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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1903)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 7 from an ex-pupil of the Sante Fe Normal Training School. There is food for much reflection in the Arab proverb, "All sunshine mak-6 Hie desert." Ex. The February issue of the Indian Herald of Tama, Iowa, is very Interesting as it is almost entirely filled with items from a cumber of school throughout the country. The exchange column of the February Normal Record ia conspicuous by its ab sence otherwise the paper is as interesting TheRedand White of Elizabeth, N. J. looks very neat fn its white cover with the title printed in red. The Review is a very bright Utile college paper and contains plenty of reading mat ter of local interest But we notice that rouhweno exe'mnge editor. Why not have an rxehrtiine c tlnmri and devote a Utile spacp to your exchanges? A'l ib1 way from Chemawa, Ore., comes a hii;;lit j mrnil nnmd tub American. It would bt had fr us to describe the many lentu fs of tl is hook let published weekly by the pupils of tlic Chemawa School for Indians. The pap r is entirely the work (iltbe students of tlie school, and we are informed by an ad-nlrer of The Advocate, who had the pleamre toviBitthe institut ion while on a trip through the West last summer, that their printing office is com plete and Very neatly arranged and one of. which the boys CHn hoist. Advocate, Teaching the; Indian. He Is Taught to Work as Well a b to Think. "I think the Indians of the Northwest wlil be Bwallowed up in the whit civiliza tion and that in a short time there will be no more Indian reservations. The Indian as he is now known w 1 1 be a thing of ihe past." These are the words of T. W. Potter, superintendent of the Cbemawn; Oregon, United States training school. Mr. Potter is here for the purpose of obtain in pupils for the school from Luoumi and Everson. In an interview yesterday he said : "The U.S. Indian training school at Chemawa is the third largest government school in the United States. The attend ance is nearly 700 pupils and there are 60 instructors. I have come here for the pur pose of getting pupils from the Luramt reservation and Everson , I will ta ke twenty-five pupils from the reservation. We get pupils from California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Nevada. We teach all kinds of trades as well as give the pupils a public school education. Id the latter instruction going as high as grammargradee. Every boy andgiri learns "We have an arrangement of Bhops where we teach the boys to be blacksmiths, oorpenterB, wagon and harness makers, engineering, etc. The girls learn cooking, dressmaking, tailoring and other useful accomplishments. After a three or five years course the pupils are ready to go out and make their own living. Our main ob ject is to teach them to work. We don't be lieve in mere book education for the In dian. The pupils of both sexes are very apt fn learning. The boys are great mechanics. The girls are in great demand as domestic beryants. "We have an organized band of thirty five pieces. We are now making arrange ments for a tour of the country which will commence in about six weeks. We will give a concert in Whatcom about that time. The band iB oue of the fiueBt in the United States. During our tour we wiH go as far north as Vancouver and Victoria." Daily Reveille, Whatcom, Wash. nothing SlowHbout Montana. At the game of basket ball played recent ly at Helena, Montana, between the In dian girle of Ft, 8b aw school and the Helena team, the receipts of the evening were $236.95 and expenditure $153 IS, which shows that the Montana people love sport and are not afraid to pay for it.
