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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1910)
6 THE C HEM AW A AMERICAN Cbe Cbemaiva Emercian Published Weehly at the United States Indian Training School. Subscription Price, 25 Cents a Year. Clubs of Five or Over 20 Cents. Cntered a the Chemawa, Oregon. Postoftice as second-class mail mutter PRINTING STAFF Benjamin Wilcox, Henry Darnell, John Service, Robert Service, Oscar Case, Jasper Grant, Reggie Downie, Harry Stone. WORDS OF THOSE AT THE HELM. March 6, 1880. I have almost literally to carry this Indian-hating Northwest coast on my back, but God helping, the victory will 'be all the grander, and it will come, since ''Right is right, and right the day will win." M. C Wilkinson. Still. the fact remains that generally Indian ywuth will advance much fas er removed from all associations with thiir people than otherwise. H J Minthorn. 'he most importanl thing, in n y opinion, is the proper instruction of the pupils. I have no patience with infer ior work placed before these hoys and girls as models, when it is to the indus trial schools that an Indian must look for their highest type of instruction and for their benefits. W. V. Coffin The question of educating the Indian children is no longer an open one. They are susceptible of improvements as others, and in time some of our best scholars are likely to be found among the Indians. John Lee. The future sodal relations and p,0o ress of the Indian as such and among themselves should be the important aim and there should be no effort to make them white people. Wm. H. H. Beadle. I have endeavored to use all diligence in the moral as well as the mental train ing of the Indian. G. H. Irwin. I have given the school my most earne.-t thought and work with the de sign of making it my most successful work and I believe that' in a measure 1 have .-ucceeded. OH. Parker. It h a good thing to give the Indian pupils all the b ain training that thev are 'capable of leceiving and using to ad vantage, but het'er to teach them to be good allarouud faimers, carpenters, blacksmiths, harness makers, cooks, dressmakers, housekeepers, etc. T. W. Potter. Vt;.hear much of preserving that which, is best in Indians a sentiment in ' hich I heartily c ncur 'whether it. re lates to habits or industries; but he has still some qualitus brought from the past that the school must continue to eliminate if he is to reach the full en joyment of citizenship. Edwin L. Chalcraft On page eight we have two illustra tions depicting the first and last grad uation exercis s of the school The first being in 1885 and was held under the firs near where the Small Girls' building now stands. The last in July of 19C9 in Chemawa's commodious Gym nasium. The former was of an academ ic chaiacter entirely; the latter consist ed largely of industrial demonstrations as a study of the picture will show.
