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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1930)
CHEMAWA®AMERICAN Printed at Chemawa, Oregon, and Devoted to the Interests of Indian Education iiMiiMiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu:iiiii!iiiiiiiijiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!ii!iiuiniiiiiiuiiiiiiit^ wtiii.iiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiihiuiiiiuii^ Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1930 Vol. XXXI ________________________ w_______________________________ No. 22 INDIANS IN THE SCHOOLS The time when the job of Indian education will be taken over by the states is brought perceptibly nearer "S aaaaa------------ V Y by reports like that of Superintendent Evan W. Estep "'y Vg- --------- ■ of the Yakima reservation, just made public by the federal department of the interior. Mr. Estep wrote (F rom the Q uiver of P lutarch ) that Indian pupils in the public schools of Toppenish, A mean and ungenerous spirit thinks that the sole Wash., had a larger proportion of their number on the honor roll than did the whites. The precise statistics tie between man and man is interest or necessity. of the matter are, however, less important than is A good man will take care of his horses ana dogs, their bearing on the sentiment of Indian parents. not only while they are young, but when old and past “The old Indian prejudice against public schools,” says Mr. Estep, “is rapidly breaking down.” service. — > This reduces the problem to its pecuniary factors. A soldier is more attached to an officer who will There is little doubt that these children, who are citi assist him in his work, than to one who will indulge zens and will become voters on attaining their majorii y, him in idleness. are better off under the tutelage of the state and in the companionship of voungsters of the race with The man who first ruined the Roman people was he whose general customs they must soon or late conform who first gave them treats and gratuities. (And that than they would if segregated in institutions of their same man first ruined the Indians.) own. But while the Indian has been made a citizen, JMH»-------------- >- the process of economic amalgamation has not as yet There is no other advantage to be had from a lib been complete. For some time to come we must ex eral education, equal to that of polishing and softening pect state schooling of the aborigines to be continued our natures by reason and discipline. on the basis of federal financial support. Whole villages built by the government for Indians Sometimes we fall into vain superstition, and some to live in star d deserted because their former inhab times into an impious neglect of all religion. It is itants and their descendants have preferred to shift for best to be cautious and to avoid extremes. themselves among their white neighbors. The ward ship and reservation system is doomed, and so in all The man who applies himself to public business and likelihood is the theory that the Indian is fit only for undertakes to converse with men, should, above all stock raising. Contact with the public school has things, avoid that overbearing austerity which is always shown how amazingly these operate towards the solu the companion of solitude, and cultivate in his heart tion of a race issue that has baffled our statesmen for the patience which some people so much deride. more than a century.—E ditorial from The Morn A noble mind may, by a liberal education, be en ing Oregonian, P ortland , O re . abled to support itself against distress, aad, in the CONQUERING ADVERSITY pursuit of rectitude, Fortune may often defeat the Who has not heard ot Frank A. Vanderlip, a great president purpose of Virtue, yet Virtue, in bearing affliction, of a great bank? Here is a man born poor, on a farm, a man can never lose her prerogative. ARROWS LONG BOW - ■ >■ I fill my mind with the sublime images of the best and greatest men by attention to history and biography; and if I contract any blemish or ill custom from other company which I am unavoidably engaged in, I cor rect and expel them by calmly and dispassionately turning my thoughts to those excellent examples. who met adversity at almost every turn yet conquered it and became one of America’s outstanding business men. It has always been his precept that to succeed a man must be a keen worker, he must not only know his work but be more concerned in getting a thing done than in getting credit for it. He must not be over-concerned about advancement but about worth while accomplishment. (Continued on page 2)
