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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1927)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 THE ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NATIVE ALASKANS (Continued from page 1) In addition to the above the class makes hand-painted place cards for dinners, hemstitch, paint on cloth, and all kinds of plain sewing. If you have anything to be done and desire help of any kind, leave your order with Miss White and she will turn it over to the Sophomores. Luck to you, Sophomores; the Chemawa American wishes you success. with others and cooperate in the development of our land. Someone has said “We Alaskans see visions, dream dreams of a wonderful future,” but we cannot bring them to pass; we wait, we hope that someone will do something for us that will bring our dreams true; we are afraid to think, afraid ot problems that will tax THE HONOR ROLL our brains. We are rather satisfied to perspire at Below is the honor roll of last month. Those whose hard labor, cutting logs or hauling in a seine for a names appear on the list have made an average of 90 few months in summer and we make up for it by a per cent or better in their academic work, vocational winter of leisure. Is this true? If so, then this is the as well, and their deportment has in every way been very problem that is holding our natives back. excellent. The list follows: We would not criticize our ancestors, for Alaskans Seniors were ignorant of the progress the civilized world was Raymond Jones, William Johnson and William making until about the nineteenth century when our territory was discovered by the Russians. Since that Markishtum. Juniors time our people have been trying to adapt themselves to civilized customs and laws. Considering the short George Meachem, Clifford Meachem, Earl Crofoot, time that civilization has been known to the natives, John Frenier, Lawrence Crofoot. our total ignorance at the start, the great distance be Sophomores tween us and our closest white neighbors who were Irene Walker, Eugene Cottonware and Aaron willing to help, and the slow communication, we may Sookum. be proud of the progress that has been made in spite Freshmen of the handicaps. But we must not be flattered by the Ivy Sanderson and Anna Jackson. advancement our forebears have made. We are just Eighth Grade beginning to realize the value and worth of things. Myrtle Rinehart, Lillian Trottier, George Weeks, We need schooling of the highest form. We will have to learn more of civilization from our books and Benjamin Pikutarik and Jasper Athanum. teachers because we are so far away from the highest Seventh Grade type of civilization that we cannot see the good for Harold Lewis. ourselves. Because of our different lives, speech, and environment at first, we need extra training to be up Patronize home industry. Give the Sophomores a to the standards of common schools in the states. job. JOHNSON-BREMNER EMPLOYMENT AGENCY INDUSTRIAL ITEMS Supt. John B. Brown of Phoenix Indian School fame once published and proved with his able pen that one could never tell what would happen next in an Indian school. So often have travelers of the In dian Service road who read the article said: “Aye, John, you’re right.” Now that the Sophomore class at Chemawa have launched a full-fledged employment agency proves anew the statement, and makes one say: “Who’d a thought it!” The Sophomore class is determined to have caps, and employment agency funds will pay for them. The girls will do such tasks as: Housework on Satur days, laundry, sewing, cooking, marcelling, and darning. The boys will take such jobs as cutting hair, carpentry work, pressing and mending clothes, cleaning houses and yards, and all kinds of odd jobs. The plumbers have changed a draining system into a dish washer at the kitchen. Mr. Friske and his detail are making a landscape garden at the power house. Good work! At the Small Boys’ Building they are changing the press and clothes rooms to make it more convenient. The shoe and harness shop details are busy work ing on harness. They have already completed many sets. Painters are busy repairing the broken windows on all the dormitories and painting at the Small Boys’ building, dairy barn, Hawley Hall, and Mitchell Hall. Victor Smith has returned to his home near Tacoma, Washington. He had to leave school on account of his eyes. Victor hated to leave us, and Chemawa re grets to lose him. Many have received cards from him and Chemawa’s good wishes are with him.
