The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-24
Object of Meeting Held in the Church of the Redeemer by Association Formed for
 That Purpose,
PLANS FOR RED MEMS VEAL
Hospital and Medical Workers for Omaha Reservation OH Land Set Aside by United states
 Government.

The Connecticut Indian association held It's annual meeting yesterday aft ernonn in the chapel of the Church of the Rodeemer, The reports from the secretary and treasurer were re- celved, Two hundred dollars has been sent Go the state treasurer for the general work of tho association the past year, but a plan of definite work was presented In a letter from Mrs, Sara D. Kinney, the state pres ident, which the association proposes to undertake in the future and hopes thereby to add to Its interest and membership This plan is to send a medical worker to the Omaha reser- ration in Nebraska, to build a hospital especially fitted to deal with the dread disease. tuberculosis, and sa to heal the diseases of both body and mind in the Omaha Indians The govern ment has set aside ten acres of land for this purpose and the association hopes 10 begin tle work soon, About l Sl500 Is on hand but s5,00O Is needed. By nature the Indians are q quiet uactahle people and eager | t1 learn, but because the mission schools were abandoned and no rclg- 1 ious instruction Is given in the gov crnmcnt schools a community of 1 atheists is developing, old time pagan custom are being revived and added l t6 these is the curse of drink. Here Is a field as needy as any foreign field for good Christian work
 Tho committee was quite fortunate to secure q speaker for tho meeting, Mrs Albert K Page, who has very recently visited this rcservatlon her i brother. Walter Rae, being employed ] hH tine Reformed church to minister to the Winuchngos in the reservation 1 adjoining She spoke of the definite need of these people, of the influence of tho medicine men, of the worship of moscal and in general of the linl- 1 entities nf the work Mescal ie an in- toxicating drink made from the flow | or of tho cactus. which Is similar in Its effect to opmn The Indians gath- sr the blossoms and steepine them In water drink tho tea which makes them unaccountable others cnew the raw blossom or bean which Is tao fruit The curious fact about this worship k that thn believers in iie power count themselves Christians accept God and Christ and claim taa' mosral Is the holy spirt tne com. fnrter which they must receive intc their bodies in order tu b. sanctifed Because of this belief it Is a very diff. hcult eril to eradicate Tn many re. spocts those Indians are reliable, de, yont Christians Mrs Page gave . very graphic account of the eonrer- sion of Henry Cloud. a Wnnehaeo In. dian, and a student in Yale university
 who fig at present an leave If ah. sonec as interpreter for the workel cd his life to the task Of lifting them ont of the misery and unbeliof 1T which they are now living.
 Mrs Page also gave a most charm
 ing illustration of the sign language which Is universally understood by ai trihes of 1ndalns wherever the buffalo r0amed Sac repeated a speech which she heard from an old Indian. and as she told his story she accompanied it with the signs made mostly hl arms and hands This language wat described in a book years ago, 3 linn
 tied number of copies of which wor'
 issued under the direction of Genera |, sherman, who wished his soldiers tr
 ha able to keep tah' on tho inter
 preters
 The association has not received
 such an inspiration in some time al , from tnis brave, earnest woman whi i until eight vears ago had no intores in the work for lnlans Her inter , est fin the football game was tho rca
 son that the association had tho pleas . urc and profit of hearing hct at thi , time.
 Tho officers elected by tho associa , ton were: President, Mrs Henr. a Rogers, secretary Mise Rose Munger
 treasurcr, Mise Anna Bradley