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CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
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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. ;
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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;