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THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION 



[ETH. ANN. 14 



The following- officers were elected : Headman, Louis Yowalueh : elders, 

 Joliu Slocum, Louis Yowalueh. John Smith, James Walker, Charles 

 Walker, John W. Simmons, and William James. At this meeting the 

 following persons were also appointed ministers of this church, and 

 licenses were issued to them, to wit: Louis Yowalueh, John Slocum, 

 James Tobin, John Powers, and Richard Jackson. Provision was made 

 to establish a church at the Puyallup reservation, where the power of 

 the agent had hitherto kept them out, and William James, a Puyallup 

 landowner, gave land for a church. After much talk about sending out 

 ministers, etc, the meeting adjourned, after a two days' session, and 



Fig. 68— Shaker church at Mud bay. 



tne Shaker church, after eleven years' righting against persecutions, 

 was an established fact, free and independent, with its own officers, 

 ministers, and church property. 



"The spectacle of an Indian church with Indian officers, preachers, 

 and members, and of houses built by the Indians for church purposes, 

 was too much lor the average citizen of Puget sound, and the Shakers 

 were continually disturbed, not only by the whites, but by the Indians 

 who could not and did not appreciate the change to citizenship, so that 

 1 was constantly applied to for protection by the ministers and members 

 of the Shaker church. A 'paper' lias a great effect on the average 

 Indian, and I issued on application several papers addressed in general 

 terms to those who might be disposed to interfere with them, which had 

 a quieting effect and caused evil-disposed persons to respect the Indians 



