The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-02-10
Indian EDUCATION
Program Interests
Continued from Page L.

spring the club will sponsor BABY :
clinic. Mrs. A. A. Wood was ap
pointed chairman with Miss Inez !
Ratekin, Mrs. D.. O. Mount, Mrs.
Harry Brinton. Mrs. E. j. Barkee,
Mrs. r. N. Whitefield, Mrs. O. M.
Maize, and Mrs. Claus Detiens as
sisting
Mrs. o. NJ. Maize was appointed
chairman of paralysis control COM
mittee.
A rummage sale is being planned
in the near future with Mrs. J. A.
Krall in charge Mrs. Krall has
chosen the following helpers: Marx
ing-Mrs. T. Z. Erickson, Mrs. u D.
Harmon, Mrs Grace Swale; adver-
tisinp-Mrs. A. A. Wood: collect I
, ing1Mrs. Z. ]. Hughes, Mrs. Earl
buckingham. Mrs. George Stoltz,
Mrs. Clay Parker, Mrs. {. w. Gil
dea Mrs c. Q. Hoisington. Mrs. o. I
NJ. Maize. Mrs Bernard Schlumm, T
Mrs Paul Church. Mrs Joe Kujawa;
selling-Mrs. G. t. Cornell, Mrs. }.
w Farris, Mrs. c. V. Manlon,. Mrs.
| @. f. Nordstrom, and Mrs. II. a. |
| Hough
For the program the club had the
privilege of hearing Mrs. Carl Crane
! speak on Indian Education. UP
until about 10 years ago everyone
thought the Indians a vanishing
race, but they are not, they are In
!. creasing,' began Mrs. Crane. The
! public should know what IS beng
: done about them.
About nine and half million
dollars are spent annually now to
:, educate the Indians About 1884
e the bureau of Indian affairs was
: established Many colleges IN the
i early history of our country made
). provisions for education Of the
e Indians and Dartmouth even men
S toned them in their charter. The
Carlisle Indian school in Pennsyl-
vania has long been famous for its
: splendid work.
. About 10 years ago the conditions
{ in the government schools were
= quite deplorable and at that time
: some articles in well-knoWn maya
u zine aroused public mitigation that
i instead of being neglected the In
dams were given too much. The
j. public conscience helped large APP
Y preparations to 60 through and the
n immediate effect of having every
l. thing given to them made the In
Ie dams lose their self-reliance and
ID self-respect to a great degree. How
10 ever, by judicious training the
10 younger generation is being taught
rt and trained to take its place in the
in commercial world, enabled to make
its own living. They are being Civ
en- self-government as fast as they
can take it and educated Indians
are appointed to as many posts al
~ possible to work with their oWr
II people.
sh Of course there are many prob
I'll lens to face. About 80 per cent o
wv the first graders can not speak
sss English and in some schools where
'se there are several tribes represent
ed it makes quite confusion. WheI
one realizes that their contact will
the white race is only 300 years OH
and in many western states only
re generation old, one should not ex
ay pect too much They have don
ng very we'll and improve steadily
on Mixed marriages also make it har,
Ter for consistent development
rs. There are about 5000 students il
IN church mission schools and 1924
I'm children in government schools. @
es. course there are still several thou
al sand not in school but with the neI
generation coming up ignorance wi
be more easily stamped out.
Indian education is very compre
- hensive-its scope is from the cradl
Sar to the grave They have field nurse
,au and social workers to 60 into tn
icy homes to help the mothers. Nurser
" raboclr ara s.ya11 n1.,trrol urn
~ as the other schools Adult edl
la ~ cation is stressed and they are bein
taught to adapt their skills to al
orc ticles of marketable value. Thel
f.. are over 10000 Indian bureau en-
ire ployees, many of them Indian
:. -. There are three different types /
80 schools, non-reservation boardir
schools, reservation boarding school
and reservation day schools TT
;. reservation boarding schools are tt
lies most popular because the childre
lay can 60 home Week-ends and hol
s days and help raise the STANDARD
Irs. of their families, and develop the
and as they are developed.
and Mrs. Crane then spoke of tt
arts school, Flandreau Indian Vocation
ing al High School, in which she h
ing, worked as p member OF the sta
of There are about $50 students and
and or so staff members. Everyone
ige. the staff teaches something the COZ
core teaches cooking, the laundre
lar commercial laundering, etc Abo
rice one half of the time is devoted
Mrs vocational training and their &C
'lei- demic work is aligned with thu
esh- trade work. For boys they ha
the courses in dairying, agricultu
carpentry, welding, stationary a
- electrical engineering, etc. They G
SO well trained that they ney
fail because of lack of skill, or
occasionally because of lack of :
cial adjustment. Girls may ia
cosmetology, power machine Sc
ing, commercial cooking (the eli
runs tea room at the SCHOOL, pr
teal nursing, etc.
About $250,000 is spent each ys
fer higher education, about S59,t
of it for college work, the rest
vocational training They hs
scholarship loan funds for those w
special abilities and placement, |
reaus and part-work part-school