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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1901)
V CHEMAWA AMERICAN. ii L. - ..- - -. - - H.L.Lovelace,. Manager, Published Weekly by the Pupils of the Chemawa Indian School. Subscription Trice, 25 Cents Per Year. Clubs of five and over 20 Cents pr year Entered at the Postoffiee at Chemawa, Or., as second-class mail-matter. Address all Business Communications to The Chemawa American, Chemawa, Oregon. What We Should Learn. Every Indian boy should thoroughly . learn gardening, poultry raising, dairying and fruit growing. If he can get a mechani ., cal trade along with it so much the better. But he" should first know how to till the " soil and raise successfully the produce which will yield the. most money. We have a splendid example of the profits of gardening right here on our own school garden. From three acres planted in onion's we gathered 1400 bushels worth in today's market $1.00 per bushel which means about nine hundred dollais clear profit, for less than six months work. Doesn't that beat clerking, in a -store, teaching iu a school-room, pushing a plane or shoeing a horse, from a financial standpoint?- Then again every Indian has an allotment of 80 to 160 acres given him. Nine boys out of ten after leaving school will go back to their homes and allotments to make a living. Then how very important and 1 necessary it is that they thoroughly understand farming, stock raising, garden ing,' etc, etc. No race of people have ever accomplished much in the art of civilization that were not home builders. We cannot expect the old Indian to make much progress in this direction, but we do expect the Indian boys and girls who have received an education in a gov ernment Ii?dian school to make rapid strides along these lines. The Alaska Indians are just like the Plains Indian in the belief that there is an unlimited supply of salmon and game in the North West and that their'people will never want for the same. One of the young men, who ought to know better, said in reference to the ariele in the American, "Why where did you hear that? There are plenty of der, geee, ducks and salmon. There never will be enough white men there to kill thi gone, etc." Poor deluded people. Secure in their livelihood at present, they do not realize that the March of Civilization will soon coyer all the choice spots of Ahiska, as it has the other parts of the Great American Continent. Mr. Lucus the sub-brick contractor is a rusher from the word go, and with his large force of masons will have the brick work of the three new buildings completed before we know it, if the weather continues favorable. Now let the carpenter force jumpin and keep tilings booming. J We resd in the Native American tliah the Phoenix pupils had a geriuinecakewaltj at their last Saturday's sociable. TlwlV right. A eaUewalk occasionally will hurt anvbodv, although some of our stiff necked brothers and straight laced t-islei-may object. ; ' j A polite boy or girl will not chew gums' a sociable. Neither will a boy who wislir to be considered a gentleman wear aswes! er on such occasions. j Sunshine in the heart will keep w les from the face. Try it. ' Washington, Nov. 27.-The Pre has amended the civil service rules top' vide that whenever the position of at gent at any Indian agency is discontii and its duties devolve upon the supr teudent of the Indian training schooi cated at the agency, the agent mar inade a classified employe at the agenc;