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A N E X P E R T FARM ER
was Amfinth n p017 | IndianS Wh° Can,e ‘° HanlP‘on Institute in 1886
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i , He had bUt tW° yearS schooIi"S Previous to
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Ut three years- such 8ood use did he
ake of his time that on his return home he was appointed day-school
teacher in one of the camps.
Since that time he has been almost continuously in the government
service, and m 1912 passed the civil service examination for expert
R oekV
T aP'” " " e'i ‘° the Bul1 Head District on the Standing
Rock Reservation. Several hundred Indians live in this district and
the duties are practically those of sub-agent. Mr. Rockbrain is cor-
. sponding secretary of the Business Committee of Standing Rock Res
ervation and county commissioner of Corson county, South Dakota.
Hampton Institute Press Service Hampton, Virginia.
A T E A C H E R O F E A C E M A K IN G
In 1904 Josephine Hill, a Wisconsin Oneida, was graduated fiom
Hamplon Institute, Hampton, Va. On her return home she took a
position in the Government School, and in 1906 married Isaac N Web
ster a member of her own tribe who is also a Hampton graduate. Mr.
Webster was in the Government service, and both continued to hold
positions for several years, until they could start life on their own farm
where they now have an excellent home.
For five years Mrs. Webster has taught at Oneida under the Sybil
Carter Lace Association. Her class, numbering about one hundred is
ie largest on any reservation, and the lace and out-work they do is of
the finest quality, equal to the Italian. When orders are heaviest a
to th'g vnltn'v"°,rth, fr° m fifty tO ° ne hundred d°hars is sent from Oneida
to the New York headquarters every week. Mrs. Webster not only
eeps house, teaches the lacemakers, conducts the business of the class
and attends to the shipments of work, but also finds time to play the
organ in the Episcopal church on the reservation. -H am pton Institute
Press Service, Hampton, Va.