CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
H. L. Lovelace,
Manager.
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Chemawa Indian School.
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Huskell IiiHtiiuie takes the Ira) in secur
in lit appropriations the House of Repre
sentatives with $lt?3.250; Ciilio.ro comes
next with $159,400; Phoenix next whh
$151,900; ami Carlisle n-xt itti ifl.r0,000.
Individuality is the main spring f suc
cess i)i education. Our Indian hoys and
kIiIk muht learn to wtand as hm individual.
The cmiuuniBtic hahtt of th Indian is
nue of the greatest, birriers to his en
t rHfioe into civilization He unify throw
It ofi'aiKl learn to sta,id for himself.
"To make betier Indiana and belltr
treated ones" itj the purpose of a new
national onctinlzttion, which has been
founded. Very prominent educators are hi
the head of the League and itH purprsee
have been hearllly approved hy Pres
ident Roosevelt. Secretary llitchruk and
(.'ointiiiKBioner Jon-s.
Tlie Thins, Poles, German and other
fon Jgiiers, who oome t" Atm-rica art not
placed on reservations and excluded from
civilization and our natloual life an mr Id
tiians have been, or they would stilt all be
Huns, Poles and Germans. I nates I they
are absorbed by the body politic, except
those who form a community unto them
selves In our midst and they soon become
a menace to law and order, as Iiab been
demonstrated several times in our history.
: There is one notable fact in connection
with the 'howl" that went up concerning
the order about Indian hair cutting and
the barbarous painting custom, and tint
is that the most of those protesting have a
bout as much love for (he Indian as they
had for the negroes ofthe South. ThiclHi
of people would have him remain to hU
dying day an ignorant barbarian. They
profess to think be would be happier if let
alone, but they forget that tf that was done
the march of civilization would grind him
down and cruwh him as surely as ihe wheel
of the Juggernaut Grinned the fanatics of
India.
There is one phase of the abrogation ol
the Browning Killing of which It would he
well to not lose sight.
While no one should for a moment deny
the right of the parent toselect Ihe school
and control the religious instruction of their
children, yet the Mission school has been
frequently used as a means of keeping the
Children nut of school entirely. To the
writer's pet Bo r ml knowledge children have
been enrolled in Mission stihooja in order
to prevent their being taken into the guv
eminent school and then after the smoke o(
haitle had passed away the child would tie
withdrawn and lor r he rent of the year thai
child would have no schooling. This wHh
NOT d.me with the connivance nf the Mis
sion people, but was simply the Blimp
practice some times resorted to hy the non
progressive Indians to defeat the tfforls f
the government for their amelioration ami
civilization.