working. 'We are not attempting to teach 

the fine arts nor do we hope, with the present 

status of affairs. to give a "college education. 

JI HIt is to every man's interest to 

have evervother man honest and self sllpportiog." 

With this in view our government is at· 

tempting to educate the Iudian youth, To 

help rather than hinder the efforts of the 

government sl'.!em to us a commendable 

attitude for the white people of Nevada, 

ill NEED OF 5TUDYIJ\G THE INDIAN,' 

It is a mistake to suppose that the Indian 

because he belongs to an earlier status of 

mind and condition of human life than our 

own, is inapt at learning, Although able to 

learn he is disinclined to learn as we would 

have him and the first work we ought therefore 

to d~ in attempting to teach him should 

be to lead him to see and appreciate-to really 

wish for the education we are so ready to 

give him, If he desires it he wiII acquire it 

readily enough aod wiII apply it without further 

promptiog to the problem of his changed. 

or changing conditions. 

How shall we overcome the difficulty in the 

way of uur understanding the Indian? First, 

we must go to him a..; brothers, bE' in 

thought and act his equals only, neither assume 

for the time beinl! nor manifest any 

uperiorty whatever. We must not let it appear 

for a moment that we would instruct, 

but that we would simply be helpful friends 

to him that we come from likin~. and 

would be one with him, This I found to be al>solutr' 

essential, whether you would study 

the Indian scientificalh- or from humanitarian 

motives. Teache~ who go among the 

Indians do not generally go in that spirt 

They go too much imbaed with their mlSS10 n 

as teachers' for this idea of teaching too 

often gives ~ise to a feerng of superiority. 

and when that is 51) the"r work is at an end 

practically before it has a beginning. It 

seems to me of primary importance that in 

endeavoring to teach or help the Indian we 

should at first lose sight of the teachin" part 

and strive to overcome his aversene'S to 

being taught. 

If in place of the second or third-rate men 

who too often reeeh'e appointment as Indian 

teachers we would select and send forth 

among the Indians only men of high ability 

and talent; men of true and strong feeling 

for humanity. and po 'essed of large understanding 

of human nature; rnE'n who would 

go to the,. people sympathetically, much as 

parents do to their little children. and full of 

the tact born of such sympathy, it would he 

well. Only men of this kind can learn to 

fully comprehend the inmost nature of the 

Indian; can by study of his past learn how he 

came to be what he is, and thus learn how to 

make him other than what he is, how to win 

him to wish for education in thE" practical 

affairs of life, and then to wish for eduction 

along the higher planes of life. We should 

send such teachers as these among Indians, 

as themseh'ps students at first. and then as 

recruiting officers, to enlist the old men and 

women. the elders and matrons and councilerg 

of the tribes on our side. by eng-rafting 

upon their ['lotions our noti(lD$. and thu:. 

teaching them to at le..t tolerat~. if not to 

advocate voluntarily, our education and our 

modes of life. Instead of thiS, however. a 

great many of those. who are se~t out t~ 

teach the Indians. begm by affrontmg thm. 

by unintelli"ently and, to them. unmtelhg'! 

bly opposing the tribal beliefs and u.age'. 

It is strange that so few Am.enean.s yet 

realize that of all the people on thlscontment. 

including even ourselv€:-


root of the life wbereby they are enabled to 

maintain their communities, by striking at 

these things before the appointed time? We 

sbould bave a profound knowledge of the origin 

and meaning of his beliefs, as well as an 

understanding of tbe convictions that are 

founded upon them.•• 

Tbere has been no people on the face of tbe 

earth, indeed, with whom sudden transitions 

of any kind have been safely made. Such 

sudden transitions are aways tragical and 

destructive. There is a body of tradition 

witb every people that is not on1)' believed 

in. but is also loved-by the Indians not less, 

but even more than by others; loved in a way 

that pas es our comprehension, for we are 

weaned from love of our traditions. We do 

not want to go to them and weaken their 

sense of morality founded on the traditions 

tbe)' believe and so venerate by sa)'ing these 

are wrong, for never in a lifetime, with the 

utmost efforts a~d labor, can we blot out of 

tbeir minds what their fathers and mothers 

bave taugbt them when ),oung of reverence 

for tbese traditions and replace it with equally 

influential reverence for our own. That 

ieverence for their own traditions and beliefs 

is restraining. With the Indian religion and 

ethics, both traditional, are one. In proportion 

as they are not divided. as with us, you 

take awa)' from him this religion you will take 

away from him moral responsihility, and although 

he may adopt our theologieal teachings 

and forms they will not strike root under his 

skin if taught in any way that demo)'s the 

the strength of his primitive creed or at least 

his faith. I do not want to be ieonoclastic, 

but I speak from profound comiction. We 

must proceed slowly in cbanging the Indian's 

beliefs, or the usages traditionally founded 

thereon..... 

Another constant source of error in regard 

to tbe Indian lies in our impression that his 

dances are 'riciousoratany rate idle performances. 

Far from the truth i, tbis. An Indian 

always worsbips by means of the dance, 

or at least when be dances be is always worshiping. 

With him the dance is a holy drama 

-3 sort of passion play. 

Let us, bv. 

all manner of mean;. urge the 

necessity of studying tbe Indian. that we rna)' 

understand his altitude of mind and sympa· 

thize with his seemingly irrational behavior 

ere we would presume either to admonish 

him too freely or instruct bim in lbe better or 

more rational ways of life that we lead and 

would have him follow. 

• J:::xlril.(L... from an addre ...... delinrtd by Ule di.. 

tiDJ,:uhhed ethDOlo~"t the late FraDi. C'U~bing and 

publi...bed in the ·1'wentl'"·Ei~blh .\Donal Repor:t 

\ll'l'6] uf the Board (If "Indian l mml ...... lOoers . 

(Wa..hin~ton. D. C.). pp.100·1I5. Recently appear 

iog in tb~ ')Dtbern \\" lrkman. 

SOCIETY, OR LACK OF IT, I 

I DIAL SCHOOLS 

THE normal bealthY'-minded, well balanced, 

human being is a social being. 

He can no more develop the higher 

qualities of bi mental, moral and spiritual 

nature by living entirely to, and for himself, 

than a plant could iull)" develop and produce 

good fruit growing in a place wbere 

tbe sun seldom or never reacbed it. The 

plant growing under such conditions would 

be stunted, pale, small and producing a 

small quantity and poor quality of fruit, 

If any at all. Tbe individual living to 

and for himself alone must necessarily fail 

to develop his powers of self-sacrifice, forebearance, 

unselfishness, forgiveness. charity 

and love, tbough sbeer lack of exercise of 

these powers. He must in time become selfish, 

exacting, hard, and after a time totally 

By G. M. G. 

unfitted to associate with his kind. with an)' 

comfort or happiness to himself or others. 

Now I come to the subject I wish to speak 

of, i. e. Lack of Society in the Goyernme~t 

Indian Schools and tbe detrimental effect It 

has upon the scbool work, through the deten· 

oration of the workers. To tbis cause also 

. btll' 

rna)' be traced tbe frequent tran>fers ng 

deplored and discouraged by the Ind· Ian 

De- 

partment, because frequent cbanges of employes 

cannot be good for a scbooL An ero d 

Ployee can always do ~tter work the secon 

- the 

and third vear at a scbool than be can . h 

~ - Wit 

first, through a better acqualOtance 

botb tbe pupils and bis duties. 

Notice e average Indian school employe 

after several years in the seTTice- f~I:' 

watcbful, secretive, probably SUSp'CIO ,


(now don't get angry reader, if are an employee, 

this doesn't apply to all, hut to the 

majority) very quiet in puhlic, thinking thrice 

hefore speaking, and then often not speaking 

at all; afraid seemingly to express an 

honest opinion upon almost any subject. Go 

into half the mess dining rooms of the service 

when the employes are gathered at 

meals and see if this is not true, and if there 

is not usually a depressing ilence or probably 

a sort of whispered conversation amongst a 

few, while the rest gaze disconsolately at 

their plates, gulp down their food as quickly 

as possible, and aTe gone. 

This, at meal time, when all should be relaxation 

and cheerfulness and pleasant social 

intercourse. Let us see if we can discover 

the cause of this evil and a cure, or at least a 

partial cure, for it. Now for the causes; I 

putit in the pluralforthey are many. First, 

The earnest worker in the service, with the 

true missionary spirit in his work, will find in 

almost any school more than enough work to 

take up all his time, and in some schools, unless 

he can learn to shirk some, in sheer, pres~ 

ervation of life, he will find work enough to 

use up all strength and energy and leave 

him when his day's tasks are over, so tired in 

mind and body that he has no desire for 

social intereourse, but a great desire to be 

alone and at rest. I have been speaking of 

this "tired individual" as though he were of 

the male "persuasion" whereas I have sel~ 

darn seen the male employes of a school over 

worked, but have seen school·room teachers, 

matrons and laundresses over burdened entirely 

beyond their strength. 

This evil might he lessened hy having a 

sufficient number of employes and a right 

and equal apportionment of the work amongst 

them. 

Cause number two. In the average Indian 

Boarding School the employes are ofdifferent 

race, age and religion, brougbt up in widely 

different parts of the country under widely 

different circumstances, with few ideas or 

tastes in commOD, some with extremely narrow 

views on religion and mor~ls and some 

with . ".l'kingly broad views upon right and 

wrot",. Qnd seemingly an India rubber conscience. 

These last mentioned individuals 

are a reproach to the service, and it is a 

mockery toplace them with and over children 

and young persons to whom thel- are expected 

to be elamples of right living. In order 

to live in harmony with this mixed company. 

one must be neither narrow nor selfish, always 

considering that others have as much 

right to their opinions as you have to yours, 

(no matter how much they may differ from 

yours,) Practice Christian charity in overlooking 

small failings and dwell mostly upon 

the good traits of character which nn one is 

WIthout. 

Third cause. Last, but by nn means least, 

comes the chief cause for the development of 

the undesirable characteristics mentioned 

above, as belonging to many employees of 

of se~eral years in the service, i. e. Gossip. 

This gossip habit is one of the greatest evils 

of the life in the Indian Schools. The employee, 

who if secretive, furtive, morbid and 

suspicious, was perhaps upon entering, frank 

open and natural, but if of a sensitive disposition, 

after a year or two of hearing the 

unkind criticisms of the gossips, seeing their 

suspicious and disapproving glances and the 

wrong interpretations placed upon the 

simplest of speeches and actions, he became 

overly reserved and hence the condition of 

affairs mentioned as being true of many mess 

dining halls (of the smaller schools) at meal 

time, or at any other common gathering of 

employees. 

Now why are there so many gossips in the 

Indian schools and how can this great evil be 

remedied? The reason for the great number 

of gossips in the schools is first, because the 

soeiallives of the employees are too narrow. 

It is work, wnrk, work, all day with no a,; 

sociating with anyone but children, who give 

them no new ideas or inspirations. and dur 

. their few leisure hours they see no one, 

Ing . . ds d 

go no where to divert their mm • an 

this among the uneducated who cannot 

derive comfort and change l~rom readl~~ 

or study, must necessarily study too c10sels 

th lives of those around them and find ~uch 

e ein to disapprove of, ~orgetting 

ther . entlIely 

'e ' 

"tbe beam in hiS own es· . . 

A partial cure for this gOSSiP eVIl would 

i 

I hould think, be a broadening of the socia 

s . f r I have observed few 

life of the g~ I~, ~he world out side the 

harmful go Ips In . . 11' 

. d I think this is due pnnclpa S to 

serVice an .' ut side Whpn near 

the broader sOCial hfe a . , Id be 

h re no school dutieS wou 

a town and": e therehy I think rigs should 

interfered With I y'eeS to attend can' 

rovided for emp a . h 

be P h tres and eveDlnl( chure 

certs, lectures,. t ~~ The school duti.,. aIservices 

occas lO n • 'fiv, rs 

t sbould not be made 

th a 

' 

a 

lnyscoming, 

all absorbing that 

th 

e em- 

SO arduous and . lej~ure timf to enterver 

has an\ :; 

ployee ne .d - the service. but asSO- 

, f· nd" out Sl e 'd 

t3m ne.:. ood class of persons out 51 e 

ciation Wlth a g


tbe service sbould be made possible py tbose 

in autbority. If life in the schools were 

made a little broader. a little more pleasant, 

tne ability and tbe inclination to do good 

work would be increased and tbe gossips 

greatly lessened, and also I believe tbe applications 

for transfers would be less frequent. 

Tbe superintendent however, wbo baving 

one untrustworthy employee in bis school 

who abuses the privileges of social freedom, 

neglecting duties, keeping very late bours 

and behaving in sucb a way as to scandalize 

the scbool-the superintendent in order to 

reach and control tbis individual sends out a 

"notice" to all employees (no matter bow 

self- respecting, self-controlled or conscientious 

tbey may be) limiting tbe time wben 

they may call, or receive a call, to one or 

two evenings in the week, and also limiting 

the time said caller may stay. Such a superintendentis 

not doing much toward eleminating 

the evils resulting from a too narrow 

• ocial life in the schools. Of course the 

irre ponsible or immoral employee must be 

controlled, but is tbis the bes way to do it~ 

Upon entering tbe servi


Denver, but times and conditions were changed 

now and the whites were trying to be 

their friends; that they showed it in many 

ways. He said the white man's ways were 

to make money in the easie~t way and to 

make all he could. So that if the Indians 

would follow their advice and raise good 

wheat. oats, potatoes, and large horses, and to 

take the shovel and hoe and work like the 

white men he felt sure that they would have 

enough to eat and to spare. 

Chief Severo, of the Capote tribe of Utes, 

then spoke briefly in the same strain, advising 

his Indians to follow the white man's ways. 

That they show they were interested in the 

Indians. 

Severo is one of the most progressive Indians 

on the Pine river. He has about sixty 

aCTes under cultivation which he irrigates 

and raises excellent crops. He owns his 0""11 

binder, mower and rake, has good horses for 

both farm and race track and is a splendid 

example to his tribe. 

)Ir. Grubb was the next speaker. As the 

time was short he made a short address in 

response to Mr. Werner and the chiefs. He 

was glad to be wi th the Indians and never 

stood before such an interesting audience. 

It was the first time he bad the pleasure 

of talking to Indians and he hoped that 

he would tell them something that would be 

of benefit to them. 

He saId that successful farming was being 

able to make the most money out of a piece 

of land, a crop or an animal. such as horses. 

cattle and h~gs, and he was going to tell 

them things to do that they could make more 

mone)". He then asked for hands up who 

would like to make more mone)", He was 

pleased to see the hands raised. He advised 

them to have strong horses to plow the 

ground deep, do it in the fall while their horses 

were fat and not in the ,pring when the 

borses were weak. To rai..", plenty of feed 

for the horses. That the better the land was 

cultivated the better the crops would be, 

consequently, the more money they would 

I(et for them. Then they should select 

good clean seed' seed mixed with foreign 

matter can not ~roduce a good crop. Seed 

ought to be taken from perfect patches of 

grain. Seed potatoes should be taken from 

the hills having the largest number of potato~s 

in a hill. His illustrations in all these 

POInts were made clear to the Indians so that 

all could understand. ThIS cI "ed the forenoon 

ession. 

Then came the busv and interesting scene- 

The picnic dinner. • 

A dinner was issued to the Indians and the 

women were busy preparing it on camp-fire~ 

while the speaking was in progress and now 

all was in readiness. 

The women spread their cloths under the 

trees in groups. The whites had their group 

there too in the same shade, so that whites and 

Indians ate side by side. 

While the bulk of the Indian dinner was 

issued to them, they were uy no means 

handicapped by the whit.,. They had butter, 

eggs, milk and fruit, thus ha,-;ng ju t 

as good a dinner. 

The afternoon session opened at 1:30 sharp. 

Mr. Werner informed the Indians that he 

intended that they should hold a fair about Oc· 

tober the first and hoped they would have a 

large exhibit of grain, fruit, vegetables, and 

li« stock. He also told them that .Ir. Cot· 

trell promised to send representatives from 

the agricultural college to speak and help 

judge the exhibit. 

The next speaker was Mr. H.•1. Cottrell. 

who spoke on raising heavier horses, g-ood 

seed, and preparation of the soil. He had 

the agency stallion, two hea,'y draft horses. 

belonging to the agency and an Indian pony 

to illustrate the value of heav)" horses. The 

comparison was a splendid exa~ple to all. 

He advised them not to vnnter p&:iture 

their hay land but to feed their horses and 

cattle, as the tramping on meadows durmg the 

wet season usually spoiled the ha)" crop for 

the coming Jear. 

After the s~ hes '\IIje ve u n 

Charley Seve", doer [n s arose 

d th~nked the sJX"'kero for com ng and 

an ... tha lorte 

speak mg. sa)109.... argi ure 

out.siders e\"er ~poke 

nd that ther hoped t e . th 

a k k' Charlev said he would hke to see e 

Buc 5 10 t bui'ld a flour mill, furnish more 

Gov~rnmen I clear away sage bru~h (or 

fenctog and ;h~Pmill would encourage the Inbegmners. 

. wheat and that grour.d 

deedians to ~~s;;.m~~erfor feeding purpo-.-· 

f mIl( 'd h t thev would like to 

Other Indiansksal ta\kaon the care of home; 

have the spea ers 

the next time th~Y 1a~~. Grubb and Cot re!l 

After thIS whl e - el!5;"hite part of the audlwere 

speaktog to th ared to celp~rate the 

ance,.the Indi.a~ P~h~ \;sitors a sample of 

occaSIOn by glvIDgd a few horse races. A'f. 

the Gte dance an "er -een the Indians perthe 

visitors .had ne Mtnd~ it proved a ,:ery 

form on the'r home ghem As the- Ind an, 

interesttol( 

. ahttat· k t 

51, . ht all pulled up sta e a 

do not dance at dl~ ent home with the firm 

~eveI! o.'cl ock anth:r had ne\'~r 5p~nt a mo~~ 

convlcllOn that'hite- and all ag eemg on th 

pleasant day, " 

point. 

Ignacio, Co


The News at Chilocco 

The Print Shop is doing much work for 

Haskell Instituh!. 

A walk has been extended to the west door 

of the horse barn. 

The Hiawatha Society gave a select Hal· 

lowe'en party in the gymnasium. 

Mr. Studer, recently industrial teacher, has 

been promoted to the farmer's position. 

Beautiful weather was experienced here 

during October and the first part of this 

month. 

The carpenters have commenced a new ad· 

dition to the school cottage occupied hy Mrs. 

Pittman. 

Maggie Roberts left school for her home in 

Minnesota last month. Our best wishes go 

with her. 

The road around Chilocco are dragged 

throughly after every rain. We believe in 

good roads. 

Messrs Preston and Leukens, of the em· 

ployee force, are chicken fanciers. They 

have some fine stock. 

Mr. Carner, the manual training teacher, 

has his office walls covered with plans in· 

structive to his apprentices. 

The goods for school commissary are all in. 

Mr. Dodge has things in nice shape, although 

his building is so",ewhat crowded. 

MrR. Pittman has a nice class in music. 

~ C11II;'f the ,,",p._,.' and a number of the 

~tl)dents are le"l ~rs of her class. 

Hollowe'en passed without any roughness 

at the school. Outside of a little masquerad· 

ing no mischievousness was attempted. 

A new wagonette with a passenger capacity 

of 16 persons has been ordered sent to 

Chilocco from the warehouse at Chicago. 

Mrs. Lovewell, our former matron of Home 

Four, is now teaching at Fort Shaw, Mont. 

She was transferred from Whittier, N. C. 

The harness department is at work on saddles 

and work-harness sets. Much repair 

work is also being done on harness and shoes. 

Miss Katherine M. Gohen, of Cincinnati, 

Ohio, has been appointed nurse in charge of 

our hospital. She arrived November eighth. 

Roy McCowan has returned from a trip to 

New Mexico. He was at Alburquerque for 

several weeks, where he played in the Territorial 

Band during carnival and fair week. 

He reports a very pleasant trip. 

Currency from the U. S. Sub-treasury, t. 

Louis, will be used to payoff the employees 

this month. The permission has been granted. 

The Office has granted authority for the 

purchase of 50 stands of bees for Chiloreo, 

which will be added to the poultry department. 

They are quarrying the rock in our quarry 

for the stone work of the new cottage, which 

has been started on the hill east of the 

lagoon. 

Bids were opened in Washington the first 

of this month for the extension, repairs and 

improvementE to our water system to the 

cost of $15,000. 

Peter Collins, Chilocco graduate, visited us 

this month. Peter is now engineer at the 

Darlington Agency, Oklahoma, and says he 

is getting along finely. 

Mary Brown, a Chilocco, '06 graduate, 

writes that she still likes her work, the Indians, 

and her associates at the day school 10 

cated at Oraibi, Arizona. 

Two large implement sheds are being built 

in the yards east of the old horse barn. They 

will when finished give much·needed room 

for ~ur farm machinery of all kinds. 

A good game of basket ball was held recently 

in the gymnasium. It was between 

Chilocco and Atlanta. Our boys were m fine 

form and greatly out-played tbe visitors. 

The job of painting on the old surrey is ev' 

idence that the boys in the paint shop can do 

good work. Another good job recently done 

by them is repainting and papering of the 

Club dining room. 

The Orphan Home Mission is the name of 

the new magazine now run by Homer Hill. 

It is a neat publication and is published m the 

interests of the Whitaker Orphan Home, 

Pryor Creek, I. T. 

Mr. Henry Keevil mason, has resigned. 

, the 

Chas. Rothfus, of Arkansas City, has 

position temporarily. We are always glad to 

have Cbarles with us. He's a fine worh'lllaD 

and a general hustler.' 

Josephine Parker, Chilocco, '07, writes 

from Horton, Kansas, that she is getting 

along fine in her new place at the KlckapOD 

School. She says that she cooks for .' pu 

,0 • 

pils and that the employes are all good to 

her.


61 

Theodore Edwards writes his print shop 

friends that he is working in a good printing 

office at Calumet. Mich.• and that he is head 

pressman in the shop. He says that he seems 

to be giving satisfaction. 

The hlacksmith shop is making repairs on 

wagons. carriages and implements. The old 

surrey has been overhauled and made as good 

as new. The shop has recently made chains 

for racks and hridge guards. 

Miss Dunlap. domestic art teacher at Chilocco 

for a numher of years. has resigned 

and returned to her home. Bentonville. Arkansas. 

She was an excellent employe and 

her absence is a loss to Chilocco. 

The carpenter shop is working on repair 

work of all kinds. New steps and banisters 

for Home Three are being finished. A detail 

from the shop is busy putCinI( in new doors 

and doing other work in Home One. 

In a letter to Supt. McCowan, Richard 

Lewis, Chilocco. '07. says that his training at 

this school was never really appreciated until 

he started in to work for himself. He is 

now teaching at Colony, Oklahoma. 

Mrs. Sickels and Mrs. McCowan entertained 

the employees on separate nights at their 

homes last month in honor of Miss Duolap. 

who was to soon leave. Mi Dunlap received 

many nice things from her friends here. 

Mr. P. A. Miller, the Arkansas City 

photographer, made the photographs of the 

play Hiawatha. appearing in this issue of 

THE JOURNAL. A special dre -rehearsal was 

held so that he could get the photographs. 

The Y. M. C. A. hasket ball team, of Arkansas 

City, came out.-ovember ninth and 

played Chilocco. Although one-sided. we enjoyed 

the game. Score was 58 to 8. favor 

Chilocco. The visitors could not hold our 

boys. 

In a letter from Bettie Welch. sbe says that 

she and Minnie Skenendore like their work 

at the Pottawatomie School, Kansas. She 

writes that they both often think of their 

alma mater, but are "too busy to idle away 

any time. JJ 

Mr. Seneca. Carlisle graduate, who was the 

blacksmith and wheelwril(ht at the Cantonment 

school, Oklahoma, has been transferred 

to same position at Chilocco. He, with his 

wife and hahy, are in one of the cottages east 

of the lagoon. 

W. A. Elias, of Petoskey. Mich.• recently 

brought In a class of Chippewa Indiana. He 

was a visitor at the school several days and 

during his stay addressed the pupils on different 

subjects. He was well pleased with 

our institution. 

Mr. A. Z. Hutto, who had resigned as head 

of our painting department last spring, has 

been reinstated and is now here again with 

his family. Mr. Hutto is glad to get hack 

and his friends here are glad to have him 

and his family back. 

The superintendent has taken up the matter 

of huilding a new station with the officials 

of the Santa Fe. Chilocco may have a nice 

little station house some day. We hope so. 

Mr. Abernathy. the operator and agent, is 

helping to push the project. 

The superintendent has published notice to 

hunters and trespassers. He states that no 

more outsiders will be allowed permission to 

hunt anywhere on this reservation. Good 

thing. Too many rough people come out and 

use unday as a day of sport. 

A fine four-foot sidewalk is being putdown 

from the west side of the lagoon across the 

bridge to the row of cottages on tho hill and 

the hospital. This is a much-needed improvement 

and will be appreciated by those living 

on the east side of the campus. 

Mr. Harold A. Loring, ex-supervisor in the 

Service. and well known at this school, writes 

the news that he is married and still in charge 

of the department of music at Limestone 

College School of Music, Gaffney, South Carolina. 

Here's success to him and his wife. 

Mike LeMieux writes the superintendent 

that he likes his work at Dulce, New Mexico. 

He says he has the kindergarten grade and is 

getting along nicely. He also says the people 

out there are very nice to him. Outside of 

the high altitude he finds the climate fine. 

Mr. Shields. our former disciplinarian, has 

been reinstated in the Service as disciplinarian 

at the schoolat Grand Junction, Colorado. 

He and his wife and baby have left here for 

their new home. They have many friends 

who wish them success wherever they may go. 

The Chilocco Lyceum Course this coming 

season will be made up of the following entertainments: 

~ Tovember 12, The Barnard 

Ochestra; November 23, Sterling Jubilee 

Singers: March 1. Whitney Brothers' Male 

Quartet: March 23. Gilbert A. Eldredge. entertainer. 

Work has been commenced on making out 

a road which will cross the big pasture to the 

outh of the school. connecting witb the section 

line 8 nth of tbe reservation. This will


be. a great convenience to fJrnlers coming 

this way, or Chilocco people _ ing toward 

•·ewkirk. . 

Gen. Laviash, one of our ting depart· 

ment students, is in the "ral, where he 

will he treated for the crip condition of 

one of legs. He irtends sta." 0 there three 

months, His associates in the shop will miss 

him and wish for the ultimate improvement 

of his condition. 

Yr. E. K. Miller, printing" -tructor, and 

Miss Hazel Ruth Love, of Arkansas Citv 

Kansas, were married at that place Octob~; 

ninth. They were serenaded by a chivaree 

party from Home Three and also the school 

band upon their return home. They are living 

in Home Four. 

Lucy nyder, a Chilocco mduate. sends 

the news that she is now . ted at Black 

Rock, New Mexico. She says that she is getting 

a good salary and lik.. ber work very 

much. She states that she cooks for about 

100 pupils and says that her >llperintendent 

is very good to her. 

Indian Print Shop cus are always 

pleased with our goods. The following is a 

sample: "The plaque "'"' received last 

week. It is very heautiful 1am certainly 

very well pleased with 1 1 hope in the 

near future to be able to one of your 

beautiful Navajo Blankets. 

The garden departmen -ed good crops 

of all kind of vegetable; excepting Irish 

potatoes, in spite of the k' ""~ frosts of last 

Yay, and the dry weather - 'ng the later 

months. Off of four acres j;" bushels of tomatoes 

were gathered; r. bushels sweet 

potatoes were dug from a - h of 5 acres. 

Some improvements are ~ g made in our 

poultry department. A De "cubator cellar 

has been finished and severa. houses for laying 

purpo e fixed up with "notching yards 

attached. A class-room ; r demonstration 

work has heen fitted up in- poultryman's 

quarters for use of clas"", -ing this work. 

Leupp Hall is a hive of - -::ry these days. 

The Domestic cience c - ~ are just now 

busy with their interestin!! cooking lessons, 

lectures, etc. The Domes - !rt department, 

up stairs, is busy making iforms, girls' 

basket-ball uniforms,... g of Navajo 

rugs, making fancy lace and embroidery 

work and carrying on the tneral mending 

and repair work of the s Mrs. McCowan 

has charge of this hUI _ and its many 

workers, and from now un " ,.,hool closes no 

one in it has any idle min to ..aste. 

UTTERS 

fROII! CHlLOCCO STUDENTS 

CARING fOR TlIDlSELVES. 

WHO 

Ft. Shaw, Montana. 

ARE 

I received the last numher of the L~DIAS 

SCHOOL JOUIC'AL and 1 want to tell you there 

were things there that I desired very much to 

know. Especially about my classmates who 

graduated this year. I am glad to know 

that so many of them are holding positions. 

Since I received the JOURNAL a few days 

ago, several other employees have borrowed 

and looked through its pages. The most interesting 

part to most of them is the pages 

containing the "Changes in the Service. II 

To my own notion I am getting along alright. 

but it remains for somebody else to 

say whether or not my work is satisfactory 

to the superintendent and faculty. 

I have often wished that I had remained at 

Chilocco, and then again I think it was best 

for me to have accepted the position that I 

did. The "dear old days," spent there will 

never he forgotten; it IS those that make me 

wish I were hack, hut it is the thought that 

I couldn't always remain there that makes 

me feel like I did right by leaving. 

Give my regards to all the old pupils and 

employees who remember me. 

I must clOSE" and "Get Busy," 

Yours very respectfully, 

C. W. MERRIs.>. 

Blackrock, .'. M. 

You perhaps Will he surprised to know that 

I am at Blackrock, '. M. 

I came out from Gallup last Friday and took 

up my new work as Government cook next 

morning. The work is quite easy and I feel 

sure I am going to like it here and shall be 

content, for my salary is more than I ha\'e 

gotten hefore. 

There are only about one hundred children 

here so you will know that my work can not 

he very hard with four large boys to help 

with the work. 

The employees here seem very pleasant, 

but there are yet two vacancie3, one asSIstant 

matron whose salary is $300, and the 

prIDcipal teacher, $000. We also need a 

mess cook that pays ,25 a month. I wonder 

if there are not some girls there ~ho1D Mr: 

McCowan eould recommend for as:astant ma 

tron and mess cook. 

nd 

Our superintendent is very good to us a 

his name is Wm. J. Oliver. 

Will close: good hye. 

LuCY S.·YOER. 

•

OFFIOAL REPORT OF INDIAN SERVICE 

CHANGES FOR AUGUST. 

CHANGES IN 


TlIE AGENCY SERVICE. 

Afpoiolm~t. clerk. Black~et:t..ilill. 

Clarence E. Sn\'"der. black..mith. San Juan. 

-'In .. 

'-Arthur T. B1ateu('Igrapha. ·[intah and 

Ouray.. 00. 

Appoinlmats Emp!'" fositioos. 

John Jam~!'. carpenter, Tulalip. '"i-ltl. 

Jacab June!'>. ~tahleman. Kiowa. t~O. 

Amo~ Little, herder. Pine Rid!!e. -WO. 

Dan.iel Frazier. teamster. Santee. ~~:. ) 

LoUIS F. Bear, Engineer, Green Ba). 5(M.. 

Brack Lindley. utIhean.·r, San Carlo... -I~O. 

)IJrtle )l. )lcArthur, cook. "'hite Earth, 

4'0. 

A. Kozine, a.....t. black...mith, Kiowa, :>titl. 

Alex Graudipee. line rider, Blackfeet, 4U 

mo. 

Oa'iid ,\ntoioe. add'l farmer. Tulalip, -,0 

UW. 

Loui:o. [)~Wolf, 

add" farult:r, DI.:\'ll" Lake, 

.;0 mu. 

Juhn \\ Fletcher, add'l farmer. Klamath, 

60 mo. 

John F )IiIe... add'l farmer, \\"inneba!:u, 

60 mo. 

Laura H. ltatlitI. financial clerk, Ft. !lelk· 

nap, i)(J. 

~lark )Jad Wolf,


Appointm",ts-Uncla.sslfied Service. 

Herbert Coy, laborer, Tulalip. 720. 

Edmund Delix. laborer, Santee. 600. 

Eskelutsage, laborer, San Carlos, 420. 

Weasel Head. laborer, Blackfeet, 480. 

Isaac Wiper!. laborer. Blackfeet, 480. 

Otto X. Eng-er, lahurer~Crow Creek, 5-10. 

Twedt Gena, laborer, Canton _-\.sylum, 360. 

John T. Ortiz, laborer;San X"avier, 30 mo. 

Thos. Eskenaze, laborer. San Carlos, 420. 

Reuben Strong. laborer. Fort Belknap, 

360. 

Alex Gilbert, laborer, Western Shoshoue, 

360. 

ResignaUons-Unclassified Senice. 

Ellis Campbell. laborer, 'antee, 600. 

fsaac Wipert, laborer, Blackfeet, 480. 

Rnfns Twin, laborer. Winnebago. 360. 

Carl J. &hmidt. laborer, Blackfeet, 480. 

GeOTR'"e Phillips, laborer, San Carlos, 420. 

Clarkson ~laine, lab'r, Ft. Belknap, 360. 

Cbarles Coskey. laborer. ',e,tern Shoshone, 

360. 

CHANGES IN lIlDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE. 

Appointments. 

Karra Cro~s, matron. Tohatchi. fiOO. 

C. N. Willard, teacher, Carlisle, 660. 

A. Belle Reichel, teacher. Carlisle, 600. 

Nettie Y. Stahr, teacher, Blackf~et, 480. 

Edna M. Shockey, teacher, Sallte Fe, 600. 

Johu H. Welch, farmer, RiceStation, 600. 

Leora P. Somer:,. cook, Fort ~ojave, .54-0. 

Ora O. Atkins, abSt. carpenter, ChUoceo. 

660_ 

Howard C. Bowen, indus. teacher, Salem. 

660. 

Alfred F. Clapper. nightwatch, Salem, 

500. 

Alberta Krebs, laundretis, Southern Gte, 

-11:, 720. 

Annie E. O,borne, cook, ch Lake, 500. 

Florence E. Culver, teac Tnlalip, ;20. 

LIly D. Creager, .eamstr ,Tnlalip. 500. 

Abbie E. Hill, asst. matron. Tulalip, 500. 

Ellen Hill. as:st. matron, Rice Statioo, 

.;10. 

Eugene R. Ferguson, engineer. ~loqui, 

1000. 

~attie J. Forrester, asst. matroo, Morris, 

500. 

Ralph W. Fisher. teacber, Pine Ridge 

day, 600. 

arnuel B. ~cLaoe, ind'l teacher, Fort 

Hall, 600. 

I"m. R. Chipley, printer. herman Institute, 

600. 

Cora ~l. Embree, asst. matron, Fort 

haw. 500. 

Tillie E. Youngberg. laundre;;". \lartin 

Kenel Agricultural, 480. 

Transfers. 

Emma Dull. nurse, Rosebud, 000 to nurse. 

Ft. Hall, 600. 

Mar)' Broad, teacher, Cro\\', 600, to teach· 

er. Chilocco. 660. 

Lizzie Franchot cook, Sisseton. +~. to 

cook. Santee, 420. 

Julia lL Geltz. matroD, Pierre. 600. to 

matron. :\!orri:;, 600. 

Jennie L. Gaither, matron. :'lorrb, 600, 

to matron. Carli~le, 800. 

Cuy Gilmore. a,'t. dbcip.. Phoenix. 600, 

to discip., Ft. Lewis) 600. . _ 

Belle ~JcCue. laundress, Colnlle. .;10, to 

laundress. Greenrille. 480. 

Fronia Ward, matron, Wittenberg. .;10. 

tn hou,ekeeper. Tomah. 600. . 

Katherine C. Bingley, teacher. ft. SIll. 

600, to teacher. Phoenix, 600. 

Ezra R. Lee. ind'l teacher, Blackfeet. 

600, to farmer. Ft. Lewis, 600. 

Emma C. Lovewell, matron, Cherokee. 

600, to teacher, Ft. Shaw, 660. 

arah )1. Dicken.s. mat:OD. ~le~alero. 

600, to matron, Ft. Shaw. 7;)}. ._ 

Xora A. Buzzard. matron. Cheyenne Rner, 

600 to matron, Pierre. 600. . 

Anna O. :'Iiller. asst. matron. OneIda. 

,';00. to matron. Wittenberg. .;10. 

Jas. L. Hazard. teacher. Pbilippine b· 

laods, to teacher, Bay ~IiII" ;20. 

C..Iae Ricketts, teacher, Grand Junction. 

.;10, to teacher, Ft. Sill, 600.


65 

Emma A. Cutter, senior teacher, Carlble. 

900. to teacher. Phol:nix. 900. 

Geo. H. Todd, teacher. Grand Portage. IiO 

mo.• to teacher. Tongue Hi ~er. 600. 

Autbur C. Plake. a:-~t. farmer. Haskell, 

600, to Ind'} teacher, San Jaun. "j:)). 

Louisa E. Fergu:,on, .s~am.. tre~:o. ~~~calero, 

500, to asst. matron. ::it~t'r, 4.:.-0. 

Beatrice Kelly, ..eam.. tr~:" ... Cherokee. 

MO, to seam:"tre:"~l Lower Brul~, .j()(). 

R. F. Pellett. ind'l teacher. Potwwatomie••20. 

to a..st. farmer. Ha...kel1. 600. 

Cora E. ~alisbur'y. kinder,:artner. Shawnee, 

600 to clerk, Land Oflh:~. X. )lex. 

Charlie D. Barnett, carpenter. Jicarilla. 

i20. to Grand Junction, carpenter.•20. 

~lar2"aret F. Haldaman. teacher. Yermillion 

Lake, 600. to teacher. Ft. Sill. 600. 

:\lary A..\llen, as~t. seam ....... Alburquerque. 

500. to matron, Grand Junction, 600. 

Gertrude '\e~t, bou~ekef'per. Bay Alills, 

30 rno.. to kindergartner. "'hite Earth. 600. 

Lucinda L. GeorJ!e. seam~tre..s. Lower 

Brule, 500, to seamstrej)~. Leech Lake. ;)00. 

)laude F. Todd, hou,ekeeper, GrandPort· 

age. 30 wo., to matroD, Tongue Ri\""er, .jOO. 

Anna Parmeter, laundre:'''j Hoopa Yalley'. 

,140. to matroD, Cheyenne Ri rer. 600. 

Abbie E. Stoneburner, 3..S:tt. matron, Hoopa 

Yalles, 500, to matron. We~tern Shollhone, 

fHO. 

Rt:SifIlations. 

Belle Dean, teacher, Pima, 5..J.0. 

Sam Boyle, teacher. Cintab, 600. 

Ada B. :'1iilerj nurse, Xa\'ajo, 660. 

Qeo. Bennet, tailor. Ph


Chas. J. Goodrich, teacher, Pine Ridge, 

600. 

Harr\" L. Coleman. farmer. Grand RiHT, 

.20. . 

Stephen B. lYeek-. teacher. an Carlc-. 

,2 mo. 

Dora G. \Yelcnhall. a:,:;t. matron. Jkarillao 

600. 

Willis :U. Gillett, ind'l teacher. ~Ie,cale 

TO, .20. 

RUlh G. llcCormick, laundn:....... uthern 

Ctt', -I' . 

Flor~nce X. Hackendorf. teacher. Phof' 

nix,~. 

Albert L. Tilton. physician. Truxton Can 

Oil, noo. 

)1ilton ~1. Adam:), teacher. Pioe Ridge 

day, flOO. 

~L:trtba A. Freeland. matron. Grand Junction, 

GOO. 

~lttr.!!aret O. Eckert. asst. maLTon. Carlisle, 

1iOO. 

Emil Krulbh, phy'ici'll /;. clerk. Tobatchi, 

1000. 

Clarence W. ~Ii))er, teacber "-bite 

Earth. 660. 

Frank C. Heier. teacher. Porten-me rla), 

~Iinn.. j~. 

)'largaret C. ~ott . ..eamstTt:,.... \'t:rmillioll 

L:tke. :.00. 

Nellie ),t Doyle. seam:itre~.s. Sac s. Fox. 

Okla., 4!iO. 

Eugtn;e X. Edwards. matron. tirande 

Ronde. 500. 

Po..:abnola:, Huwlett, ~st. matron. Tobatchi. 

,).I(). 

~linLlie H.Linton. teacher, . herman institute, 

600. 

Harriette ~lcCarthy, kindergartner. 

Na\·ajo,6OO. 

Cbarlie D. Barnett. carpenter. Grand 

Junction. j:!o. 

L~nra :U. Peckham. lemale ind'l teacber. 

Rnsebnd. 600. 

Orra L. Skiuner. seam~tre""" Western 

Sho.hone. 500. 

Alvin K. Risser l 

teacher of agriculture, 

Cbilocco, 1.000. 

Gertrude R. Xil:hobou, kinderaartner. 

Ft. Lapwai. 600. . 

Katie A. William .. 11n. cook, .lartlD Kenel 

Alfricultural. 500. 

Ida Mar~hall, dome ..tic science teacher, 

Sherman institute. tltiO. 

Jane )!abaney, asst. matron. .Iartin 

Kenel A~icu]turaJ. 4"0. 

AppoiDtmmts-Exc,!,1cd f05ltiOln. 

Sophie Parker. cook. Pine Point. 4


67 

Elmer W. )1ar,h. financial clerk. Santa 

Fe, BOO. 

Roland .-ehoitewa, a::ist. engineer, Phoenix, 

GOO. 

Frankie Adam:!, housekpL. Pine Ridge, 

day, 300. 

Josephine Janese, a~t matroo, Ft. Bertbold, 

400. 

Martha Little Chief. ass. matron. Tongue 

Ri,er. Nl. 

)'lyrtle B. Freeland, huu ..ekceper, Cul- 

enter. Santee.'j20. 

Geo. A. Edmbtllll, 10J{ger, tian Juan, 55 

mo. 

Edward Lieurance, physician, Warm 

Spring" 900. 

Rdosl.l


Harvey Earring, farmer. Cheyenne River, 

500. 

Starry SUD Chief, asst. clerk, Pawnee. 

500. 

John Hilburn, engineer, Coeur d' Alene, 

no. 

Jos. II. :tiilligan, carpenter. Cantonment. 

600. 

Corbett Lawyer, as·t. clerk, Red Lake, 

540. 

Mar)" L. Xa)"lor. ,tenographer. Lintah. 

900. 

W. C. Dieckman, physician, Jicarilla. 

1~00. 

Frank C. HaJ'es, physician, AIbuquerqne, 

1000. 

Elsworth Wilson, physician, Fort )Ioja,e, 

1100. 

Theodore H. Beaulieu. asst. clerk, Wbite 

Earth. 900. 

Richard Fallon. supt. of live stock, Stand, 

ing Rock. [200. 

Appointmrnu-ucClltoi Positions. 

John Quipp, .,,1. mechanic, Dintab, 400. 

Louis Watchman, a:ist. herder, Xavajo. 

600. 

HenrI' Taylor, blacksmith. Leech Lake, 

600. ' 

Ho}' Duncan, stableman, Round Valley, 

480. 

_. Amo, Big Bird. blacksmith, Red Lake. 

,20. 

John Hilburn, engineer. Coeur d' Alene. 

i20. 

Le\"i Bird, asst. carpenter, Crow Creek. 

300. 

Agnes E. Findle)", financial clerk. Col vill

LaweDce Roberts, black"mitb, Red Lake, 

600. 

Thomas Gardner, appentice, Crow Creek, 

360. 

Da

70 THE INDIAN SCHOOL JOURI',AL 

Dal"id L. Ya...~we})J discip., Car n,8-lO, to 

farmer, Bishop, 72 mo. 

Ge'j. X. Shafer, teacher, [matilla, 660, 

to discip., Carsoll, 840. 

BUOD L. Ed~ertl'n, farmer, (bage, j:)}, 

to farmer, Ponca, 600. 

F. E. SL Jacque, discip., :\avajo, .60, to 

dbcip., Me~calero, i:?O. 

F. Alice w~eJ, teacher, .... [te, 660, to 

teacher, Hay.-ard. 600. 

Wm. Parl"!on~, teacher, P.1. sen-ice, to 

teacher, [matilla, 66Q. 

DaJsy Youn!!, laundre~s, W. Xal"ajo, 420, 

to laundre", Tomab, 4' . 

Elmira R. Gre~(jn, teacher, Zuni, no, to 

teacher, Ft. Lewis, tiOO. 

Ida M. Butts, laundrelis, Crow, 500, to 

laundre~s, Ft. Shaw, 500. 

u~an M. Lelltss, teacher, B~kell, 540, 

to teacher, 'ho~bone, 5l0. 

Emma D. White, teacher, Ft. Lewis, BOO, 

to teacher, Picurb, i2 mo. 

Katherine Krek ..., teacher, So. Cte, 600, 

to teacher, Chilocco, 660. 

Flora E. Han'eJ. teacher, Phoenix, 1200, 

to principal. Pima, 1000. 

Marl' E. Kinzie, seam .... , Tomah, 540, to 

~t. matron, Pierre, 500. 

arab C Ream, teacher, Lower Brule. 

660, to teacher, Otoe, 660. 

Frank S. Thoma~, teacher, Moqui, i20, to 

teacher, San Carlos, .2 mo. 

Katherine A. Hoeflein, laundress, Tomah, 

-lBO. to laundre5::i, Crow. 4! . 

Mollie L. Rag-dale, teacher, Santee, 5W, 

to teacher, Flandreau, GOO. 

Hattie C. Simmons, teacher t 

Xavajo, 660, 

to teacher, TohatChi, 660. 

Waldo G. Brown, teacher, Ronan,60 mo., 

to teacher, Pol~on, 60 mo. 

Anna L. Bowdler, clerk, Panguitch, no, 

to as::it. clerk, H~kell, iOO. 

J. E. Simmons. gardener, Xa~ajo, .20, to 

indo teacher, Tohatchi, ;~. 

Lizzie E. Booker, matroo, Red Moon, 400, 

to asst. matron, Ft. Sill, 500. 

Martha D. Kaufman, teacher) Pott., 540, 

to a,st. teacher, H...,kell, .}lO. 

Ellen Alexander, teacher, Pine Point, 

MO, to teacber, Santa Fe, 600. 

John W. Sbaler, iod. tchr., Ft. Sill, J~, 

to indo tchr., Martin Kenel, 600. 

Joho P. Thomp-on. engr., Graud Ril"er, 

.... 10, to discip., Ft Totten, i20. 

Mary L. Leader, teacher, Ft. Belkuap, 

i20, to teacher, Ft. Shaw, .20. . 

Jno. W, L!'dy, teacher. Pine Ridge, ;~, 

to principal, Lower Brnle. '00. 

Fred W. Canfield, 00)'-' field agt., Carlisle, 

900, to teacher, Zuni, j20. 

Etta M. Clinton, asst. matron, Zuni, 300. 

to a.....t. matron, Tohatchi. ;)40. 

~~ora Y. Gran~er • ...eam.... W. ~·a~ajo, 

.540, to seam... , Me"calero, .)()(). 

Carrie A. Belliu~er. cook, Leech Lake, 

.)()(). to baker, Pine' Rid!!e...j()(), 

Loui ... W..'ebon, en~r., Ye ..carlt>ro Agc~·., 

;:!Il, to as-to en[1'., Phoeni" 900. 

Maude Thomas, cook, Moqui, 540, to 

housekeeper, San Carlo.., 30 mo. 

Xorman C. Campbell, teacber, Otoe 660, 

to teacher, Gila Cros~ing. i2 mo. 

Della HeDder~oDJ '3eams., Ft. Belknap, 

500, to a...st, ..earns I Chilocco, 540. 

Lizzie M. Randall, houbekeeper, Xambe, 

30, to hou~ekeeper, an Juan, 30. 

Allie B. Carter, a5~t. matron, Cherokee, 

540. to asst. matroD, Carlisle, GOO. 

Anna M. Shafer, asst. matroD, Ft. ill, 

500, to -earns., Martin Kenel, 480. 

B~rtha Pradt, housrkeeper, Laguna, ~ 

mo., to bOlbekeeper, Mesita, 30 mo. 

Harry ~. Carter, Ind. teacher, Cherokee, 

660, to asst., discip., Carlisle, 720. 

Xellie 'ott, kSt. matron, Ft. Belknap, 

500, to 3SSt. matron, Ft. Lewis, 500. 

Esther B. Hoyt, teacher, an Ildefon 

j~ mo., to teacher, Salt River, j2 mo. 

Ta\'lor P. Gabbard, teacher, Colo. River, 

.20, to teacber, Camp \~erde, ,2 mo. 

Jab. W. Fi>her. teacher, W. Earth day. 

600. to teacber. Parten"me day, j:)}. 

Ida Y. Dragoun, asst. matTon, _Rice Station, 

540, to matron, Pint' POint, MO. 

Xoab E. Hamilton, Ind. teacher, Leech 

La ke. 600, to indo teacher, Oneida, j~. 

aJIie E. St. Jacque, ~st. matron:. ~al"a· 

jo, 600, to ~t. matroD, Me::icalero, 500. 

Gertrude F. BrOwD, housekeeper, Ronan, 

30 mo., to hou:;ekeeper, Polson, 30 mO. 

Loi- L. Hon honsekeeper, IIdefollio, 30 

m...: to hou .. e-k~ever. Salt Ri\"er, 30 mo. 

S~m'l L. ~Fuller, teacher, Leech ~ake, 

660, to teacher, Sac and Fox, Okla., ~. 

Willard A Foller teacher, alt R1\'er, 

., -.) 0 

.:! mo., to teacher, an Ildefonso, 1- m ·in 

Wm. A. Montgomery, en~i~eer. M~art) 

Kenel, i:?O, toengineer, Standln:! Rock, 66(. 

Rosifll1.tions. 

Irene In ..cho, cook, Seneca, 540. 

Man- M. Lalor, clerk, Salem, .~. 

SaMe W Coleman, Cook, Znlll, MO. 

OttO . Hays, teacher, Col~ille, j~. 

Jennie Xuaent cook, Flandreau, 540. 

Ruth Clayton, ~eacher, Pipestone,:. 

Earl )1. Gro\"e, teacher, Ch~locC?1 600 

Charlotte )lyer" teacher, Z\~YaJ~' fHJ' 

Mary Kinzie, a t. matron, PleTT, 540' 

Alice C. Ppair matron, puyallup, GOO' 

Jennie H. ROj·er, kindergt~.! Owe, 600' 

Mawle K Daw ..on. nurse, (jh~~OCCO, .j()(): 

Ida L. Barne ... ~eamstre~~, (m~ah, 660 

Geo. H. Todd, tchr., Toogne l·tIl"e~, fllO· 

MarT E. Dnncan tchr.. Pine Rld~ 

, _~. 

Ad'-C. McCorm;ck, tchr., Pheoot~, iixJ: 

Anna Sberidau, tchr., Ft. Bertb l 

01 '\ 000. 

W. G. ~Ialin, 'npt., Sac & ~o,. a., '660. 

Robert Burn ... carpeDter, sho..hoo e , ~ 

Fannie Hage~an, 1jeam~tre~s, ~oeca, 900: 

J no. H. Han_childt, farmer, Chllfc~o, 600. 

Gertrude .-\. \~aughn, nur~e, sa~. ' 5(10. 

:Maud F. Todd, matroD, Ton gu d J~~~tion. 

Juliu::i G. GigaI, farmer, Gran 

"00. . Pn"llnp, 

Frank G. Pre:,ton. engmee r , . 

;~O. 

Pnl"allnp. 

Jo..eph Dad:-, nightwatchmaD. - 

;;00. G de Ronde. 

Leila R. Walter, matron, ran 

;;00. Le ch Lake, 

Madge C. Lawyer, matroD, e 

5~0.

~lamie ~oble, ~...t. .. eamstre~~, Chilocco 

540. ' 

Goldie E. William ...on, a....t., matron Crow, 

j()(). 

~elrin Huffman, indo teacher, Yakima, 

600. 

J01"ephine Ta\"lor, Okst. matron, San Juan, 

.iOO. - 

Francis J. McCormack. clerk, Phennix, 

1200. 

Jo:-~phiDe Jaco1.:"" matron, Yankton. 5-10. 

IDied 

Jennie )1. Cald.-ell, a:,:,t. matron, Yakirna, 

500. 

Fred R. Brown, dbciplinarian, Ft. Tot· 

ten, ~~. 

Henrietta R. FremoMl, teacher, Rapid 

City, 600. 

Gertrude ~J. Golden, teacher, Rh"crside, 

Okla., 660. 

Sarah ~J. Atkin~n, teacher, Colorado 

River, I:)). 

Carrie B. Weu..ter, teacher, Wild Rice 

Ri\"er,600. 

Sigel H. Gallier, industrial teacher, Sac 

IX Fox, Okla., GOO. 

Andrew C. Thomp,:,on, clerk and stenographer, 

Ft. Lapwai, BOO. 

West 

James R. Wij!ht, industrial lchr., 

ern Shoshone, 660. Died 


Appointm",ts-Except', Klamath..j()(). 

Lilian Maxwell, housekpr., Bbhop, 300· 

Alice Etter, hou..ekpr., Pine Rid~e. 300. 

Ora cbolder, hou:-ekpr., Yokan, 30 mo. 

Celia ..aim, bou..,ekpr., Cahuilla, 30 mO. 

Mar)' Yalverde, housekpr., Jemez. JO mo. 

Julia Seelat"'ee, ..eamstre:"', ~e\"ada, 4' • 

Qna B. nyder hou ..ekpr., Pine Ridg"e, 300. 

Lury Randall, hou~ekpr., Pine Ri£tg-e,~. 

Cordelia M. Garrie, cook, Pan~uitch, .iOO. 

E~ma E. Apacb(..;e, a....,t. cook. Pima. ~. 

Rh.~hard Lewi.., a.. ':'>t. teacher, Seger,;iOO. 

E~r~e~t M. Gilham, phy~ician, Seg-er, ~. 

Llzzle E. Hill, a....t. cook, Wittenberg, ,')00. 

~ni-e M. Carnfel, a"t., Wittenber~,360. 

.... a~nie Lahpoo, housekpr., Oraibi, 30 mo. 

:::'USle )1. Ray(i .., a:- t. tehr.. T:-,leta, 4"" 010. 

T)1o~. H. Smitb, gardener, pu\·allup. 660 

3OO.e11le . ap, ho.sekpr., Ft. McDermItt, 

~liza Wetenhai., teacher, Fort Lapwai, 

~illard Dt:nny I a~st. laundre.;..;, Oneida, 

...-ane)' Peterson housekpr. Skokomish, 

300. ' . 

Michael LeMieux, a.. t. tchr., Jkarilla, 

4l;O. 

Mary Hun..,berger, laundre.... Blackfet:t 

t~O. . . , , 

Agapita Trujillo, hou,ekeeper, Xamhe, 30 

mo. 

Lil)" :s'omkena, hOll:o.ekpr., Moencopl, 30 

mo. 'tella Gregon, baker, Wilrl Rice Rirer 

-100. - . 

Ethel .\. r: ..her, bou ..ckpr., Portenille 

300. ' 

Matilda Huot, hou-ekeeper, .~an Fdipe, 

JO Ṁarcel na Lajuan, hou~ekeeper, 1..ltt;t, 

JO. Elizabeth PaL-ana, hou..ekeeper, {"ama, 

30 mo. 

Ada M. Jame .., 3:"''3t...earns.. Albuquerque, 

400. 

Sarah A. Myers, hou~ekeeper. Fort Peck, 

30 mo. 

Beaulah Scott. housekeeper, Stockbridge, 

JO mo. 

arah Fuller, Huu,ekIJr., ~an lIdefonsn, 

JO mo. 

Bonnie Y. R()~'ce, hou~ekpr., Martinez, 

JO mo. 

Ironheart, carpenter, Martin Ken- 

Tho~. 

el, 600. 

Leroy McCowan, 

financial clerk, Santa 

Fe,800. 

Gertrude I. Spalsbury, housekeeper, 

C 

01- 

"iIIe, 300. ..' 

Ida Cuish, housekeeper, ~tockbrIdge - n. 

2,30 

Ru:-,sell 

mo. 

Tallbull, nij!btwatehmaD, 

C 

antonme 

nt, :160. 

F' 

Elnora B. Jambon, a:-..t. matron. ort 

Peck, .;00. ~ 

Mile~ Running- Wolf, a.... t. carpenter, Ft. 

ha". 

Renda 

,iOO. 

f1khard .., hou ..ekeel'cr, 

,.. 

Vila 

C 

rc'..:- 

Man s. Carl, laundre:,..;, e:-tern ... 0- 

ill"', 30 mO. W h 

..hone,- 500. k St diD 

. Cecile)1. mee. hou~e peeper, an 

Rock, JO mO. . I' . Fort 

Cha r 

le .. ~t.ha..tiaD, d ~CIP manan. 

Belknap, :20. k Camp 

Amanda F. Gabbard, hOll-e eeper, 

'-eDorde,.;W wB"'la'k-ater black~mitb. Grand 

mlDg-o ,.. , 

Junctiun. ::0. d C (I hOll-ekeeper, Por- 

LoUI.. ~t ~trt pc au, 

cupine. :-to wBo'. in bou~ekeeper, B a,k· 

"Marc-ar d c:>nJam , 

feet day, JoBm° • ock hou-,keeper, 'tand- 

bc 

Sallie o. a I 

. Rock da" 30 mo. Che 

WI! ,w'eo rbio 

bot.:..;f>keeper, ,- 

~artba ;1.. • 

enne Ri\"er day. 30 mo. 

~tsifll.tiollS~ ~bcept


Audrew McCloud, g-ardeuer, Puyallup, 

660. 

Rose Xombre, hou~ekeeper, Martinez, 30 

mo. 

Margaret Linton, nurse, Western ~a\'ajo, 

,20. 

Joel W. Tyudall, discip., Chamberlaiu, 

600. 

Anastacia Ca:sero, hou:,ekeeper, Cahuilla, 

30 mo. 

Leroy M. McCowan, financial clerk, Santa 

Fe, 800. 

Henrietta R. Freemont, teacher, Rapid 

City, 600. 

Maurice Big Horn, nightwatchman, Fort 

Peck, 400. 

:\ettie B. Likens, housekeeper, San Car 

105,30 mo. 

Alice X. Hauschildt, hou.ekeeper, Chilo 

coco, 5~. 

Hedwige Chandonnet, seams., Wild Rice 

Ri'f"er, 480. 

Cha;:,. D. Parkhurst, indo teacher, La 

Pointe, 600. 

Mae L. Os~ood, housekeeper, Porcupine 

dar. 30 mo, 

Cbas. Picard, Industrial teacher, nice 

Statioll, 120. 

Lel}na Pearl CreeD, teacher, We tern 

Na

THE INDIAN SCHOOL JOURNAL ADVERTISING ECTION 73 

Troy Laundry Machinery Co. 

OUR LINE IS THE LARGEST, BEST (8), MOST COMPLETE 

WRITE US FOR CATALOGUE AND LAUNDRY GUIDE 

Troy Chicago New York San Francisco 

The Journal Covers a Field all its Own 

The Only Way to Reach Employes of 

the U. S. Government. 

~ IVaVaJO 

XT 'K8' 

lYltntature 

L ooms" 

~ and Pillow Tops ~ 

• • 

WE HAVE a complete and unusally atlracti,-e assortment of 

these beautiful and unique Pillow Covers and )Iiniature 

Looms. They are in all the colors and design· found in 

the i • a,-ajo Blankets, and are just the thing for your den 

I 

• Indian corner, or collection. ft,re ha,-e the Pillow • 

Covers in either the native wool or Germanto wll yam; 

I 

they are about 22 inches square. The Looms are miniature 

reproductions of the real thing, ha,.jng a real blanket \\'0"- 

• en half finished; 18x20 inches. Covers are 2.00; Looms 1.00 • 

and smaller Looms at 65c each. We. of course. guarantee all 

these goods genuine Indian handicraft. the best that' made. 

~D=$MEfg 

THE I!fl)IAN PRINT SHOP 

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Mention the JOl:tL...... L 1I'benenl" yoo 1iITitt our adl'"ert.i&e~· 

AT U. S. INDIAN SCHOOL, CHILOCCO, 

OKLAHOJ

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I BUY YOUR HANDSOME CLOTHES : 

~ AXD Sn,IPLER aXES, TOO, 

i ~L~~S!"p~~~)~!~ 

~ profits to the middleman. 

~ 

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Habutai silk blouses, embroidered 

While wool blouses, embroidered 

Raw silk blouses, embroidered 

Black gauze blouses, with drawn work, ,-ery 

dainty 

.... ,50 

Black chiffon blouses, with drawn work, ,"ery 

dainty 

" ,50 

Blouses embroidered 00 heavy Habutai, raw silk 

crepe, Liberty satin, grass linen, or pongee 

Any ('olor of Habutai, silk crepe or satin 10.00 

Cotton crepe, embroidered, wears and washes 

beautifully, (all colors 

Whole embroidered (skirt and waist dresses in 

all shades 

Habutaisilk and white wool dresses, embroidered 

Hea,"S silk and grass linen dresses, embroidered 

1Iandarin coa~ embroidered 

Embroidered crepe shawls, shite, or colors) 

mething Dew and beautiful io summer dresses 

suitable for graduation gowns, Persian 

lawn embroidered in delicate designs, yery 

eff'ecti,"e 

Especially fine pure linen handkerehiefs, sheer 

and beautifully drawn 

Linen and grass linen centerpieces, drawn or 

'6.00 and up 

86.00 and up 

86.00 and up 

Sl.OO and up 

'14.00 and up 

~O.OO and up 

...~J.OO aod up 

$30.00 and up 

THE INDIAN SCHOOL Jo 

I =.:::.-=:UR~NAL-ADVERTISING SECTION 75 

STERLING 

SILVER 

Enameled Red, 

Whife, Green 

'Prru 5(}c 

Beautiful 

Indian Art 

STERLING SILVER 

SPOONS. 

No.1. 1.65.50'c!ocksize 

Oklahoma Handle. 

No.:!. $2..10. Indian figure 

on t1.at Handle. 

No. 3. !2.50. arne as ""0 

~ Gilt and Enameled' 

SO.-1. 

No. .t. _.:?S. Head on 

front. Tepee 00 back 

of Bandle. 

No.5. !2.40. Size and 

Style of IDn tr3llon. 

No. 6. ~.75...arne as:'\o- 

S. Gilt Bowl. • 

~~. 00. tLOO. Same as No. 

:t.. Copper Handle. 

GIlt Buwl. 

No.7. 13"'0. Like No.5. 

Large Bea\'y Size. 

No. s.. $3,~. Same as No 

7, Gilt BowL • 

No .l4.00. arne 3..."'0. 

7. Copper Handle 

GUt Bowl. 

• 

By Mall fostpald. 

E. L. McDowell 

Jeweler 

M"""Citr, 

..d-In' and Brosh 

Drawing. 

Teaches the arts that pay-practical 

magazme and newspaper illustrating, 

caOrtoomng, cOlIIIDercial designing etc 

about ver12free I e:;sons in every \·olume; ' . 

onl 50 draW1Dgs, by suhscribers 

, y, puhlIshed and criticised each 

_ ... _ ..._111 III .. 

,-"''''11-'''''' 

• 

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Ii: 

MentioD tht JOCBSJ.L whenever TOU ",ritt our adnr 

THI is a reproduction of a piece of 

Pottery made by the nto Domingo 

pueblo people of . 'ew ~Iexico. It;" 

a representative piece ofth' beautiful 

and sl'mmetrical Indian earthen 

ware. The decorations are black on 

a creamy background. Thi ware i 

especially appropriate for hon>e de is sent out with the 

understanding that the huyer take> 

all risks. A piece of our Indian 

potterl' would add to yonr den. librarl''' 

hall. or \,our Indian COMler. 

. . 

1iie INDIAN pRINT SHOP, 

u. s. In"" SdJoOI, CbiJo


Buya ticket the proper way and 

your journey '5 well begun. 

To Texas 

TO POINTS ON THE PACIFIC COA.ST 

Take one of the through Tourist leeping Cars on the CoWIADO 

;\IIDLAXD RAILWAY. These cal'S can be taken at Chicag~. )hnn~ 

apolis. t. Louis. St. Paul, Omaha. Kansas City. Des )10111 • and 

pa through the Rockie:, on Dadight Trains. Dining Cal> ~n 

meals a la carte on all trains. \\'rite;\1. R. utton. Kan C~~. 

or C. H. Speers. Den reI'. for any information you may deme. 

- 

Choice Nursery Stock 

Either Wholesale or RetaiL 

~e Chilocco School Nursery 

We hare had many testimonials as to the excellency of the stock 

we have sold. 

trees of thi· nursery. 

;VInny schools and a"encies hare bought their 

" 

If you want good. thrifty. well-roote

THE INDIAN SCHOOL JOURNAL-ADVERTISING S 

ART 

WORKS OF 

For the 

Reception 

Room, 

Library 

or 

Den 

Tnt: HOPI Pn:,Blll 01: W\I,PI. FIRST )h~\. Hurl LnD. AR17.,fI' ,. 

WE HAVE some "err fine "iews of Hopi Land, taken by THE 

JOURXAL camera last summer. These news are of HopI 

Puehlos, Hopi Life. Hopi Dances. including the great I'elig iou pageant. 

the Snake Dance. These pictures are enlarged to a ize. 12x20. and 

mounted on a mat 22x28 inches. Ther are works of art in erery sense 

and worthy the place of honor in you; reception room. library or den. 

One of the views is shown abo"e in halftone, but no cut can do them 

jU~ice. Perhaps we ha,e twenty or twenty-fi,e different "iew~ of 

thIS wonderful land to select from. We a k Three Dollars and FIfty 

Cents each for the plain photo and mat no frame. We will be glad to 

tell you more of these news. E,ery one guaranteed to be JUst wh.at we 

claim. Your money gladly returned in case you are not wholly satIsfied. 

THE 

U. S. 

INDIAN 

Indian SchooL 

PRI T 

Chilocco, 

Yeutiou the JOCB-~.u. wbene",er yOU write our adTertiSe~ 

SHOP 

Oklahoma


1Jnb 

! (pele of 

, 

tan 

~ong~ 

lecture = ~ecital 

BY 

MISS FRA CES DE SMORE 

"GISHIGOIQUA" 

PART I 

Primittt, buiia" "9' w:itla aerotflpa"imtni of ha"d clappirag, midVi"e rattlu, tom 10m 

and iro 'fith ,trvet logtiher: 

Kwakintl Song of the Potlatch. The Gift of Peace. Song of the Pebble 

Game. Geronimo's ng. Tigua Dance of the Wbeel. Funeral 

Song to the Spirit. 

PART II 

&mg, trill piano amJf1lparoim,nI. ,hMag Ihal 1rul.,. ""'11' fallfNJ harmamc Ii.", and 

Ihal llu harmoniuJl.,. inl"~i"


THE L.ARGEST ENGRAVING AND PRINT 

ING MAIL. ORDER PL.ANT IN THE WORI.D 

IS AT YOUR SERVICE TWENTY-FOUR 

HOURS A DAY, EVERY WORK DAY IN THE 

YEAR. YOUR ORDER, WHETHER FOR 50 

CENTS OR $5,000.00. WIll SE THE OSeJECT 

OF SPECIAL. CARE. NO MATTER 

WHETHER YOU ARE IN NEW BRUNSWICK, 

AL.ASKA, SAN DIEGO, CAUFORNIA, FL.OR 

IDA OR NEW YORK, YOUR ORDER WIL.L. 

BE HANDL.ED eJUST AS INTEll/GENTL.Y 

AS IF YOU WERE IN OUR OWN OFFICE, 

TAL.KING THE MATTER OVER. L.ET US 

DEMONSTRATE IN A PRAc;rICAL. WAY 

WE ARE AL.L. WE CL.AIM. EVERY KIND 

OF ENGRAVING IN BL.ACK AND WHITE 

OR COL.ORS, ENGRAVED CAllING 

CARDS. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE 

PAPER. OFFICE STATIONERY. RUBBER 

STAMPS. STEEL. DIE EMBOSSING 

EVERYTHING PERTAINING TO PUBI.IC 

ITY. OUR PRICES ARE L.OWER THAN 

THE SAME QUAL.ITY OF WORK COSTS 

EL.SEWHERE 

WRITE. 'w,RE, PHONE OR CAI.I.· 

---:-: ----:===------,\-,-k-tbe-pu-b-!bh" 

. ost the halftone cuts used in thl:O '"b- 

II' hat they 

tho10k of Clark cuts and our serl'it-e·

80 THE INDIAN SCHOOL JOURNAL- ADVERTISING SECTION 

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HHOPI PLAQUESH 

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~ Here is a halltone cu.t of one of our Hopi Basket Placques= 

~ They are beautiful things for house decoration. We have a 

~ Dumber, of many colors and designs. This placque is in five ~ 

~ colors. Prices range from Two Dollars up to Three Fifty 

= 

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~ THE I TDIAl T PRI TT SHOP 

~ c..At the United States Indian School at Chilocco, Oklahoma ~ 

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10 CENTS 

PE: R COpy 

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ONEDOLLAR 

PE RYE A R 

Issued !onthldhjm the Indian Prinl5hop Chi/oeco. Okla 

NOVEMBER, 1901 

KERR.A.OAK, YUMA FIEST 

THE GOVER ME T'S POLICY 

WITH THE I DIA 

I DIA 

- 

FLOOD TRADITIO S 

Songs of the Red Children 

Service Changes, Sketches, 

ews 

ANa!Jazine Printed bilndians

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