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state CWA work, says the Bismarck paper, Iwasicu. He is be
ing relieved temporarily by Peyton Carter, an old tinier in the
Service.
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HASKELL TO DISCONTINUE AGRICULTURE
Activities at Haskell, so far as agriculture and dairying are
concerned, will be curtailed during the remainder of the school
year. It is quite probable, Supt. Roe Cloud states, that the
dairy herd will be distributed among other schools the first
pick going to Chilocco. The farm will be leased on a crop
share basis and Haskell will not attempt to farm any portion
of the 1,000-acre reservation.
Indian Service authorities decided that to carry on agricul
ture and dairying here is a duplication of the work accomplished
by Chilocco. Chilocco has stressed these subjects for years and
for that reason it is deemed business-like to look to her to carry
on in this line of endeavor.
Haskell will be in the market for dairy products at the be
ginning of the next school year.
Much of the roughage and grain consumed by the dairy
herd was the product of the Haskell farm, and with the dispos
al of the dairy cattle and the young stock, this product could
not be used, and it would be poor planning to produce such
crops to sell, so agriculture will no longer be carried on here.
Poultry raising is to be discontinued also, as this activity is
usually considered as a necessary adjunct to farming. The
flock will be disposed of via the students’ dining room.
Such changes as are necessary among the employees because
of this “new deal’’ will be made in due time.— Indian Leader.
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NAMELESS INDIAN HERO
To some nameless Indian, the world owes the discovery of
that great remedy, quinine, used in the treatment of the human
body.
We do not know the name of this benefactor of mankind,
but he was one of the native Indians, ill with malaria and burn
ing and parched with fever. Too weak to regain his native
village, he could but crawl to a stagnant pool in the forest
where he could quench his thirst in water bitter with branches
that had fallen from an over hanging tree called the “Cinch
ona’’ grown in the Andes Mountains in South America.
The genius that discovered the remedy did not know that it
would be later used as a special cure for malaria, a disease
classed next only to tuberculosis in the extent of its distribution
and its importance as a killing and disabling disease.— The
Indian's Friend.
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MT. PLEASANT SCHOOL DEEDED TO STATE
Gov. Comstock today was informed by Secretary of the In
terior Ickes that the federal government is willing to deed the
abandoned Mount Pleasant Indian school to Michigan for the
purpose of converting it into a state institution.
Ickes told the governor that congressional action was nec
essary to formally transfer the property, and Comstock has
asked Congressman Roy Woodruff to secure passage of the
legislation. The school will be used to care for a long waiting
list of patients who are waiting admittance to the various state
institutions.— The Three Rivers Commercial.
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Superintendent Sharon R. Mote, of Bismarck Indian school,
North Dakota, is taking a leave of absence to help with the
Chilocco boasts a new barber shop and a recently installed
dry cleaning department which will add to the effectiveness of
this already fine school.
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It is an annual custom at Phoenix for the employees to take
the stage and show the young folks and others just how play
acting should be done. The vehicle this year was a play called
“Applesauce’’ and, says the Redskin, “for approximately three
hours ‘Applesauce’ was dished out to the students, employees
and visitors.’’
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We learn from The Indian Leader of the retirement of Ed
gar K. Miller, superintendent of the Hopi agency, Kearns
Canon, Ariz., formerly printer of the Indian School Journal at
Chilocco and the Red Man at Carlisle. These two publications
enjoyed their greatest success and reached their artistic and typ
ographical peaks under his direction. He was a real teacher with
a genuine interest and often his advice and council followed
his boys out of school and into their jobs. Many of these bovs
and a host of friends in the Service will be sorry to learn that
the Indian is losing this good friend by way of retirement.
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This item should make “Believe It or Not:’’ The famous
Smoki tribe of the region near Prescott, Ariz., which stages its
picturesque dances and ceremonials every year in the Mesa
country, is composed entirely of white people. It is made up
of young business men and women of Yavapai county. The
dances staged by these people are not a burlesque but a serious
attempt to perpetuate and preserve the native dances of the
Arizona and other southwestern Indians. They have succeeded
so well that the Indians themselves have adopted Smoki ver
sions of some dances. The only member admitted to the
Smoki clan who had not actually participated in the dances
was the late President Coolidge.
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For his long, valuable services to the whites in the trouble
some days of the early frontier, President Grant once sent
Chief Washakie a beautiful black pony, a fine saddle, and a
silver mounted bridle by a special messenger. The messenger
arrived at sundown.
Washakie was standing at an agency
window looking on the gold and purple which flooded the snow
caps of the mountains.
Post Trailer Moore soon found the
Indian and told him to look at his gift.
The pony stood just
below where it could be seen to good advantage.
“Well,
Washakie, what have you to say to the White Father for send
ing you such a beautiful present?’’
Washakie did not speak.
The post trader repeated the question; but instead of replying
the old chief began to drum on the windowlpanes.
Thus he
stood some moments. Moore finally walked to’where he could
see the Indian’s face, and was surprised to see great tears
rolling over his scarred cheeks, and occasionally the great,
fearless warrior sobbed, something that nojtorture could make
him do. In due time Washakie turned about and said slowly:
“Tell the White Father for me that when the Frenchman gives
thanks he he has plenty tongue, but no heart; when Washakie
gives thanks he has plenty heart, but no tongue.’’