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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1903)
4 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN. Mohawk chief, Joseph Brandt, was a man of excellent English scholarship and a devout Christian. His theolog ical learning and his piety attracted attention and won respect in educated circles when he visited England. The devotion of the Catholic Church to the Indian from the first settlement of Canada is one of the brightest roses in its chaplet of fame. The Jesuits lived for the welfare of their flocks, and died with them wheii they were massacred by the Iroquois in Canada or by the English Puritans in Maine. The Jesuit fathers not only " cared for their Indian converts, but they were their physicians and surgeons when sick or disabled by wounds. They cared for the poor Indian woman in childbirth, and altogether the Je suit missionary was at once hero, mar tyr and philanthropist. The Iroquois murdered the Jesuit fathers that fell into their hands more because the priests had been devoted to the. welfare of the.Hurons, their he reditary foes, than because they were white men. If the record of the Catho lic church in its efforts to ameliorate the condition of the heathen nations of America, Asia and Africa has been more successful than those of any other Christian denomination, it is be cause, while- the Protestant mission aries have given the wretched heathen a life of duty, the Catholic missionary has treated him with more affection . Oregonian. ( i THE INDIAN' SCHOOL. Assistant Superintendent W. P. Campbell, of the Chemawa Indian School, located about five miles from Salem, Oregon, accompanied ' by his wife, arrived here ten days ago and has been actively engaged in round ing up the Indian youth of our land and gathering them in as pupils for the school. He left here Sunday morning with the following named boys: Frank Pierce, Louis Scott, Albert Dean, John Courts, Haines Bateman, Wm. Arrasmith, Albert Aubrey, Gerhart Snelling, Richard Long, Harden Scott, Nellie Johnson. Several others have signified their intention of going in the near future. The school to which they go is an ad-, mirable institution, second only to the Carlisle School in Pennsylvania in general educational facilities and ahead of it industrially. An average of 800 pupils attend, of whom two fifths are girls. Each pupil enters into an agreement to stay three years, after which they are free to go where- - ever they will. Besides the regular studies in the, school room, the boy are given courses in engineering, har ness making, wagon making, black- - smithing, tailoring and carpentering, while the girls are taught dressmak ing, cooking, laundrying and general housework. Mr. Campbell, who was at the Car lisle school for several years, has been in"his'present position for the last five years, is very . enthusiastic over the work of educating the Indians. lie says that for seven consecutive years the display of harness from the school has taken the first prize at the State Fair, and in that department the in structor is a graduate of the school. -Farmer and Miner. A college education is good for a boy after he recovers from it. Ex.