The Chippeway herald. [volume], April 01, 1902, Image 1

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VOL. 1.
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PARAGRAPHS.
If a man has sense ne can often make
use of a seemingly useless thing.
The man who loses money and ac
quires wisdom by it is a gainer by the
loss.
The head should be educated to think,
the heart to feel and the body to act.
More misery and crime result from
idleness than from all other casues
combined.
A genius is generally a man who lets
his wife take in the washing to support
him.
There is much to be said on both
sides when two women are talking
over the back fence. — Chicago News.
THE NEED OF IN-
DUSTRIAL TRAIN-
ING FOR THE
INDIAN.
(Dr. H. B. Frissel, Hampton Insti-
tute, Virginia.)
There are some advantages in being
at a distance from the Indian question.
Sometimes one sees things in a differ
ent light when at a distance. The In
dian of the present is very different in
different places. Thus we have In
dians who are still in the blanket, who
are leading uncivilized lives and who
have very little idea of what it means
to be a civilized being. There are oth
er Indians who live upon their own
land and have comfortable homes.
There are certain things which might
be said of all Indians so far as I have
seen them. I have had at Hampton
representatives of almost every tribe.
As a race the Indians are people of
the child races. They have the char
acteristics of childhood, and in looking
foward to their future. I believe we
should teach them to labor in order
“Ed'ucaLtion, Civilizadion. and Citizenship.’ 1 *
WHITE EARTH, MINN., APRIL 1902.
that they may be broug-ht to manhood
So in a general way I should say that
the Indian of the present is in his
childhood, and what we as the Indian
educators are endeavoring to do is to
bring him to his manhood.
What are the characteristics of child
races? One of the first characteristics
of childhood is that the children do
not know very much about work.
This is true of the Indian, that he has
not learned very much about the
necessity and the dignity of labor.
The Indian, being the first settler of
the soil, seems to think that he has
certain privleges, and one of these is
his exemption from labor. Now I need
not say that no race can amount to
anything until there is created in it
some respect for labor, for the work of
the hand. Whether it is the white,
black, or the red race, it seems to me
that we have to deal with 1 his problem,
and we should impress upon them the
moral value of work.
My illustrious predecessor, Major
Armstrong, who lived in the Sandwich
Islands, learned in his childhood some
lessons along that line which have been
of the greatest value to the people of
this country. He saw those people
gathering in God’s houses for worship
and yet going home where the father,
mother, and chidren were huddled to
gether in one-room houses, where they
lived in perfect idleness. He realized
then that no race could amount to any
thing that lived in that way, and the
thought with which he came into this
country, and which he gave to the
whole among the races of this country,
was as to the absolute necessity of
labor. In other words, in order that a
race might be elevated it must be la
bor. With all of the Anglo-Saxon
races labor is known to be a necessity,
but the truth of the matter is that nei
ther the Indian nor the negro race has
come to look upon labor as a necessity.
We are coming as a country to deal
very largely with this great problem,
and it seems to me of vital importance
that it should be impressed upon all
nations that no progress can be made
until they learn to work with their
hands and learn to have a regard for
the dignity of labor.
In our kindergarten it was just as
easy to commence with the children and
interest and-teach them to wash on the
washtub and to iron on the ironing
board as it is to teach them games.
We take the young people out to the
farm and give them a little hoe and
rake, and they enjoy working in the*
soil. We commence with children of
four or five or six years of age and train
them in the dignity and necessity of
labor. This is what we ought to do.
We should create in them the working
habit. This is very necessary and
important. A man who does not learn
to work and love work is not one who
is going to accomplish anything in this
world, and no race that does not learn
that lesson will make any progress in
this world, for the Good Book says we
must work out our own salvation.
The Indian should learn to farm and
till the soil. The Indian of the future
is to live in the country, and he should
find his comfort and happiness in the
flowers, the trees, the river and all na
ture.
Plowing has been the leading em
ployment for boys and teams until the
recent freeze and snow. About 265
acres have been plowed.
Fifteen acres of what was formerly
a corral have been plowed for potatoes.
An addition of two teams of young
mules is much appreciated but it fills
the barn so that more room is needed.
Over 400 bushels of wheat has been
ground for the dairy cows.
Barnyards are now being cleaned
up, feed hauled, and the many neces
sary odd jobs done, preparator y to
beginning spring work in the field with
a detail of 22 boys, which will probably
be increased.—Chilocco Beacon.
Rubens believed that, if a man has
the right stuff in him, one place is
practically as good as another; that
if he makes the most of his life
wherever he is, a sure success awaits
him.—Success
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