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TllliP tJIiEM AWA'- AMERICAN.
Published Weeklj by Pupils of The
Chemawa Indian School.
Subscription price 25 cents per year.
Clubs soffive. 'or over, 20 cents.
J ...Eatered at the postofflce at.Chemawa, Ore.,
't" " "as second-class mail-matter.
"A' pretty 'face' is not near so attrac-
tive as a. sweet; loving disposition.
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jjjap6ji 'eespn the' "I .can't" or
"donf t5 c$re" ? boy s; . ;and girls and you
will see therri grow up to be good-f or
nbthihgVmen''ahd women,' miserable
failures in future life. You don't be
long to" that class, do you?
The poor Indian, "so often sized up .
as': ' 'defieieht in neadwork, has at last
er'ri'ed' liis right to be considered . as
something more than a tireless, clumsy
nieetof . football mechanism. He is
now to be regarded as a person of
crafty. Jle has added his( quota to: the
history! )bf b strategic football. But
where cAitside 'Of the columns of the
It'aryard'Lairipbori or the Yale Record
iyoyil lny oiVe hope to see such a de
gltf ul; combination of football with
hide and-; seeky ,such a burlesque of
strategy-put- forth in all earnestness?
Exchanged ' '
' 'The.! children ; of one Dabney were not
permitted ; to attend a white school in
.Richmond, Va., because their grandmother
was an'Indian. This seems incredible,
tor the great Virginian: John Randolph,
of Roanoke, boasted of his descent from
Powhatan.. United States Senator Matthew
,Quay; has-. jpelaware Indian blood in his
veins." JJ Colonel Ely S. Parker, a. fuilblood
Seneca'' -Indian, 'an-' educated man, ' was a
member pf General Grant's. sta$f m 18G1-65.
A great deal of Indian blood is diffused
among white families of high distinction
in this country and Canada. Some of the
most distinguished Scotchmen in the ser
vice of the Hudson's Bay Company had
Indian wives. Louis Riel, . the leader of
the rebellion in Manitoba, was a hand
some and highly, intelligent half breed,
General Sam Houston, the victor of San
Jacinto, married a beautiful woman of
the Cherokee tribe, and many Cherokee
women within the last fifty years have
married white men of ability, intelligence
and high character. Marriages between
whites and indians have not been uncom
mon in the United States, and in Canada
the French trappers, voyagers and hunters
often had Indian wives. To this day the
French Canadian peasantry not seldom
marry Indian women. Oregonian.
Indians who are. refined,- educated
and respectable need not be ashamed
of their Indian blood, any more than
an Irishman, Dutchman , or English
man should be ashamed of his blood.
There are many Kings and Queens
among all nationSjand in this day and
age of advancement and civilization
people are taken for what they are and
what they do instead of what , their
grand fathers were or did. Our English
ancestors, a few. hundred years ago,
were worse than the native American
in many ways. They were wild tribes
living on herbs, and in half naked
condition, roaming around the woods,
righting each other with clubs and
spears. But the Romans conquered
Great Britain, introduced schools,
built roads, bridges, and taught the
savage' Englishman to wash his face,
wear clothes and work. They have
kept it up and to day many live in
palaces and ride in automobiles. The
Indians coming into contact with
civilization and inter-marrying with
the whites are making 'much more
rapid strides in education and civil- J
izationi -They deserve credit for it,
and many of ' them are worthy of the
confidence, love' and- respect of the
good white people of this country.