T he CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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We learn from the Phoenix Redskin that Miss Workman,
formerly employed in the Chemawa office, is now chief clerk
at Phoenix.
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The first copy of this year’s Phoenix Redskin arrived a few
days ago with a new make-up—typically newspaper in style
and very attractive.
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A news dispatch from Hungary this summer read: “Bill”
Finnegan, 16, Indian member of the United States delegation,
was the most popular boy scout at the world jamboree. He
was teaching the other boys how to scalp.
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Many Haskell graduates, remembering profitable hours
spent under her guidance, will be interested to know that
Miss Sarah E. Sample, after 34 years as a teacher in the Indian
service, 27 years of which were spent at Haskell, has retired
and is now enjoying a well-earned rest.
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George Shawnee, chief clerk at Haskell for many years, re
tired from active duty on Sept. 1. Mr. Shawnee was a Haskell
alumnus being active in its organization since his graduation
in 1897. He worked diligently at his job at all times but after-
hours always found him working just as diligently on some
extra task. Haskell will miss him and his varied talents.
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The following item from a newspaper tells of a great Indian
ball player of a few years ago: A former New York Giant’s
catcher, “Big Chief” Meyers, has received appointment as
member of the staff of John W. Dady, superintendent of the
extensive Mission Indian Agency in southern California.
Meyers, an Indian himself, has been given honorary title of
chief of police of the reservation. He will also act as inter
preter for Dady.
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In the year 1754, a score of years before the Revolutionary
War, Eleazar Wheelock, a Connecticut devine and later founder
of Dartmouth college, was “educating and Christianizing the
untamed redskin.” Professor James Dow McCallum of Dart
mouth has compiled and edited a number of letters written by
these early Indian students to their teacher, Wheelock, under
the title, “Letters of Eleazar Wheelock’s Indians.” The book
is published by Dartmouth college. It is an authentic and
extraordinary record of the Indian point of view of a hundred
and fifty years ago.
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An Indian, upon his return home to his hut, one day dis
covered that his venison, which had been hung up to dry had
been stolen. After going some distance in pursuit of the thief,
he met a party of travelers, of whom he inquired whether they
had seen a little, old, white man, with a short gun, and ac
companied by a small dog, with a bob-tail. They replied in
the affirmative, and asked the Indian how he was able to give
such a minute description of the thief. He answered “I know
he is a little man by his having made a pile of stones in order
to reach the venison, from the height I hung it standing on
the ground. I know he is an old man by his short steps, which
I traced over the dead leaves in the w’cods. I know he is a
white man by his turning out his toes when he walks, which
an Indian never does. I know his gun is short by the mark
which the muzzle made upon the bark of a tree against which
it leaned. I know the dog is small by his tracks, and that he
has a bob-tail. I discovered that by the mark of it in the dust,
where he was sitting at the time his master took down the
meat.”
LOCAL
Priscilla Hayashi, a former member of the class of
’34, is now attending the Salem high school in town.
On Saturday evening, September 23, a talkie,
“Oliver Twist,” was shown in our auditorium for the
benefit of students and faculty.
Margaret Sampson, who graduated with the class of
1933, is now employed at the Warm Springs school as
assistant matron in the girls’ dormitory.
Terrance Booth, Russell Hayward, Roland Booth,
John Marsden, and Ronald Leask, former students of
Chemawa, have written from their home in Metlakatla,
Alaska, to friends at Chemawa expressing their ap
preciation of the 1933 annual.
Last Tuesday evening, after study hour the senior
boys were invited by Mrs. Cornick to a little pop corn
party. This was given by her in appreciation to the
senior boys for keeping the best halls and rooms in
McNary hall for the past month.
Superintendent Ryan and Mr. Shilling have per
mitted those boys who have no funds to earn their
season tickets by picking hops in neighboring hop
yards. A number of boys have taken advantage of
this opportunity to secure their entertainment for the
school year.
HLETICS
CHEMAWA’S HOPES PINNED ON GREEN TEAM
The thud of calfskin against pigskin mingling with
the war whoops of our redskin warriors once more
brings to us the familiar sounds of the good old grid
iron and makes it apparent that King Football again
reigns at Chemawa.
Under the direction of Chemawa’s coaches, Emil
Hauser and Reuben Sanders, our pigskin toters are de
veloping nicely and making good work of fitting them
selves for inaugurating their 1933 football campaign.
With only two men from last year’s squad with which
to build on the two Chemawa mentors are showing
their ability in picking and shaping the prospects into
a smooth working machine which will make things hot
for men of more experience.