The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
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AMONG THE PAGAN cHlPPEWAs.

sajibikok Wind, widow, with five
children and one grandchild; Rosie
Observation-Disclosures; John Obimoi-
wegijig; Frank Nijoiash, his wife and
seven children; Agnes Livingston
linked blood; Dan McCloud (half-
breed); Henry Connor linked blood),
and two children; John Roy (mixed
blood, his wife and two children.
Only two white men are married to
Indian women on this Reservation.
Indian Methodist ministers have been
visiting Nett Lake for a number of
years and now one of them is trying
to build church there. Mr.. Daniel,
the Agent, is opposed to it and says
the Nett Lake Indians would prefer
to have a Catholic Church at the
Agency "The Indian preachers only
cause disturbance among these poor
people; they can never make good
Christians out of them," he said. This
is true Of all Indian Reservations.
On the Reservation.
In 1905 the first Indian Agent,
Thomas j. Jackson, was appointed
for Nett Lake; before that time the
La Pointe Agent of Ashland, Wis,
looked after them and made the an
nual payment to them at Tower,
Mimi. 1t is only about twelve years
since these ChippeWas lived in log
houses, built for them by the Govern
ment; before that time they lived in
| birch-bark huts and wigwams. "Ish-
kotewabo,' the fiery liquid (whisky),
| is kept away better than on other Res
ervations. Very seldom is an Indian
seen drunk at Nett Lake. The prom
| Use of marriage is made at the Indian
| Agents office. The Indians are we'll
paid for their work on the Reservation
or in the village. They work eight
hours day, repairing roads, in the
little sawmill, construction work,
clearing land, sanitary work, building
chimneys in their log houses. There
are no wells in the village-one big
well for all, the Nett Lake. These
Indians are subject chiefly to skin dis
eases, few tubercular cases. The
average attendance at the Govern.
ment Day School at the Agency is SO
pupils with two teachers. The new
Agency building and school are under
one roof, both built this year.
The Return Home.
Monday, September 49, / went to
Orr Ton the Canadian Northern r. r.
in company with Mr.. Daniel, who took
me, gratis, across the Pelican Lake in
his own launch-nine miles. This
lake has over forty little islands. Nett
Lake is five miles long from north
to south and one mile wide from east
to west. Both lakes are full of wild
rice. The distance from Orr to Nett
Lake Agency by boat and wagon is
about II miles.
The next morning, Tuesday, | was
at Fort Francis, Ont, and visited the
large Indian Boarding School for the
Chippewas of the Rainy Lake Reser
walton, three miles east of Fort Fran
els. The Rev. Phi. Wales, o. M. l., il
principal of the school and Indiar
missionary. He has seventy boarders
His assistants are lay-brother anC
five Grey nuns The Indians have {
new 100000 church nearby.
Wednesday evening, the fifteenth,
was again at home among my "anishi
wabeg" at Cloquet.
May God give the grace of CONVEX
: sion to the Nett Lake heathens, 81
they will follow the example of thei
brethren in Minnesota and embrace
the sweet yoke of Christ! Pray TO
them!
In the present territory of the die
cese of Duluth there are now 1,50I
; Catholic Chippewa Indians and 1,20O
pagans; total of 200 Chippewas.