The Chippeway herald. [volume], May 01, 1909, Image 3

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The forty-first annual celebration of
the removal of the Chippeway Indians
to the White Earth Indian reservation,
will take place at the agency June 14
and 15. The first families of the re
movals with their oxteams and bag
gage arrived here about noon on June
14, 1868, under the leadership of
Truman A. Warren, who was ap
pointed by the government to remove
the Indians from the agency near
Crow Wing.
Paul H. Beaulieu, with some team
s ers came some weeks before to find a
suitable place for settlement and pre
pare the land for tillage. The first
settlement was made at what is known
Old Trading Post about two miles
as the Northeast of the present vil
lage of White Earth.
Schools and churches were establ
ished soon after the first arrivals. In
the fall of 1868 Rev. John Johnson
(En-meg-ah-bowh) arrived here with
his family accompained by several
Indians from Mille Lac. Rev. John-
son was sent to this reservation by
Bishop Whipple then in charge of the
Duluth diocese of the Episcopal church.
During the winter a little log church,
was built near the Trading Post.
Among the arrivals during the year
following were Mrs. Julia A. Spears
and her family. Mrs. Spears taught
a short term of school at the Episcopal
mission in the summer of 1869. That
winter she was employed to teach the
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first government day school on the
reservation. For three years she
taught the mission school during the
summer and the government day school
during the winter. In the meantime
Agent Smith took charge of the reser
vation and established the Agency
near its present site in 1871, and the
boarding school was built in the same
year near the persent site of the In
digent’s Home. A Mr. Armor, a white
man,was the first Principal, and teach
er.ln 1874,Mr5. Mary English,a sister
to Mrs. Spears,came to the reservation
and became Principal and teacher in
charge of the boarding school, She
was assisted by two other teachers, a
matron, a cook, a laundress and a jan
itor. Of the members of the reserva
tion, who held important position in
the school and are staunch friends of
the school are Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
H.Beaulieu,and Mrs. Julia A. Spears.
Since the destruction of school plants
at different time by fires and countless
obstacles to hinder its progress, the
school has come forth each time with a
mansion nobler than the last, until the
present large and beautiful buildings
were erected. The people realizing the
need of educating their children have
filled the three government boarding
school and the St. Benedicts Mission
school, the five day schools and the
public state schools on the reservation.
A large number of the children from
the reservation attend the several non
reservation schools. To supply the
demand and need of the children there
will be erected tnree new day school
on the reservation this year.
Education, Christian religion, and
civilization go hand in hand.
White Earth Boarding School