The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-17
$50 ODE Indian Kid at School
Photos
by
Lee Moorhouse

"Are these children hard to teaeh?' I asked the
superintendent We walked back 10 where the VII
yes rather'' was the reply 'srhe methods must
be very simple to make them understand. Then the
with the little ones. because they aren't timid"
II was recess now. Instead of pilng over each
marched out with dignifed order The girls went
to their swings. The boys played baseball and foot
DO they play for keeps?' asked 'and hght?'
mo" replied the superintendent: they get run
OF the game itself. and in their play they are
very fair. It's cheating. you know. that leads to
ouarrels''
OF the play ground where they all were shooting
with their boys and arrows playing game they
called arrow" This game and the color of their
skin were the only things which reminded that
was in the midst Of the children Of savages
Are the children always good ike this" 1 asked
again the porch.
Yes at the close Of school," said Miss Gather
ents in the tepee and gone to lew lholan poWWo~s
and dances some of them are pretty hard 70 manage
when they come back to school. One powwow offsets
about three months Of our trainlng- Many OF tne
parents have use for the school and whip their
children back into savage habits"
About this time Indian youth drew near hiding
his face up to his eyes with long blanket
"Now William! Shame You, sir" said the su-
perintendent i thought you promised me Wnen you
graduated that you would never wear a blanket. Now
here you come dressed just like all Of those lazy
boys. Aren't you ashamed. sir?'
Eyes, I am replied the boy. politely but the
other boys laugh at me and make me do this"
That's just the way OF H., SAID MISS Gaitner 10
But the boys are not TO blame for it. They
that they are not made TO work the iand they own
They allowed TO rent their property These In
dams all have lots of very fine land Their income IS
enough 10 keep them; they nave no incentive 10
work And there are many Of who going
to labor if we can help it Idleness brings on evil
The boys learn To gamble, ana did you not snleu
whisky that young boy Williams breath? But
after all, suppose they worse than the sons
wealthy men back east
but that's not the worst Of it, The girIs They
leave mere h9sle ladles, puL thelF rloe ana lnelL
fathers even taunt them. Then they too, take 70
the blanket and soon become the wives Of the worth
less young
1--WE had two girls though Of whom I am proud
One of them is at Carlisle, Pa. She is the daUgh
ter Of Dr. Cash Cash an Indian physician. The other
we named Maud Johnson She also went 10 Carlisle
She home and is soon TO marry nice white
man. And she viii make him real good wife, too"
asked
"oh yes That's what all Of the 800 Indian schools
for-to prepare Indian children for college. They
need go Carlisle, there are three other
dian coleges-one in the state Of Washington called
Che-ma-wa; another at Haskell. Kan, and still an
You have just this one school on this reserva-
Just one government school But over a few
miles is Catholic schooI-the founded by Kate
DrexeL The children over there, however, are mostly
the descendants of the French-Canadian voyagers
who. when they came out here for the Hudson Say
company married indian girls The Jesults conduct
the school. The government, believe, gives them
aid. You must go over there before you leave. You
viii find it a nice school"
'-That may be- said land meant it. too-.but
II could not be any nicer than this one Yours is
model"
Miss Gather left me for awhile sat where I
could the Umatla, fringed with the cop-cop and
the willow, winding among the rolling hills Of Ore
gon. Some Of these were green with waxing grain
others. clothed with native bunch grass were in
color like unto the unpiucked skin Of a seal Before
the plow had torn the breast the '5arth-5Iother
of the Indian he had lived in that region catching
fish from "the water ripping sand" and chasing
the elk the seal-skin hills. His ponies grazed
upon the bunch grass. He was happy His roof was
made of skins of the hunt, yet his tepee kept him
warm. He had not gone to school but he had
learned vices. He had not heard of the Chris
tiaRs' God, but he worshped his own Great Father,
who taught him that all men, coming from par
ent were brothers. wondered IF he were better off
for the change
Copyright, 1903 by Charles n. Crewdson