The Oglala light. [volume], July 01, 1908, Image 26

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THE INDIAN SCHOOL JOURNAL.
Domegc Blackwater, a Pima, who
finished the carpenter's trade and
left Hampton the latter part of May,
has been appointed carpenter at the
Colorado River School, Parker, Ariz.
Angel De Cora, a Winnebago gradu
ate of 1891, and an artist of some note,
has recently married Mr. W. Henry
Deitz, instructor in mechanical draw
ing at the Indian School at Carlisle,
Pa.
"Education," says Spencer, ''should
prepare the recipitent for complete
living." That man in a community
lives most completely and is best
educated who can use most of his
environmental factors for the com
mon good. Food securing involves
directly or indirectly the important
industry of all agricultrue. This in
dustry, indeed, lies at the very foun
dation of our national welfare. All
life and wealth are in some way de
pendent upon it. Every phase of our
struggle for food, for shelter, and for
clothing, can be satisfied from the
pursuit, of it. However varied may
be our occupation in life the agricul
ture problem will confront us at
some point. It may be in our own
homes where troublesome moths have
rendered worthless our best weraing
apparel. We may meet it on the
streets of the city where beautiful
and useful shade trees, planted at
great expense, are being destroyed
by insects. The miller confronts it
in very aggravated form when the
failure of crops in farming districts
cuts off his food supply. A system of
instruction which does not give one
an adequate idea of that industry
which underlies all the rest of the
vocation is lametably incomplete.
SQ fundamental is this phase of ed-
THE OGIiAtiA LIGHT
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ucation that it becomes the plain
duty of the state, for its own
preservation, to make it compulsory
in all the schools.
In the Indian day schools those
individuals who show special capacity
should at the proper age be encour
aged to go to a boarding school where
training in agriculture, in the me
chanical trades, or in the domestic
arts may continue. From the board
ing schools the few who have the
capacity for further training should
go to still higher schools. There
should be an organized attempted to
discover those pupils who posess
strong characters and the qualities of
leadership, and to see that they are
trained as leaders. If the time has
not yet come when such students may
advantageously take their places in
white schools and colleges, then some
Indian school should be set apart and
equipped to give this training. Teach
er of trades, teachers of agriculture,
teachers of day schools and boarding
schools, and field matrons are in con
stant demand, and unless our educa
tional machinery results finally in
training Indians for position, it has
failed. Indians as teachers and lead
ers among their own people are not
numerous. There are certain racial
peculiarities which cause some of
those who know the Indian best to
hesitate to put him in places of re
sponsibly. In many respects he may
fail to come up to the white standard,
but there is one thing he can do which
the white man cannot do he can furn
ish an incentive to the younger In
dians to do as much as he has done.
The boy in some country village
in the East, who has gone to col
lege and achieved distindtion, has
often been the unconscious cause of
starting many another boy on the
road to wider usefulness. The conta
gion of example is great.
THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN.
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