Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-30
INDIAN ASSOCIATION.

INDIAN ASSOCIATION.
 Address by the National President
 Election of Omcers-Committee Re-
 ports.
 The annual meeting of the New Haven
 branch of the Connecticut Indian associa-
 ton was held yesterday afternoon in the
 chapel of the United church. The attend
 ceptional interest. Rev. E. M. Poteat, pas
 tor of Calvary Baptist, presided, and
 opened the meeting with prayer. The re-
 port of the treasurer, Miss M. De F. Skin
 ner, showed that the receipts had been sss5, the expenditures 2s.35, leaving a
 balance of s94.65 Mrs. A. B. Fifeld, the recording secretary, read an interesting report, which will be found below. After a motion empowering the presi- I dent to appoint the delegates to the Hart ! ford convention had been passed, Mrs. Fifeld read extracts from letter from Mrs. Kinney, president of the state asso- l citation, complimenting the work of the mission and describing the encouraging outlook for establishing school there. Miss Ives, the newly elected president of l the branch here, made few remarks in l which she outlined in part the aggressive | work of the coming year.
 Miss Quinton, president of the national | association, told in charming and graphic manner her experience during her late visit \ of seven months among the reservations. She said in part: On my journey I have l organized nearly thirty branches and have l addressed about fifty. l have, too, organ l ized few missions. I have been in every state and territory in the Union and have l found the people alive to this work. If ! each state could establish a mission, when l we gather at the great centennial in 1893 l we could sing our te deums of completed l work.
 The Indian tribes were remarked upon 1 in detail:
 The Narajos we found were self-sup porting. They are pastoral people and l it seemed that Christianity would be an 1 easy matter among those simple people Fort Defiance is the only mission in this | tribe of 20, 900.
 Visiting next the Mochas Indians, we found industrious people, who lived in l houses and made provisions for winter l The Apaches in their beautiful mountain | homes were next visited. These are the proverbially lazy Indians, but with theil utensils and possibilities they seemed tc me to be wonderful workers. Theil ] women loaded with wood carried it fo1 I miles to reservation. Although last year they did not raise sufficient harvest | they refused to receive rations, because they said: Government will get us in l their power and steal our children to send away to school.
 The San Carlos people have literally l nothing. Their climate was stifling, yet
 their faces were beaming and their lives 1 seemed to be happy. wish could tel
 how much interest they showed when I told them that I represented hundreds o1 l their friends throughout the country. We need four new missions at once. Lei l us ask that the Indian department be con ducted under civil service regulations and that the chief of the department, who is g Christian and an efficient man, be retained | in his position. Let us go into this work
 with earnest purpose and prayerful spirit, l and the Indian problem of the future will l not be so difficult.
 The officers elected were:
 Honorary president-Mrs. George B. Stevens jam Fitch, e,rz. Newman smythe, Mrs: William P. Blake, Mrs. H. J. Dubois, Miss C. E. Collins
 Mrs R: M; Munger, Mrs. Henry Rogers, Mrs Edwin Harwood, Mrs Edward NJ: Poteat. Recording secretary-Mrs s. H. Galpin Corresponding Secretary-MrS A. B. Fifield. Treasurer-Mrs. G. M. Duncan.
 Entertainment committee Miss Edith A. Fish
 Miss Ethel Wilcox, Miss M. F Quincy. Miss, J. S. Missionary committee-Mrs William Fitch Mrs E. E. Cowles, Mrs. Warrington Hooker l Mrs. s. F. Merwin, Miss c. A. Collins, Miss Dag gett, Miss Mary shipman, Mrs. s. D. Gilbert Mrs A. B. Fifeld Mrs. k. M. Munger.
 Press committee-Mrs. A. A. Cutler, Miss s. J l Bennett, Mrs. Charles s: De Forest, Mrs. F: J. Beach, Miss I. Cromwell, Miss S. T. Jocelyn, Miss Nominating committee-Mrs G. T. Ladd, Mrs | Auxiliary commttee-Mrs. Charles Fabrique
 Miss N. E. Law, Miss c. GalpiO, Mrs. Mason Miss c. Barnum, Miss Stow.
 Among those present who are not mem. ] bers were Dean Wayland, Dr. Phillips, Dr. ! Munger, Rev. MT. Meserve and others. Mrs. Fifeld's report was in the main as | follows: Your secretary's report last year began with the encouraging intelligence oi | the granting of 16O acres of land by the ! Indians of Fort Hall agency, Idaho, an6 ! the earnest plea that friends might bs l forthcoming who should add to our small nest egg of $500 in order to build cottages 1 for our missionaries. To-day we can pre- sent to you mission building completed and paid for. Connecticut is the first state to have a mission of it's own. Two marriages have been consummated, abou
 which Miss Frost writes; ''I feel as if { l foundation had been laid in these Chris tians' marriages"
 ! At the sewing classes in November 17( were present, of whom forty-four were chil dren.
 | barrel and box were sent to Fort Hal ! for Christmas. This was the first req | Christmas they have had there, and theil l pleasure at Santa Claus and the gifts wal evident.
 Soon after the first of January, Mis-. Frost was sent for to visit Captain Jack l the old Shoshone chief, who lay very i'll il
 a tent two or three miles from Pocatello 1 He was delighted to hear her, though too 1 weak to talk much. She writes at th'
 time. 'The clasp he gave my hand I knev 1 to mean farewell. I could see his lip move and bending over I heard, 'to-nigh
 me go.' I took his hand in both my warn
 ones moment and came away, remem bering the day more than year ago whe1 l he sat in one room all the afternoon anc
 I tried to tell him the story we want al
 to hear. Me sorry,' he said, maybe se
 bime-by. White man, Indian all same SCI | Great Father pointing upward" In th' l same letter Miss Frost writes in regard tt l the "Messiah craze" The Indians vel comed us in each camp. One held oul
 horse, which was cold and restless, till was seated in the carriage and had the linet firmly in my hands, as courteously as {
 white man would have done. It was darl when we reached town. We met severa
 Indian riders returning to their camps We slept peacefully. No sounds to dis 1 turb except the bell and whistle of the
 switch engine as the railroad men were 1 buoy transferring freight. This was the ] night mentioned in eastern papers as the l one in which women and children crouched 1 in the corners of the houses while the reds yelled. Several of the Shoshones, who ! live at distance, had not heard of the excitement till they came for their rations. They were quite indignant at the reports l that had been 80 falsely sent forth and SC ] widely scattered"
 In early spring family reasons compelled ! Miss Frost to relinquish her work at Fort Hall, and her resignation was received with great regret. She had endeared her self to both whites and Indians by her conscientious, painstaking work of more than three years among them, and her loss will be deeply felt by them as well as by us Singu1arly successful in dealing with the prejudices of these Indians, she has cared both for their bodies and souls, win ming their affection and gratitude not l only by her always kindly treatment of them, but by her loving ministry of their sick and dying. Hers has been the pioneer work, the solid foundation for the struct- ure we hope to rear in the future. In March last Miss Frost's associate, Miss Decker, was taken suddenly very ill, and after some weeks of suffering came to New York for treatment, where she died III Id