The Indian citizen., February 01, 1884, Image 1

whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, d o it w ith thy m ight.”
INI). INDUSTRAIL SCHOOL FOREST GROVE
VOL. 1 OREGON.
February 1884.
NO I.
E d ite d and Published by the Indian children a t F orest Grove Oregon
n the In terests of the F orest Grove School and of the Indians of the
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Pacific Cost.
In presenting this the first mimherljus to get education and learn trades
of “ TH E INDIAN CITIZEN ” too n and improve farms like white poe-
friends and the public, we ask you to ple but we can do it. And if we do
overlook any mistakes th at it may! not do it we will suffer more for
contain. This i9 our first attem pt at we will be hungry and naked
editing and publishing a paper, our and without houses and he abused
press is a very small one, we have to and sometime killed so let us
set up one page and print i t , and then choose. And when we look at the
distribute the type and set up anothei ¡title of our paper let us think
page. The type is old and so is every ¡what it means. I t means to be pro-
thing else that we have to use in mak-j tected by the strong law of the ILS.
iilg th e paper. B ut we belidve our, I t means to help make those laws
people at homo and our friends every, that are to govern ns. I t means that
where will be glad to know w hat w t then our lives and property will
are doing here. And the Indians on not be taken from us and nothing
one Reservation like to know what be done about it. I t means to have
ingoing on a t other reservations. The plenty to e a tra ise d by ourselves
children in this school also like to jrora our 0W11 land. W hite people
hear from Indians evrev where, ^ " always say Indians have boo much
they are doing and how tliey are, land but we do not know which is
progressing. The great work before our land W hite men do not clear
Indians now is to learn about God and and plow land plant trees and
become felvflized: This great country Hbundhouses untill they know who
was all our own but we did not need i0WQS
They say we have
ita ll and we can be happier w ith a'j,arg0 reaeTvfttion8 b u t w e do n o t
IW tleo fitif we learn to work and lo v eL w if H ;9B0 we hodother places
God than we could w ith all
when the white man
if we were ignorant and idle. We stiltl ^ ^ t „ dig goW there
want this country to be ° u r ^ mftke c^
or f.irm9 they told ug
and in order that it may be we L wag betfctf for us
moy6 and
must become citizens of tu ■■ I .3. i0veJ1- wo have large reservation
and of the states where we live.'! wc JTOnt to know which p, rtg ., onn
And we have no time to los 1 h< ’iuij^hen we want to know that wc can
Government h s given u a chant e ¡kcep that place always even if whit.0
and it we dom e improve it we will jmey Want to make a city there like Lew-
lose a lt It will be bar* work
j^ton and Pendleton If the land belongs