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THE CHEM AW A
AM ERICAN
children, and is teaching them that the Indian is only a savage being.
We hear now and then of a boy or girl who is hurt or killed by playing
savage. These are the direct consequences of the wild-west Indian
show sand moving pictures that depict lawlessness and hatred.
Before the closing history of the nineteenth century an awful crime was
committed in this great Christian nation. It was only a few days after
the civilized nations of the world had celebrated the message of the heav
enly host saying, “ Fear not, for behold I bring you good tidings of great
joy which shall be to all people,” and “ Glory to God in the highest and
on earth peace, goodwill toward men.” A band of Sioux Indians, in
cluding women and children unarmed, were massacred. The wounded
were left on the field to die without care at Wounded Knee by the United
States troops just because they had founded a new religion called The
Indian Messiah.” This was a cowardly and criminal act without di
plomacy. Twenty-three years afterward, on the same field of Wound
ed Knee, the tragedy was reproduced for “ historical preservation” in
moving-picture films and called “ The Last Great Battle of the Sioux.
The whole production of the field was misrepresented and yet approved
This is a disgrace and injustice to the Indian race.
I am not speaking here from selfish and sensitive motives, but from
my own point of view, for cleaner civilization, education, and citizen
ship for my race. We are here to day to consider the means to find sup
port for our cause in the present generation, if it is ever to be settled.
We have arrived at the point where the great demands must be met.
“ To the American Indian let there be given equal opportunities, equal
responsibilities, equal education.”
HOW SHALL A TEACHER
MEASURE HIS EFFICIENCY
B Y EM M A II. F O S T E R , o f Carlisle
N the consideration of this question, first of all a distinc
tion must be drawn between fitness and efficiency—
two words which, athough they mean entirely differ
ent things, are often used interchangeably.
A person may be well fitted for a certain occupa
tion and yet, through indolence or carelessness, prove
himself wholly inefficient; but, on the contrary, one
cannot display efficiency in a task for which he is not fitted by nature.
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