THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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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.