The Chemawa American, December 18, 1929, Image 1

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CHEMAWA®AMERICAN
Printed at Chemawa, Oregon, and Devoted to the Interests of Indian Education
Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1929
Vol. XXXI
No. 15
8UPT. LIPPS IS HOME
ARROWS Jn
he LONG BOW
(F rom O ur O wn Q uiver :)
We must struggle forward or slip backward.
You can’t recall your past, but you can redeem it.
Youth cannot be with us always.
was once a pup.
The oldest dog
When a man prays one day and steals six, the Great
Spirit Thunders and the Evil One laughs.
Always attend to the demands of the present and
the future will take care of itself—and you.
Righteous living leads to honor, wealth and power;
riotous living to headaches and heartaches.
Helping the Indian consists in doing something more
than hurling hunks of altruism at him from a-far off.
We might pour all the gold in the United States
Treasury at the feet of the Indian and forever exempt
him from all toil and effort on his part and he would
soon vanish from the earth.
Supt. Lipps returned to Chemawa on the evening
of the 15th, from a four-weeks trip to Washington,
D. C., where he was called on official business in con­
nection with the school. During his absence Mr.
Lipps visited Hampton Institute, the Albuquerque
school and Sherman Institute, in addition to spending
two weeks in the Indian Office. He reports a hope­
ful outlook for larger appropriations for the Indian
Service and speaks very highly of the ability and
earnestness of the new Commissioners of Indian Af­
fairs. He believes that next year our school will be
able to broaden its educational program and more
closely tie up the school’s activities with the industrial
and home improvement programs on the reservations
located in the Pacific Northwest. To that end short
courses for selected adult Indians may be offered
next year and Chemawa may also undertake some
type of extention work on the reservations in co-oper­
ation with Directors of Agriculture, Home Demon­
stration Agents, Field Matrons, etc. We are to have
a new gymnasium costing $60,000, and a small special
appropriation to cover the cost of the short courses
and extention work if everything works out as plan­
ned.
LEGEND OF THE BOILING SPRINGS
By WARREN WILDER
On the original Santa Fe Trail there was, formerly,
a small Indian trading post known as the Pueblo,
from which the present city received its name.
There are those who say that if we but scratch the
The Arkansas River at this point is a clear, swift
skin of the Indian we shall still find the savage there. stream, about one hundred yards wide. In the old
If we would believe James Harvey Robinson, the same days its banks were heavily timbered with cottonwood.
thing is only a little less true of the white man.
On either side of the river rolling prairies stretched for
hundreds of miles, gradually ascending toward the
In our dealings with the Indian we have too often
mountains. The entire magnificent country, it is
made the mistake of assuming an attitude of superi­
claimed, was once owned by the Shoshone Indians
ority and regarding him as a child and an object of
(sometimes called the Snake Indians), with whom the
our pity and solicitude, whereas he desired nothing so
Comanches of the southern plains affiliated.
much as to be treated as a man.
Centuries ago, the Shoshones and Comanches had
When an Indian parent is told that his child is not been one people—tho’ there were many separate bands
entitled to attend public school because he lives on a or tribes—speaking one language and observing the
reservation and does not pay taxes, it is little wonder same religious ceremonies.
Less than a hundred years ago, they, together,
that he thinks “if the white man’s milk of human
kindness were churned the product would be lim- composed the most powerful Indian nation on the
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