[6] TREASURER'S REPORT.
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RECEIPTS FROM NOVEMBER 1, 1873, TO OCTOBER 31, 1874.
Offering at the Anniversary meeting in Church of the Transfiguration--$151.13
Church of the Transfiguration, for Mission at Choteau Creek--$600.00
Church of the Ascension, for support of one lady--$500.00
Church of the Holy Communion (of which for half support of one
lady, $250;
to constitute the Rector a Life Member, $100)--$372.00
St. Mark's Church, for half support of one lady--$250.00
Sunday-school of St. Luke's Church, Rossville, S. I.--$15.50
Church of the Holy Apostles, two scholarships--$120.00
Calvary Church, towards support of one lady--$378.00
Grace Church, for salary of one lady--$300.00
Christ Church Mission Sunday-school, one scholarship--$60.00
Christ Church, A member, towards scholarship--$30.00
St. Michael's Church--$24.47
Trinity Chapel, towards support of one lady--$250.00
S. Bartholomew's Church, towards support of one lady--$371.00
Sunday-school of Zion Church, towards scholarship--$30.00
Mrs. J. J. Astor, one scholarship--$60.00
Mr. D. A. Cushman, three Life memberships--$300.00
Mrs. Samuel Wetmore, one scholarship--$60.00
Miss M. S. Mortimer, one Scholarship--$60.00
St. Stephen's Church, special, towards stone for Minnehaha's
grave--$10.00
Mr. D. A. Cushman, special, for rewards--$10.00
Part of proceeds of Children's Fair, Prospect Park House, Catskill
(per Mrs. Nash)--$50.00
Contributions for Dakota Prayer Book, etc. (see opposite page)--$1,849.62
Annual subscriptions and donations--$337.25
Honorary Memberships--$57.00
TOTAL--$6,245.97
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid Bishop Hare, Mr. D. A. Cushman's gift--$10.00
Paid for printing, stationery and postage--$32.25
Paid into the treasury of the Indian Commission--$6,203.72
TOTAL--$6,245.97
R. C. ROGERS,
Treasurer.
[7] CONTRIBUTIONS FOR DAKOTA PRAYER BOOK, ETC.
Grace Church, New York--$900.04
Church of Incarnation, New York--$122.58
Church of Holy Apostles, members--$65.00
Church of Ascension, members--$55.00
Calvary Church, members--$50.00
St. Thomas' Church, Sunday-school--$33.50
Church of Annunciation, members--$30.00
Church of Holy Communion, members--$18.00
St. Stephen's Ladies' Aid Society--$10.00
St. Michael's Church, members--$3.00
Wm. Astor, Jr., per Miss Morris--$150.00
Miss Fanny Morris--$100.00
J. J. Astor, for printing press--$50.00
Miss Eliza Jay, Mrs. N. E. Baylies, Miss Howland. Each $25--$75.00
Geo. Betts, W. W. Astor, Mrs. J. J. Astor, each $20--$60.00
Mrs. Geo. Pell, a friend (per Mrs. Gracie), Miss M. S. Mortimer,
Samuel Wetmore,
Each $10--$40.00
Mrs. John Warren, Miss Mary S. Jones, Miss Minturn, Miss M. C.,
Miss S. Lawrence,
Miss E. M. Cotheal, Mr. A. J. Cotheal, Miss M. A. Tomes, a Lady,
Mr. Williams, Mrs. Boerum, each $5--$55.00
Per Miss Morris--$4.00
Mrs. Havemeyer--$2.50
Miss Fanny Cotheal--$1.00
Mrs. Loyd Aspinwall, per Mrs. Astor, for printing press--$25.00
TOTAL $1,849.62
CONTINGENT FUND
of the "Niobrara League," for special objects mentioned
in the letters from the Missionaries and Sisters at the different
stations under the jurisdiction of the Right Rev. Bishop Hare,
and also at the White Earth Reservation, under the Right Rev.
Bishop Whipple. This fund is independent of the general subscriptions
for the Niobrara League.
RECEIPTS FOR 1873-'74.
Church of All Angels--$12.00
Zion Church, through Mrs. Gardner--$10.00
Sunday-school of the Ascension--$11.15
Contributed by individuals--$193.94
TOTAL $227.09
EXPENDITURES.
Box for Mrs. Selby at White Earth--$56.27
Box for Bishop Whipple Hospital--$30.15
Box for Mrs. Hinman, Santee Mission, including Washing Machine--$
34.00
Box for St. Paul's School, Yankton--$89.67
Freight on boxes--$14.25
Balance on hand--$2.75
TOTAL $227.09
Mrs. E. H. RICHARDS,
Treasurer.
MRS. EDWARD OOTHOUT, MRS. WILLIAM P. LEE, MRS. THEO. TIMPSON,
Committee
[8] BOARD OF MANAGERS
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Officers.
President.
MRS. JOHN JACOB ASTOR, 338 Fifth Avenue..
Vice-President.
Miss FANNY MORRIS, 111 East 29th Street..
Recording Secretary.
Miss HELEN BEACH, 226 Second Avenue.
Corresponding Secretary.
Miss MARY ABBOT EMERY, 21 Bible House..
Treasurer.
REV. ROBERT C. ROGERS, 30 Bible House.
Chaplain.
Rev. G. H. HOUGHTON, D. D., 1 East 29th Street.
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Delegates.
CHURCH OF ALL ANGELS.
Mrs. Hoffman, 56 West 53d Street.
Mrs. Dr. Jas. L. Adams, 29 West 79th Street..
CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION.
Miss Coates, 112 West 11th Street.
Miss Sarah Wisner, 18 West 12th Street..
ANTHON MEMORIAL CHURCH.
Mrs. Wm. Tracy, 326 Fifth Avenue.
Mrs. Tappan, East 63d Street.
Miss Van Wyck, 70 West-49th Street.
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION.
Mrs. Lloyd Aspinwall, 25 East 10th Street
Miss S. E. Minton, 204 West 14th Street.
CALVARY CHURCH.
Mrs. John Warren, 41 Bond Street.
Mrs. Daniel Le Roy, 20 West 23d Street.
[9] CHRIST CHURCH.
Mrs. Hugh Miller Thompson, 48 West 35th Street.
Mrs. Chandler White, 32 East 35th Street.
GRACE CHURCH.
Mrs. Henry C. Potter, 804 Broadway.
Mrs. Samuel Wetmore, 15 Waverly Place.
GRACE CHAPEL.
Mrs. Wm. J. Burgess, 48 East 21st Street.
Mrs. John J. Folsom, 300 East 9th Street.
CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY REST.
Miss Howland, 3 East 45th Street.
Mrs. Throop, 51 West 45th Street.
CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES.
Miss Lundy, 345 West 32d Street.
Miss Goffe, 355 West 34th Street.
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.
Mrs. Melville Brown, 48 West 52d Street.
Mrs. Julius Wadsworth, 17 East 41st Street.
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HARLEM.
Mrs. Mills, 11 East 12th Street.
CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION.
Mrs. E. H. Richards, 113 East 30th Street.
Mrs. J. K. Gracie, 262 Fourth Ave.
CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION.
Mrs. Farragut, 113 East 36th Street.
Mrs. H. M. Morris, 49 West 38th Street.
CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER.
Mrs. George D. Bleything, 135 East 78th Street.
Mrs. J. Halsted, 135 East 78th Street.
ST. ANN'S CHURCH.
Mrs. E. D. Nelson, 47 West 25th Street.
Mrs. James Bettner, 11 East 28th Street.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH.
Mrs. Jonathan Edwards, 11 West 47th Street.
Mrs. Henry Lewis Morris, 12 West 53d Street.
ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH.
Mrs. Lawrence, 16 Irving Place.
Miss E. McVickar, 11 East 12th Street
[10] CHURCH OF ST. MARK'S IN THE BOWERY.
Mrs. Edward Oothout, 79 Clinton Place.
Mrs. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 246 East 15th Street.
ST. MATTHIAS' CHURCH.
Miss Sarah J. Cornwall, 141 West 49th Street.
ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH.
Miss L. Peters, Boulevard and 101st Street.
Miss Isabel S. Davis, Boulevard and 105th Street.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.
Mrs. Charles C. Haight, 56 West 26th Street.
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH.
Mrs. F. C. Hall, 245 West 48th Street.
Miss L. C. Hall, 245 West 48th Street.
ST. THOMAS' CHURCH.
Mrs. J. C. Morris, 157 West 13th Street.
Miss Smith, 43 Bond Street.
CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION.
Mrs. Sidney Harris, 125 East 35th Street.
Mrs. Van Renssalaer Cruder, 112 East 35th Street.
TRINITY CHURCH.
Mrs. Gouverneur M. Ogden, 81 West 11th Street.
Mrs. Miltenberger. 244 East 13th Street.
Miss Robb, 244 East 13th Street.
TRINITY CHAPEL.
Mrs. Pellew, 18 West 33d Street.
Mrs. Win. P. Lee, 326 Fifth Avenue.
ZION CHURCH.
Mrs. Gardner, 123 East 36th Street.
Miss Stewart, 135 East 46th Street.
[11] Life Members.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mr. W. W. Astor, Mr. D. A. Cushman,
Mrs. D. A. Cushman, Mrs. Geo. E. Wright, Miss Ferguson, Mrs.
James T. Waters, Rev. Francis E. Lawrence.
Honorary Members.
Mr. John J. Astor, Mr. James G. Baldwin, Mr. George Betts,
Mr. A. J. Cotheal, Mr. A. W. Fraser, Mr. Fleming, Mr. J. K. Gracie,
Mr. F. C. Hall, Mr. Wm. Dehon King, Mr. Herman Kobbe, Mr. D.
LeRoy, Mr. Duane Pell, Mr. G. A. Robbins, Mr. Samuel Wetmore,
Mr. Williams
List of Members.
Mrs. Abbatt, Mrs. M. H. Aldrich, Mrs. J. Henry Adams, Mrs.
F. B. Austin, Mrs. C. C. Allen,
Mrs. Lloyd Aspinwall, Mrs. Dr. J. L. Adams,
Mrs. N. P. Bailey, Mrs. N. E. Baylies, Mrs. John Beck, Mrs.
Bishop, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Boerum,
Mrs. George Bowdoin, Miss Bowdoin, Miss Kate Bond, Mrs. J. Carter
Brown, 2d, Miss Brown, Miss M. A. Brown, Miss N. W. Brown, Miss
Bronson, Mrs. Burkle, Miss Burkle, Miss S. F. Bunce, Mrs. Butterworth,
Mrs. Burnett, Mrs. Wm. J. Burgess, Mrs. Melville Brown, Mrs.
James Bettner, Miss Beach,
Mrs. C. A. Cammann, Mrs. Cannon, Mrs. J. E. Connor, Mrs. E.
W. Coates, Mrs. Birdsell Cornell, Miss Collins, Miss E. M. Cotheal,
Miss Fanny Cotheal, Miss K. Cotheal, Mrs. Samuel Cooke, Mrs.
Cobb, Miss Cobb, Mrs. Julia A. Coles, Mrs. Chanler, Mrs. C. Curtin,
Miss M. H. Curtin, Mrs. Crocker, Mrs. D. J. Crain, The Misses
Crocker, Miss Crane, Miss Coates, Miss S.. J. Cornwall, Mrs.
V. R. Cruger,
Mrs. J. M. Davis, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Duyckinck, Miss Delafield,
Mrs. C. D. Dickey, Miss Davenport, Miss Isabel S. Davis,
Mrs. Jonathan Edwards, Miss Emery, Miss Elmendorf, Miss M.
E. Ely, Mrs. Emmet
[12] Mrs. Farragut, Mrs. F. A. Hall, Mrs. John J. Folsom,
Mrs. John Farish, Mrs. L. Farragut, Mrs. Field, Mrs. F. P. James,
Mrs. C. de P. Field, Mrs. E. Foster, Mrs. Fowler, Miss Fowler,
Mrs. Flint, Mrs. Fry, Mrs. Fyffe,
Mrs. A. Galot, Mrs. R. Gardner, Mrs. Geo. N. Gardner, Mrs.
Gerry, Miss Gerry, Mrs. Geer, Mrs. Gibbes, Mrs. Goelet, Miss
Almy Gifford, Mrs. G. D. H. Gillespie, Mrs. M. E. Greene, Mrs.
E. A. Gordon, Miss Greenwood, Miss Goffe, Mrs. J. K. Gracie,
Mrs. Gardner,
Mrs. F. C. Hall, Miss L. C. Hall, Mrs. Sidney Harris, Mrs.
C. C. Haight, Mrs. Hoffman, Miss Howland, Miss C. J. Hamilton,
Miss Hamilton, Miss Heyser, Miss Holister, Miss Heywood, Miss
Kittie Hunt, Mrs. Havemeyer, Mrs. W. G. Hunt, Miss Hadden, Miss
M. F. Hadden, Miss A. Hadden, Mrs. A. D. Hart, Mrs. D. B. Haight,
Miss L. F. Hall, Mrs. Alexander Holland, Mrs. S. S. Homans, Mrs.
Hammersley, Mrs. Hooker,
Mrs. Iselin, Miss Eliza Jay, Miss Cornelia Jay, Miss Mary
S. Jones, Miss Kearney, Miss Ellen Kemble, Miss Keighley,
Mrs. Daniel LeRoy, Miss Kitty Livingston, Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs.
Leonard, Miss Lyde, Mrs. J. A. Low, Mrs. S. Lawrence, Miss Lundy,
Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs. Wm. P. Lee,
Mrs. John B. Morris, Mrs. Mottet, Mrs. Minton, Mrs. McVicar,
Mrs. A. M. Mitchell, Miss McCready, Miss Minturn, Miss Susan
McVicar, Mrs. Edward Matthews, Mrs. Wm. E. Matthews, Mrs. Henry
Morris, Mrs. McGee, Mrs. Mallett, Miss M. S. Mortimer, Miss Fanny
Morris, Miss S. E. Minton, Mrs. Mills, Mrs. H. M. Morris, Mrs.
H. L. Morris, Mrs. J. C. Morris,
Miss E. McVicar, Mrs. Miltenberger,
Mrs. Neilson, Miss Meta Neilson, Miss H. E. North, Mrs. E.
D. Nelson, Mrs. J. P. Nazro, Mrs. E. P. Nazro, Mrs. Nash
[13] Mrs. Gouverneur M. Ogden, Mrs. C. W. Ogden, Mrs. Alfred
Ogden, Mrs. Edward Oothout,
Miss Nina Prime, Miss Piffard, Miss Peabody, Miss Plucknett,
Mrs. Paine, Miss Paine, Mrs. Geo. Pell, Miss Pearsall, Miss E.
A. Prall, Miss Parker, Miss A. L. Peck, Miss S. Peck, Mrs. John
J. Petit, Mrs. H. C. Potter, Miss L. Peters, Mrs. Pellew,
Mrs. E. H. Richards, Miss Robb, Mrs. Robins, Mrs. M. A. Rogers,
Mrs. C. W. Roosevelt, Mrs. R. Roosevelt, Mrs. Rush, Miss Redmond,
Mrs. E. R. Robinson, Mrs. Jacob Reese, Mrs. Wm. Rhinelander,
Mrs. Rhoades, Miss Rhoades, Mrs. J. A. Roosevelt, Miss F. Russell,
Mrs. Roberts,
Mrs. Henry Renwick, Mrs. Wm. Remsen, Mrs. Dr. Rylance, Mrs. Henry
A. Robbins, Mrs. J. J. Roberts, Mrs. Geo. A. Robbins,
Mrs. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, Mrs. Stewart, Miss Stewart, Mrs.
Dr. Andrew H. Smith, Miss Stevens, Mrs. R. R. Stuyvesant, Mrs.
J. T. Seaman, The Misses Schermerhorn, Mrs. Schermerhorn, Mrs.
J. R. Swords, Mrs. Geo. Shea, Miss S. B. Spring, Mrs. Skidmore,
Mrs. Lucy Smith, Miss A. T. Smith, Miss C. Swords, Mrs. G. M.
Speir, Mrs. Robert Stuyvesant, Miss Kate Stuart, Mrs. Philip
J. Sands, Mrs. Schuyler Skatts, Mrs. Nathan Starr, Miss C. Sutton,
Mrs. Smith, Miss Smith, Miss Josephine Smith, Miss Stewart,
Mrs. Tinker, Miss Titus, Miss Toland, Mrs. Theodore Timpson,
Mrs. W. E. Ten Broeck, Mrs. Wm. R. Thorne, Miss M. A. Tomes,
Mrs. Wm. Tracy, Mrs. Tappan, Mrs. H. M. Thompson, Mrs. Throop,
Mrs. Van Buren, Mrs. Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Miss Voorhis, Miss
Van Wyck. Mrs. Charles S. Van Norden.
Mrs. Wilks, Mrs. John D. Wing, Mrs. Wetmore, Miss Wetmore,
Mrs. V. E. Wetmore, Miss S. T. B. Wetmore, Mrs. Gouverneur Wilkins,
Mrs. Woodworth, Mrs. Sidney Webster, Mrs. Nelson Wright, Mrs.
Wisner, Mrs. Julius Wadsworth, Mrs. Williams, Miss Sarah Wisner,
Mrs. John Warren, Mrs. Chandler White, Mrs. Samuel Wetmore.
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[14] APPENDIX.
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Extracts from the Second Annual Reports of the
Missionary Bishop of Niobrara.
"Nor would I forget how largely we have experienced the
Divine goodness in the affectionate place which GOD has led so
many of His people to give in their hearts to a Missionary work
once an outcast. To those women in Boston and Philadelphia who
nursed its infant life, and to the Dakota League
of Massachusetts, and the Indians' Hope in Philadelphia, into
which GOD has made their efforts to develop, and to the Niobrara
League in New York, and the Providence, Fairfield County, and
Baltimore Indian Aid Associations, all engaged in the work in
the field feel that they owe a debt which, I know, they could
not trust me, as I cannot trust myself, to express.
"Their gifts have put up our buildings, their own fingers
have provided covering for our scholars, their bounty has made
the Niobrara storeroom so rich a treasury of needful things that
it has been able to contribute largely to all the Missions,
and all that they have done has been marked by a heartiness
and sympathy which have multiplied the value of their benefaction
a hundred fold."
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Extracts from the Third Annual Report of the Indian
Commission to the
Domestic Committee of the Board of Missions.
ASSOCIATIONS OF CHRISTIAN WOMEN.
Special reference was made in the last Report to the active
interest taken in the Indian work by several Leagues and Associations,
which are connected with and form part of the WOMAN'S AUXILIARY
TO THE BOARD OF MISSIONS. That interest has been continued during
the past year with loving vigor and with gratifying results.
"The problem presented by such interest, on the part
of large numbers of Christian women, in this department of the
Church's Missions, is not difficult to solve. The thought of
the wrongs and neglect, of which as a nation and a Church we
have been so long suffering these Indian Tribes to be the victims;
the knowledge that a real Missionary work, marked already by
substantial fruits and giving much promise for the future, is
now in progress among considerable bodies of them; the consciousness
that quite a number of their own Christian sisters have willingly
offered themselves for work in the Indian field and are now earnestly
[14/15] engaged in this labor of love on the distant frontier:
such considerations we might expect would have--as, we thank
GOD, they are having--a powerful effect in begetting in the hearts
of Christian women that practical sympathy which so many of them
already are manifesting in behalf of the efforts for the temporal
and spiritual improvement of the Indian race.
"The Commission esteem it a privilege to put on record
here the names of the Associations in which, thus far, this sympathy
has embodied itself in organic form. They are as follows:
THE DAKOTA LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
THE INDIANS' HOPE ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA.
THE NIOBRARA LEAGUE OF NEW YORK.
THE PROVIDENCE INDIAN AID ASSOCIATION.
THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY INDIAN AID ASSOCIATION.
THE BALTIMORE INDIAN AID ASSOCIATION.
"These Associations, as already stated, are all identified
with and constitute portions of the Woman's Auxiliary to the
Board of Missions. But entire liberty of action is a characteristic
of each in its respective sphere, and hence the methods of work
adopted by them are various, each one selecting for itself the
plan whereby it can most effectually secure the desired object.
The end aimed at by all, however, is the same; viz., the furnishing
of means wherewith the Indian Commission are largely assisted
in fulfilling their obligations to the laborers in the field,
and the furnishing of liberal supplies of clothing and other
useful articles, for distribution at the Mission Stations, and
to the scholars in the Indian Schools. Thus in a two-fold way,
which includes both the work and the workers, is efficient aid
rendered by these Associations.
"During the past year these Societies, already united
by the bond of a common interest, have been drawn still more
closely together, in a sort of intercommunion, by increased frequency
of correspondence between their respective Secretaries, relating
to the plans and method of work in which the Associations are
severally engaged. The knowledge thus gained by each, of what
the Sister Societies are doing for an object which interests
all, has been of no little value in stimulating and strengthening
Christian sympathy."
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Extracts from the Second Annual Report of the Woman's
Auxiliary to the Board of Missions.
WORK FOR INDIAN MISSIONS.
"The work in aid of our Indian Missions, while in amount
it falls somewhat below the contributions thus made to the Domestic
field, in one sense far exceeds that in aid of all the other
Departments of the [15/16] Board, since a large proportion of
the offerings made in this direction, is paid at once into the
treasury of the Commission, and the balance, even if it takes
the form of "specials," proves no less a positive help
in the end, since it saves expenditures that must else be met
by a serious drain upon the funds received in other ways.
"In round numbers, the Indians' Hope of Philadelphia
reports for the year the sum of $4,700; the Dakota League of
Massachusetts, reports $3,700; the Niobrara League of New York,
$4,300; the Indian Aid Association of Baltimore, $1,000; the
Indian Aid Society of Providence, $725; the Ladies' Parish Aid
Society of Grace Church, Providence, $500; and the Indian Aid
Association of Fairfield County, Connecticut, $850--making an
aggregate, with sums contributed from time to time by Societies
not connected with either of the above organizations, of not
less than $16,000, given directly to the disposal of the Indian
Commission. In addition to these offerings, especial mention
should be made of the $1,850 raised by the Niobrara League, to
defray the expense of a new edition of the Prayer Book to be
published in the Dakota tongue, and of a printing press for the
Mission at Yankton Agency; and also of the noble contribution
of house-linen, clothing, etc., for the complete furnishing of
St. Paul's School, Yankton Agency, by the Dakota League, the
cost of material amounting to the generous sum of $2,175. Many
valuable boxes have also been provided both by the other large
Associations mentioned above, and by parish Societies not united
with them; so that the gifts of this nature add very greatly
to the more direct assistance rendered to the work through the
regularly appointed channels of the Board.
"Should criticism be provoked by the statement last made,
regarding the assistance thus given to one particular Department
over and above the rest, it seems necessary only to refer to
the Report of the Committee on Woman's Work (Proceedings of 1871,
p. 15) and quote, as an answer to the criticism, the words there
used in the suggestions offered--'The Central Committee to have
power to undertake any special work, such as that, e.g., among
the Indians.' And lest any should fear that this special
field is becoming too widely known and too extensively aided,
we would call attention to the following extract from a private
letter, written within the last month from one of our most noted
summer resorts:
"A strange thing has struck me, that, out of twenty-five
Church people from New York and Boston who have been here in
the course of the season, not one had heard of the Woman's
Auxiliary to the Board of Missions, or knew anything of the
work of the Church among the Indians."
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[17] Extracts from Letters read at the Meetings of
the Niobrara League,
from Ladies in the Indian Field.
YANKTON AGENCY, SEPTEMBER, 1873.
I am getting my Indian girls under better discipline; they
in every way serve me well, are apt to learn, do thoroughly what
I set them to do and are very susceptible to praise. M., my first
girl and mainstay, has achieved wonders, and I am getting quite
fond of her. She cannot speak a word of English and had only
been doing the rough work. She now makes very excellent bread
and biscuit, and starches and irons nicely. C., a half-breed,
speaks English perfectly and is my interpreter; she is thirteen,
and has learned to make nice bread and cookies, and is now sitting
at the table making a pretty scarlet plaid dress for herself.
I feel I cannot yet leave them to themselves. I must always be
with them, to direct, often to entreat, sometimes to scold. They
are very like little children--in many things as artless and
confiding.
Poor old F. came to-day with a sad story. She has just buried
her nephew and her daughter, is all alone in the world, and comes
to us for help and sympathy. Everything about her betokens the
deepest grief; her long black hair that is usually braided is
hanging a tangled mass. It is pitiful to see her, yet she is
only one of the many who come to us almost daily for comfort
and help.
M. E. D.
November 6, 1873. Our sewing-school has commenced.
We had last week fifty-one and to-day sixty-one. I cut two dresses
and some suits for little boys. All seem much interested in their
work, and come with clean hands and faces, dressed in their best.
C. M. K.
November 19, 1873. I find them in every way a wonderful
people; in language fluent and poetic, ever drawing images from
nature, simple and natural as children, pleased with trifles
if offered kindly, tender and affectionate, with strongest love,
and when aroused strongest hate, and withal so confiding that
you find them in your heart before you are aware. I never weary
of them, and all their little talk and ingenuousness is to me
charming.
Every day from our stores are given the rations of tea, rice,
crackers, bread, candles, and dried fruit, for the sick, and
sometimes cornstarch, arrow-root, or farina.
M. E. D.
[18] December 8, 1873. To-morrow the
school will close for the Christmas vacation of one week. I have
been more encouraged this term about this school. There has been
an average daily attendance of ten--three of my best boys will
enter the Bishop's boarding-school after Christmas.
Our tree, with the best fruit we can give it, will delight
the eyes and hearts of the children on Christmas Eve. We regret
that no graceful greens can be found near here; we have only
a coarse, dull cedar which it is almost impossible to weave.
A. M. B.
February, 1873. I have quite a class in knitting;
those who have their quilt finished begin to knit, and it is
a pleasure to teach them, they learn so readily, and seem to
like me, showing it by obedience, which is not the strong side
in their character.
It is quite a picture to overlook the room, beginning with
the darkest faces, the cheeks painted red, forehead and chin
orange and green, jet black hair parted in the middle, the parting
colored also red, with a pound's weight of brass in the ears
and the whole beauty wrapped in a red or green blanket. My eyes
stop in their wanderings on a dark figure, the hair hanging uncombed
over the not clean face. I ask her to push the hair behind her
ears, but she tells me she is in mourning for a dear one, and
it seems as if untidiness and uncleanliness pay due respect to
the dead. Again I notice a few quite civilized girls, with well-brushed
hair and lighter skin, in neat calico dress, understanding English,
though not one will venture to speak the language.
C. M. K.
February, 1874. Our scholars [in St. Paul's
School] are learning to speak English, and often astonish us
with a whole sentence, in a diffident way, and with an accent
peculiarly their own. I do not think they love the language,
and they will always speak their own when possible. Of their
books they never seem to tire. I am giving lessons on the organ
to four; two of them are very proficient, and have already mastered
the first principles. They are exceedingly fond of music, and
as I write I hear their voices, with the organ, singing some
of the chants of the Service. An Indian is their organist, and
plays very nicely.
M. E. D.
YANKTON AGENCY.
August 21, 1874. Emanuel Hall opened March 20,
1874, with the admission of four pupils, who, with the
two already in the house, formed the modest number of six with
which to begin our efforts towards establishing a school for
girls in this place. From one, a half breed who had been in the
Mission about two years, and who spoke English without difficulty,
[18/19] I expected no small assistance in the care and training
of the other girls, not only in the actual work, but as a leader
and example. I found her indolent and careless in the extreme,
slighting her work, and in many ways setting so bad an example
to the others as almost to destroy the good effect of anything
we could say to them; we tried patience until it ceased to be
a virtue; we promised wages, but all expedients failed, and she
finally took matters into her own hands by leaving the school
and going to her sister, who is married and living near us, and
who has since disciplined her severely. Her departure was a great
disappointment.
A little one, nine years of age, taken at her own request,
a remarkably bright, industrious child, we grew very fond of,
and it was a sorrow when she ran away to attend the "sun
dance," in company with a girl of fifteen, the most capable
of the six; they left May 28.
Another, a very bright child, growing tired of civilized ways,
left a few days after the others. Another, a pure Indian, is
with us still; she is rather slow, but very obliging, and being
short and stout, is harder to keep in clothes than any of the
others. The dresses which come from the East are made with waist
and skirt separate; it would be much better if they were attached.
Two sisters, from the tribe of Spotted Tail, are very nice girls;
the younger is particularly bright in her studies and in her
work; her progress in music would be remarkable in a white child;
she has had but few lessons, yet reads without difficulty; her
sister makes up in willingness and good nature what she lacks
in ability; she makes excellent bread, with which she keeps the
school supplied. A girl of fourteen and one of nine entered together
in June; they were quarter breeds; and let me say in connection
with them that the more white blood these people have the more
devotedly attached they are to flashy jewelry and showy personal
adornments; it is a singular fact that of the full-blooded Indians
who have entered this school, only one has had upon her person
the slightest approach to jewelry (and that one wore a simple
bead necklace), they seeming to consider the discarding of all
such things one of the necessary conditions of their admission
into civilized life.
During the first half year of the school there have been admitted
thirteen pupils, of whom six are now with us. As soon as cool
weather begins we expect to take in our full number, twenty.
We trust that all who are interested in the LORD'S work will
remember that we need help in order to carry out our plans.
CROW CREEK AGENCY,
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
March, 1873. I am in school every day; the school is not
very large, but the scholars are regular in attendance, and take
so much interest in their lessons that it is a pleasure to teach
them. Some are married women who bring their babies with them.
Wednesday afternoon we [19/20] have sewing-school; none of them
can sew well, but they are taking great pains. Most of them put
the point of the needle from them and push it through. Last Sunday,
at Service, there were about forty present all so quiet and reverent.
Those who have any best clothes wear them then. S_, an old woman,
is one of our regular attendants. It was a long time before I
could get her to come, and then she was full of complaints: it
made her bones ache to sit still; the next Sunday the
singing hurt her head, but now she is always there, and all
her family come. The Yellow Man is always at Service. He says
he made up his mind five years ago that Christianity was the
only hope for his people, and in that time he has made a number
of visits to Santee, always returning with a new desire that
a Missionary should be sent to his people. He has learned the
Lord's Prayer and the responses to the Litany, and always joins
in them. After Service I went to see Yellow Man's wife; she was
badly burned last November. I take or send her a good meal every
day. I think she is improving; she always looks up with a bright
smile when I go in.
A. P.
June, 1874. There has been a great change in the state
of things here, which has come on slowly and imperceptibly. Two
years ago there was not an Indian house on the Reservation; now
there are over a hundred. Many men have put on white men's clothing,
and are cultivating the ground. We had a delightful Dakota Service
yesterday. Wixi, one of the two principal chiefs, was present
with many of his young men. He has begged for church and school
at his camp. The Bishop has decided to build a chapel immediately,
and I expect to live there this winter. I shall probably go as
soon as a house is built. The camp is seven miles above the Agency,
and I shall be quite alone there. Mary Tipiskawin and her husband,
a half-breed, will live in the house with me. It has always been
my wish to live in the midst of the Indian women, for I think
I could help them to make their homes comfortable. I shall have
day-school, sewing-school, and shall visit among the Indians.
We have been very successful with our sewing-school here,
though, like all the stations, we are in need of materials. We
want muslin and calico, yarn, knitting-needles, thread, thimbles,
needles and scissors. Fourteen of my girls have been piecing
bed-quilts, and they have taken all the pieces of calico we had.
I find the women readily learn to knit, though they require assistance
in shaping a stocking. Work and workers seem to be increasing.
I think we are already years in advance of where we would have
been had not a Bishop been sent to us.
A. P.
LOWER BRULE AGENCY,
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
February, 1873. I am writing with a number of Indians
in the room. [20/21] An Indian woman has just come in with a
sick baby. We tried to wash it, but found it impossible, because
the mother would not take off the wraps which enveloped it. It
was tied up in an old shawl and a buffalo robe, and was so heavy
I could hardly lift it. Some of our scholars are very bright,
but they are so dirty. As soon as a box arrives from the East
I am going to try and have them clean and tidy in school at least.
One boy only comes with a clean face.
L. S.
March, 1873. We have very few Indians around
us now; they have nearly all moved to the camp below. The wild
Indians have been lurking around for some time. I don't suppose
they mean us any harm, but the prospect of being scalped, or
being run out of the house at night, is a very unpleasant one.
We have fifteen regular scholars still; two of them, young men
of twenty-three and twenty-seven, are just learning to spell.
I am studying Dakota now.
L. S.
PONKA MISSION.
January, 1873. I have done very little visiting lately.
The weather has been intensely cold, and the school and attending
to the calls for medicine, clothing, etc., fill up the only part
of the day when I could go out. I have just been interrupted
by an Indian woman who has begun a patchwork quilt, and now brings
her sister-in-law, who has caught the contagion, to ask for more
pieces of calico and spools of cotton. This woman and her husband
are trying very hard to improve their manner of living. Their
house is quite clean and tidy, and their walls are decorated
with numerous pictures from the Children's Guest and Harper's
Weekly. On my last visit there, a sort of wall-pocket made
of pasteboard attracted my notice. On it were colored pictures
of fruit, which on examination proved to be the labels from cans
of preserved fruit, neatly cut out and pasted on. The husband
wears a large cameo bracelet, which folly I laughed at the other
day, when he said in apology, "Yes it is true, that Ponka
men do like to wear the same ornaments that white women
do." He is so persevering in his efforts to learn English
that he attends school with the boys nearly every day. Our oldest
boy, the son of a chief, at first felt it incompatible with his
station in life to do any manner of work; but now he cuts wood
and carries it to the different rooms quite as a matter of course,
and this morning smilingly asked if he should build a fire in
the school-room.
The other evening I had occasion to reprove one of the boys
for some breach of good manners, and was amused to hear J_ say
in Ponka, "White notions are good." Has any one mentioned
J's talent for modelling in clay and putty horses, dogs, hogs,
etc.? He really does it surprisingly well. A wagon has just arrived
bringing a box for Mr. D., containing Christmas gifts for all
of us. The two little girls are sitting [21/22] at the table
dressing and undressing a doll which has just come for them.
One informs me with bright eyes, she can "comb head."
Every article of its apparel is being minutely inspected.
M. G.
January, 1874. The Indian C. came as usual to school
this morning, and became the happy possessor of a bundle of useful
things from ____ in Baltimore--tin pans, cups, a coffee-pot,
knives, forks, spoons, etc. It is quite delightful to me to see
a Ponka's stolid dignity tipped over when he gets taken by surprise.
His delight was very manifest, and I seized the opportunity to
point to the offending bracelet, and was rewarded by the assurance
that he would not wear it again; he would give it to his wife.
So I suppose it will appear at the next mothers' meeting.
WHITE SWAN,
YANKTON AGENCY.
June, 1874. Our school closed about two weeks ago. The
attendance was very small at the last. We are having very hot
weather, and the children think it much pleasanter to play than
to attend school. Last Sunday was such a stormy day that we did
not expect any one to attend Service; but to our surprise twenty-seven
came in the morning and thirty-seven in the afternoon.
L. C.
September, 1874. This has been a sad day for our little
flock at White Swan. Our faithful sexton, a communicant of the
Church and a noble example of Christian faithfulness and fortitude
in the midst of a heathen and stiff-necked people of his own
blood and kin, was buried to-day. He leaves a wife and two little
girls, and though the poor woman, in the midst of her bitter
grief, tried hard to follow his directions and make a stand against
the still prevalent heathen custom of giving away everything
when a member of the family dies, she has not been able to help
herself, and the old women and boys from far and near, gathering
at the house of the deceased, like vultures around a carcass
on the plains, have carried away everything except the bare log
cabin, the wagon and two horses. By GOD'S wise providence bereft
of her husband, she is, by the force of barbarous Indian custom,
left really destitute--almost homeless--in the world. May the
prayers of many of her sisters in CHRIST at the East ascend to
the throne of GOD on her behalf, and may our Heavenly FATHER,
in His infinite mercy, give her grace to bear this chastisement
and sorrow, so that it shall redound to His glory and her eternal
good.
W. J. C.
SANTEE MISSION,
NEBRASKA.
November 12, 1873. You do not know what a comfort the
sympathy and prayers of our friends at the East have been during
this time of trouble [the small-pox epidemic]. We have all been
wonderfully preserved [22/23] from serious illness. For some
time after the breaking out of the disease we did not know that
it was small-pox, and were much less careful than we should have
been; sometimes coming from the bedsides of the sick and taking
the children in our arms without changing our clothes. Now all
the patients but one are convalescent. Mr. Cook, who has been
with us for the last five weeks, leaves for home to-morrow. He
and Mr. Hinman have been indefatigable, and have won as they
deserved the gratitude of some who did not look very kindly on
them or their Church before.
November 14. We went to the hospital to-day to carry
some gruel; everything looked comfortable. Some of the patients
were lying on cots, others who were nearly well were sitting
on the floor near the stove. Of course all Mission work has been
suspended, except the care of the sick. We have grown quite expert
in making gruel. One week we did little else than make gruel
and carry it.
M. G.
ST. MARY'S SCHOOL,
SANTEE AGENCY.
June, 1874. We opened our school on the 8th of March with
six girls, which were all that we could accommodate at that time.
But we had so many applications, and were so sorry not to be
able to gratify their wishes, that we soon found a way out of
our dilemma. The schoolroom, being very large, was divided by
a partition, which gave us a well-ventilated room, with windows
on both sides, holding three double beds. The work is done by
the girls. Each of them knows her work for the week, and if you
could hear them chatter and laugh, you would think they took
pleasure in it. It was not so at first, and it was very difficult
to make them understand that order and system are, after all,
the only ways to make the work easy and the house comfortable.
They see it now, after three months of teaching. The girls are
happy, eager to please, obedient and daily improving. I give
all directions in English and am already well understood, though
they do not speak it. They sing English hymns; their "good
night" sounds very sweet each evening, and their "hm"
is gradually changing to "Yes" and "No."
It is not only housework my girls do; they have their regular
school hours now morning and afternoon.
Thursday is mothers' meeting and sewing-school. The Indians
live so far from the Mission-house that it is surprising to see
the number attending, notwithstanding the hot weather. Thirty
women and girls, all neatly dressed, most of them with intelligent
faces, sitting on benches, or on the floor (their favorite seat),
all sewing, and very well too.
C. M. K.
August, 1874. The rising bell rings at six o'clock.
Each of the large girls has her work for the week. Two of them
sweep the sitting and [23/24] dining-rooms; two assist in the
kitchen getting breakfast, and one sets the table. After breakfast,
prayers. I read a Psalm, we sing an English hymn, and close with
a petition to our Heavenly FATHER to help us in our labor of
love.
The work has been done by the girls, with the assistance of
an Indian woman on Monday with the washing. The ironing has been
done in two days; two girls ironing in the morning and two in
the afternoon. The floors of the bedrooms are washed every Friday
before nine in the morning. The rest of the house is cleaned
on Saturday.
The girls make the bread by turns, and there is much emulation
among them about it. We dine at half-past twelve and have supper
at six o'clock, then prayers; the dining-room and kitchen are
put in order, and the rest of the evening given to play, fancy
work, singing of Dakota or English hymns or reading. We play
Blind Man's Buff and Stage-coach, and it is surprising to see
how quickly the children understand. I wish very much for some
quiet games for the winter evenings, and for picture books for
the younger children, to amuse them and give them an idea of
the world outside the Indian Territory. My girls have learned
five English hymns. You will find them in the Prayer Book, 179th,
143d, 139th, 172d and the 82d Selection of Psalms. We hope, with
God's blessing, and the liberal gifts of our American sisters,
to build up a Christian settlement here in Santee.
C. M. K.
August 19, 1874. We are having vacation now and only
four of our girls are with us. At the close of school there were
eight. The four larger girls slept in the dormitory up-stairs
and took turns in the work of the house out of school and sewing
hours. __ is the most advanced in her studies of the school girls.
She reads and writes very well in Dakota. She understands a great
deal of English, but cannot be persuaded to speak it, though
she always interprets for us when asked to. She is very bright
and cheerful, and I have never seen her in the least ill-tempered
or sullen. L. is still a good, faithful girl and a great comfort
to us. She speaks English quite well and is improving in her
studies. When she came here from Ponka, a year ago, she did not
understand Dakota; but now she can talk as rapidly apparently
as any of the Santee girls. During the vacation she has been
sewing, almost constantly, when not doing some other work. We
have trouble to persuade her to take any recreation. A white
woman, who works for Mrs. H. has hired her to make some
clothing for her, and, she is doing it very nicely.
Most of our girl's sew very well. Three of them have made
dresses for themselves with little help besides the cutting.
All the girls, even the smallest, sew in the schoolroom from
2 till 4 P. M. unless they are doing housework. For a few weeks
before vacation the little ones were sewing [24/25] carpet rags.
There was quite a competition among them in the matter of balls.
People sometimes ask us if we do not have a great deal of
trouble because of their uncleanly habits. We do not at
all. It is seldom that we have to speak about untidy hair or
hands, or unfastened shoes. They learn habits of neatness very
quickly. The large girls, without being requested to, often comb
the hair of the smaller ones; and each of the larger girls undertook
the bathing of one of the little ones on Saturday afternoons.
I may have asked them once when Mrs. Hinman was ill and I had
not time to attend to it myself, but I think they liked to
do it because they saw that L. always bathed little A.
There is much less trouble in governing them than there would
be with the same number of white girls. They are docile and affectionate,
and are as much pleased with a kiss or caress as children usually
are. But for all that some of them have serious faults. They
cannot always resist the temptation of pilfering, and do not
always tell the truth; but truthfulness and honesty are things
they must learn, and little by little they will learn,
with patience and love on our part, by GOD'S blessing.
The perseverance of one of our girls in gaining admission
deserves notice. She was not one of those first selected, but
for weeks she came almost every day, and if asked what she wanted,
would reply that she had come to stay. Finally her perseverance
was rewarded, and she did stay, and has always been one of our
best girls. When vacation came she wanted to stay with us, but
went home with her grandfather. After two weeks she returned,
and is with us now.
Our two youngest girls are about seven years old, the next
one nine, and the next about eleven. They always make their own
beds, sweep their dormitory and the school room, wash the floor,
etc., and when they sometimes have to be sent to do their work
a second time, usually do it pleasantly. As all children know,
it is not easy always to be pleasant under those circumstances.
They love to play with dolls and enjoy their play houses and
play tea parties very much as certain little folks at the East
do.
Rev. Daniel Hemans' little baby died the week after Easter.
When Miss W. had dressed it in clean white clothes and brushed
its soft black hair and laid it on a tiny bed she had arranged
for it, it looked so sweet and peaceful that the children could
hardly believe it dead. One of them touching it wonderingly said,
"Can't breathe," and when I prepared to leave the room
asked if it was going "to sleep there." I felt glad
that they should have seen death in so attractive a form, for
the Ponkas, if not other Indians, hastily wrap their dead in
a blanket and hide them from their sight as soon as possible.
Indeed, we have unwrapped the head and face of their dying to
give them at least a chance of life.
M. G.
[26] WHITE EARTH RESERVATION, MINNESOTA,
BISHOP WHIPPLE HOSPITAL.
February 10, 1874. The hospital was opened to-day;
one woman received; three women and one child are expected to-morrow.
March 23, 1874. We do not have many in the hospital
at a time, but those in it are very ill and helpless. Lung fever
is prevalent, and many seem tainted with scrofula; some have
most unsightly ulcers requiring long and patient treatment.
April 15, 1874. I had a little boy of six brought
in yesterday in the last stage of consumption; his baby brother
was buried this morning. There is another boy of fourteen here
in a rapid decline. Poor children, my heart aches for them. If
I only could help them. Consumption carries off scores of children
here.
May 2, 1874. Thanks for the things sent. It
is very kind of the Ladies of the League to furnish all that
they have for us. We will try to work effectually for the sick
Indians as their representatives.
July 28, 1874. Every Sunday there is service
in the Church, but almost entirely in Chippewa; occasionally
the Psalter is read in English; the sermon is always in Chippewa.
In the afternoon, Service in English is held at the school-house
at the Agency. I was sent for this morning to visit a very sick
man; his son came for me. It pleases the people more to go to
their houses than anything we can do. Last week the wife and
child of a chief were patients, and another wife applied for
admission for her child. It is quite a triumph for the hospital
for the chiefs' families to come. They have thought it "very
good for other Indians," but a chief should not come.
July 29. Some cloth for sheets, towelling and
soap would be acceptable. I want to give to those women who are
neat in their houses sheets and towels, and teach them to adopt
white people's mode of cleanliness. Soap is something they seldom
have, and they often ask for it. I am going to try and teach
some of the women to make it; but one great difficulty will be
the want of grease, as they do not have much meat. Still they
can make small quantities.
August 14. Yesterday I was sent for to see a
sick child; the Indians thought it dying. I could not refuse
to go to them in their distress, so walked there and back, a
distance of four miles, returning in a heavy thunder storm.
October 12. Our hospital has been almost full of patients.
As some go, others take their places. We have now three women,
one a helpless paralytic whom we hope to benefit, one a poor
scrofulous woman I am afraid beyond cure, and one with lung fever.
Also two girls and one little boy, [26/27] three very small children
and a baby; the mother of the last four is with them. Our two
wards hold fourteen in all, and then they are crowded. The attic
has just been finished off, divided into rooms, and plastered.
Into one room I am going to put two beds, so as to put men up
there if at any time when both wards are filled with women and
children, as at present, a man should apply for admittance. How
thankful I am to have so many patients. I know you will sympathize
with me.
M. S.
ONEIDA INDIAN MISSION,
WISCONSIN.
September 25, 1874. The Indians are still manfully at
work on their new church; they are now digging out for the basement.
We are all hopeful, and look to our Heavenly Father to put it
into the hearts of some of His faithful ones to help us in due
time. The church building is the one great and important feature
of our work here now. We have undertaken to build under the most
solemn promises of help in the great work which when we began
we knew was too large for our weak hands to manage alone. We
have been working on now two years, and scarcely any help from
any source has been sent us. Help us in this great work and in
such a way as may not lessen the aid going to the more important
Missions further West.
E. A. G.
[28] The Missionaries, Catechists, Teachers, School
and Mission Stations,
at present in the Indian Field, are indicated in the accompanying
List.
NIOBRARA MISSION.
The Rt. Rev. WILLIAM HOBART HARE, D. D., Missionary Bishop,
residing at Yankton Agency, Dakota.
Standing Committee--Revs. S. D. Hinman, J. W.
Cook; Messrs. T. S. Clarkson, A. Pepe (Native).
SANTEE MISSION--P. O. address, Santee Agency, Nebraska.
Rev. Samuel D. Hinman, Presbyter in charge.
Church of Our Most Merciful Saviour.
Rev. Samuel D. Hinman.
Geo. W. Paypay (Native), Catechist.
A. D. Graham.
Mrs. S. D. Hinman.
Miss Emily J. West.
St. Mary's School.
Miss Clara M. Kerbach, House Mother.
Sister Mary Graves, Associate.
Chapel of Our Blessed Redeemer,
East Bazile Creek.
Rev. Dan'l. W. Hemans (Native). Presbyter.
Johnson Red Owl (Native), Catechist.
Chapel of the Holy Faith, Wapashaw Village.
John B. Wapaha (Native), Catechist.
Paul J. Manikiya (Native), Catechist.
YANKTON MISSION--P. O. Address, Yankton Agency, Dakota.
Rev. Joseph W. Cook, Presbyter in charge.
Church of the Holy Fellowship.
Rev. Joseph W. Cook.
Rev. Luke C. Walker (Native), Deacon.
David Tatiyopa (Native), Catechist.
Edward Ookiye (Native), Catechist
St. Paul's School. (Boys.)
The Bishop, Principal.
Rev. H. St. G. Young, Head Master.
Walter S. Hall, Teacher.
Philip Deloria (Native), Teacher.
Mrs. M. E. Duigan, House Mother.
Mrs. W. A. Draper, Associate.
Emmanuel Hall. (Girls.)
Miss S. M. Robbins, House Mother.
Miss S. Fannie Campbell, Associate.
Miss Anna M. Baker, Associate.
Miss Amelia Ives, Associate.
Chapel of St. Philip the Deacon--White Swan.
Rev. Wm. J. Cleveland, Presbyter.
Mrs. W. J. Cleveland.
Matthew Leeds (Native), Catechist.
Chapel of the Holy Name--Choteau Creek.
Miss Louisa R. Buchanan, Teacher.
Baptiste Defon (Native), Catechist.
Chapel of the Holy Comforter--Point of the Timber.
Salos P. Walker (Native), Catechist.
YANKTONNAIS MISSION--P. O. address, Crow Creek Agency,
Dakota.
Rev. H. Burt, Deacon in charge.
Christ Church--Upper Camp.
Rev. H. Burt.
Sister Anna Prichard.
Girls' School.
Sister Olive M. Roberts, House Mother.
Sister Sophie C. Pendleton, Associate.
Lower Camp.
Edward Ashley, Teacher.
George Quinn (Native), Catechist.
LOWER BRULE MISSION--P. O. address, Crow Creek Agency,
Dakota.
CHEYENNE AGENCY MISSION--P. O. address, Cheyenne Agency.
Dakota.
Rev. Henry Swift, Deacon In charge.
Boys' School.
Miss Mary J. Leigh, House Mother.
Miss M. A. Hays, Associate.
WISCONSIN MISSION.
Under the charge of Bishop HARE.
Oneida Agency--P. O. address, Oneida, Brown Co., Wis.
Rev. E. A. Goodnough, Presbyter.
Mrs. Goodnough, Teacher.
MINNESOTA MISSION.
Under Bishop WHIPPLE.
White Earth Reservation
Rev. J. J. Enmegahbowh (Native), Presbyter.
Rev. J. A. Gilfillan, Presbyter.
Samuel Madison (Native), Catechist.
Charles Wright, (Native), Catechist.
Gaas Johnson, (Native), Catechist.
Mrs. M. L. Selby, in charge of Hospital.
Mrs. Laura Crafton, in charge of the Hospital.
At Mendota
George St. Clair (Native), Catechist.
[Transcriber's note: the attached image of the Map, mentioned
in the beginning of the report, is somewhat lacking in clarity
as the original in my possession is only a photocopy image itself.
The notes that follow appeared just below it in this booklet.]
Whenever it has been found practicable to do so, the existence
of Missions and Schools on Reservations and in Indian neighborhoods
has been indicated on the above map; Missions by a cross and
Schools by a star.
Total Indian Population of States and Territories (exclusive
of Alaska), estimated about--295,000
Divided as follows:
Minnesota and States east of the Mississippi River--32,500
Nebraska, Kansas, and Indian Territory--70,650
Territories of Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho--65,000
Nevada and Territories of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona--84,000
On the Pacific Slope--40,000
Total Number of Indians entirely subsisted by Government--31,000
Total number of Indians subsisted in part by Government--84,000
Total number of Indians subsisting themselves by hunting,
fishing, depredating, root-digging, etc., and by vagrant frontier
habits, estimated about--55,000
Total number of actually hostile and depredating Indians (included
in above figures), estimated at--8,000
Total number of Indians supporting themselves on Reservations,
and receiving nothing from Government except interest on their
own moneys, or annuities from sale of their own lands, estimated
about--130,000
Total number of Indians belonging to Agencies under supervision
of religious bodies, officially reported--229,396
Number of Schools on Reservations, officially reported--278;
teachers--355; scholars--8,226.
STATISTICS OF RELIGIOUS WORK
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American Missionary Association (Congregationalists)--7
Agencies with 18,341 Indians, 4 Missions, 1 Church--aided
22 Missionaries and teachers; expended in 1873 on religious and
educational work, $3,000. Th A. B. C. F. M. has 6 churches in
these Agencies.
American Unitarian Association--2 Agencies, having
oversight of 1,700 Indians.
Baptist Home Mission Society--4 Agencies, having oversight
of __ Indians, 6 Missions, 6 Missionaries, __ Church Memberships.
Amount expended in 1873 on religious and educational work, conjointly
with Baptist Church South, $5,000.
Friends (Northern Superintendency, Nebraska and part
of Kansas)--7 Agencies, having oversight of __ Indians, __ Missions,
__ Missionaries, __ Church memberships. Amount expended in 1873
$7,500.
Friends (Central Superintendency, Kansas and Indian
Territory)--7 Agencies, having oversight of __ Indians, 9 Missions,
__ Missionaries, __ Church Memberships. Amount expended in 173
$10,000.
Indian Commission, Protestant Episcopal Church--8 Agencies,
having oversight of about 25,000 Indians, 9 Missions, 11 Missionaries,
18 Ministering Women, 17 Teachers and Catechists, 7 Candidates
for the Ministry, 709 Church Memberships. Amount expended in
religious and educational work in 1873 (from October 1872 to
October 1873) $54,069.16
Lutheran Church--1 Agency, 398 Indians, 1 Mission.
Methodist Board of Missions--15 Agencies, having oversight
of 49,864 Indians, 6 Missions, 9 Missionaries, __ Church Memberships.
Amount expended in religious and educational work in 1873 $5,000.
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions--9 Agencies,
having oversight of 48,055 Indians, 8 Missions, 48 Missionaries
and Teachers, 1639 Church Memberships. Amount expended for educational
and religious purposes during 1873 $22,550.55
Reformed Church Mission Board--4 Agencies, having oversight
of 11,372 Indians, 4 Teachers in part supported by Board at an
annual expenditure of $1,000
Roman Catholic Church--8 Agencies, having oversight
of 23,000 Indians, __ Missions, __ Missionaries, __ Church Memberships.
Amount expended in religious and educational work in 1873 $__.
LIST OF INDIAN MISSIONS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
NIOBRARA JURISDICTION
The Rt. Rev. W. H. Hare, D. D. Missionary Bishop.
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TRAINING SCHOOL FOR THE JURISDICTION--St. Paul's School, Yankton
Agency, The Bishop, Principal; Rev. H. St. G. Young, Head Master;
with 4 Assistants.
Santee Mission--Rev. S. D. Hinman, Presbyter in Charge,
with 1 Native Presbyter, 5 Native Catechists, and 4 ladies.
Yankton Mission--Rev. J. W. Cook, Presbyter in Charge,
with 1 White Presbyter, 4 Native Catechists, and 2 ladies.
Yanktonnais Mission--Rev. H. Burt, with 1 White Teacher,
I Native Catechist, and 3 ladies.
Cheyenne Mission--Rev. Henry Swift, with 2 ladies.
OTHER SCHOOLS IN THE JURISDICTION:--Emmanuel Hall (Girl's
School), Yankton Agency; St. Mary's School, Santee Agency; Boys'
and Girls' School, Crow Creek Agency; Boys' School, Cheyenne
Agency.
ONEIDA MISSION, Wisconsin. Under Bishop Hare. The Rev. E.
A. Goodnough, Presbyter in Charge.
MINNESOTA MISSION. Under Bishop Whipple.
White Earth.--Rev. J. J. Enmegahbowh (Native), Presbyter;
Rev. J. A. Gilfillan, Presbyter; with 3 Native Catechists, and
2 ladies.
Mendola.--Geo. St. Clair (Native), Catechist.
(Sept. 10, 1874)