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THE CHIvMAWA AMERICAN.
The Chemawa American.
Hbnhy L. Lovelace, Manager.
1'uulisheil Weekly by tlie Pupils of 1 he
Chemawa Indian School.
Subscription Price, 25 Cents Per Year.
Clubs ol Ave and oucr 20 Cents pr year.
Entered at the Postomce at, Chemawa, Or.,
as seoond-elas8 mail-matter.
Address all Business (JommuuiculhiiH to
Thb Chkmawa Amkkican,
Chkmawa, Okkcmw.
Notb. IE tliia space is marked with a
red cross it means: ;that your sub
sciiptiou has expired. Please renew.
Strive your uttermost to excel, then,
even if you fail, you have done your duty.
Young men, don't get the big head and
think you know it a'l. This will be your
undoing. Learn 10 crawl before you
walk. You can't learn every thing ill a
day, nor a yeareilher. Slick-to k-ive-ness
is what you want to have a lot of. Let it bo
your stock in trade.
An Inspecting OlH.iial recently said of
Chemawa: " I have f, und fewer failures
among Chemawa ex-pupils thau from any
other Indian School. Chemawa has made
more successes of Tailors, Harnessmakers,
Carpenters, etc., tlian any other I mil tin
School." Of this we are justly proud.
Commissioner Jones' policy of, "So
work, no eat" for able boditd Indians is
beginning to receive Commendation in
quartets Hint were inclined to criticise it
as too radical. The long hair advocates
have lately crawled into their holes and
have been as quiet as claim, They have
concluded that discretion was the better
part of valor.
A young man liana splendid opportunity
of getting an excellent Industrial education
at Chemawa, Chemawa believes in mak
ing fanners, cai penters, engineers, tailors,
etc. We do not believe so much in limit
ing clothes as we do in making tailors, nor
in making harness, but tin niessinakrra.
In these features Chemawa standi iu the
very front rank of Indian 8 chools.
The Ethnologist of Chicago who pullet?
straws and succeeded in getting permission
for the Indians at Shoshone, Wyoming, to
have a Hun dance last summer, posensed a
great amount of gall when he asked that
the dance lie postponed until he couM
reach there. Fortunately this great friend?
of the I lid tans was not present ami the
dance was pulled off without him ami Sri
ence? lostu splendid opportunity of demon,
slraiting that (here were still some lu
diaiiB and fools left.
The newspapers have their annual scare
heads concerning Indian outbreaks. It
appenrs lliat an Indiiin farmer haa been
murdered, the papers siute, in South Dako
ta and immediately we are to have an In
dian utilising in lhat section. I believe
that there have oeen quite alnumber of men
murdered in Portland within the mat
year but we walcbed in vain for the report
(it an uprising by 1 tie criminal element of
the metropolis of Oregmi. The same will
be the result iu South Dakota,
We would ca'l the atttntion of all In
dian young men and women who want an
education to the article on the sventli
page of this number, "Clieonwa is a go:nl
place to come." This is only one of Dm
reasons why you Bhnuld do ho. While
Chemawa ia located in one of the m-st
fertile, beautiful and progressive Valleys in
the United State, and has five new bri.-k
buildings and another 1o be built, it Iihs
as good a coursfj of instruction in its liter
ary departments as any Indian School in
the United States and ha an Ii dutirial
department that has few equals and none