n- I think hard to take children awayKiowa Agency. When I got there I saw a great m any!from Pareids—they must feel bad because they can’t allIndians around the Agent’s house. They looked at me \ understand why, but by and by they will know it is allbut they could not tell who I was. Well, I went in the jfor Eood
"it'ss for your own good"
You are so busy, just likea crow, never long time in one place you stay ; but Ihope now you can rest a little
Such a sweet greeting
Day8 and days they taught us. I cannot forget it andway—so they can help themselves and do better !1 wish 1 was very rich aild could P«Y th em ; but I knowYour truly, !they do 80 because they are full of faith in God andEtahdleuh Doanmoe. j faithful.
IT's interesting that kids don't seem to have a recognition for the bad things that happen to them. He seems to be joyful and grateful for all that he is learning, while just afew sentences earlier he's concerned he might forget all languages entirely, thereby losing the means to express himself. OF course, it should be noted that he's just a kid and perhaps exagerrating, but it still does raise some concerns
I forgeta number of them, but after disappointed, so I got only more every day Cheyenne and Kiowa, and can’t speakfifteen. They are now at Carlisle Barracks at; school !£ood Enghsh, so I am afraid that after while I cannotWhen I was at Fort Sill, I seeked all about what the talk any kind of languag
lThis is sad that he's forgetting his own language and doesn't even have a grasp on English. Language is a big part of our identity and who we are so this is depressing
Even the poorest Soil can be converted to usefulness by patient toil and perseveringeffort and with God nothing is impossible
Yay god overcomes all soil
If the soil isrocky or covered with thistles and thorny shrubs, thefirst work of the careful husbandman is to removethese drawbacks to the best growth of the seed he Re-sires to sow and he then introduces fertilizers, strengthens the soil and when all is ready, plants. Many athistle and thorny plant has deep seated roots in thehearts of our savage pupils and it is only by patient andpersevering effort that we can hope to eradicate themand fit the soil for receiving the good seed, whichwill bring forth fruit meet for repentance
Reminiscent of the parable of the sower
The pleasure anddelight the little girls take in learning anything new,and their great desire to excel the larger girls, is remarkable. They are so young they have not learnedas yet to conceal from their faces the feelings in theirhearts, and so it beams right out in their blight eyesand smiling lips. Not many days ago several of the littie girls, without a suggestion from any . one, took itupon themselves to mend the stockings of the largegirls, who were at work in the dining room, and considering their age and experience, they were wellmended.
This really isn't a bad thing. But it does show that the girls are sweet and moldable.
but don't we all "indoctrinate" our kids-- teaching and instruction, from the archaic definition... perhaps not though because the key part of hte regular definition is the "uncritically" part
Their hearts are very tender, and easily workedupon,
:( imagine having a sweet trait like tenderheartedness and having your kindness weaponized against you. big rip
Our treaty promises are toteach all children elementary English. This carriedout would remove all Indian troubles very speedily.Indians who send their children to school do not warnor continue' in savagely.
This begs the question of what it means to be savage. Is that word just meant to be wielded as a weapon (weaponized) against people who are different and have other values? Against people who don't have clear interested in learning something new?
Because it seems that the word "savage" is just used to describe someone different and to incite fear. But it is truly more savage that we would take someone from their family and indoctrinate them with a new religion. If this were done to someone who is a christian, then white people would have a giant outcry. And rightfully so, as each person should have the right to practice their own religion. But it begs the question, what is it about christianity that makes people think they are able to commit these crimes against others? Why do they assume such superiority? Is it the nature of the religion or the "darkened hearts" of the people who claim it?
Or I suppose we should explore the claim that the Christians make. Suppose that their religion is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and that all they are doing is trying to save someone else from hell.
Old joke: indian with missionary: so if i didn't know about jesus, then i would go to heavan by default? missionary: yes indian: so why did you tell me about jesus
Eighty-five per cent of our white population, left without school privileges and Christian light,would be a serious, not to say disastrous, drawback onour civilization, and in like manner will the same proportion affect the Indians.
Why
If Indians everbecome able to cope with the whites in the affairs ofour civilization they will reach that state through thesame educational training the whites attain theircapacity.
Interesting that the reverse isn't true. Just that indians have to learn about whites and not the other way around. It seems like this is something we deal with a lot in today's education
making the best of the advantages they
Never consideed what they could learn from indians. Just thought that they shouldl be grateful that they get to learn.
The faces of nearly allwere painted, their arms adorned with bracelets, andtheir ears weighed down by rings or elk-teeth pendants.Some were wrapped in gaily embroidered blankets;others were happy in the possession of jackets orbreastplates heavy with embroidery or elk- teeth. Allwere eager to learn, but it was soon evident that thebarber and tailor must take precedence in the work ofcivilization.
WHy do thye need to change their clothes to learn? Interesting that people saw them like they were at the circus. Sure, some people hadn't seen indians before so there's an aspect of understanding it from that point of view, but ultimately, there's a judgement that white is right, and whatever they're doing is not that.
they are happyand cheerful in the performance of all their duties
OF course they are! THye're just kids
Instead of educating soldiersto go to the western plains to destroy with powder andball, it is proposed now to train at this institution a• corps of practical, educated, and Christian teachers
Interesting that they would recognize that this is a new way to kill someone. "If I killed someone for you" by alec benjamin... thinking about how they don't need to kill someone with guns but just by changing every part of who they are
kill the indian, save the man
Light is surely breaking
Shows that white pople had a low view of indians. This is a continuation of the metaphor of light and dark, good vs evil, white man versus indian
o mend a plow or other tool; to make a chair, a table, the Lord’s Vineyard—“Sound the loud timbrel.” Wea house; to explain when and in what kind of soil tofeel our hearts throb with delight, while looking uponplant, and how to cultivate their lands. The girls willjthe breaking of the warm light of God’s love throughbe able to sew, to cut and make clothes, tq do all kinds the black clouds of superstition, which have forof house-work and their part of the duties pertaining tofarm life. These things must be taught to them practically, and to do so effectually requires the establishment of separate departments devoted especially tojple all over the world.many years darkened the hearts of our red brothersand shut them out from, the full enjoyment of the
I thought, at one point, that theye were just being helpful , teaching them how to do things like make clothes and use tools, and to an extent, some of these things might have been beneficial. However, when I thought this, I didn't consider the fact that the Indians lived for so long without any of these things. Who's to say that they needed any of those instructions? They probably could have one wouthout them
The pupils have joined the Sunday Schools of the differentchurches in the city, and are beginning to respond tothe earnest and kindly efforts of the teachers to instillinto their darkened minds Christian truths, and a desire to seek God and to know His word
Growing up, I considered something like this to be honorable and right. I remember the story of Jim Elliot, thinking about how the "savages" killed him and how wrong that what. And thinking about how he was just trying to moralize them. They did, after all, only wear clothes around their most private parts. And I think there's a small part of me that still thinks "it's nice that they did this for them! They just wanted them to be better". But if I dig deeper and think about what it means to be "better" according to the white people, I realize most of this is rooted in a white superiority complex and points to some very deep issues. Their "Darkened minds" might benefit from the love of Christ, but you don't show love to someone by stripping them of all that makes them them.