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Shingwauk Home in Sault de Ste Marie 

 from Oct. 1878, till Sept. 1879. A fort- 

 nightly paper called lite Indian was pub- 

 lishe<l at Hagersville, Ont., from Dec. ;W, 

 1885, till Dec. 29, 1886, the editor beingthe 

 chief Kahkewaquonaby (Dr Peter E. 

 Jones). Although it was printed mainly 

 in English, some Chippewa articles were 

 included. There were, moreover, two 

 periodicals in English edited by the Rev. 

 E. F. Wilson, one entitled Our Forest 

 Childrev, published monthly at the 

 Shingwauk Home from Feb. 1887, to 

 Sept. 1890, and the other entitled The 

 Canadian Indian, published monthly at 

 Owen Sound, Ont., from Oct. 1890, to 

 Sept. 1891. Beginning with Mar. 1896, 

 the publication of "a monthly journal 

 [chiefly in Chippewa language] devoted 

 to the interests of the Franciscan missions 

 among the Ottawa and Chippewa In- 

 dians," under the title Anishinahe Ena- 

 miad, was commenced at Harbor Siprings, 

 Mich., by Father Zephyrin Engelhardt, 

 and is still conducted by the Franciscan 

 fathers at that place. 



The periodicals of the Creek and Choc- 

 taw Indians begin with the one called 

 Our Monthly, printed almost entirely in 

 Muskogee, of which the first volume was 

 issued in manuscript in 1870-72. From 

 Jan. 187;^, to Oct. 1875, the numbers were 

 printed at Tullahasse, Creek Nation, 

 the editors being the Rev. W. S. and 

 Miss A. A. Robertson. A weekly news- 

 paper, Tlie Vindicator, "devoted to the 

 interests of the Choctaws and Chicka- 

 saws," printed mostly in English, with 

 occasional articles in Choctaw, was started 

 at Atoka, Ind. T., in 1872. This paper 

 was united with the Oklahoma Star about 

 1877 and was continued as the Star Vindi- 

 cator at McAlester, Ind. T. In May 

 1876, another weekly newspaper, entitled 

 Indian Journal, was started at Muscogee, 

 Ind. T., and published in English and 

 Muskogee. This paper was at one time 

 the ofiicial organ of the Creek Nation. 

 Our Brother in Red, first a monthly and 

 afterward a weekly paper, printed in 

 English, Muskogee, and Choctaw, was 

 published at Muscogee, Ind. T., from 

 1882 to 1889 or later. A newspaper called 

 The Indian Champion, "Official Paper of 

 the Choctaw Nation," written in Eng- 

 lish and Choctaw, was published weekly 

 at Atoka, Ind. T., beginning in 1884, 

 but was discontinued at the close of 

 1885. The Indian Missionar-y, a monthly 

 paper in English, Choctaw, and Musko- 

 gee, was begun at Eufaula, Ind. T., in 

 Aug. 1884, and continued at Atoka. 

 Another weekly paper, called The Munko- 

 gee Fhopnix, also printed in English, Choc- 

 taw, and IViuskogee, began to appear Feb. 

 16, 1888, at Muscogee, Ind. T. The In- 

 dian Chieftain, "devoted to the interests 

 of the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, 



Seminoles, Creeks, and all other Indians 

 of the Indian Territory," was published 

 weekly at Vinita, Ind. T., from 1882 to 

 1888. The Indian Herald was published 

 weekly at Pawhuska, Osage Nation, Ind. 

 T., from 1875 to 1877 or later. The In- 

 dian Moccasin, published monthly at 

 Afton, Ind. T., by Jeremiah Hubbard, a 

 native Indian, was begun in Jan. 1893, 

 and continued through 1894. 



Four periodicals printed by the Indian 

 missions near the Pacific coast are worthy 

 of mention. One of these. The YoutIt,''s 

 Companion, of which the Rev. J. B. Bou- 

 let was editor, a juvenile monthly maga- 

 zine, published for the benefit of the 

 Puget Sound Catholic mission, was set in 

 type, printed, and in i)art was written by 

 the pupils of the industrial boarding 

 schools on the Tulalip res. in Snohomish 

 CO., Wash., from May 1881, to May 1886. 

 Another, the Kamloops Wmra, is a little 

 magazine in the Chinook jargon, written 

 in stenographic characters reproduced l)y 

 a mimeograph, published irregularly by 

 Father J. M. R. Le Jeune at Kamloops, 

 British Columbia, from iSIav 1891, to 

 Dec. 1904. Another is Tlte 'Paper ih<d 

 Narrates, a monthly printed for two years 

 at Stuart's Lake, Brit. Col., in the D^ne 

 syllabic characters invented by Father 

 A. G. Morice, the first number of which 

 appeared in Oct. 1891. The fourth is 

 Hagaga, printed in Nass and English at 

 Aiyansh Mission, Nass r., Brit. Col., 

 from June 1893 until at least as late as 

 Feb. 1895. 



Several Indian periodicals have been 

 published at the Indian Industrial School 

 at Carlisle, Pa., among them being Eadle 

 Keahtah Toh, monthlv, Jan. 1880, to Mar. 

 1882; School Neirs, monthly, June 1880, 

 to May 1883, edited first by Samuel 

 Townsend, a Pawnee boy, and later by 

 Charles Kihega, an Iowa Indian boy; 

 The Morning Star, monthlv, Apr. 1882, to 

 Dec. 1887; The Fed Jl/an, "monthlv, Jan. 

 1888, to June 1900; The Indian 'Helper, 

 weekly, Aug. 14, 1885, to July 6, 1900; 

 the last two were consolidated under the 

 name The Red Man and Helper, published 

 weekly from July 13, 1900, to Julv 29, 

 1904; The Arrow, weekly, Sept. 1, i904, 

 and still issued. 



Of a kindred nature are The Moqui Mis- 

 sion Messenger, established by Rev. C. P. 

 Coe, missionary among the Hopi of Ari- 

 zona, and published first at the Hopi mis- 

 sion in typewriting on a manifolding ma- 

 chine in Jan. 1894, then printed atChicago 

 until Apr. 1895; The Indian SchoolJojirnal, 

 printed bythe i)oysof theChiloccoIndian 

 Industrial School at Chilocco, Okla. ; Tlie 

 Alhnquerqiie Indian, published monthly 

 by the Albuquerque (N. Mex.) Indian 

 School, June 1905, to May 1906; The 

 Mission Indian, published monthly, later 

 semimonthly, at the Banning (Cal.) 



