The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-01

r<ran, ,ne Land of Evanseiihe," aarh evea. swarthy. the high cheek hone and the raven straight hair, pro- c,alsu,nr tnslr utn,d asd bsrth. sixteen lads and lasses. passed through mcn.- eomery yesterday morning ell roHle ia Carlisle, Pa, to enter the severn ment school at that place for inoiAhs.
 Away down In she westerhNS2t z, Y. Louisiana, from the banks or s ans ,hair ou La Teche. where they ssena .heil ionsF days ir fishing and where, ainens inc tall reets and rushes they nun.. ,vhere in the little crude dugont eahoes tha~r stiu, over the dark sleepy waters H.sba afshitternochen tribe of indians' now almost extinct. made their nofns.
 But ths day of lazy inactivlAy .hs almost passed They have heafo VI" call of civilization ana pronress ssxtesn aaseendants of one of the oldest in- Sisn trihes of Afnericss have iert tneir native home, with all it's pleasures. bshind them. and have gone 10 ieaIn tha lessons that will fit them to take part in world that to them. IS . sealed book. - x.ss.
 Sunday afternoon they bade ., Fare,
 we'll to those who hed gatners1 aoSps ss,sss them in their natives village, and Witn trua Indian stoicisp they boarded the
 tresr lthat was to be the means of traraserrin9 them from the sunny Southern cline, to. the far north lana. | where. for the next i've years, they will study and learn the things snd. s will make for their rhanhooo-tneir | nniv q handful of the once pow. i arf,,i tr,ba of the "Chitternncher fs there-oniy a few old men. women ano | 6abies are left to guard the remnants of what was once a princeiy posses
 sion. ...,... as the Indian Industrial school et Sas. ... | lis1e, Pa. was in charge of ths p1Esg ps1. of young Indians. She went 70 Cna- senfon. I,a., last week. and under her direction the party was prepared TOT | sthe trip--the trip that to their Hn- tutored minds and inteliects. bordered on the wonderful. -.
 They were a well behaved set--sit- | ting in open eyed wonder--watchin with astonishnient the panorama ot varied landscape as 1t was unfolded' mile after mile. of their journey
 If was pitiful story that Ms. Sax an told-a story of the one time won Aerfui forest chieftain, whose glory | has been ruth1essly stripped oy the | hand of the conquering white man. | When she asked one of the older men | how long the tribe had lived there nis | answer was, Always been here-So- lumbus found us here"
 The reservation on which the "Chit- ternoehe'' tribe now lives Is said to | have been granted to them by France iono wears before the State of Lou isiana was sold to the United States lsnd if ia since that time that the tragedy of their lives has been enact ed
 From one of the largest and most powerfui tribes Of the French Indians tnev have been killed of and driven away until there are now no more than | fifty men, women and children. The little band lives in constant Fear oi their cruel Creole neighbors and when the offer came to take the young peo' pie away and place them where they
 would be cared for, protected anc taught to be useful men and women the old people consented gladly. From nine to twenty years they ranged IT
 age. Of the number nine were boys and
 seven were girls. Not word or En' EIish did. they speak. but in a broker and mixed dialect French they mad' their wants known.
 Mrs. saxon talked Interestingly o
 inc industrial School to which shi ] was taking them. In her own depart
 nent she has the care. with three as sIsgants. of two hundred boys. Tn , school Is under military discipline with Major W. A. Mercer, ef the 11tl 1, cavalry as general superintendent : Every branch of knowledge iB taught a . enc school ana when e pupil has fin