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AMERICAN
Printed at Chemawa, Oregon, and Devoted to the Interests of Indian Education
VOL. XXXV
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1933
SlOUX AND CROW FRIENDS
The article reprinted below appeared in a special
article in the Oregonian for Nov. 5:
Among the residents of Grover cottage, Linfield’s
dormitory for women, are two dusky-skinned daugh
ters of the original Americans, Miss Charlotte Jordan
of Rosebud, S. D., and Miss Josephine Pease of Lodge
Grass, Mont.
Miss Jordan is a descendant of the Sioux tribe,
while Miss Pease traces her Indian ancestry back to
the Crows. According to Miss Jordan, the two tribes
were formerly bitter enemies. “If my grandfather
knew I was rooming with a Crow he would turn over
in his grave,” she laughed.
The grandfather of Miss Pease, whose name was
White Man Runs Him, was a scout under General
Custer. He was buried with honors by the United
States army following the massacre of Custer’s men
by the Sioux. Her great-grandfather was the first
superintendent for the Indians, appointed by General
Grant.
Miss Jordan’s grandmother is a niece of Chief Red
Cloud, one of the most famous of the Sioux Indians.
Miss Jordan has also a white ancestry that would be
the envy of the most aristocratic. She is eligible for
membership to the Daughters of the American Revo
lution. One of her forebears, Oceanus Hopkins, was
the first child born on the Mayflower. The Ward and
Jordan castles in northern Ireland are possessions of
her family. Miss Jordan has many relatives in Port
land, but with whom she is not acquainted.
Miss Jordan spent one year at Chemawa and a term
at Willamette before coming to Linfield. Miss Pease
received all her earlier education in the public schools
at Lodge Grass. The former is taking a pre-medic
course while the latter is majoring in business.
Both of the young women are intensely interested
in their college work, and both like western Oregon.
Miss Jordan came west two years ago.
NEWS NOTES
Alice Jones one of our outing students in Salem,
was stricken suddenly with appendicitis on Oct. 2,
She was immediately operated upon by our school
physician, Dr. Laban Steeves, and she is now on the
road to health again. Dr. Steeves also performed
an appendectomy for Dorothy Adams on Tuesday, Oct.
31. She is also getting along well.
NO. 3
The grapevine telegraph reports that on the morn
ing of Nov. 30 there may be emanating from the port
als of both employees’ and students’ kitchens the faint
but tantalizing aroma of turkey in the process of roast
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Lobdcll, retired employees living in
Salem, entertained several Chemawa friends at their
home last Wednesday evening. The party was in the
nature of a surprise for Mr. Lobdell. The guests re
ported an unusually enjoyable evening.
Mrs. Carrie Wilcox, genial house mother in Winona
hall, recently paid a visit toiler daughter in Portland.
On this occasion she saw several of our outing students
and reported them as being in good health and enjoy
ing their work, as well as giving perfect satisfaction
to their employers.
Carl Muller paid his friends at Chemawa a brief
visit last Saturday and Sunday. Carl, since his last
visit in the spring, has been working on the U. S. S.
Surveyor straightening out the Alaskan coast line and
shooting Alaska bear and other forms of wild life dur
ing his spare time.
HEY’S something kindo' harty-like
about the atmusfere
When the heat of summer’s over and
the coolin’ f ill is here—
Of course we miss the flowers, and the blossums
on the trees,
And the mumble of the hummin’-birds and buzz
in’ of the bees;
But the air’s so appetizin’; and the landscape
through the haze
Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly au
tumn days
Is a pictur’ that no paint
er has the colorin’
to mock—
When the frost is on the
punkin and the fod
der’s in the shock.
—James Whitcomb Riley