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THE CHIPPEWAY HERALD,
Printed monthly at the White Earth
hoarding School by Indian pupils.
Subscription
Address aSI communications to “THE
C iIPPEWtY HERALD” or 0. H.Lipps, Supt.,
White Earth Boarding Schooi,
White Earth, Minnesota.
Entered at the Post Office at White
Earth, Minn., as Second class mail
matter.
OUR APOLOGY
“O, that mine ad ver-
Had Job said,
sary would write a paper!
Solomon exclaimed , “Of the printing
of many papers there is no end! ’’there
might to-day have been no Herald
to voice the thoughts and sentiments of
them that teacheth the children of the
Red Man to shoot ideas instead of ar
rows, to use the corn knife instead of
the scalping knife and to handle the
hatchet and hammer instead of the
tomahawk and war club, and to pro
claim to the world that all Indians
are not “dirty dogs” and that all edu
c.ated nnnils who return to the reser
ve not “heathens and vaga-
Happily for us and for those
r ■ eto delight and edify, those
sages of antiquity left no
estimony against the print
ing or as many useful papers as the
world is willing to read and to pay
for.
The Herald is an educational news
paper devoted to the interest of Indian
education in general, and to the educa
tion of the Indian on the reservation in
particular. It proposes to make itself
of special interest and benefit to the
people (Indians) on the White Earth
reservation and to returned students
who have come back to the reservation
(their home) to live. There are hun
dreds of Indians on this reservation
who are educated and intelligent and
are fully capable of. appreciating a
a paper of this kind. Not only are
they able to read and comprehend the
news papers of the day but we are sure
they are perfectly willing and able to
support ONE which has for its aim
and object the betterment of the rising
generation of their people.
The Herald has no gossamer theo
ries to advance, no new solution of the
Indian problem to present. It believes
in dealing with existing conditions as
they are and not as we would they
were. Were conditions as we think
they should be, then there would be no
Indian reservations, and no reserva
tion schools, as such, and the Herald
would have no mission to perform as
an Indian school paper. We would it
were so!
The Herald proposes to be some
tl ’ngmore than a mere stereo-typed
sheet, printing only stale news and
rcut'ne happenings of its own school
ar d people. It is anxiously desirous
of printing practical ideas from super
intendents and teachers of other Indian
schools on questions of interest and im
portance and for the advancement of
education on the reservation. It does
not presume to teach in this respect,
but offers itself as a medium of ex
change of thoughts and ideas.
We wish it plainly understood that
the Herald will print no “dead and
down” timber controversies, or engage
in “Indian politics. ” We leave the in
terpretation of old treaties, the acts
and duties of Government officials etc.,
25 Cents.
or had
for the discussion of Indian councils
and newspaper reporters. In the mean
time we shall hoe away in our own
cotton patch.
RETURNED STUDENTS.
We want for the-ynext issue of the
Herald one or more good articles
from returned students who are
now living on the reservation, giving
your side of the case. We believe that
there are young men and women on
this reservation today fully capable of
writing such an article and we shall
be glad to have you do so. Tell us
why you returned to the reservation to
live after completing your school course?
Why you do not improve your allotment
and why you do not get out and enter
the race of life on equal terms with
other boys and girls? Is the training
given you in our schools lacking and if
so in what particular? We want to
know. If you are a failure then our
system of Indian education is wrong
somewhere and should be corrected.
We believe that Indian school workers
on the reservation do not always ap
preciate in the right proportion the dif
ficulties with which you have to con
tend when you return to the reservation
after having been educated in distant
schools. We believe your are capable
of teaching us in this respect and we
are anxious to learn. Let us hear from
you.
Bishop Whipple was as remarkable
in some ways when a boy as when
he became a man. It is related that
one time when a bully was meddling
with a boy half his size, he took him
in hand and gave him a sound thrash-
ing. Mrs. Whipple was alarmed at
his sanguinary appearance. “Yes, I
know it’s bad,” he said, “ but, mother,
you ought to see the other fellow!”
His mother was a sensible woman, and
bade him always defend the weak and
helpless. The same characteristic ap
peared in later life when he upbraided
the government for its treatment of the
Indian.—Ram’s Horn.
THE RED MAN’S BURDEN
(With apologies to Rudyard Kippling.)
Liftoff the Red Man’s burden
Send forth your workers tried
For honesty and real worth,
His erring feet to guide.
Be very firm, for surely
It is useless to be mild
With a savage sullen people,
“Half devil and half child. ”
Lift off the Red Man’s burden—
In quiet patience bide;
Keep back the voice of anger,
Suppress the show of pride.
By simple speech and action,
A thousand times made clear,
Seek how to make him better,
Thy precepts to revere.
Lift off the Red Man’s burden—
Make him to work who eats;
“And fill the mouth of famine,”
With labor’s honest meats.
And when success seems nearest,
(The end which you have sought)
Watch sloth and savage customs,
Lest your labors come to nought.
Lift off the Red Man’s burden—
Not with a tyrant’s hand;
But with a righteous purpose,
By justice firmly stand.
Be thougtful brave and earnest,
Let nought your hopes dismay,
Hold fast to truth and onward plod,
Where duty leads the way.
Lift off the Red Man’s burden —
Let pass the old reward—
The hate of those ye fetter,
The blame of those ye ward.
His hostile cry ye humer,
As a mother pets her child;
Break off his slothful habits,
And curb his customs wild.
Lift off the Red Man’s burden —
How can you stoop to less?
Indulge no more hisgrowling whims
And wretched idleness.
By all your acts of weakness,
By all the deeds ye do,
This stubborn, hostile people,
Shall judge your God and you.
Lift off the Red Man’s burden-
Have done with present ways
Of giving food and raiment,
Which honest thrift delays,
Enforce the law of wisdom,
Reclaim a passing Race
From indolence and savage pomp,
And customs rude and base.
Whiterocks, Utah.
Feb r u ary—1899
By O. H. L.