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their father* happen t<• have Indian blood. 
The children with white fathers, no mat¬ 
ter what degree of Indian blond flows in 
their veins, are ou the State roll. 
The work is about, the same as any 
other rural school. The three varieties of 
children get along nicely together, and 
are a bright, happy bunch, although the 
full bloods were quite a bit handicapped 
by their natural timidity and h.v not be¬ 
ing able to understand English, and for 
this reason required some extra coaehiug. 
They are exceptionally good writers, and 
have quite a talent for drawing, so in 
these two lines they exeel the white chil¬ 
dren. 
At the agency there is an office where 
the Federal business in transacted, a man¬ 
sion for the superintendent, n commis¬ 
sary (Facie Sam’s store), the dispensary. 
would have to go to boarding school, 
Hoarding school is several degrees worse 
than "day school.” and these children will 
not stud.v after reaching the third grade 
for fear that next year they will be -sent 
away. There is one “hoarding school" 
or. the reservation, and here all children 
whose bonus are too far from the “day 
school ’ are sent, and remain the entire 
school year, also all those who have com¬ 
pleted four years of work. The Govern¬ 
ment provides for all their needs in the 
way of clothing, food, laundry, etc. 
These children, especially the girls, do 
not take kindly to the civilized ways of 
dressing, jind if is verv 1mrd for them to 
discard their blankets or give up their 
long metal ear-rings, conspicuous beads 
or make their dresses anv other than 
"Indian” fashion. Last Fall tlm 
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Teaching the Indians 
Part 1 
I did not know whether to laugh or 
cry one day over a year ago; it was Au¬ 
gust when I learned that my "wheel of 
fortune" decreed that l spend the next 
year teaching district school at the agency 
of the Tongue River Reservation. I 
studied the matter pro and con from sev¬ 
eral angles, and finally decided that it 
would be both a change and a novelt,\ 
from anything I had ever known, and as 
these are always welcome in a teacher’s 
life. I accented 
Fp to the time of my coming here I 
had never seen a squaw wrapped in a 
blanket, or one with a papoose on her 
beck, and tii\ knowledge of reservations 
was meager, hut shortly after passing 
through the reservation gate I began to 
learn, mu only of tin* manners and cus¬ 
toms of these primitive people, but of 
Tilde Sam’s liberality t<> his red children 
and to his employes. This reservation is 
in Southeastern Montana, i- (io miles 
from the railroad, and is the home of 
1.400 full-blood Indians, besides the breeds 
and the Government employes. 
Most of the laud is rolling, and is env- 
oatlay is for food and clothing. 'The idea 
of the furnished home is that a Govern¬ 
ment employe is subject to transfer at 
any time, and by this arrangement they 
have only their personal belongings to 
take with them, and are spared the ex¬ 
pense of moving fit mi it lire. 
There are. in different, parts of the res¬ 
ervation. four Government schools, one 
at the Catholic mission, who care for all 
the diildren of their faith, and the other 
three are maintained by the Government. 
Two of these are termed "day schools.” 
the children staying with their parents. 
In these schools the principal is a mar¬ 
ried man. and his wife is the housekeeper, 
not only her husband’s housekeeper, but 
the school housekeeper, and each day she. 
with the help of the larger girls, prepares 
a warm dinner for the children in the 
school kitchen, the food being furnished 
by the Government. They allow a certain 
amount, and the menu can be varied as 
much as beans, bacon, beef, macaroni, 
dried fruit, potatoes, syrup and biscuit 
will permit. It is part of the prescribed 
program that the girls be taught cooking. 
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Tapical Home of Cheyenne Indians 
ered with a growth of white pine, which housekeeping and sewing, so after enjoy- 
in places is very heavy, and it is in these iug their warm dinner they are again in¬ 
forests that the lumber is obtained to do vited into the kitchen and instructed in 
tlie buildm" on the reservation, there he- dishwashing, scrubbing, washing towels, 
ing a portable sawmill owned bv the Gov- etc. During the year each girl is given 
eminent. 1 here are several little creeks the material for a dress, an apron and a 
rambling along that furnish trout to the petticoat, and with the help of the liouse- 
inhnbitants. . keeper they are expected to make these 
L he school that I teach is at the garments. I’ho housekeeper has the priv- 
agency. and is maintained for the benefit ilege of supervising the older oues. in 
of the employes’ children the mixed giving any who need it n hath or sham- 
bloods and the Indian children whose poo. and let me say light here that this 
parents desire to have their offspring is not semi-orrasionaliv. 
grow up as near civilized as their red These children will do almost anything 
skins will permit. for an excuse to Shiy away from school. 
Reservation laud is not taxable, so the beiguiug sickness is their favorite excuse 
schoo! is supported by the per capita tax and Anna Red-Cherry was afflicted with i 
iecei\ ed fnmi tho Stutp Au*i th© tuition the* mumps About thro© tim©s u year, and 
money of • cents a dny tbnt is paid by was out of school from three to live weeks 
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The Cheyenne Mothers 
the Government for the schooling of each 
full-blood and for the mixed bloods it' 
each time, until finally she was told that 
the imimos must In* ft \ l*tri if fi*ti ulixk 
the public school, the ”<iu\ *’ school, the 
hotel, mill and about 2u cottages, which 
are partly furnished, and are for the use 
of the employes, free gratis. We also re¬ 
ceive our fuel, both coal and wood, our 
electricity, ice, doctor’s care and any 
drugs that we may need are given us 
from the dispensary ; so that the only 
mont sent each girl a pretty tarn and a 
nice coat, hoping to discourage the 
blanket, but after a very few days these 
girls invented all sorts of excuses for not 
wearing their wraps, and welcomed the 
eold weather, that they might go back to 
the blanket. uobotuy pay. ’ 
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