Edith H. Allen
Capitolo 50
small poor house and it on which the few belongingses of the family have loaded
the sleigh of ox.
"The silence to that she knew it was more acceptable understanding the
child-woman of tearless that words would have been, it was only broken
when they was being standing on the footsteps above of the stream. Then the
words were interrupted by their child-mother.
"'It is now late to help this but ef yo' all as soon as they will see
what a school there is here where my children can learn that that them
dad a' me a' Jim didn't know, a' you/he/she will hold the agoin of the meetin'
to the scholastic building so they will know how me to be good I will be mighty
gladiolus. These here the small fellerses called Jim a' Andy, also the yo' knows,
a' I want 'em to hev more than a chanct that we have hed. Them the destinies
of us on here thet hed in us a great great feelin' of wantin' to be
somethin' and to some-become bald' that we didn't know that that neither as,
'n' I guess us we become sometimes thinkin unwise' it is not use.'"
[The footnote: Alma C. Moore--the Board of Christian Women of Missions.]
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The detailed one and comprehensive relationship of the Commissioner of
Indian business, issued in January, 1915 emphasized the desirability
of the presence of Indian children to near-from public schools, to
resolves the separation of dreaded from parents that they are involved when
they has to be expeditious from the government to Indian and distant schools of boarding.
The relationship mentions the gratifying increase last year in the number
of Indian children in presence in the district public schools.
Some tribes are particularly instructively still neglected. The
Navajos is an evident example.
Twenty-four thousand Indian children remain without schools.
Religious motive enters deeply in the psychology of the
Indian, and any greater stimulus toward you improve living you/he/she can be given
theirs that the Christianity allows him. Therefore the Mission School is
he/she especially adopted to bring the Indians useful and positive