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  FLESCHE 
  1 
  

  

  RECENT 
  HISTORY 
  

  

  627 
  

  

  making 
  their 
  way 
  to 
  the 
  capital, 
  where 
  the 
  treaty 
  of 
  1854 
  was 
  executed. 
  

   Within 
  the 
  next 
  three 
  years 
  the 
  Omaha 
  left 
  Bellevue 
  and 
  turned 
  their 
  

   faces 
  northward 
  toward 
  their 
  reservation 
  but 
  before 
  leaving 
  they 
  

   donated 
  a 
  square 
  mile 
  of 
  land 
  to 
  the 
  Presbyterian 
  Mission, 
  on 
  which 
  

   Bellevue 
  College 
  stands 
  today. 
  

  

  The 
  Mission 
  

  

  In 
  1S57 
  the 
  Presbyterian 
  Mission 
  followed 
  the 
  tribe 
  and 
  the 
  next 
  

   year 
  a 
  large 
  stone 
  structure 
  erected 
  for 
  its 
  use 
  w 
  T 
  as 
  completed. 
  The 
  

   mission 
  house 
  (fig. 
  127) 
  stood 
  on 
  a 
  bench 
  overlooking 
  the 
  Missouri 
  river. 
  

   Behind 
  it 
  rose 
  the 
  bluffs; 
  below 
  it 
  stretched 
  a 
  broad 
  bottom 
  heavily 
  

   timbered 
  in 
  some 
  parts 
  and 
  opening 
  out 
  here 
  and 
  there 
  into 
  wide 
  

   savannahs. 
  In 
  this 
  ample 
  building 
  a 
  boarding 
  and 
  day 
  school 
  was 
  

  

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  HBH! 
  

  

  

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  Fig. 
  127. 
  Ttie 
  old 
  " 
  Mission,' 
  1 
  now 
  fallen 
  to 
  decay. 
  

  

  maintained. 
  The 
  assembly 
  hall 
  served 
  as 
  a 
  chapel. 
  The 
  missiona- 
  

   ries 
  and 
  their 
  families 
  dwelt 
  in 
  the 
  house, 
  and 
  the 
  Omaha 
  children 
  

   were 
  thus 
  brought 
  under 
  their 
  immediate 
  care. 
  The 
  children 
  were 
  

   all 
  given 
  English 
  names, 
  most 
  of 
  which 
  remain 
  until 
  the 
  present 
  time, 
  

   having 
  become 
  the 
  accepted 
  names 
  of 
  families 
  and 
  appearing 
  on 
  

   the 
  land 
  patents. 
  For 
  nearly 
  thirty 
  years 
  this 
  mission 
  school 
  was 
  

   kept 
  up, 
  being 
  in 
  general 
  faithfully 
  and 
  effectively 
  managed. 
  The 
  

   children 
  were 
  taught 
  to 
  speak, 
  read, 
  and 
  write 
  English. 
  The 
  boys 
  

   were 
  instructed 
  in 
  farming 
  and 
  the 
  care 
  of 
  stock, 
  the 
  girls 
  (see 
  fig. 
  

   128) 
  in 
  cooking 
  and 
  the 
  making 
  of 
  garments. 
  The 
  work 
  accom- 
  

   plished 
  by 
  these 
  missionaries 
  has 
  been 
  of 
  lasting 
  benefit 
  to 
  the 
  

   people 
  and 
  the 
  teachers 
  and 
  workers 
  who 
  so 
  assiduously 
  labored 
  to 
  

   prepare 
  the 
  Omaha 
  to 
  live 
  among 
  their 
  rapidly 
  increasing 
  white 
  

  

  