The Chemawa American, January 01, 1915, Page 27, Image 27

THE CHEM AW A
AM ERICAN
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and respected, yet w ithout some inner qu ality w hich was necessary to
m ark her as really cutivated.
I have alw ays considered my m other as th e most cultured person I ever
knew , yet I know th a t her cu ltu re is not due to her know ledge of Latin
and G reek, or to her keen appreciation of the principles of organic and
inorganic chem istry. I th in k it is th e resu lt of her depth of character
and breadth of m ind, of her interest in and sym pathy w ith the joys and
sorrow s of her associates, and of her ability to keep th a t g reatest com ­
m andm ent, “ T hou shalt love the Lord th y God w ith all th y heart, and
w ith all th y soul, and w ith all thy m ind, and th y neighbor as thy se lf.”
T ho u g h an u n d erstan d in g of the philosophy and ideals of the ancient
civilizations and a scientific know ledge of the fundam ental laws of n a ­
tu re are of great value in developing cu ltu re, yet they are not its basic
elem ents. W h at th en is culture? C u ltu re is self-m astery, self-under­
stan d in g , a breadth of m ind and sp irit w hich can recognize and o ver­
look th e trivial th in g s of life, an appreciation of all th a t is noblest and
tru est in m a n ’s n atu re, and a desire to m inister rath er th an to be m inis­
tered u nto.
[T h e above is a paper in E n g lish , w ritte n by M iss Louise V. K en n ed y for c riti­
cism at Reef! College, P o rtlan d , O regon. W e w ere fo rtu n ate enough to see th e a r ­
ticle, and on account of th e e x tre m e excellence of th e last p a ra g rap h , desired p e r­
m ission to publish it, which was relu c tan tly g ra n te d .—E d it o r . 1
R E S P E C T F O R A M E R IC A N I N D I A N S ’ D E S IR E S
Interracial am ity does not preclude or exclude racial d ig n ity and self-
respect, or an y th in g th a t fosters them . If the red Indian of th e U nited
States is a distin ct race, not derived from any of th e m ajor subdivisions
of th e hum an fam ily, b u t au th en tically aboriginal and separate, w hy, of
course, Indian y o u th on en terin g schools and beginning th e study of h is­
tory in its broader and more general aspects should not be tau g h t o th e r­
wise. T h e In d ian Com m issioner, Cato Sells, is justified in p rotecting
Ins charges to this ex ten t, if he has back of lnm the best ethnological
ex p ert opinion. T h a t some ethnologists still hold to th e A siatic origin,
at least of the In d ian s of the north Pacific tribes now found in both
B ritish and U nited States te rrito ry , is a fact.
N evertheless there will be cham pions of the step th a t has been taken
by Com m issioner Sells, for th e experience of the U nited States with
its non-C aucasian in h ab itan ts has been th a t they achieve m ost when
least servile and im itative of th e C aucasian. A race pride th a t m akes a
m an q u it aping an o th er race and assert his own powers and those c h a r­
acteristic of his race is w holesom e in the main and w ithin reasonable