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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1909)
NOT! CE! Indian Parents and Indian Young men and Women desiring an Industrial Education at the Chemawa Indian School please read, j, .ill.!,. i.L hi Chemawa Indian School, Chemawa Indian sohool is looated on the main line of the Southern Pacific railroad five miles north of the City of Salem, the oapital of Oregon. It is the only Indian industrial sohool in the northwest corner of the United States where you oan get an industrial educa tion. Many Indian young men, who were graduated from Chemawa, have good positions as hlaoksmiths, mill men, tail org, engineers, electricians, farmers, and in many other businesses earning a good living for themselves, The Literary in struction covers the branches taught in grammar schools of the oountry. The Requirement- You must be, at IjEAst, one-fourth Indian; healthy and not un der fourteen or over eighteen years, - Cbe Girls The Girls, first of ail are taught to b good house-keepers, to which is added special Instruction in Dressmaking, Tail oring and Nursing, The Sohool has a Domestic Science Department. Cbe Boys The Boys are also taught Farming, Dairying, Gardening, Carpentering, Wag on making, Blacksmithing, Shoe and Harness Making, Tailoring, Basing, Steam and Electrical Engineering, Plumbing. If you want this chance write to the Superintendent. Special notice j New regulations have been mad con cerning the transfer of Indian pupil- 'to non-reservation schools such as Chema wa. Instead of Superintendents sending out teaohers and other representatives to colleot pupils the Indian parents and pupilg 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 norweservation school, If you wish to come to Che mawa, or have children you desire to send, write to Supt, Edwin L. Chalcraft, Chemawa, Oregon, and tell your agent or Superintendent that you want him to arrange for you to come and he will arrange. Those who do not live on reservations will come to Chemawa as before by writing to the Superentendentof the School. Any letter written to Chemawa will receive a prompt reply,