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PAGE. ~ PAGE. Letter to the Sunday Schools 161 My \Yife and I .. Extracts from Pupils' Examination Papers. . I62 Canadian Indian Research and Aid Society. The Indian Tribes, Paper No. I 1-Kootenay Our Indian Wards Indians . . I64 A Night \Vith a Pig .. A Visit to the Shingwauk Home 168 Notice to Sunday Schools Church Work Among the Dakotas 170 Jottings Indians and the Iliad. I]o Clothing for Our Indian Homes A Successful Cheyenne . . I 7 I Receipts-O.l.H. Indians and Israelites. I 7 I Receipts-O.F.C., and Advertisements ~ Edited b~ Fev. E. f. Wilsof\.

}NO. RUTHERFORD, PRINTER A~l) PUBLISHER,

OWEN SOUND, O~T. OUR FOREST C)-(ILDREN, PUBLISH ED IN THE INT EREST O F INDIAN EDUCATION AND CIVILIZATION.

VoL. SHINGWAUK HOME, APRIL, 1890. ~ J ': [NEw SERIES, No. 1r. · at the little girls occasion­ ally, and once she had rather a tussle with two of the most mischievou one in the School, giving it to them hot and trong; but they had their revenge. Marching up-stairs, they seized upon the innocent little papoose, all tied up in its cradle, and hoved it under the bed as f:u hack as they could. The papoos (thinking it proba­ bly the mo. t sensible thing to do under the circum­ stances,) went to sleep.­ The mother's consternation on finding it gone, was great; however, it was discovered WA WANOSH HOME. at last. What the irate Letter to the Sunday Schools. mother did to the two offenders, history does not relate. But this happened several years ago; there are no Y EAR C~.ILDREN, -To-day we are going * girls more than eighteen or nineteen years of age at ~ to pay a vlSlt to the Wawanosh Home, and see if we cannot find out omething interest­ the Wawanosh now. They all dress alike, in dark blue ing about the Indian girls for whom it wa built. First, serge dresses, trimmed with red braid. The e are their you must know that Wawanosh is an Indian word, uniform dresses; on week-days they have to wear meaning "a large bird sailing overhead." It was the whatever their friends end them. name of an old Indian chief with white hair, who used On Sundays, they all come down to the Shingwau to live on the Indian reserve at Sarnia. We have had chapel (a distance of about three miles) in time for everal girls of that nam at the Home. The first was morning service at II o'clock. The little one drive, named Alice- she came sixteen or seventeen years and the older ones walk. They have their lunch at th e ago ; was, in fact, one of the first pupils; and when she Shingwauk, and stay for Sunday School and afternoon grew up she married Adam Kiyoshk, a Shingwauk service, returning home at about 5 p.m. On high days boy ;- their son, a little fellow just eleven years old, is and holidays, the boys and girls always . pend the day now at the Home. There are twenty-six girls at the together, and enjoy themselves very much. \Vawanosh at present. Three have quite lately gone The Wawanosh is very nicely ·ituated; though the 0 ~t to service, and we hear that they are doing very river is some distance away there are lovely woods nicely. We have girls of all ages at the Home- indeed, close by, which in summer abound with wild flowers ~tone time, a married woman arrived as a pupil, with and berries, and often on a Sunday the girl bring a er two children, a little boy of about three years, and pretty nosegay to some favored Sunday School teacher a Papoose, or baby. Her husband had been a Shing­ at the Shingwauk. The building is a large stone one, '''auk boy, so he sent his wife to the Wawanosh to be with a nice hroad verandah in front. On the right educated. Unhappily, she had rather an idea that her hand side going in is the Lady Superintendent's cosy Position as a married woman gave her a right to scold little sitting room; on the left, the school-room, with OUR FOREST CH ILDREN. folding doors separating it from a smaller class-room ; the earth turning round the sun. When the North opposite this is the dining-room. At the end of the pole inclines towards the sun it is summer for the N orth hall is the bright, suns hi ny kitchen, in which everything of the equator, and when the South inclines towards is kept beautifully white and spotless. Up-stairs are th sun it is summer for th South and winter for the the two dormitories, the Lady Superintendent's bed­ North. room, a spare room, and the matron's bedroom and · Carol£ne A- In the summ r time the nights are sitting-room. The girl s do all the house-work, and short, but the days are long. In winter the nights are help with the cooking ; and one of them takes charge long, but the days are short. of the Lady Superintendent's sitting-room, lays the Pascoe-Every tw nty-four hours it turns round on table, &c. Several of the bigger girls take turns week its axis, which gives us day and night; every year it about in working at the laundry, which is just opposite turns round once the sun. the Home, and where all the washing for both H omes A lexander- The earth keeps turning round on its is done. axis once in twe nty-four hours. T he earth goes round The girls have a captain and monitors, just as the the sun in one year. The North pole is always turn­ boys do, and the rules and order of proceedings are ing to the North, and when the North of the equator much the same as those of the Shingwauk. turns to the sun , it is summer with us ~ nd winter with I fear thi s letter will be of interest to girls only; next the South of the equator. month I must try and give the boys a turn. QuE .- What is a peninsula, a lagoon, a glacier, Please address any communications or ques tions to an estuary? be "nswered in these letters, to · A1tgus-- A peninsula is a portion of land almost B AR BAR A BIRCHBARK, surrounded by water. A glacier is a huge mass of ice (Ca1·e of R ev. E. F. Wilson,) on a mountain. Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Wesley- Peninsula are .fl.ori'da, lower California, lap­ Extracts from Pupil's Examination Papers. dora. A glacier is a large mass of ice .floating on the Ocean. GEOGRAPH Y. J ohnny- Peninsula is a portion of land almost sur- QuEs.- H ow are day and night, summer and winter, rounded by wa ter. A lagoon is a shallow lake or inlet produced? of the sea. A glacier is a huge mass of ice on a Fox- Vle get day and night by the earth turning mountain. An estu ary is an arm of the sea extending on its axis once every twenty-four hours, and the into the land to meet a river, and appearing to form a seasons by the earth going around the sun. conti nuation of the sea J oe-Because the earth move round on its axis Carol£m W --:-A peninsula is a piece of land almost · every twenty-four hours, that is why it alternate or surrounded by water. A lagoon is a very shallow lake ·produce the day and night. Earth goes round the or inlet of the sea. glacier is a riv r-like field of ice sun once in a year, producing the seasons ; the earth which forms in the upper valleys of lofty mountains, points always to the North star at the poles. Wh en and melts when reaching the warmer valleys. Estuary the North pole points or facing towards North it is is an arm of the sea ex tending into the land to meet a winter with us ; when the South pol pointing or facing river and appearing to form a continuation of the river. towards the sun, it is we have the ummer with us. QuES.- J!Vha t is the first merzdian ? Syl·vester- North pole is incline toward the sun, it is J ohnny-Meridian is a line that goes round the world. summer ; and the South pole inclines towards the sun, Caroline W-Christopher Columbus. it is winter. T he earth turns round every twenty-four D ora-The firs t meridian is reckoned from the hours, when it goes down we cannot see the sun, but royal observatory, Grenich. when it comes up again we see the sun. Sarah -first meridian is first line drawn from north E l£za J ane-Every twenty-fo ur hours tlie earth turns to south and u::.ed fo r reckon distances of east to west. round on its axis. When th South part of the ea:th BIBLE LESSON. leans towards the. un it is summer, and when the orth QuES.- D escribe the first battle joug!zt by the Israeli!~~ part leans towards th e sun it is winter. Wilson- T he Children of Israel fort the Amme d D ora-A day and night is formed by th e earth and Mosis went up on the Mount and pray. An t turning round on its axis, and summer and winter by Mosis lifted up his hands and if Mosis his hand to ge OUR FOREST CHILDREN. tide the Israel can beat and so Aaron and Hur help Joshua, that the land was v ry rich, and its beautiful Mosis to lift his hands. ituation on coast of Jordan. They brought fruits to J oe-Rephidim, that is the plac where the battl sh w the people how rich the country was. The other was fought at first betw en the Israelites and Ameleck. ten spi s brought an evil report that the people w re Moses held up his hands towards heaven. Aaron and giants and living in strong cities with strong walls Hur helped Moses. Theisraelites-conquer theAmeleck. round them. Joshua was the captain in Israel. Matthew-Good report was good land .flowing with Dora- The Amelakite.:: came to fight Israel the first milk and honey, lots of fruit, we will be able to fight time, and Joshua was commander. Moses went up to again t the peopl , we will take the country. The bad the mountain and held up his hands in prayer, and as report was that they wear too strong to fight against, long as he did that, Israel prevailed; but when he got they are like joints when stand with them like grass­ tired and let his hands down, then Amelak prevailed hoppers. and Aaron and H ur put a stone for him and helped Charles-The good report is that the fruit i lots of him to hold his hands up until the sun went down. grabs, and the bad Report is that th y are giaints their Pascoe-Th first fight of the Israelites when they are big and strong, and the ten spise said were as mall were fighting. with Amlake, they were fighting in the a grasshoppers. Mt. Hor. Aaron hold his hands up for Isreal to beat. Frank- Caleb and J o ha brought good report, they Sahguj- The Israelite~ were camping at R I hi dim said that CannaLl was .flowing with milk and honey, and when the Amalakites came to fight against them. al o they brought bunch of grapes and figs but the Moses chose Joshua to be a captain of the fight men. other ten they say that their was giants their. Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of th e Angus-The good report is about the grapes and mountain where they could see the fight. As long as figs lots to eat. The evil report is about the giants Moses held up hi hands the Israelites were stronger and about the people w re strong and big. than the Amalakites. Aaron and Hur took a tone Caroline A.- They said it was lot of milk and honey and put it by him to rest his anns and they held up and that they were gaint . his hands. The Amalakites were beat n. Dora- Two of them said it wa very beautiful but QuEs.- What advice did J ethro give to Moses? there were high walls and giants, but th y could over­ Fox- Jethro told Moses hi son-in-law to make the come them if God would help them and that He would, chief men to be judges over thousands and over hun­ and they shewed the fruit, but the others said that they dreds and over fifties, and they were to judg ·the small could not overcome the big giants of Anak and that matters, and the big matters to be brought to Mo es. there were large cities with strong walls and that they J oseph- Jethro gave an advice to his son-in-law the looked like · grasshoppers. tim e when he came to see him in th wilderness. H e NoTE.-The Editor O.F. C. will always be glad to receive letters or extract from Examination papers from other Indian saw that Moses judging the people from morning till chools. night. He told him that his work was too hard for him to do. The people and you will wear away, he SEVERAL \Vawanosh girls are now out in s rvic said. So he told him he must appoint some m n to The mistress of one writes: ' vVe find· N. very satis­ judge. factory. She is kind and obliging, and if not hurried, Leslie- Jethro give Moses a wife to marry her. does very nicely. She i also very honest. he eldom Naudee- Jethro said to Moses that he had doing goes out except with one of th children, or to Church right that God want him to do. Jethro bring Moses with our. elv s." his wife and his son. THE Rupert's Land Indian School, near \Vinnipeg, Carol£ne W.- Jethro thought that Moses work too has thirty-four pupils, twenty-one of whom are boys, hard looking after the people by himself. So he told and thirteen girls. Of these five are from Fairford, him to choose out some men to help him to rule the two from Fort Alexander, six from Lac eul and Wau­ people, rulers of thou ands, rulers of hundreds, rulers begoon, and the r st from the Cr e and aulteau · of fifties, and rulers of tens. bands at St. Peter . Som of the hildren had to QuEs.- What was the good report and what was tlze travel two, three, and even seven days over prairie and evil report brought by the twelve spies ? . ice. Four little people walked forty-five miles on their Arthur-The good report was brought by Caleb and snow-shoes. OUR FOREST CHILDREN.

Indian Tribes-Paper No. I I. fishing. In the plains they hunted the buffalo, and on the mountains the grizzly bear, the cariboo, and the THE KOOTE A Y INDIANS. wild goat; and in the rivers they caught salmon and By Rev. E. F. Wilson. other fish. Now, under · the fostering care of their re · ' ' spective Governments, they are commencing to do a jl, HE Kootenay Indians · k ' little farming. The merican agent does not spea live in the space bound- well of their progress in agriculture, and describes his .,.,J ed by the Columbia Indians as loafers and gamblers ; but the Canadian River, the Rocky Mountair , and agent claims for those in the northern part of his agency, Clarke River- a rugged and moun- that both their grain and their vegetables are looking tainous country abounding in bears, \\ell. Those in the southern part, the "Flat-bows, " wolves, beavers, and other wild he says, are canoe Indians, and earn their money chiefly animals. The tribe is a small and by canoeing for the miners. They possess also several isolated one. ccording to Ban- large herds of unbroken horses, and a number of cattle. croft they belong to the Thushwap Their horses feed in large droves, each being marked stock, which embraces the Atnahs, with some sign of ownership, such as clipping the ears, Kamloops, Okanagans, and several and when required for use are taken by the lariat. other minor tribes; but by the The method of breaking and training horses is a quick Bureau of Ethnology, ·washington, and effectual one; it consists in catching and tyi ng the they are classed under the Kduna- animal; then buffalo-skins and other objects are thrown han stock. Dr. Franz Boas, of Clark University, who at and upon the trembling bea t until all its fear is has been among them and investigated t~eir language, Ifrightened out of it. Their horses are never s ~ o d and s )ells their name Kutona'ga · other spellmgs are Kut- are never taught to trot. The Kootenay Indians are anae, Kutani, Kitunaha, Kutneha, Coutanies, and skilful rider , and can keep their seat well at great speed Kootenais. They are also spoken of by some writer over a rough country; but they are very hard on their as the "Flat-bow" Indians. Kootenay is the spelling horses, those in use having almost always sore backs adopted by the Indian Department, Ottawa, in its and mouths. Women ride astride and quite as well as Annual Report. the men ; children also learn to ride about as early as The Kootenay Indians are partly in Canada, partly walk. almon fishing, during the season, is carried on in the States. Those in Canada occupy the south- quite extensively by these Indians, in the Columbia eastern corner of British Columbia; those in the States, River. They camp together on its banks, and make the northern angle of Idaho and Montana; this, it will be seen,comprises the triangular piece of country already alluded to. There are about 300 of them at present in Idaho, 480 in Montana, and 590 in British Colum bia-total 1370. They seem always to have lived mL ch in the same locality, there being no tradition among them of their having migrated from other parts. Tbo:e who live in British Columbia were some few years ago very jealous of the Whites, and would resist all attcmps at immigration. So lately as July, r887, their chief, Isadore, defied both the mounted police and the Government. Now, however, as a result of j udtcious management, gifts of farming implements, seed, etc., these Indians have become qmeted and are KOOTENAY INDIANS shc\\'ing a more friendly feeling; their general conduct is reported by the local Indian agent to be good, and common stock of the fish obtained, the division being as regards morality, they are said to be far superior to made each day according to the number of women, each the generality of Indians in the North-west. Formerly, getting an equal share. At the Kootenay Falls, the~ these people made their living entirely by hunting and are taken by spearing, and in huge baskets submerge OUR FOREST CHILDRE . in the water below the Falls. The salmon, during the natives, one, two, or perhaps three or four of them to­ spring run, weigh from six to forty pounds, .and 3ooo gether, revel for a long time in the steam and mud, sing­ are not unfrequently taken in a single day. Father ing, howling, praying, and finally they rush out dri·)pi1 g DeSmet, who spent several days at the Kootenay Falls with perspiration, and plunge into the nearest trcam. in the spring of 1862, says that the share wh;ch fell to In cases of sickness these people have more faith i.1 him as one of the party, when dried, required thirty sorcery than in the use of medicines. They hclic\·e pack mules to carry. The fish are split op n, scarified, that some evil spirit has caused the sickness, and thjt and dried on scaffolds, after which they are packed in the evil spirit must be driven out. The patient, smlly baskets, and then removed to their villages. is stretched on his back in the centre of a large lod"c, The Kootenay Indians in summer live in teepees­ and his friends sit round in a circle beating drum . conical-shaped dwellings, made of poles covered over The. sorcerer, grotesquely painted, enters the ring,ckmt­ with tent-doth or skins; and in winter, in log cabins ing a song, and proceeds to force the evil spirit from plastered over with mud. The dress of the men con­ the sick person by pressing both clenched fists wi th all sists of a shirt of European manufacture, blanket breech­ his might in the pit of his stomach, kneading and cloth, and blanket leggings: the hips and outer parts of pounding al o other parts of the body, blowing occasion­ the thighs being left exposed; on their feet they have ally through his own fingers, and sucking blood from moccasins, and their necks and ears are adorned with the part supposed to be affected. ornaments made of bears' claws and moose teeth. The The manufactures of the Kootenay Indians consist women wear a loose cotton garment reaching almost to in pipe heads carved out of soft stone, some of which the feet and confined round the .waist by a leathern are very handsome ; baskets and vessels for holding belt. Most of the people, both in Canada and .the water, woven of willow, bark and grasses; mats made States,are nowmembers of the Roman Catholic Church. of rushes ; rude bowls and spoons carved out of horn The diseases most prevalent amoug these Indians or wood ; birch bark canoes ; saddles for their horses, are ophthalmia ·and scrofula. Steam baths are univer­ consisting of a rude wooden frame, under and over sally used among them both fot cleanliness and medical which is thrown a buffalo skin, and which is bound to purposes. The bath-house is a hole dug in the ground the horse by a very narrow thong of hide under the body, and a raw-hide crupper over the tail, the stirrups being made of three straight pieces of wood or bone bound together and suspended by a stripofraw-hide; lastly, bridles: these are merely a rope of twisted horse-hair or skin made fast with a half hitch round the animal's lower jaw. The Kootenays are not a particu­ larly warlike race, but they have had many bloody conflicts with theBloods and the Blackfeet. \Varlike expedi­ tions are preceded by ceremonious • preparation, such as councils, smoking STEAM BATH. the pipe, harangues by the chief, from three to eight feet deep, and sometimes fifteen dances, and a general review. The warriors are feet in diameter, in some locality where wood and water mounted, an both they and their steeds are gaily painted are at hand, often on the river bank. Above ground and decked with feathers and bright-colored cloths; they it is covered with a dome-shaped roof of willow branches are under the command of their war-chief, and they rush covered with grass and earth. Only a small hole i left on the enemy like a whirlwind, with terrific yells, dis­ for entrance, and this is closed up after the bathers charge their guns or arrows and retire to prepare for enter. Stones are heated red-hot on the outside and another attack. They scalp the dead and torture their passed within and water poured over them. In this prisoners. oven, heated to a suffocating temperature, the naked These people, like most other Indians, are polyg- • 166 OUR F OREST CHILDREN. ahmus. Capacity for work is regarded as the standard the grass, and · she began putting something on their of female excellence. Having made his selection, the eyes so that they could not open them ; but the elder man buys his wife from her parents by the payment of ones watched their opportunity, and while she was so many horses or other property. To give away a putting the hot stones into the pit they all rushed for­ wife without a price is regarded as in the highest degree ward and toppled her over, and piled the fire into the disgraceful to her family. The Rev. J. McLean gives pit on the top of her till see was burned to ashes. But an amusing story in illustration of this :- He had been her evil spirit lived after her, for out of her ashes, blown telling some Indians in their camp how he got his own about by the wind, sprang the dreadful pest of mos­ wi fe- the courtship, application to and consent of the quitoes. young lady's. parents, the marriage-ceremony, the feast, and lastl.y he came · to the presents, some of. wh ich, he said, were given by the young lady's mother. On hear­ ing this, all the Indians roared with laughter. "What!'' they exclaimed, "Her mother paid you for taking her !'' Like nearly all other Indians the 'Kootenays are fond of gambling, although the Government has done a good deal of late to put a stop to it. They do it by means of stick-shuffling, or by guessing in which hand a small bit of polished bone or wood is concealed; or by rolling a small w().oden ring and then throwing a spear for the ring to fall over its bead. But their most common sport is horse-racing, and on the speed of his favorite horse the native will stake all that he owns. These people have a number of strange legends and

traditions, which are told and told again over their MOSQUITO HAG. council fires. Their tradition about the origin of the Americans The two following stories were gathered from the has a broad vei n of humor in it, and shows their hatred Kootenay Indians by Dr. Boas, and their accuracy can of that nation. Once on a time, they say, they and the be vouched for : Pesioux (French-Canadian voyageurs) lived together in I.-Origin of the Sun and MooJZ : such happiness that the Great Spirit above envied their "It was mid-winter. The rabbit, who was gran.dson 'happy condition. So he came to the earth, and as he of the frog, went out hunting. While doing so he came was riding on the prairies on the other side of the Rocky upon the tracks of a herd of elks. All the people in Mountains, he killed a buffalo, and out of the buffalo the world were then animals, and they all started off to crawled a lank, lean figure, called a "Boston man," and hunt the elks. The rabbit's wife was a red bird, but from that day to this their troubles commenced, and the red bird had left the rabbit and gone and married there never will be peace again till they go to the land the hawk because she knew that the hawk was a good of their fathers. They have also another tradition as hunter. The rabbit finding himself so faithlessly de­ to the origin of mosquitoes. Once on a time, say they, serted went and married the doe. Then he set to work there lived on the banks of the Fraser River, a bad to make snow-shoes for himself, on which to follow the woman, who caught young children and ate them, and herd of elks over the frozen snow. His grandfather, carried them in a basket woven of water snakes.. One the frog, said to him ' o not use snow-shoes, but put day she caught a number of little childr and carried these mittens on your. feet and you will then travel very them back into the bush in her basket. The children fast over the snow.' So the rabbit put on the mittens peeped out of the basket and saw her digging a pit and and started after the elks. He was behind all the other making stones hot in the fire, and they knew that she animals in starting and met them coming back from was going to cook them as the indians cook th eir meat, the hunt. They had none of them overtaken the elks, and so they plotted together what they wou ld do. By and they jeered at him for being so late. However, and by the old hag came to the basket and lifted them the rabbit pursued and found the elks, and shot the out one by one and told them to dance around her on whole herd of them with two arrows. He brought the OUR F OREST CHILDREN. tallow back with him and told all the people to go and to borrow new ones from all the other animals, that is fetch the meat. During his absence, hunting, the doe why the sucker is so full of bones. had proved as unfaithful to him as had his first wife, The Kootenay Indians bury their dead in the ground and had gone to live with the wild-cat. T hey had two without .a coffin, and they pay very little attention to sons. One day while the wild-cat was away fi shing, the their _burial places. T hey manifest grief at the death mother said to her sons, 'Do yo u know th at the ani mals of a relative by cutting the hair and smearing the face are all making the sun." So the young men went. with black. The women also howl at intervals fo r a T he animals were all gathered together near a high period of several weeks or even months. The dead mountain. The raven had just risen, and when its person's property is usually sacrificed, and his horses great black body and outspread wings appeared, a gloom are generally killed over th e grave. was cast over the country; then one of the wild-cat's No books have as yet· been published in the K oot­ sons tried, and his efforts were successful; the sun enay language. shone out brightly; it was neither too hot nor too cold, GRA 1MATICAL NOTES. and the days were neither too short or too long, and There are no j, v, or r sounds in the language. so he was accepted as the sun. Then the younger Singular and plural have no separate forms. There are brother tried rising behind the mountains, and he too. no cases. The genitive is frequently expressed by the was successful and became the moon. The coyote, possessive pronoun. A great number of nouns have who had been trying before, was angry when he saw the prefix a~- it is not the definite article, and the mean_ the success of the two brothers, and he shot an arrow is at present unknown. The adjective precedes the at the sun, but it missed its mark and fell on the grass, noun. A noun does not take verbal suffixes and pre­ and thus started the first prairie fire. " fixes, but is used with an auxiliary verb. The inter­ rogative particle is kan or na~kan prefixed. The nega- 2.- The Chain of Arrows: tive is formed by the prefix k'a following the pronom­ The musk-rat was angry with his step-mother and inal prefix. The past tense of the verb is formed by determined to kill her. He made a new arrow for the prefixing ma, the future by tshatl. In the transitive purpose and shot her with it. The animals gathered around her dead body and drew out the arrow, but no verbs, both the nominative and objective pronouns are one could tell whose arrow it was because it was a new expressed by inflection, thus, you see me is one wor~L one. They showed it to the musk-rat, and the musk­ Most of the words in the language are very long, and rat said it must have fallen from the sky. So they all are made up of. a number of prefixes and suffixes at­ began to shoot at the sky to punish the malefactor. tached to a central root. The arrows fell back harmless, as they could not reach VOCABULARY. th e sky. At length the hawk succeeded in making man, tit ki:i.t. yes, a. his arrow stick in the sky, and he shot another and woman, pal ke. no, o-ah. another until there was a long chain of arrows sticking boy, ins-tiilt na na. I, ka min. on e into the other, reaching from the sky down to the house, ak a kiana. thou, ni nko. earth. The musk-rat climbed up first, and all the other boat (or canoe), yak so mel. he, ninko'is. animals followed. ·when the musk-rat got to the top, river, ak in mit uk. my father, kii tHo. he began shooting at the other animals, but they re­ water, wo-o. it is good, su-ki-ne. turned the fire and killed the musk-rat. Then the chain fire, akin k

SHINGWAUK FROM THE RIVER. we found the shoe- makers at work. From the Captain's room we passed downward by These Indian boys arecertainlycapable of making a live­ another flight of stairs into the kitchen and dining- lihood in any place where hand work is not superseded by room, and then out through the reception hall- where machinery. The boots and shoes which we saw were we registered our names in the "visitor ' book." vVe as substantially and neatly made as any of the same crossed over the lawn and play-ground to the Hospital, kind could be. which is a very neat structure indeed, possessing the We next visited the "Furniture Factory." Here we same architectural beauty which characterizes all of found the work in full operation. The engineer was 1r. \Vilson's buildings. Here Miss Pigot, an English an Indian boy, and, what is better, a consistent Chris­ lady of deep piety and indefatigable love and zeal for tian. Two young Indians attended to the saw, cutting the Indian cause, gives all her time, nursing- with all boards and planks into almost every shape and form. the tenderness and care of a fond mother- the sick One young fellow working at the "jig saw," was cut­ Indians from the Homes, committed to her charge. ting something like ginger-cake edges on boards, which As there was a case of " typhoid," we did not pass were, I suppose, intended for bordering cornice or through all the sick-rooms, but we saw some of the something else. OUR FOREST CHILDREN. ------~------Vve then pas ed over to the "Memorial Chapel," encourage him in this purely Christian, self-denying which is, without exaggeration, the neatest little sanctu­ and philanthropic labor, proves him to be a man of ary in the whole D iocese of Algoma, planned in its great faith and courage, and with great organizing minutest details by Mr. ·wilson himself. Here we powers. found about fifty boys, with their teacher, sitting quietly Church Work among the Dakotas. in their pews, with the Ass istant S.uperintendent, Mr. Wilberforce \\T ilson, at their head. At a given signal HOP HARE, in a leaflet sent out in October, all the boys stood up; the teacher played the organ gives an interesting review of his work among and a hymn was su ng in sweet and solemn tones-some the Dakotas. A comparative view of the mis- taking treble, some tenor and some bass. Aft er this sion in r872 and again in r889, shows that from six they chanted the "Nunc Dimittis." The music of miss ions at three agencies, the work has increased to whi ch was to me quite new, and was very sweet and forty-eight missions scattered about through ten agencies, well-rendered. The musical part of their education besides four large and well-equipped boarding schools. i certainly not ignored, and I think their teacher de­ All this work ·is under Bishop Hare's direct and con­ serves great credit for their training. stant supervision, and is the most perfect of its kind. From the " Memorial Chapel" we next proceeded "The Indians with whom the mission has had to to Mr. Wilson's dining room, where we sat down to a deal, have been some of the most reckless and the table bountifully supplied with good things, provided wildest of our North American Tribes, and they are by Mrs. Wilson for the clergy and ladies who accom­ scattered over a district some parts of which are twelve panied them. days' travel distant from others; nevertheless, the Anyone who has seen the Indian in his wild, untu­ Missionaries have penetrated the most distant camps tored state, lounging around the wigwam, in filth, idle­ and reached the wildest of the tribes. We have mis­ ness and the darkness of Paganism- unless one be pre­ sions now among the Sissetons, vVahpetons, Santees, judiced and prepossessed with the old proverb, "A dead Yanktons, Lower Brules, Yanktonnais, Blackfeet, Sans Indian is the best Indian "-must really thank God Arcs, Oncpapas, Minneconjoux, Two Kettle, Upper that these Homes exist, where the civilizing and evan­ Brules, and Ogalalas." gelizing powers of the Gospel are brought to bear in THE BoARDING ScHOOL \VoRK. - Sixteen years ago such a powerful manner upon the hearts and lives of there was not to be found among any of these Indians these poor "Children of the fores t. " I speak from a single Boarding School ! Our Mission Boarding experience; I have not only visited the Homes, but I Schools were tQ.e first venture among them in this line. have been a teacher there myself for some time; I \Ve have now four in successful operation among these have been with the boys in the school, in the play­ Indians, in which live r8o children; the Congregation· ground, in the church, in the Bible class, and in the alists have thre:- ,. the Government has nine.-Southem prayer meeting ; and I have always felt that the pure T17orkman. Christian atmosphere that pervades every department of Mr. Wilson's work, and permeates all his plans and Indians and-- the Iliad. all his motives, is both elevating and ennobling; and -iF our literature Homer's Iliad comes near to a as a proof that these boys and other members of the • correct representation of the \iVi ld Indians of the Homes are taught the Bible maxim, that it is "more west as th ey were, not many years ago. His heroes on blessed to give than to receive," I need only refer to the plains of Troy ngaged in war, exhibited the same the fact that when our Mission House, at N egwine­ bluster and braggadocio, bravery and brutality, crimin· nang, was consumed last fall, I received from the "Shing­ ation and recrimination, with the unreliable courage of wauk Onward and Upward Club," the sum of sixty­ impulse, excitement and circumstance, instead of seven dollars, before ever an appeal was made, and reason, philo ophy and patriotism ; one moment the before ever tidings of the calamity got into the church bravest of the brave, and the next the most arrant papers. cowards, using the same weapons, spears, bows and That Mr. ·wilson an keep all this work in motion arrow , and shields of bull's hide. ·while those ancient under the pres ure of great discouragements, lack of warri ors had horses and chariots, our modern braves sympathy and substantial support from Christians out­ were mounted; while they invoked the aid and cursed side, who could, if they would; hold up his hands and the interference of the immortal gods and goddesses, OUR FOREST CHILDREN. thes more naturally invited the pre enc and counsel all denomination amon the Indian., has been the of the ghosts of their ires, thereby vin cing their chief link to connect them with the prehi toric races of knowledge of immortality. \Vhile the former offi r d the Mosaic ra, and at the same time has been used to sacrifices to appea e the wrath, or to flatter th heavenly demonstrate that man as a creature, how ver ignorant powers, the latter with great tendernes and love, and or degraded, was divinely in spired with a revelation or with a reverence truly pathetic, oftered food and rai- in tin t that recogni zed the ne Supreme Being, the ment to the shades of their sainted dead.- S.F.T., immortality of the soul, and hope of happiness or fear Redman. of misery after death, according as his worldly life was spent. Col. Mallory reports that after years of investi­ A Successful ChAyenne gation into traditions, of all theN orth American tribes, ,\\WHEN we began this school, ten years ago, there representing fifty-eight linguistic stocks and more than 1 ~ came to it a full-blooded young Cheyenne, three hundred languages, h has been forced to the from the Cheyenne Agency. He was about tw lve conclu ion that the aborigines had no such instinct and years old. His father then was a thoroughly wild In­ such religious belief until after contact with European dian, and the lad as much an one as he could well be. civilization, when they gained it from the missionaries. He had been a few months at the Agency school, and These missionaries, he says, were imbued with the that made him willing to come to Carli le when the dogma, and sought and therefore found evidence of chance offered. He remained in this school eight one primeval faith, but were misled by their enthusiasm. years, and then married a Pawnee girl, who had come He continues : After careful examinations, with the here seven years before under about the same condi­ assistance of explorers and linguists, I reassert my tions. When they married they were offered employ­ statement that no tribe or body of Indians before mis­ ment by a farmer, stock-breeder and dairyman, at sionary influence, entertained, formulated or had dis­ West Grove, forty miles from Philadelphia. They tinct belief in a single over-ruling great spirit, or any went there the day they were married, and have lived being that corresponded to the Christian conception of in the same house with their employer and hi wife God. But I freely admit, with even great emphasis, until last week. Mr. Harvey was so well pleased with that an astounding number of customs of the North the young man that he soon placed him in charge of American Indians are the same as those recorded of all his dairy affairs, which is a very considerable respon­ the ancient Israelites. sibility. He supplies about eighty quarts of cream daily for Mr. \Vanamaker's great Philadelphia store. MY WIFE AND I. Mr. Harvey's confidence and sati faction have in­ A LITTLE JOUR EY AMONG THE INDIA S. creased so much, that he has built a snug little tenant house for the young Indian couple and their babe, not By Rev. E . F. Wilson. far from his home. They recently moved into their CHAPTER XIV.-( Continued). new house.- Carlisle "Red Man.' &N leaving Espanola, a grand panoramic view un­ Indians and Israelites. ~ folds itself before us. In front, is the wide, ~ . iffi_oL. GARRICK MALLORY, of the Smithson­ grey pebbly bed of the RIO Grande, through ~ ian institution, a recogniz d authority on Indian which winds its course, a narrow, green sparkling stream traditions, r ligions and language , has com­ of water like an emerald serpent ;-beyond this reach pfeted a contribution to cience that is likely to cause of pebbly strand is a flat stretch of sombre green- the considerable discussion. It is entitl d "Israelite and fields of the Mexican villagers; then comes a gently Indian; a parallel in plans of culture." In this report rising slope of adobe soil, which, under the brilliant Col. Mallory overthrows a popular and almost universal light of the setting sun looks fiery red-as red and as theory that all the savage tribes of Am rica before th ir golden as the sunset light in the Western sky; then contact with civilization had a formulated and e tab­ the dark purple of the di tant hills; then the white ~i bed r ligious faith, believed in a single supreme peaks of the far-off mountains, and lastly, the purple being, a future life, and a system of reward and pun­ glow of a clear evening sky. i hment after death. This theory, which has been After a run of thirty-eight miles from Espanola, our accepted and disseminat d by r ligious missionaries of train reached the renowned old city of Santa Fe, at OUR FOREST CHILDREN.

6.30 p.m. I drove in a 'bus to the "Hotel Capital;" with a purchase, and an order to express a box to it was situated on the Grand Plaza, was two storeys Denver. high, and had a wide piazza in front. I asked for a CHAPTER XV.- SANTA FE. room. A key was given me, and a darkey shouldered my baggage and bade me follow. He led me out on Santa Fe is generally regarded as the oldest town in the piazza, round the corner, down a side street, stopped America. It has a population now of about 6, ooo. at a door, unlocked it, we nt in, lighted the gas, and Before the year 15oo it is said to have been a flo ur­ bade me enter. I t was a large, comfortably-furnished ishing Pueblo village. The Spaniards occupied it in apartment. The darkey asked me if I wo uld like a 1692, and the Americans took possession of it in 1846. fire, and I said no, then he withdrew. In a little The old adobe palace, which was the government while I went back to the hotel office in quest of supper ; building in the time of the Spanish occupation, and I noticed that all the way up this side street were bed­ was the scene of much torture and suffe ring as well as room doors, numbered, and evidently belonging to gaiety, still stanGls ; it occupies the north side of the

~ ...... ___ Grand Plaza, or pubhc square. The walls are over five feet thick, and every one of its rooms has it~ his­ tory. The east end of the building contains the Historical Suciety's rooms, in the centre is the Gov­ ernor's residence, and at the west end is the Po:;t Office. A United States' army band gives a concert in the plaza every day in the week except Sunday. On the west side of the plaza was the Hotel Capital, where I was staying, and on the two remaining sides were pueblo dwellings and modern-looking shops and stores. The morning after my arrival at Santa Fe, I we nt to visit the Ramona School, founded in memory of Helen Jackson, who wrote the touching tale " Ramona" and ______M_ v_B_E_D_R_o_o_M_ A_T_ s_A_N_T_A_FE_.______the " Century of Dishonor," and did so much during the hotel. It is strange the way these Mexicans her lifetime to champion the Indian cause. It was seem to have of making the rooms in their houses as about a mile out of the town, and, owing tu the com­ little accessible to each other as possible, and the plex arrangement of the streets, one had to go by a same with the streets in their towns ;- as a hack driver, round-about way to get there. I passed the old San lately from the East, said to me: "You never know Miguel church, said to be the oldest church in America; where you will find yourself in these Mexican streets- it had been recently patched up, the old walls coated before you know it you are come to a standstill in over with a thick plaster of adobe, and two great, rough somebody's back yard." The dining hall of the hotel stone buttresses placed to support it on either side of was just back of the office, and there seemed to be the entrance. I would have made a sketch of it, but it nothing beyond that except the kitchen. To get to was too ugly. There were no windows visible,-only any other rooms, one had either to go round outside just a bare face of adobe wall and the two great the house, or to mount to the upper verandah by an buttresses, with the black entrance door between them, outside staircase. The bill of fare offered nothing out and an adobe bell tower above, surmounted by a plain, of the way, at which I was rather disappointed; I had newly-gilded cross. The door was locked, and on it hoped there would be Mexican fruits and Mexican was posted a notice: "25 cents admission; pull the dishes, and it seemed rather tame to sup off ordinary bell-rope three times for the janitor." So I pulled the mutton-chops and hot cakes. The waiters were Mexi- bell-rope three times,- and was just going to pull three cans; they seemed a little slow, but were polite and times more, when a lanky boy unbolted the door attentive, and "Seignior'' sounded much prettier than and looked out. I went in, signed my name in the "sir." After supper, I went out m the town, found my visitors' book, and informed the boy I was going to way to a bazaar, and spent three quarters of an hour make a sketch of the interior. He seemed disco~ ­ looking o.ver Indian curiosities, Indian and Mexican certed, but did not know enough E nglish to expre~ pottery, and Mexican silver fi.lagree work. It ended his feelings. He mumbled in Mexican, shuffled hiS OUR FOREST CHILDREN. 1 73 · feet, and said, "don't know.'' In the meantime, I also will be given in the papers. The Minister of the had my sketch-book out, and was already well ad- Interior says of the proposed Society: "I hope it will vanced in the performance. I gave the boy some of ptove successful, and, being of a distincity national char­ my finished sketches to look at to keep him quiet. He acter, I think it should command general sympathy and seemed very uneasy: appeared to be afraid that a priest endorsation." The Bishop of Caledonia, writing from or some one would come in,- every now and then Metlakatla, B. C., says: "I have just read your pros­ he sighed, shuffled his feet and said, " better go now;" pectus. I shall gladly subscribe, and shall be one of but I kept talking amicably to him till I got through, the most sympathetic readers of the proposed journal." asked him about the pictures on the wall, ascertained ChiefJ. B. Brant (Mohawk), writes: "Among all the that one was 700 years old, and two others each 400 schemes which have been broached for assisting the years old. Then I replaced my drawing materials in Indian cause, I believe none is so powerful and so my satchel, and continued my pilgrimage. thoroughly effective as this one, the summonmg of all After mounting a long hill through a narrow, winding to co-operate in the work. The Society will be a lane, with adobe houses on either side, donkeys me- shield from restraining injustice, ana improving the con­ andering ab~ut, and Mexicans sitting on the door-s teps dition of the Indians of Canada for this and future generations." Rev. Dr. Sutherland, Toronto, writes that he is very glad the scheme is assuming a practical shape, and that he will bring the matter before their committee of consultation at their next meeting, and, if approved, publish the circular in next is~ue of the Outlook. The R ev. John McDougall, of Morley, Alberta, writes : "I will do as you wish about getting names, and help all I can in the matter. If you held your meetillg in first week in April, I would try and be present." Mr. I. K Drinnan, Editor of the Times, Medicine Hat, Assiniboia, writes: "1 shall be pleased to further your worthy scheme, embodied in the 'Canadian Indian Research and Aid Society,' to the utmost of my power." The Editor of the Regina DONKEYS, DONKEYS EVERYWHERE. L eader writes : " I shall be happy to do what I can in the direction indicated; also to hear from time to time or standing about chatting to their neighbors. I came as to the success of the undertaking." at length out on the open, and a man who was passing Among those who have either given their names as pointed out to .me the "escuela." It lay some distance members, or written kindly, approving of the scheme, below me- a red brick building, with a bright, red roof, since last issue of 0. F. C., are :-The Bishop of Cale­ backed by distant mountains. It looked pretty from donia; Ven. Archdeacon Fortin, ·winnipeg; Rev. F. where I stood, so I made a sketch of it, with a delapi­ W. Dobbs, Portsmouth; the Bishop of Algoma; the dated adobe· dwelling, and an ox and two or three Bishop of Ontario; Dr. G. M. Dawson; Rev. J. Mc­ burros in the foreground. Dougall, Morley; Chief J. B. Brant; Andrew Maracle; (To be continued.) Chief Solomon Loft; H. H. Egar; Neil McLeod; Dr. C. K. Clarke, Kingston; Dr. John Robinson ; Allen Canadian Indian Research and Aid Society. McLean; Rev. J. H. Fletcher. Any others willing to ~RRANGEMENTS are being made for the in­ join in the movement, plea~te send their names as soon ~ augural meeting of this Society, to be held in as possible, either to Rev. E. F. 'Wilson, Sault Ste Ottawa, about the 18th o( April, when it is hoped that Marie, or to David Boyle, Esq., Canadian Institute, the Minister of the Interior, the Bishop of Ontario, Toronto. Principal Grant, Dr. G. M. Dawson, and others, will be Present to take part in the proceedings. As soon as THE Shingwauk Shoe Shop has received an order the date can be definitely fixed upon, a printed circular for two dozen pairs of boots for the Rupert's Land Will be mailed to all intending members, and notice School. OUR FOREST CHILDREN.

Our Indian Wards. the mysteries of agriculture, and under the school ~ HE Toronto Mail, in an article under the above teachers and missionaries the rudiments of English. ~ heading, after shewing that the cost of the In- Looking over the Indian report for the past year it is dians to the country la t year was $I, II 2,ooo, found that on many of the reserves important strides goes on to say :- " The question which naturally sug­ have been made. This fact will be the more apparent gests itself to everyone who contemplates the large when it is mentioned that whereas twenty years ago outlay is whether it is wisely spent. In order to decide the Indians of Manitoba and the Territories were this point it is necessary to consider the condition of nomads, cultivating no land and dwelling exclusively the Indian when we first took possession of the North­ in teepees, they now own 5,365 houses, I,659 barns, west. Then the Indian was truly the wild man of the I2,o67 acres of cultivated land, I,2I6 ploughs, 707 plains. Lawless, restle s, and ignorant of all ideas of harrows, 7 56 waggons, 52 fanning mill!+, 2, I 58 cows, civilization, he was at once a danger to the whites who 42 bulls, I,848 oxen, 3,904 young cattle, 4,482 h01ses, traversed the country, and, by reason of his improvi­ 4I2 sheep, and 356 pigs, while they have grown in one dence, a ource of misery to himself and to those de­ year 36,109 bushels of wheat, 2o,86I of oats, 2I,308 pending on him. In the summer his wants were of barley, 102,6I3 of potatoes, r8,I55 tons of hay. abundantly sup()lied by nature; in the winter he starved mono- the further evidences of advancement to be or fell a victim to disea e. Under the treati s which gleaned from the report may be mentioned the circum­ Canada has succeeded in making with him, it has been stance that they have begun to trade. TAKES-THE­ the endeavor of all the overnments to wean him from Gu -LAST drove his steers to the nearest village last his nomadic habits and attach him to the soil. On the year and exchanged them for a mower, a rake, six heifers, sudden di sappearance of the buffalo the Indian had the and $6o inca h. Again, RED CRow, one of the Bloods, choice of dying on th e 1 rairi or of turning his mind to built himself a storey-and-a-half shingled cottage. industry. By liberal expenditure of money the country CRoP-EARED-\VoLF was so enamoured of the new saved him from starvation, and by equally large grants structure that he went into the building business also put him in the way of making a living. A great many and with excellent results. ·what is more, both of of the North-west Indians are now settled upon their these Indians floored their cottages. STRIPED BLANKET reserves and are learning, under the farm instructors, has provided himself with four mowing machines, for

1 OUR FOREST CHILDREN. two of which he has paid in full, and a F1le Hill In­ additional ten copies.) This will be only a very small dian has bought a mower out of his wheat sales. WAY­ tax on each Sunday School, but in the aggregate it will NOW, on the other hand, has turned to carpentry and make a great difference to us; it will also save us a masonry, and certain of his brethren instead of spend­ good deal of labor and complication, by doing away ing their money on playing-cards and feathers, now altogether with the "free list." Those who have never invest in window sashes and lumber. DAY-STAR, an had anything to do with it, little know how much labor enterprising Indian, boasts a Durham bull. and anxiety are involved in issuing a monthly magazine One of the Indian agents reports further that the and a separate 4-page sheet in addition, and having to old fashion of painting the face has been abandoned. collect the small annual subscriptions and keep ac­ Both men and women now use soap and appear to like curate account of everything-especially where the sole it. The men, too, have in many cases submitted to workers are the Editor, whose hands are already full the ba~ber, thus imitating the white brother in the with other work, and a young daughter. Our friends matter of hair. In many instances the blanket wrap will greatly help us by subscribing for "OuR FoREST has made way for the tweed suit. The most northerly CHILDREN," at so cents per annum; or for the "Stray treaty Indians, the Chippeways of Head Lake, wear Leaves from the Forest," at $r per annum for every English-made suits and knee boots. Nearer to civili­ ten copies- never less than ten copies of the "Stray zation, collars are coming into fashion. Certain of the Leaves "-$1 for ro, $2 for 20, $3 for 30, $ro for roo, Blackfeet have set the example of wearing linen collars, and so on; always by tens, and always one price. neckties, and hard felt hats, and it is stated that others have it as the ambition of their life to follow this ex­ A Night with a P ig. ample. The idea of justice is also making itself felt. ~NE night I slept with a Pig ! It was a vacant Old CROWFOOT last year compelled certain of his men VJt room in the Chief's new house. After our who stole horses to give up their plunder, and then services were over, and we had had supper, Mrs. laid information against them that they might be pun­ Ahbettuhwahnuhquud took a clean blanket on her ished. The Government last ye.ar appointed some of shoulder and a lant~rn in her hand, and calling me to the Indians to the police force. It is evident from all follow, led me to the apartment. There was a bedstead this the money.apent by Canada is bearing good fruit. with a mattress on it, in a corner ; and on two chairs The Indians, slowly it may be, are improving. To in the middle of the room, lay a pig, which had been those who think the expenditure large it can only be killed the day before. Early next morning, before I said that it is far cheaper· to educate the Indians than was fully awake, the door opened, and Mrs. Ahbettuh­ to fight them. wahnuhquud appeared with a knife in her hand. \Vhat could she want at this hour of the morning. I opened N ot ice to S unday Sc hools. one eye to see. Her back was turned to me, and I our Funds are at pr sent so low, the Indian could not distinguish what she was doing ; but I heard Homes Maintenance account being $6oo or $7oo in debt, and the O. F. C. publishing ac­ count about $rso in debt, we hope thos Sunday Schools that have been kindly supporting pupils in our Institutions will kindly bear with us if in future we make a small charge for the ''Stray L eaves from the Forest, " sent to them, instead of supplying th em fre . Th charge will be at the rate of $I per annum for every ten copies, to whoever ma_v ·wish to take them. Thus Sunday Schools giving us $7 S per annum towards the support of an Indian child, can either pay the $r at once, orelsesend$r9per quarter instead of $r8.7s, in order to receive ro copies of the "Stray Leaf" each ( month; those giving us $so per annum can either pay a cutting and sliceing and wheezing. Then the good the $r, or else send us $r2.7S per quarter instead of lady turned around, and closing the eye I had opened, $r2.5o, and so on (and 2s cents per quarter for each I did not venture to look out again till the door was q6 OUR FOREST CHILDREN. shut, and Mrs. Ahbettuhwahnuhquud departed; then I Rothe ay, $s; Mrs . Roper, $r; Miss Edith Roper, $r; J. Roper, $r; ·. ·.,Yarmouth, N .. , for boy, $2s; St. John I peeped out from my rug- poor piggy was minus one S. ·., 't. John, N.B., for boy, $7S; Mrs. Merritt, $2; ' t. leg! Next time I saw the missing limb it was steaming I Tohn the Evangeli t . S., Londo n, for boy, $ro ; "Kings' daughters," Ottawa, for girl, $3S ; All . aints' S. ., Wind­ o n the b reakfast table ! sor, N. S., for boy, $r2.so; St. Peter's Guild, Sherbrooke, --+-- for girl, $r8. 7S; S. ' ., Colborne, for hoy, $6.so; S. ·. Mi ·­ Jottings. I !>ion boxe , Lambeth, $6.40; Mr. Gore, (£ro) $48.21 ; Trinity . S., 't. Thomas, for boy, $6. 2S ; t. 'lartin's S. S ., are sorry to record the death of the Rev. B. Montreal, for girl, $2 S· 2 S ; 't. George' . . , Kingston, for .~~?;E girl,$r2.so; Cataraqui ·.. ,$8.77; t. Paul'sS. ·.,Kings­ ~V/ Jones, son-in-law of the Rev. J. Macdougall, ton, for Shingwauk, $I2. so, anJ for Medicine Hat, $12. so ; S . . , Kem ptville, for Wawanosh, $8.2S; Miss Veal's Board­ who for some years has been engaged in educational ing ' chool, for girl, $6.90; All aint' .S., Collingwood, work at the Round Lake Indian School in Assiniboia. for boy, $r8. 7S; St. George's S .., Toronto, for girl, $37· so; A friend writing, says: 'I think it would stimulat Rev F. R. Murray, $7. so. both the interest and love of Christians could they but Receipts - O.F .C . have witnessed the poor Indians coming in all day long to look at the body of him who had gone before, FEBRUARY lOTH, 1890. and then sit quietly down for some hours to condole MRS. G. A. MITH, soc. ; Mi ·s McCormick, $ 1 ; Rev. E. A. Miller, soc.; Mi. A. E. Herding, soc. ; Mr . Pinney, soc. ; with the bereaved widow, whiie the dear children filed Mr. Roper, soc.; Mrs. Almon, $s; G. E. Luud, src.; Mrs. round the coffin to take a last look at and kiss th old T. R. ferritt, $r; J. R. Ca t leden, $s; fi s Cooper, $r ; Rev. F. A .• mith, 2sc.; W. 0. Hart, soc.; Rev. L. J. face of their late friend and t acher." Donaldson, soc.; C. D. McKenzie, soc.; T. A. Brown, soc.; J. B. Tyrell, $r; Mrs. Dunsmore, $r; Mrs. Travers, soc. ; REV. E. F. w·ILSON will be glad to hear of a lady, Dr. W. Matthew , soc.; H. Covert, $r; ii s John on, soc. ; fond of hospital work, who would be willing to nur?e Mr . 1agee, soc.; E. W. Boyd, $3. so; Miss Magee-, soc. ; Mr . H. L. Ross, soc.; Miss A. Holton, $1. sick cases when there are any, receiving board and lodging only for her services. WILL our subscribers, when sending in their ub­ OU~ FOREST ~HILQR_E N, EDITED BY THE scriptions, please always say up to what month the subscription pays, as our subscription lists are divided REV. E. F. WILSON SAULT STE. MARJE, ONTARIO. into months and it is ea ier thus to trace their names. IN the United States there is the ·women's National 50 CENTs (2s.) PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. INGLE CoPIEs 5c. Indian Association, the Syracuse Indian Association, Sunday chool Teachers or cholars sending ten subscriptions the New Haven I ndian A sociation, the Pittsburg In­ to the O.F.C. will receive a copy free for one year. dian Association, and a multitude of other similar Sunday chools supporting Indian pupils in the O.I. H. Institu­ societies. Why have we nothing of the kind in Canada? tions will be furnished with copies of " tray Leaves from the Forest " as follows : 10 copies, l ; 20 copies, 2 ; 30 copies, A LETTER received from John A. Maggrah, a former $3; 100 copies, $10, and so on. Never less than ten copies smt. p upil of the Shingwauk Home, has been crowded out th is issue for want of space. IN DIAN HOMES.

Clothing for Our Indian Homes. THE SHI GWAUK HOME, for Indian boy ; THE WAWANOSH H OME, for Indian girls; both at ault te. Marie, Ont. FEBRUARY. Al o, THE W ASHAKADA Ho:ME, for Indian children, at MRs. WILSON begs to acknowledge with many thanks the follow­ Elkhorn, Manitoba. ing kind gifts of clothing : CONTRIBUTION' EARNE TLY SOLICITED. F rom Miss. Leaves A sociation, England, a large bale containing $7S (.£IS) feed · and clothes a pupil in either of the Homes boys' ;md girl ' clothing, also a number of woollen shawls, for one year. In England, address ~RS. WM. MARTI N, 27 mufflers, socks, etc. Bloomsbury 'quare, London, vV. c. In Canada, REV. E. F. From Mi s G. Milne- Home, Scotland, boys' shirt , ocks, etc., WILSON, 'ault. te. Marie, Ont. and shawls for girls; also twv petticoats made by Mi s Al mond's children. From St. Luke' Church, Mon treal, boys' shirts and socks; PHOT OGRAPHS FOR SALE. frocks and girls' underclothi ng . AT SHINGWAU K H OME.

A Beautiful ;r>hotogra~h of the HINGWAUK PuPILS w~o 5()c Recelpts - O.I. H. went w1th Mr. Wll on to Montreal and Ottawa, mailed · The two BLACKFEET BoYs, mailed ...... · · .30c· FROM FEB. lOTH TO MARCH lOTH, 1890. WILLIE and ELIJAH (who went with Mr. Wilson in 1886,) mailed 2!)c. MRs. E. S. STUBBS, $14.32; St. Charles' .S., Dereham, $4; SHINGWAUK, CHAPEL and a General View of the Shingwauk 35c St. Paul's, S.S., Uxbridge, for boy, $9.29; St. Paul's S.S., Buildings from the river (mailed), each ...... · · · · • · · •