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Show PINE RIDGE INSTITUTE, PINE RIDGE S. DAK. THE INDIANRI'QSE T. [RALPH P. STllmON.1 The right referred to in this paper is not the right to rations or annnities, but the right tociti'renship. Only w~rhin the past fuw years has it been sought to brine him in touch with the hiaher order of things. Tho agencies aiming at the lndib's good have l~ukedc ooperati,,n. Let th&instrumeits of oivilirati~lnb e worthy and let nooneof them take to himsel€ thosolerredit of what may hedone. It 1s !he onitication of uunloae and of action wc would orce. Cooperation is the i&ret of success in allAm&ters commercial, and the sameis true of our attempts at education. [W. J. Davrs.1 In looking hack over the years since the first day school was opened to the pres-ent time we see a great, improvement in the Indiana in their manner of living and in their manner of dress. The theo of Indian education is the "prepara-tion of Indip youth for the duties, plizegm, and respons!bilities of American citizenshi This can not be done b merely teaching Engl~sho,r by any amount of manna?~abor. Onr teaching shonTd be one of example rather than precept. The day school should be an industrial school, noc for the mere doing of tho work, hut for the teaching of the children how to do: None of the school work should he done at the school that the parents are wllllng to do at home. When onr children of ,the camp have reached that point where they send their children from home looklng neat, w~ t ha 11 combed, fams and clothes clean, we can truly say we have accomplished a great deal. Let us then not make the school a workshop for the camp, but let us make the camp do its own work, leaving as free to teach the things they can not do them-selves. And let ns as conscientious men and women do all we can under present conditions, laboring patiently and earnestly along the lines laid down for ns. The paper was discussed by Mr. S. A.M. Yonng, who stated that the day school isdoing a great work and that he has falm m it. WEAT THINQS ARE NEEDFUL. [WImIAX x. ~ R B O A . ] One needful thing to be taught to the Indian ia that he must he entirely self-reliant. To get that fact well impressed will take at lesst a generation and more probably two generations. This ia not a sew idea, but it is one that should per-meate every bit of teaching in every Incan school. Every pnpil should he tsught to depend upon himself entirely. "Whatever your hand findeth to do, 9 it with all thy might." It hss been my sad experience that he w11l do as l~t t lea s hecan mthont beins called to acconnt. This is more true with reference to manual work than mth mental. Closely akin to this lack is the distaste for doing the same thing over and over. To be able to look ahead and choose the highest good is another thing needful. By this I mean the a h ~ l ~ttoy act upon reflection. It is not for ns to show him the consequences of hi* act to shield him from pnniahment, bnt to lead him to see for himself, and havmg choaen, to accept the ills that may come mthout complaint. The value of money to an Indian is bnt a shadow of an idea. He knows that he 500 |
