The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-10-04

SS,04l, money dnnullleS, TOOo,0OtS support
of schools, S208, 1906; to promote civilization,
including Indian labor, $117,574 presents,
$50; surveying reservations, 1853; agricul-
Airal improvements, 81 ,235. The expense
of distribution included salaries of Indian
Inspectors, Of regular and special Agents,
interpreters, and employees, Agency
buildings and incidentals, police, scouts,
and miscellaneous expenses.
1t thus appears that to every family of five
Indians $40 were distributed last year by the
government, or, including expenses, $50 to
each family. The Dominion of Canada, for
the total of lo7, 1922 Indians on reservations and
nomadic in their domains, holds funds
standing to their credit of $3,o39, 2l0, and ex-
pended in 1S8O-l8Sl about $250,0e0, or in
gross about $40 to each family Of five Indians
In addition to what the United States Gov
ernment is doing to support and civIize the
Indians, various religious bodies besides the
American Board are engaged in missionary
and educational work among them. The re-
ligious bodies expended last year, for educa-
ton and missions, $l39,440. The Friends
have missions in the Indian Territory and in
Nebraska; the Methodists in California, Ore
gon, Washington Territory, Montana, Idaho,
and Michigan; the Roman Catholics in Ore
gon, Washington Territory, Montana and
Dakota; the Baptists in the Indian Territory
and Nevada; the Presbyterians in the Indian
Territory, New Mexico. Idaho, Washington
Territory, Arizona, Utah, Nebraska, Dakots,
and Michigan; the Protestant Episcopalians
in Minnesota, Dakota. the Indian Territory,
and Wyoming; the United Presbyterians
in Oregon; the Evangelical Lutherans in
Colorado; the American Missionary Associ-
alton in Oregon.
The church buildings among the Indians
reported in 1881, including those among the
five civilized tribes, were 296. The missiona-
ries not included among teachers numbered
1874. There were 1888 schools, 70 Of them
boarding. schools. There were expended fer
education, from tribal funds and from the
United States Government, from States and
religious societies, $5s4.24s; which is prob
ably $l3 for each child of school age.
THE INDIAN MISSIONS OF THE AMERICAN
BOARD.
June 81, 1910, "The General Association
of Massachusetts Proper at their sessions
in Bradford" after the presentation of a
paper by Adoniram Judssn, Jr., Samuel
Mott, Jr., Samuel j. Mills, Jr., and Samuel
Newell, proceeded to institute a Board Of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions" On
the 9Th of September the Commissioners
held their first meeting at Hartford. The
first vote directed the Prudential Committee
10 prepare report annually. The second
vote directed the COMMITTEE to ''obtain the
best information in their power respecting
the state of unevangelized nations on the
Western and eastern continents, and report
at the next meeting" At the next meeting
held in Worcester, September IS, 1911,
| before Judson and his associates had sailed
| for the East Indies, the Committee reported
that there were "two stations for missionary
establishments which they thought ought TO
| be at once occupied lone in the East, In
the Burman Empire, and one in the West;
| upon some place within the territories of
the Indians of this continent" In the I'D
dress to thetChristidn Public the same year
| by Jededah Morse, Samuel Worcester, Jere-
miah Evarts, the announcement was made
of resolution to establish, as soon as prac-
ticabe, a Christian mission In the East, and
| another in the West, -. among the Canine
wagas Tor Iroquosl tribes Of Indians" AT
| the next annual meeting, in 1872, IL was
voted that the Board receive Mr.. Eleazar
| Williams, an Indian youth, under their pat
ronage, and that the Committee "procure
the printing in the Iroquois language of
such Christian writings as may be expedient
for the ase OF the Iroquois Indians" This
tribe of Indians was in Canada, the efforts
to establish a mission among them were
thwarted by the breaking out of the war
between America and Great Britain.
There seems to have been a question raised
whether the charter would authorize Indian
missions in the territory of the United States.
The question was decided By the founders
of the Board once for all. A vote was passed
at the annual meetingin 1914, that sit is the
opinion of this Board that the independent
and unevangelized tribes of Indians occupy
| ing their own lands, whether without or
within the limits stated in the treaty of
peace between the United States and Great
Britain are with other objects embraced by
the act of their Incorporation"
In 1915 explorations for suitable fields for
Indian missions were made at st. Lsuis and
other places: in 1917 was commenced the
mission to the Cherokees in Georgia and
Tennessee. The first station bore the saint
ed name of Brainerd; others were Chioka-
manga and Missionary Ridge, stations since
baptized with blood; where the first ''bat-
ties above the clouds" were fought, and vic
tories won by heroic missionaries, whose
martyrdoms under the insolence of nullif-
cation, which changed its name TO seces-
| sion, God in due time avenged by "the
whirlwind from the North.
In the report for 1916 the Prudential Com
mittte name three things as the aim of their
work among the Indians; to make them
English in their language, civilized in
| their habits, and Christian in their
IcilSlou. IL WAS tdr-IcdCulIS SdSdClly
which anticipated the purpose and methods
which years of experience new commend to
us as the true solution of the Indian prob
lem. "Never had such an experiment been
made as is now contemplated" they report,
"to establish schools in the different parts
eff the tribe, under the missionary direction
and supeIintendence, for the instruction of
the rising generation in common school,
learning in the useful arts of life, and in
Christianityso as gradually, with the Dl-
vine blessing, to make the whole tribe En-
glish IN their language, civilized in their
habits, and Christian in their religion. This
is the present PLAN" 1t is the plan to-day;
| we have not got beyond it. 1.-The Indians"
they add, "assimilated in Language, will
more readily become assimilated in man
ner and habits to their white neighbors.
The missionaries, meanwhile, will avail
themselves of the various and precious ad-
vaEtages which the education of the chill
| dren will afford TO gain the most favorableiac-
cess to the parents, and to communicate the
knowledge of salvation and the blessings of
civilized life to the people of every age"
The knowledge of salvation and the bless-
ings ofciyillized life attended the labors among
the Indians in a remarkable manner. AS early
as 1918 the Annual Report declares that, sin
/ nraDnrfon IA tho aid and ,naaus aponlayad