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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1908)
NO TIC E! Indian Parents and Indian Young Men and Women desiring an Industrial Education at the Ghemawa Indian ScHoo! please read. Ghemawa Indian School. Ohem a wa Indian school is located on the main line of the Southern Pacific railroad five miles north of the City of Salem, the capital of Oregon. It is the onlyilndian 'industrial school in ; the northwest corner of the United States where you can get an industrial educa tion. Many I ndian young men who were graduated from .' Ghemawa, have good positions as blacksmiths, mill men, tail ors, engineers, electricians, farmers, and in manyother businesses earning a good : living for themselves. The Literary in struction covers the branches taught in grammar schools of the .country. The Requirement You must be, at least, onerfourth Indian ; healthy and not ; un der jtvvelve or over eighteen years. The Girls, first of all are taught to be ood house-keepers, to which is added' special Instruction in Dressmaking, Tail oring and Nursing. The School has a Domestic Science Department. Zftt Boys The Boys are also taught Farming, Dairying, Gardening, Carpentering,-Wagon making, Blacksmithing, Shoe and Harness Making, ' ailoring, Baking, Steam and Electrical Engineering, Plumbing. If you want this chance write to the Superintendent. Special notice New regulations have been made con cerning the transfer of Indian- pupils to non-reservation schools such as Ghema wa. Instead of Superintendents sending out teachers and other representative's to collect pupils the Indian parents and . pupils themselves must apply to the agent or Superintendent of the reserva tion and under. the rules the agent- or? Superintendent will arrange to send the pupils to the non-reservation school. " If you wish to come to Ghe- t mawa, or Have children youa desire to send, write to Supt.v Edwin L. Chaicraft, Chemawa, Oregon, and tell your agent or 'Superinten'dent that you want him to arrange for you to come and he will arrange. Those who do not live on reservations will come to Ghemawa as before by writing to the Supei entendent of the School Any letter written to Ghemawa will receive a prompt reply.