The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-03-03
FROM THE TEPEE
TO FEDERAL JOB
YOUNG SIOUX INDIAN WHO HAS
FOUGHT HIS WAY TO PLACE
OF RESPONSIBILITY
After Finishing at Fort Shaw School
Young Alvin Warrior Passes Civil
Service Examinations and Finally
Wins Good Government Place.

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ponsible government position is
the long trail followed by Alvin
Warrior, full.blood Sioux Indian.
In 1894 young Indian couple
living on the Fort Peck Indian res.
ervation in Montana took their
only child, boy of years, to the
Indian boarding school at Poplar,
the agency town of the Fort Peck
reservation, in accordance with the
rules laid down by the superinten.
dent of the reservation.
In his bewilderment he chung to
his mothers blanket and urged her
to take him home again. while she
shrilly assured him of the necessity
watched them 60.
He attached himself to an older
Indian who had been at the school
a couple of years.
At first the boy simply endured cir
cumstances in the expectation of Sat-
urday. Then came the long line of
teams before the whitewashed fence
of the school building, as the Indian
parents gathered for their weekly
visit with their children.
After a while the active little mind
began to absorb eagerly the problems
presented to it, and he became the
pride of his teachers. His Indian
name, meaning warrior, he was al
lowed to keep, and he was given the
first name of Alvin.
Student at Fort Shaw
In very few years he had finished
the six grades taught at this school,
and he then was sent to Fort Shaw
Indian Training school, occupying an
important place among the govern.
ment Institutions Of Montana. The
school farm was operated by the pu-
pills, who received a thorough and
practical course in agriculture. Here
young Warrior spent half the day in
agricultural or industrial shop activi-
ties, and the other half at the school
course. He also took military train
ing, and belonged to the school band,
which had 80 members. This band
was famous in its day, and played al
Helena, Great Falls, Missoula univer-
sity, and various cities of the west.
Young Warrior finished his time al
Fort Shaw school before he was II
and was returned to the Fort Peck
reservation. He had no definite plans
but, unlike many young Indians, he
was determined not to 60 back tC
the blanket. He started out to work
as ranch hand, but it soon became
known at the agency that here was
a thoroughly dependable young Ind
ian. In the year 1909 he received
h,,~~ &N h4
Then he passed q civil service exam
ination for farmer, which he success.
fully passed, and received his ap
pointment as government farmer, IL
charge of one Of the subagencies or
the reservation.
Organizes Indian Farm Club
It is his duty to visit the Indian,
at their homes and make himself ac
quainted with all their needs and
wants. In the spring he advises
them as to their crops, the amount
and kinds of seed, and helps then
line up their general farm activities
Believing in cooperation and com
munity spirit, he has organised a
indian Farmers club. Warrior IL Of
the executive board Of the Roosevelt
County Farm bureau, and the Indial
Farmers club co-operates with tn,
farm bureau.
Warrior has been twice to Wash
ington on missions of importance TO
the Indians. He is strongly interest
ed in irrigation for Indian lands. H,
was official registrar for the reserva
tion during the war.
Warrior is married, and has thre'
children attending the white schoo
at Brockton, Mont, where he live
during the winter.