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  THE 
  OMAHA 
  TRIBE 
  

  

  lirrn. 
  ANN. 
  27 
  

  

  neighbors 
  are 
  today 
  held 
  in 
  grateful 
  and 
  affectionate 
  remembrance.? 
  

   The 
  church, 
  which 
  held 
  its 
  meetings 
  in 
  the 
  school 
  assembly 
  room, 
  

   numbered 
  among 
  its 
  membership 
  many 
  native 
  men 
  and 
  women. 
  

   The 
  industrious 
  and 
  orderly 
  lives 
  of 
  these 
  Christian 
  Omaha 
  

   reflected 
  the 
  earnestness 
  with 
  which 
  they 
  sought 
  to 
  apply 
  to 
  their 
  

   daily 
  lives 
  the 
  Christian 
  precepts 
  taught 
  them 
  at 
  the 
  mission 
  and 
  its 
  

   school 
  during 
  the 
  closing 
  decades 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  century. 
  In 
  1885-6 
  

   another 
  mission 
  building 
  was 
  erected 
  by 
  the 
  same 
  denomination 
  in 
  

   the 
  southern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  reservation, 
  but 
  after 
  a 
  few 
  years 
  it 
  was 
  

   abandoned. 
  About 
  this 
  time 
  a 
  church 
  (tig. 
  12(t) 
  was 
  built 
  near 
  the 
  

   agency, 
  not 
  far 
  from 
  the 
  blockhouse 
  erected 
  in 
  1864 
  to 
  protect 
  the 
  

   government 
  employees 
  from 
  Sioux 
  war 
  parties, 
  and 
  services 
  conducted 
  

   by 
  the 
  regular 
  pastor 
  are 
  still 
  held 
  in 
  this 
  edifice. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  128. 
  An 
  Omaha 
  girl, 
  a 
  " 
  Mission 
  " 
  scholar. 
  

  

  One 
  great 
  difficulty 
  beset 
  the 
  efforts 
  of 
  the 
  missionary 
  teachers; 
  

   this 
  was 
  the 
  influence 
  exerted 
  on 
  the 
  native 
  mind 
  by 
  the 
  contra- 
  

   diction 
  between 
  the 
  principles 
  taught 
  as 
  belonging 
  to 
  Christianity 
  and 
  

   the 
  conduct 
  of 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  white 
  people 
  with 
  whom 
  the 
  Indian 
  came 
  

   into 
  contact. 
  Regarding 
  all 
  white 
  persons 
  as 
  Christians, 
  he 
  natur- 
  

   ally 
  looked 
  to 
  their 
  lives 
  for 
  the 
  exemplification 
  of 
  their 
  beliefs. 
  

   The 
  Indian's 
  old 
  religion 
  taught 
  that 
  the 
  man 
  who 
  spoke 
  or 
  acted 
  

   falsely 
  was 
  in 
  danger 
  of 
  supernatural 
  punishment; 
  instances 
  were 
  

   known 
  to 
  the 
  people 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  lightning 
  stroke 
  had 
  cut 
  short 
  the 
  

   life 
  of 
  the 
  unfaithful 
  person. 
  The 
  Indian 
  was 
  now 
  brought 
  into 
  con- 
  

  

  o 
  For 
  the 
  names 
  and 
  record 
  ol 
  the 
  men 
  and 
  women 
  who 
  devoted 
  themselves 
  to 
  missionary 
  work 
  among 
  

   the 
  Omaha 
  tribe.the 
  reader 
  is 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  Innus 
  Foreign 
  and 
  Home 
  Missionsof 
  the 
  

  

  : 
  Church, 
  which 
  alt 
  has 
  ministered 
  to 
  this 
  tribe 
  

  

  

  