Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-08-11
OUR INDIAN KIN FOLKS

lward--the mists have been drunk uI
and Mount Hood stands becl,oning-so
it's time to stop appreciating too--and
10! forth cool, snow-capped mountain
tops and the uplands where the forests
invite and there is leisure to regain
ones soul-calm and poise-which the
city is always tending to steal away
Thursday night to the always-poised
Redmen children at Chemawa!
oh, Mount Hood! 1 come
The people Of tired cities
Come up to thy shrines to pray
God freshens again within them
AS He passes by all day!
Sunday mornings address was very
unlike Sunday nights in your city AT
tSt. Paul's ! gave a glimpse over Red
mans land and emphasized the Epis-
|copalian Missions, both very rich in
IChippewa-land where Bishop Whip
piles noble spirit still glows though
his noble brow lies low in the dust,
and those of Siouxland, where Bishop
Hare's inspirations are visible in the
lOSCdlc 1lp-lOCk WHlCtl iic DuliuSu III
true Christian craftsmanship into the
cathedral Of Niabara and All Saints
school for white maidens, as well as
st. Elizabeth mission school for Sioux
boys and girls on Standing Rock agen-
cy in central Dakota and st. Mary's in
the southern part of South Dakota.
In the cathedral close to Sioux Falls
lies his body under the great, sin;pie
cross that is also out of the. rib-rock.
Bishop Hare's work among the Sioux
has been very well planned, nobly ex-
ecuted, both in stone and in the more
enduring hearts of his Indian country
men, the Sioux. The convocation or
the Episcopalian Sioux at Wakpala,
Standing Rock reservation was attend
eN by 5000 Sioux this year, one-third
being Sioux women. The women took
up their mission thankoffering which
when collected amounted to $4,000,
this being s6 apiece, record that
white women would certainly boast Of.
Then the Indian women brought it to
Bishop Burleson and said, Take TINS
and use for holy good things. Use
some of it for Christianizing our red
brothers and sisters, and some for our
needy white brothers-but he sure
some of it you send across the seas to
our brothers and sisters of the yellow
skin, the brown skin and the black
skin, for the shepherd chief, Waniku-
ia, the Christ, said before he went
above to the Big Tepee, Go ye unto
all the world with holy-good, buffalo
meat for all brothers and sisters. -
When you consider that those wo-
men tanned antelope and deer skins,
beaded them and sold them-or gath
cred berries and all wild things and
raised their money SO you will see
what pure, primitive, wonderful Chris
tianity it all amounts to.
At the evening service where the
public of all denominations were in
vited, the purpose was to give to the
splendid, cultured audience-with one
stalwart full-blood sColville who is in
Salem to attend willamette university
where he is studying lava birdseye
view of the work of government and
church aid to voice the more or less
cries ,of the Indian them
selves. 1t is wonderful how little edu-
Gated concerning his red brothers and
sisters the average white man ana wo-
man in America arel
"A vanishing race" is the sentiment
al but utterly untrue statement con-
cerning them from press, magazine
and sentimental, ill-informed htera-
ture ofsall sorts.
The fact is. as Secretary Franklin
Lane and Commissioner Cato Sells re-
Gently brought out in the press on the
Pacific coast, there are as many IN
dams now in the United States as
,.raro bara in .incnln,s or Washin gton