The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-08

youths paddIsd Gsd down St the Missouri MIS- nGn nnd
the Mississippi TO ST. Louis. and the
following spring Father De Smct OF
st. Louis accompanied the Indians TO
their far northern homes and founded
the first churches of the country now
being opened TO the American farmer.
Later other priests went 10 assist Faith
er De Smet, hundreds of Indians were
baptized and additional missions were
founded
Some Of the first missions. as well
as some of the first of the western
forts. have been DESTROYED. but the
old mission OF ST, lguatus. founded in
1854, is still the religious center of
from the eastern and western states
viii find a remarkable community here
in the Indian wilds. Miles from q
railroad, or ANYTHING even limiting at
a center of civilization, and AT the
foot of the high Mission mountains
Destles the little chapel whose prayer
stools are utilized by a motley lot OF
terbreeds. and now and then n few
whites The communicates are chiefly
full blood F'latbcads, some of whom ride
horseback for miles through the noun
tains every SUNDAY morning. And with
the church are the schools of ST. .ig
natius, The priests and brothers hav,
charge Of the bows school, where In.
dian and white lads are trained and
taught. Two schools are maintained
for the girls The Little Sisters of the
Poor maintain school where 100 little
Indians are educated, while the -.Ursa
line nuns conduct a school and academy
for white girls, who are sent TO them
from all parts OF the northwest The
government attested the merit Of these
n 4. Il
nuns 1900 acres OF choice land near
their institutions, before the general
allotment of lands was made. For
years only the Catholics have worked
among these Indians, but last Gcto
Der the corner stone tor a Methodist
church was laid al Poison.
IT was many years after America was
discovered that the f'latheads first
learned of the whites, but the years
since Lewis and Clark broke through
the wilderness have been momeptous
ones for all The western tribes. One
By one they have been forcd to give
I'D their time -honorcd lands, and the
opening of the Flathead leaves only n
few more large reserya atione in the
hands of the red men The Black Feet
Sioux, Pyramid Indians and few
other tribes yet held their, lands IN
tact, but even with them it is but il
question of time. A little over half
century ago the E'latheads were as
wild and free as the mountain, lions
Of the far west Then, in 1855, Con.
eraI Isaac Stevens made treaty with
the tribe. limiting its domain. Subse
ouent treaties moro and more curtailed
the freedom OF the Flatheads, and a
few years ago the government decided
that this land must be thrown open
to settlement The Indians were each
given eighty acres Of choice land, then
The registrations and land drawings
took place. and last October hundreds
all over the country were made glad
BIZ The news that they had won Flat
head lands And early in May, 1910,
the white settlers will receive their l60'
acre allotments and take up tho task
of opening this virgin country, The
lucky Chicagoaus who expect to, build
New Chicago on the shores OF Flat
head lake will find themselves snoul-
der to shoulder with Hoosiers, kansans
and Californians, all crowrling the