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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1901)
2 CHEMAWA AMERICAN. disobey this positive rule, will be required omore that what he didn't know, was to return such pupils at their personal ex-; not worth knowing: when he reached his pense. Agents are exppcted, as provided Junior year he began to realize that there in Education Circular No, 55, and also by were some things that even he did not section 16 of Indian School Rules, to carry know: and by the time he was a Senior out the policy of the office relative to the- he had found out that there was hardly transfer of pupils from reservation to non-' anything that he did know, reservation schools wherever the same is possible and no lawful reasons exist why The Red Man and Helper says: such transfers should not be made. Super- "If a person is able to take care of. himself intendents of non-reservation schools will without the aid of the Government and', report to this Office all cases where their friends, has he not taken a long -step in properly accredited representatives who what the world acknowledges as civiliza have complied with the regulations have , tiou?".- not been given legitimate and proper assist-.' Yes, that is the point to aim for, but the ance in the work of transferring pupils. " important thing to consider is who should Very respectfully, have the aid of the Government and when W. A. Jones, Commissioner, ahould this assistance be withdrawn?. ' ' 99 J This is a question in which the whole ser- Stand up straight. Hold up your heads, vice is interested, both school and Agency, Throw back your shoulders. Chest out and legislation is needed in order to deter atid stomach drawn in. These were mine who is or who is not-an-Indian,- and some of the good things that Col. Hofer entitled to Indian rights. Some years ago gave us inhis lecture last Sunday. we knew of "Indians" of one-thirty second - ' o blood who had never lived on a reser- We print this week , Circular No. 5-7,! vation, leave a city of more than one huiid while last week we published No. 55. Both- r?d thousand inhabitants and emigrate are excellent and cover the ground for. to an inrijan Agency and live there in which they are intended, and if carried out orr to be classed as Indians and draw in spirit by the field workers will result in. the annual pittance which was allotted great good to the service and help the so-i to tao8e Indians. ' ' ' lution of the most vital question in the In- . . - " t . dian School Service. ' Dowjr at Carlisle, they have been eele-. . brating the twenty-second anniversary of "Mind your own business." Boys, this the opening of the Indian School in charge, is a pretty good motto. Do not hunt for of Captain, now Lieutenant-Colonel R. II., responsibilities, because responsibilities will Pratt, A wonderful record these twenty find you soon enough. Be ambitious. At- two years have made, tend to your own business and let other Amidst opposition, open and hidden Col, peoples business alone. Some people want Pratt has held on his way until to-day, to be the whole show and are always a- though all may not agree with all hisyiews, fraid that they will notbe considered of all are compelled to respect his work and much importance. Boys, such people rind its results. A revolution has been wrought . rut sometimes too late that it is much bet- in the minds of all, who have been willinsj ter to have importance thrust upon them, to learn in respect, to our treatmept of the than to be important. , so-called "wards of the nation, "jb, lave . . been kept, or would haws bViff always, A little learning truly is a, dangerous kept, in a state of pupilage had it not been thing. ' We need to know how ' much we for 8Uch pioneers. don't know, and the quicker we rind this An honor tbt.n to Col; Pratt, who s, out in life the better. We once heard a taU,ut ua so many lessons in common; college graduate say that as a Freshman genge common honestyand common liu lie thought' he knew Everything; as a Soph- mijty.