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THE CHEMA WA AMERICAN
number of hours for work depends upon the tide, the winds, and other
local conditions. The camps are abandoned and the fishermen return
home about the middle of September. Let us hope that no labor trou
ble among the canneries and no inclement weather will prevent a good
season; my success in school next year will depend upon my success
in fishing this summer.
Not one year only will fit me to take up my life’s work. I must go
to school several years yet for I want to fit myself to instruct my peo
ple. If I can teach some of them to keep the commandments of the
great Father; if I can lighten some benighted paths I shall not have
lived in vain.
BREADMAKING
M A U D E D O W R Y , Uashoe Tribe, California
DEMONSTRATED BY
R U T H E V A N S , .SV/^c Tribe, Oregon
J U L I A D U R K E E , Thlinget Tribe, A laska
HE duties of a modern housekeeper, or homekeeper, as
we are learning to call her, are both varied and com
plex. While she is not required to do many of the
things that were done by her ancestors, such as dip
ping candles for her light, weaving cloth for all cloth
ing and household purposes, or, as in the case of the
Indian women, preparing the skins of the victims of
the chase to be tanned and made into various articles of clothing for the
family, yet there are other far more important duties to which she must
give her attention in order to be a successful homekeeper.
The standard of housekeeping is being raised as each year passes and
woman’s whole sphere has become broader and more far-reaching.
Home sanitation and hygiene; a thorough knowledge of food stuffs and
their value to the human system; relative cost of various foods and their
preparation for the table; these are the things now considered necessary
to the education of every young women, and they are being made a
part of the public school course.
Here in Chemawa we girls have all these advantages. Indeed, in
many ways we are even better equipped to do the work than are most
of the public schools, since our half-day’s academic work is supple-