Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-09-10
Standing Rock Fair
A Complet Success
Fourth Annual Standing Rock Indian
Fair Was Complete Success.
Pres. Worst's Address

duce ,.ood crops OF corn, potatoes:
pumrsins and other things for food,
and by and grain for your ponies,
pigs a,d cattle. This will require
work, but without useful work nc
man IAN live honestly, and provide
for hi family.
| Wien | first came across the river
to Standing Rock more than 80
years. ago, the Indians did but little
farming. Your fathers were great
hunters. When the big prairies
were covered with buffalo and deer
and antelope, they did not have to
farm s!1e land. Now the game has
all begn killed, and the soil must
produce your food or you will starve
Whit, men have cultivated the soil
for many generations, and on that
accoust they have grown into great
and powerful nations. Ii the In
dams would live in comfort and be
independent like their white brothers
they TOO must work and farm like
white men.
But you are beginning to farm
quite well, and these buildings that
you Fave filled with all kinds Of
grain and vegetables show what you
can 10, on your farm.
In short time you should learn
how 20 do your work much better
and without being told how and
when to do it. You should be
proud to do your work as we'll as
the white farmers do their work
This will make you independent and
happy; for only men who can pro-
vide & good living for themselves
and their wives and children are
good citizens.
You must love the soil. 1t is
your'best friend. > II you plow the
IIgrua,h and keep it ssott and fine ant!
plant good seed and cultivate the
growing plants, they will make you
much food The weeds must all be
pulled up while they are small Or
they will hurt the crops. The
ground must also be hoed and cul-
tivated much, or the plants will
die for want of water.
Every young Indian should learn
to be farmer and make himself a
home. He should have horses and
cattle and pigs and provide hay. and
grain and shelter for them during.
the long winter He should also
dig for himself a root cellar and
cover it so deep with earth that his
potatoes and other vegetables placed
in it would not freeze in the winter.
All this will require much work,
but lazy man, whether Indian or
white, must often go hungry. Only
those who work will have much to
eat. The Great Spirit loves his
children, but he wants them to work
as we'll as eat, and when men work,
the earth will produce all that is
needed to make them comfortable
and happy.
The land that has been assig ned
to you for homes is good and you
should keep it for yourselves and
for your children. If you part with
it, you will become poor indeed, and
your children will be poor as we'll.
Keep your land and love it and take
good care OF it.
Your women have also made
many beautiful things with their
hands for this fair. Many white
women would be proud to do as
we'll. The needle work and bead
and quill work are fine. Your wo-
men have learned much from their
white sisters and teachers; how to
make clothes and prepare food for
the table, and how to improve their
homes.
Your children must be sent to
school so that all will be able to
read and write and learn many
things that are printed in books.
When they grow up they will learn
many things by reading that can be
learned in no other way.
All good men and women in this
country desire the comfort and hap
piness OF their Indian neighbors.
They will help you all they can to
become good farmers and good citi-
zens. And my earnest wish is that
you be kind to each ot!nr, that you
make continued progress in your
civilization and that you will take
pride i'll making for yourselves CONF
Portable homes and become real
good citizens OF this great common
wealth
wish also to thank you, one and
all, for inviting ME for the third
time to talk to you at your very fine
and attractive Indian fair.