'-l...... · . Whitehorse WHITEHORSE, Yukon (CCC) - The lay apostles of the Madonna House Apostolate from Combermere, Ont., will blaze a new missionary trail into the far north for the second time in six years when they open on September 15 a large residential hostel here for Catholic Indian students. To be known as Our Lady of tourist attraction and the talk of Whitehorse, the new hostel is a the north because of the bril­ further implementation of the liant colors used for exterior mandate given to Madonna decoration. House in 1954 by Most Rev. J. N ext door to Our Lady of L. Coudert, O.M.I., Vicar Apos­ Whitehorse hostel, a new Catho­ tolic of Whitehorse, when Mary­ lic high school is under construc­ house was founded here to as­ tion where students of Grades 8, sist the Oblate missionaries in 9 and 10 will be enrolled. Catho­ their work with the Indians. lic students in grades 11 and 12 Built by the Canadian govern­ attend the Whitehorse high ment at a cost of more than school at present. $500,0'00, Our Lady of White­ horse hostel will accommodate Young Indians of the Yukon 100 students, in grades 7 to 12. are desperately in need of an Rev. Eugene Cullinane, a Ma­ institution such as Our Lady of Whi tehorse Hostel which will be liThe smallest cathedral in the world" passed from existence to make donna House priest, has been way for the new Sacred Heart Cathedral (above), dedicated in June at named principal. Ten Madonna for them in their formative and critical adolescent years "a home Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Built in 1901, the original church accommo­ House staff workers joined him dated only 120 worshippers but was raised to the rank of pro-cathedral in to prepare for the opening of the away from home," Father Cul­ linane has explained. 1944. In its place now sta nds the 100 x 60 -foot edifice blessed by Bishop J. building and the first intake of L. Coudert, O.M.L, Vicar Apostolic of Whitehorse, in a ceremony which also students on the Feast of Our (Turn to Page 2) observed the parish's 60th anniversary. Lady of Sorrows, September 15. Situated about two miles from central Whitehorse on the out­ skirts of the new residential area of Riverdale, the hostel pro­ 18 Stude,nts Rec ·ve Scholarships perty lies close to the Yukon OTTAWA - Scholarships ranging from $250 to- $l,400 Anne Shirley Thompson, 16, St. River in a beautiful setting of have been awarded to 18 Indian students of outstanding Regis Band, $5'00 vocational rugged mountains. The vast and training scholarship ,to t a k e little explored Yukon "bush" or ability to enable them to continue thejr_ education at· nursing Grade 12 commercial at St. forest touches the spacious hos­ and vocational schools, universities and teacher training col­ Lawrence High School, Corn­ tel playing field on three sides. leges across Canada. wall. Across the newly constructed Northern Ontario - S i m 0 n The awards, from the Indian teacher training scholarship to Frogg, 17, Trout Lak'e Band, Nisultin Drive is a similar hostel Affairs Branch, are made on the take a Bachelor of Education $970 vocational training s'cholar- for Protestant Indian students. basis of academic ability, leader­ degree course at Mount St. Both buildings are already a ship qualities and character. Bernard ColI e g e , Antigonish, (Turn to Page 2 ) They are intended to help the N.S. ; Marilyn E. Francis, 18, students in paying their tuition Lennox Island Band, P.E.I., $1,- Calder Re-elected In fees and in meeting their per­ 100 nursing scholarship to con­ Northern s'onal expenses. tinue her second year at Mount B.C. Leg islature This is the fourth year Indian St. Vincent College, Halifax. Pilgrimage scholarships have been awarded FORT VERMILION, Alberta VICTORIA, B.C. - A 45- by the government. One young Quebec - Edith Dumont, 23, Huron Band, $1,2,5,0 university (CCC) - The annual Catholic year-old Indian has drawn Saskatchewan Indian, Tom Ste­ mission pilgrimage to the grotto venson, of the Cowessess Band, scholarship to take her final year n ear 1 y unanimous support at Laval University; Hazel Mc­ at Eleski was held in August who is studying to be a music with about 500 persons, mostly from a group of isolated polls t'eacher, has won S'cholarships for Bride, 19, Temiskaming Band, to become the 16th member of the past three years. Two others, $950 teacher training scholarship Indians, attending. Marilyn E. Francis of Lennox to attend St. Mary's Teachers Chiefs and councillors came the CCF opposition in the College, Chapeau; John Delisle, British Columbia legislature. Island Band, P.E.I., and Clare from surrounding reserves, with Clifton Brant of the Tyendinaga 19, Caughnawaga Band, $500 Chief Harry Chonklay and Mrs. Frank Calder, a cannery com­ Band, Deser-onto, Ont., won vocational training scholarship Chonklay from Hay Lakes; Chief pany bookkeeper, regained Atlin scholarships last year. to take a second year trade course at Montreal T r ad e s Fournier, Eleski and councillors riding for the CCF, a constituen­ Among this year's winners are Nanotch, of Fox Lake and Court­ cy he had held for the party from School; Herby Labillois, 24, Res­ two from the Maritimes, four tigouche Band, $1,400 art schol­ reill, of Fort Vermilion, among 1949 until 1956 as the first Indian from Quebec, two from southern the pHgrims. in the B.C. legislature. Ontario, one from northern On­ arship to take a second year art course at St. John Vocational Many travelled in wagons and He defeated William Assel­ tario, one from Manitoba, four School, St. John, N.B. stine, 69, Sodal Credit member from Saskatchewan, one from other vehicles and brought their since 1956, ,and Progressive Con­ Alberta, one from British Colum­ Southern Ontario- Clar'e Clif­ tents and supplies with them. An servative Charles Brown in one bia and two from the Yukon. ton Brant, 19, Tyendinaga, $1,- entire town of tents was set up of the most closely contested They are as follows: 200 university scholarship to around the church which was battles of British Columbia's Maritimes - Marjorie Theresa take his second ye'ar pre-medical ringed with many 'campfires in general election last month. Gould, 21, Eskasoni Band, $1,33'0 course at Queen's University; the evening. Page 2 INDIAN RECORD OCTOBER 1960 I NDIAN RECORD Community Development Scholarships A National Publication for the (From Page 1 ) Indians of Canada Founded 1938 ship i o take Grade 11 technical Published 10 times a year by the Ra p i ds ~ course at Sir James Dunn High Oblates of Mary Immaculate At Grand Man. School, Sault Ste. Marie. Indian 6- Eskimo Welfare Almost 200 Indians and Metis are working on the new Manitoba - Jocelyn Wilson, Commission 19, The Pas, $62,5 nursing schol­ REV. G. LAVIOLETTE, O .M.l. $140,000,000 hydro electric development at Grand Rapids, Editor and Manager arship to train at Victoria Gen­ Manitoba, as the result of planning by the provincial and eral Hospital, Winnipeg. All corl'espondence is to be sent t.o: INDIAN RECORD federal governments and active co-operation from contractors Saskatchewan - And r e w 619 McDermot Ave., George, 20, Ochapawace Band, Winnipeg 2, Man. working on the site. $1,250 university scholarship to Phone: SPrnce 2-3469 take his first year Bachelor of Subscril>tion Rate : $1.00 a Year Manitoba's minister of health Dr. G. Johnson said that the ment officials, to evolve a social Education course at the Univer­ Printed by Canadian Publishers Ltd. ,Hy of Saskatchewan; Carol Winnipeg, Man. federal-provincial program was activity 'program that will keep Kingfisher, 20, William Twatts designed to train people of In- the workers busy and happy. Authorized as Second Class Matter Band, $1,250 teacher training Post Office Dept., Ottawa, Canada dian descent for industrial and 'Scholarship at attend Saskatche­ commercial joibs. Most of the In­ Lia ison Officer Na med wan Teachers College; Rosella dians and Metis have proved MacKay, 19, Kahkewistahaw In Time of Famine themselves to be good workers James R . Whitford was ap­ Band, $525 nursing scholarship In the midst of hardships with some of them excelling as pointed Sept. 9 to represent the to take first year of the diploma and even tragedy - a missionary operators of heavy machinery. provincial government in an ex­ ~ourse at the School of Nursing, periment in Icommunity develop­ University of Saskatchewan; may find unexpected consola­ Thomas Stevenson, 24, Cowes- tion ... The government policy of en­ ment among Indians and Metis couraging employment for local at the Grand Rapids power pro­ 3ess Band, $1,30'0 music scholar­ In the winter of 1888, the residents of the Grand Rapids ject. 'Ship to enable him to continue Oblate missionary at Fort Good working towards his Licentiate area has been accepted by the The progr'am, operated in con­ in music. Hope, in the Northwest Terri­ contractors who are working tories, found himself and his junction with federal Indian Af­ Alberta - Sylvia Eaglechild, closely with a liaison mancharg­ fairs branch and with the co­ congregation face to face with ed with the responsibility of 22, .Blood Band, $250 nursing famine. Supplies were so low operation of the Manitoba Hy­ 'Scholarship t o take her second counselling the Indians and dro-Electric Board, is designed that the missionary had to col­ Metis. year training at the Holy Cross lect and ration carefully all to help integrate the Indians and Hospital School of Nursing, Cal­ available food. Fish and game Benny Baich, a federal em­ Metis into the economic and so­ gary. were scarce and the fishermen ployee with the Indian Affairs cial life of Manitoba. Br itish Colum bia- Stella Tom, and hunters became less keen Branch, interviewed nat i v e s 18, Seton Lak'e Band, $1,200 looking for work and attempted Provincial h e a I t h minister each day as hunger and the J ohnson said the undertaking teacher training scholarship to severe weather had their effect. to place them with contractors. 9.ttend the Oollege of Education provided an excellent oppor­ University of B.C. In the midst 'Of such hardships, Mr. Baich made systema tic tunity for such a project; at Kel­ the missionary saw with dismay checks of the working operation sey, where a number of Indians Yukon - Lillian George, 23, two Loucheux families strag­ to see that the Indians and Metis were employed in labor and Casca Band, $1,250 university gling weakly into Good Hope. were working satisfactorily. supervjsory positions without scholarship to attend the Univer­ They too were starving. discrimination as to wages, ac­ sity of Alberta for a course in Those who are unwilling or commodation and other benefits; nursing teaching and supervi­ The Oblate Father explained unable to work properly are not sion; Josephine Jack, 20, Atlin­ to them how distressed he was the same 'condition, he added, Teslin Band, $1,050 vocational granted special favors. At the existed at Grand Rapids. that they had come, because outset of the project some 50 In­ training scholarship to take a there was not enough to eat for dians and Metis were laid off for Mr. Whitford, a graduate in secretarial course at Vancouver those already at the Fort. unsatisfactory service. Loitering anthropology and an M.A. from Vocational Institute. "Father," replied their spokes­ and absenteeism were prevalent. the University of Toront'O, has man, "We know that there is a Mr. Baich, who has a personal the task of helping place Indians famine and that many of us will knowledge of many of the people and Metis on the Grand Rapids Hostel die. We just wanted to attend involved, got the contractors to project, 'and of providing them Mass for the last time and to re­ agree to take back those who in with guidance and counselling. (From Page 1 ) ceive Holy Communion, and the past had a good work record. He will work w ith Mr. Baich, As human beings, they have to then we shall die content!" who has been doing the same face amI live through all the 200 Indians and Metis are now emotional problems that beset Alas, many of them did die be­ working on the project; they are work there for several months. fore relief came, but they died any teenagers anywhere, he said. content after having received the from Grand Rapids, Cedar Lake In addition, because they are of Sacraments. The Holy Eucharist and Moose Lake; some have the twentieth century, they have was their consolation and their come from Norway H 0 use , Meets in Ottawa to cope with all the insecurities simple faith was a source of con­ Berens River, Fisher River and and fears of the disordered and Churchill. OTTAWA - The Oblate Mis­ solation t o their Missionary - sionaries' Indian and Eskimo chaotic world in which we live. even in the midst of hardships Two committees have been Welfare Commission holds it an­ "But the greatest challenge of and tragedy! formed, working with govern- nual meeting here October 6-8. all is that their ancestors had almost no contact with white civilization until the construc­ tion of the Alaska Highway in 1942. To step almost overnight from a primitive culture resem­ bling that of the Stone Age into the Atomic Age ·of the white man is an emotional shock 'Of such violence as to shatter for cen­ turies the basis and structure of I human personalit.y. "The pathetic plight of many American and Canadian Indians is a living proof that this emo­ tional adjustment has yet rarely been made. Principals in the dedication of the cathedral in Juneau, Alaska; Bishop Coudert; Bishop H. Routhier, "The staff workers of Madon­ Whitehorse were ( I. to r. ) : Father T. Triggs, O. M.1. O.M.I., Vicar Apostolic of Grouard; Bishop F. D. na House are in the Yukon to Sacred Heart Rector; Bishop F. O'Gra dy, O.M.I., Vi car Gleeson, S.J., Vi ca r Apostolic of Alaska, and Fat her help the Oblate missionaries face Apostolic of Prince Rupert; Bishop D. O'Flanagan, of B. Studer, O.M.1. this ch:allenge." .. OCTOBER 1960 INDIAN RECORD Page 3 No Bargain Missionary Marks 75th Anniversary IDdiaDs~ Beware Equality! ST. IGNATIUS, Montana (NC) - A 93-year-old priest From time to time, in the daily by Bruce West and allow them to peer at every­ who in almost 60 years of ser­ vice to the Indians "never had press and elsewhere, we see re­ Toronto Globe & Moil thing we do - just as our an­ ports concerning the demands of thropologists do when they are an enemy among them" mark­ Indians who are seeking full studying the Indians. ed his 75th anniversary as a tion on his reserve, we're getting citizenship and other rights These students of the white J eS,uit on September 27. which hitherto have been re­ hemmed in by more regulations every day. man's ways would be allowed served for the white man. to walk around our homes and Always having had a great Unfortunately, we didn't have ask us all kinds of personal ques­ deal of respect for the red man anyone smart enough on our tions, such as how often we took (and appreciation for the great side, in the early days, to nail a bath, when, if ever, we trim­ the Government down on cer­ tolerance he shows in reftaining med our toenails, what kind of tain benefits and privileges we from turning up his nose at the toothpaste we used and how might enjoy as long as the grass Native Sons of Canada) I would much we were paying a month not like to see him come out grew and the waters ran. on our new refrigerators. once more on the short end of The result is that various gov­ After a year or two of such any deal here in the land he once ernments, over the years, have ruled from coast to coast. research, these Indian anthropo­ thought up new and more fiend­ logists should be able to prepare ish ways of making things hot For this reason, I would like some pretty interesting papers to caution him against trying to for us. Maybe if some of our fore­ on the white man for the interest fathers had threatened to scalp obtain full equality with the and enjoyment of their tribes- white man before he looks into a few members of Parliament men. the situation fairly thoroughly. unless they put their names down For one thing, the white man on the dotted lines of a few If this were ever done, two isn't really as free as he looks, treaties, we might all be better things would almost certainly as anyone who has seen all the off than we are today. happen. wampum he has to pay in taxes But the Canadian white tax- ' -First, we would hesitate to every year will gladly verify. payer has seldom gone on the send our scientists snooping In fact, white men sometimes warpath. And when he did, his around the Indian's settlement have moments of doubt about ranks were quickly broken and any more. And, secondly, the In­ their 'country when they would scattered at the first sign of Gov- dian himself would feel more gladly sell it back to the Indians ernment cavalry coming over the like settling back and enjoying for 15 cents (Canadian funds) hill. himself on his own reserve, in Rev. L. Taelman, S.J. and no questions asked. Even in the matter of obtain- the confident expectation that . f' t t h eventually, when we white set- If the truth were known, it lng lrewa er we are no muc Father Louis Taelman, S.J., could be that we are the ones better off than the Indian, here tlers have all gone nut's or bank- offered Mass in St. Ignatius who are living on the reserves in Ontario at any rate. Although rupt, he'll get the country back church to mark the completion and the Indians are occupying we are not formally denied the by default anyway. of three-quarters of a century as the only free sections of Canada stuff, the whole business is made a member of the Society of Jesus. left. so exhausting that we hardly I have never, for instance, have enough energy left to lift Zealous Indian Father Taelman, one of the heard of a parking meter on an a convivial glass by the time .oldest living Jesuits in the world, Indian reserve. This is definitely we've stood around in line at Laymen was born April 19, 1867, at Exaarde, Belgium. He recalls a sym'bol of white man's land. wickets and ,complied with the In the years that followed other regulations. that he first became interested in Also, to the best of my know l­ their return to the Huron Coun­ service to the American Indian edge, there has never 'been a five But I'm only making these try in 1634, St. Jean de Brebeuf while reading a life of Father De o'clock traffic jam on an Indian comments as suggestions to my and his fellow Jesuits were su'b­ Smet, a Belgian, during his boy­ reserve. You may say that this red brethren. Don't take my jec;!ted from time to time to great hood. is because Indians can't afford word for it. Look into the matter persecution by the Hurons them­ that many cars, and if you did for yourselves. selves. There were exceptions, He entered the Jesuit order in however, the most nota!ble being 1885 -and was ordained a priest I would say that a lot ,of white And I'm even willing to sug­ the three men mentioned here. in 1898. men who drive cars ' in traffic gest a way of doing it. jams can't afford them either. Eustache Abatsitari, the great­ All but four years of Father The white man has for years While the Indian enjoys cer­ est war chief of the Cord nation, Taelman's life as a priest have tain rights of movement andac- been sending various squads of been spent among the Indians of anthropologists into isolated In­ was captured with St. Isaac Jogues in 1642. An exemplary the U.S. Northwest. For almost dian settlements to study the red 30 years he has served the Flat­ man and write learned papers Catholic, he was tortured and Strange Paradox put to death by the Iroquois. head Indians at St. Ignatius mis­ about him. During these expedi­ sion. Since 195,2 he has been Strangely enough, while South tions, the white man's anthropo­ At the height of the persecu­ chaplain at nearby Holy Family African blacks are fighting for logists have been very nosey, to tion the pious Steven Tohtiri Hospital. the unrestricted franchise and put it mildly. erected a chapel in his own cabin. Many feared he would be Looking back on his long equal rights, Canada's Indians There is hardly a corner of the career of service among the In­ are resisting the Canadian gov­ martyred. Instead he lived for Indian's private life that they years to work for God. dians, Father Taelman 'comment­ ernment's offer to give them the haven't tried to pry into. ed: "I love the Indians and will federal franchise-and no strings Now, my suggestion is this: The most remarkable of the love them to the end. I never had attached. Why don't the Indians select a converts and the one who did the an enemy among them." most to bring his people to Christ In a sense, Indians are offer'ed few bright young persons from their ranks, send them to college was Joseph Chiwantenwa who privileges beyond those accorded helped St. Jean de Brebeuf write other Canadians. If they continue to study 'anthropology, and then Book Review sic them on us? sermons that would strike the as Indian band members they Huron mentality and who was may now vote and hold office If the white man is as fair as responsible through his instruc­ DANCE BACK THE BUFFALO. and still enjoy freedom from in­ he claims he is, he would, of tions and example for many con­ Milton Lott. Houghton Mifflin. come taxation. course, have no objections to versions. So zealous was he that $4.50. 1959. (Novel) Based on his­ Yet a number of Indian band these young Indian scientists many think that his 'cause should torical fact and written with being just as nosey as ours are. be introduced at Rome. extraordinary perception, this is councils and individual Indians a symbolic, mystical and pro- have been opposing the federal We would be expected to open I (Canadian Messenger foundly moving account of the law to give them the franchise. the doors of our homes to them of the Sacred Heart ) I Indian Ghost Dances. INDIAN RECORD OCTOBER 1960 Iindian Giverl Makes Yearly Charity Trip CLEVELAND, Ohio (NC) - Rosemary Macklem, the U.S. no. 1 "Indian giver," has 'completed her eighth trip to the missions of the West. This time she almost didn't make the trip. In early June, "flat broke" and out of work for months, she decided that the trip had to be cancelled. Then things happened: A trailer rental outfit offered her free use of a trailer. That saved her $100. Then she got several wires from the missions asking if she was coming this year. That convinced her. In Hollywood, her reputation had gone before her. Four tons of clothing were waiting for her at her usual stop-off place. Miss Macklem, a convert, has become the number one drum­ beater for justice to the original Americans. The Indians today are a little better off than they were when she started her one-woman apos­ tolate eight years ago, but the over-all situation is still not good, she said. She asks questions like these: " Why are the Indians on the Pima reservation in Arizona for­ bidden to drill for water wells on their own property, being Our Lady wears a lei in Hawaii, Father Francis W. Nugent, of Skagway, Alaska, pastor of an ice forced instead to cart water for 50th state of the U.S. This sta­ covered mountainous parish, holds a native Alaskan, little Stephanie up to 20 miles?" tue, pictured in Chapel 2 of the Agnes, who he has just baptized. Father's great problem, aside from "Why do American Ca thoJics Wheeler Air Force Base, is adorned the cold and darkness, is to get over the snow covered peaks to various with a garland of native flowers, villages of his parish. Roads are non-existent. Via air is the only solu­ take such little personal interest in the Indians? Most of them are and kept fresh and lovely by the tion. It is Father's prayer to soon obtain enough money for an autogyro ladies in charge of the altar. The to lift him over the mountains and into every remote village. Catholics but this year I saw general custom is to place leis on (Ne Photos) signs of intense missionary work a statue of Our Lady only on her by Mormons, Methodists and feast days and holy days. But here, Baptists." parishioners bring their own gift " Why do Americans in gen-= .- leiS frequently rather than wear eral pay so much attention to them themselves. (NC Photos) welfare prnblellls. in remote spots of the world and so little atten­ tion to the Indians?" While waiting for answers to Island Created by these and other questions, she is Gluskap? starting to pile up clothing again in preparation for another ship­ Partridge Island, in Saint John ment to the Indians. In between Harbour, 'New Brunswick, at the her trips, she collects enough for mouth of the St. John River. several shipments a year. According to one of the legends associated with Gluskap, the benevolent supernatural figure Canadian Agriculture revered by the Maritime Indians because he protected them from At least 400 years ago, on the menacing animals and other shores of the St. Lawrence and dangers, there was a time when in the Georgian Bay region of Beaver threatened to drown the Ontario, bands of Indians were people by impounding water be­ tilling the soil and raising crops. hind his huge dam at the mouth Their primitive efforts yielded of the st. John. Gluskap came to beans and peas, melons and the rescue by kIcking out a piece squash, tobacco and Indian cor n . of the dam, allowing all the In 1534 Jacques Cartier met In­ water to run out. This piece is dians at Gaspe who had Indian Partridge Island and the Revers­ corn "the same as in Brazil, ing Falls now flow through the which they eat in place of bread." remains of the dam at the mouth In the following year, at Hoche­ of the river. laga, he writes, "They make also many kinds of soup with this corn as well as with beans and Following a year of training as lay missioners by the Aid to peas of which they have a con­ The 7th annual conference on International Development (AID) of Paterson, N.J., this family will siderably supply, and again with Indians and Metis of Manitoba will live for two years in a South American mission area. Mr. and Mrs. be held in Winnipeg in February Sam Mondello, of Detroit, brief their children (left to right) James, lar ge cucumbers and 0 the I' Judy and John, on places they will be seeing soon. (NC Photos) fruits." 1961. OCTOBER 1960 INDIAN RECORD Paae 5 Courses I n 'Prospecting For Manitoba Indians WINNIPEG-Dr. A. B . Irwin, Supervisor of Min era 1 Re­ sources for the Indian Affairs Branch, has just returned from a two-week tdp through north- I ern Manitoba, visiting the more important sites of mineral oc­ currences in that area and talk­ ing with Provincial Government and mining companies officials. One of Dr. Irwin's d uties was to consider ways to pr ovide ser- I vices designed to encourage and stimulate prospecting as a part time or full time vocation for Indians. Indians generally possess the more important qualifications re­ quired of successful prospectors, including keen observation and I the ability and inclination to travel and live under rugged conditions away from the con­ veniences of modern life ~ . To become successful pros­ pectors in competition with non­ Indians, training is needed. The main purpose of Dr. Irwin's trip was to examine the feasibility of setting up courses in prospecting. Dr. Irwin visited seven Indian Frederick Gibberd, 52, architect and town planning consultant in London, stands beside his winning Reserves; as a result there 's design in the competition for completion of Liverpool's Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King. The contest, strong possibility of p r ospecting sponsored by Archbishop John Heenan of Liverpool, brought 298 entries. The cathedral is shaped like a courses being held on these re­ teepee. serves during the winter. There is a prospect of full co­ Win Top Awards operation between the Indian Af­ Oblate Brothers Make History In P,oster Contest fairs Branch and the Provincial NORTH VANCOUVER - The Government in this project. It is Kuper Island Indian Residential School, in B.C., chalked Sisters of the Child Jesus have hoped that Metis will b e partici­ up several history-making events during the summer months. reason to be proud of their pating in any course ofcfered. First off, the boys' band took Victoria by storm during the students' entries in B.C.'s Annual Tuberculosis P oster Contest, con­ Dr. Irwin will likely be the Annual Grand Victoria Day Parade and received a special ducted in Indian residential and chief instructor and details as to merit award. day schools throughout the pr ov­ his assistants, the degree of par­ ince. ticipation as to personnel and This was the first time in his­ retreat. The volunteer? None Both top award winners attend costs remain to b e worked out. tory that an Indian band has been other than THE Oblate cook - schools staffed by their Congre­ featured in the popular parade. Brother Paul Breen, O.M.I., chef gation. The project a ugurs well for Director of the band is Brother extraordinary of Holy Rosary the future of the people of Indian Fifteen-year-old Ruth Newman Thomas Furlong, O.M.I., who Scholasticate, Ottawa, who hap­ of St. Paul's School, North Van­ background , in this p r ovince looks after the senior boys at the pened to be out West on holiday couver, was 1960 grand award who ar e alread y doing some school. This young missionary at the time. winner for the day school con­ prospecting but who, w ith the brother, renowned for two attri­ test. In addition to a silver cup advantage of some basic train­ butes which so rarely go together for the school, Ruth was awarded ing, will be in a position to do - reserve and red hair - was BOB GEORGE a new spring wardrobe, chosen much m ore in th is occupation. also instru mental in chalking up fnr her by Marie Moreau, Fashion another "first" for Kuper School Editor of the VANCOUVER SUN. when he skippered the school TV PIONEER The grand award for residen­ Is An Igloo Warm? crew in the Annual War Canoe NORTH VANCOUVER-When tial schools was captured by Alex Not very. Although the igloo Races at Songhees, near Esqui­ Bob George, 36, of the Teslall­ Paul, 16, winning the silver cup. or snow h u t of the Eskimo is a malt. The Indians claim this is watt Indian tribe, North Vancou­ for the Cariboo Indian School, relatively comfortable dwelling the first time in history that a ver, became the first B.C. Indian Williams Lake. and a brand new even in midwinter, temp eratu res white man has ever skippered in to win a professional TV contract bicycle for himself. Both schools usually r·emain well below the a race of this kind. for the series "Cariboo Country" were also awarded a cash prize. freezing point. The coastal Es­ Then there was Brother Gerald on CBC. he really set the ball kimo heat their igloos slightly Prazma, O.M.I., disciplinarian of rolling. By the time the 13-week We ask for photos, press clippings, with a seal-oil lamp, over w hich the younger boys at Kuper, who series was complete, 14 more of reports on local events concerning the cooking is also done. On the was supposed to spend a nice, his fellow Indians, including all Indians from every province of Cana­ other hand, the Caribou Eskimo, quiet holiday with his folks at but one of his own family, had da for publication in the INDIAN living west of H udson Bay, mak e Prince George this summer. How­ been signed up for the show. RECORD. no use of sea l oil and ther efore ever, when he arrived there and These were Bob's parents, Chief Photos should be clea r and con­ are unable to heat their igloos. saw how badly help was needed Dan and Mrs. George, his sisters, trasted; the lines explaining a photo on Bishop O'Grady's Junior Col­ Marie and Ann, and his young should be typewritten double-space lege building project, he imme­ brother Leonard. The only mem­ and should give 1) date and location Help for Jr. Seminarians diately volunteered his services ber of the George family who of the event, 2 ) names and initials FORT FRANCES, Onto - The and spent the rest of his holiday didn't appear in the series was of the persons on t he photo, fro m Legion of Mary, of Cootchiching working as a truck driver on the Irene, who has a full-time job as left to right. NEVER give this in­ Indian r eserve, have r aised $50 project. a stenographer at Catholic Chil­ formation on the back of the p h~to . recently towards the support of And it was again an Oblate dren's Aid Society, Vancouver, All local copy should be type­ two junior seminarians w ho are Brother who came to the rescue and w as therefore not able to at­ written, double-spaced, on one side attending now at Fort Alexander when Kuper's principal, Father tend the daytime rehearsals. of the page only. Indian Jr. Seminary. Herbert Dunlop, O.M.I., was left Four of Bob's children ap­ Send your copy, etc., to: The Legion plans to raise without a cook just a few days peared on the show, as did Chief The EDITOR, enough m oney through the year before the diocesan priests of Vic­ Louis Miranda, Percy P aul, An­ Indian Record, to pay for their tuition and board toria diocese were scheduled to drew Naturell and Teddy Seward, 619 McDermot Ave., ther:e. arrive at Kuper for their annual all of North Vancouver. WINNIPEG, Manitoba Paae 6 INDIAN RECORD OCTOBER 1960 His Life Story Began With

by P. Doherty, O.M.I. The Beading Of A Letter in "Oblate World"

There will always be men in In 1846, the year before he use as an alb. A missionary was Chirouse was appointed tri'bal this world whose lives shine with was to be ordained, Bro. Chi­ born. . . agent, Qe·coming one of the first a supernatural vitality and sin­ rouse, the youngest member of Due to Indian migration and and few priests to hold such a gleness of purpose. There will al­ a group of five Oblates, sailed the fierce wars erupting in the job. ways be men who dream, and from Marseilles to the busy port area, the hardy Padre was con­ In 1877, after thirty years of for their dreams, sacrifice all for of New York. That was the first stantly on the move. Despite the the realization of their goal. lap of their trip to the Oregon work among the Indians .of convert work and the adminis­ Washington, Chirouse was order­ Territory. They journeyed from tration of the Sacraments, Father The story of Eugene Casm:r New York to Philadelphia, cross­ ed to British Columbia where Chirouse is the story of such a Chirouse managed to build five he was to assume lighter duties ing the Appalachians to St. churches in four years. man. This man was possessed Louis, from there to Kansas City at St. Mary's Indian Mission a.t by one central idea, one predo­ where they joined one of the Chirouse threw himself into Mission City, B.C. Despite his minant theme, one lone vision: many wagon trains heading for the work with the silent deter­ age, he began a whirlwind pace to preach God's word. the virgin West. The childho.od mination of a Napoleon. The two that would have crippled a swarthy little men had much in younger man. Here he., worked In 1847, the Oregon Territory pictures of the young Chirouse were not diminished as the common. Both had some preter­ until the time of his death fifteen was in its infant stage. Em­ natural drive, some fanatic core years later. ployees of the Northwpst Com­ wagons passed through the rich, rolling plains of the Midwest, of energy which enabled both to pany, mostly French Catholics, accomplish much; one for good, During Holy Week of 1892, swarmed into the fertile valleys wind'ng down into the treacher­ Eugene Chirouse lay on his ous oasses of the , Rockies, and the other for evil. Napoleon had of Oregon, and began , to settle. his Waterloo; Chirouse did not. deathbed, listening to the thou­ These and later settlers began to finally tumbling out among the sands of Indians outside 'Prepar­ literally drive back the Indian fertile valleys of the Oregon After~ having seen the work of ing for the annual tribal Passion to the shore of the salt water, Territory. the Oblates in the Northwest, a Play. His mind wandered back until the once proud tribes were keen judge of men, Gen. George to the first days. reduced to poverty and shame. The Oblates had little time to B. McClellan, later commander Vast hunting lands became pas­ admire the scenery. The bishop of the, entire Union army in the The children he had taught tures; lakes changed to irriga­ 'If Walla Walla quickly assigned Civil War, praised them highly. . . . now businessmen and far­ tion pools. The Indian bprame the Oblates as missionaries to mers. He smiled as he thought four of the local tr:bes. Soon. in "On the simplest fare, with of the, apple trees he had planted homeless in the midst of millions few or none of the 'comforts of of rich acres. the vast territory under their near the mission of St. Rose .. . charge, the Fathers found that this life, with no society save even Easterners were now cla­ The story really began in the they were the sole shepherds of that of the savage, there are men moring for these "Yakima ap­ small French town of Bourg du one hundred and ten thousand content to pass their lives in ples" . . . the chapels and ·chur­ Paege when a young man fifteen lndian souls, of whom only six order to extend th1!Tr religion ches along Puget Sound . . . the years old read the letter of an thousand were Catholics! and to improve the morals of massacre . . . brother Oblates Amer:can bishop, pleading for the savages ..." . growing old .. . the new city, priests. As he read, the young Since the young Chirouse was In 1857, ten years after thelr Seattle growing where the boy's mind drew pictures of not yet a priest, most of the mis­ arrival, the Oblate priests in stumps' were hardly out of the , America in terms of wild and sion's manual work fell on his Eastern Wa~h.ington wer~ ._ with.:. . ground ... and named for the rugged mountains, painted sav­ shoulders. The young cleric drawn to BntIsh Columom to fIll chief he had anointed and buried. ages, and sturdy pioneers. He showed a practical mind and the ranks of the missionaries to iron nerve as he floated log the Canadian tribes. He tried to think of his home saw himself in that picture. in France, but it was only a booms 90 m :les down the swirl­ Fr. -Chirouse was transferred On August 15, 1840, young ing Yakima River to build the blurry mist in his mind . . . his to Priest Point, a settlement home was the Northwest. The Chirouse entered the novitiate first Oblate church in the United founded by the Oblates. It was of the Oblates of Mary Imma­ States, the mission of St. Rose at only clear thoughts of France the forerunner of the present were in the letters of his nephew, culate at Valence. Why the A.htanum. Lumberjack and sub­ capital c:ty of Olympia, Wash­ Bro. Eugene Ca8mir Chirouse'~ Oblates? Perhaps because they deacon ... all in a day's work. ington. There, Chirouse's knowl­ were so close to home . . . but his namesake, who, also, later edge of Indian customs and lan­ wore the Oblate Cross. Perhaps then perhaps because of ' the On January 2. 1848, while his guage helped him as he began words of the Oblate emblem on classmates in France knelt in someday he would come to his new program among the America to ' take his place : .. the altar of h :s parish church, age-old cathedrals ' resplendent Sound Indians. ','He has sent me to preach the with all the glory of Liturgy, He thought b,ack to the 'days Gospel to the poor;' tha t the poor Eugen e Chirouse became a priest It was not long until the fami­ liar frame churches were begin­ when he was leaving Tulalip .. . may have the Gospel preached to of God in a log chapel, borrow­ the tribe had always considered them." ing a nightshirt from a trader to ning to rise among the tribes of Puget Sound. Soon Tulalip was B.C. as "before Chirouse" . . . erected as his headquarters. But, these were the same ones who Anyone' For. . . IKokosh Wiassl Tulalip was no ordinary reser­ had written a letter to the Holy vation. A center for seven tribes, Fa ther, begging to keep hini and , a natural location for a there ... he chuckled ... very , HERON BAY, ant. - What a toes) to go with the Kokosh flattering to an old man . . . but repast it was at the , tpstim.onial wiass. Dagondkigan (s a 1 a d), church and school, the proposed oarish equalled the size of Ire­ the letter had not gotten past the banquet g:venby the ~ Heron Bay Pakwejigans (rolls), Meshkawa­ bishop. Indian Reserve to mark the ad­ kod:ng-Bimaigan (ice cream), land. vent of hydro into the area. Mishimin - Pitossitchigan (apple Since the young were the hope He could hear the soft chant Die), Nibishabo gonima and Ma­ of the future, a school was built of the Indians outside. It was the The dinner was tendered to G. kate Mash1{ikwako (tea or cof­ in 1860. Though small and rather same Gregorian chant that the Hennenfent and to G. Crandle­ fee), and Sisibakwatonsan (bon­ primitive, the school showed re­ Fathers had taught to the In­ mire, at St. Francis Xavier bons) rounded .out the meal. sults. The living standards and dians. This Passion Play would Parish Hall, Pikitigong (Heron the morality of the tribes rose be their song to God. His life Bay). " The dinner was prepared sharply. Two more Oblate Fath­ had been his song to God. He under the direction of the presi­ ers were added to the staff, along closed his eyes and slept. First on: the' inen'u was:' Kitchi­ dent of the Married Women's Oginiminnabo ': or tomato ' juice. with two Brothers. Wh~le the Today a plain cross on the Society, Mrs. Stan Michano, with number of students increased, banks of the Fraser River marks Then there were " l\fi tag 0 g Mesdames Matt Michano, Tom­ the Federal government was (olives) Ash k 'o k i (celery), the resting place of the French my Starr and Toussant Michano lavish with praise, but not aid. lad who read a letter. It marks Kokosh wiass (which is pink assisting. ham, .of course). Soon, a school for girls was the burial place of an old man The entire menu was beauti­ opened on Tulalip under the di­ in black who closed his eyes and Then, ~ as further enhance­ fully ins'cribed in both the Ojib­ rection of the Sisters of Provi­ finished a ,song. A song without ments, there were Opinig, (pota- way and English languages.' dence. Shortly after this, Fr. a singer ...

, .- ..:: ~:: OCTOBER 1960 INDIAN RECORD Page "7 Story of Baptism Of IIBuffalo Bill' Cody A" NAVAHO RUG FOR PAPAL DELEGATE Told in Magazine NEW YORK (NC)-The priest who received Col. William F . (Buffalo Bill) Cody into the Catholic Faith the day ,before his death now lives quietly in re­ t irement in Denver, Colo. He is Father Christopher V. Walsh, 82, oldest priest of the Denver archdiocese. He has been a priest for 55 years, The story of "The Baptism of Buf.falo Bill" is told in the cur­ rent issue of the Catholic Digest magazine by William E. Barrett. Father Walsh was a longtime friend of Col. Cody. They were frequent companions on hunting trips. Mr. Barrett relates tha t in November 1916, Col. Cody was stricken ill and was advised by his physicians that his chances of recovery were slim. The article says that on January 9, 1.917, Col. Cody startled his family with a request that Father Walsh be called to his bedside. Father Walsh baptized the former scout and Indian fighter tha t day and Col. Cody died the following day. Two Navaho Ind,:an m'aidens present a native Navaho rug to Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apos­ The article quotes Father to,lic Delegate to the United States, on the occasion of his visit to the:r reservation. Pictured, left to right: Walsh as saying: " It is a simple Alyce Kellywood, the Papal Delegate, Bishop Bernard T. Espelage, O.F.M., of Gallup, N. M" in whose story. He wanted to die in the diocese the entire tribe of 85,000 Indians live, and Rosalie Kellywood. The Kellywood sisters are dressed Catholic Faith and he did." in their na'tive Navaho costumes. (NC Photos)

STRANGE TRU Fled Russian Occu · pati~n~ Little-Known Facts for Catholics E Now Teacher at Heron Bay By M. J . MURRAY Copyright, 1960, N.C.W.C. News Service HERON BAY, Onto - Ignatius Mazewski, principal of the school at Heron Bay Indian Reserve, has an exciting back­ ground, it was learned at ceremonies marking the advent of Hydro on the Indian Reserve here. - When Poland was occupied by I .. . the Russians, he escaped and Ph.D., whose wIfe IS a ~egIstered taught for a while at a large nurse and keeps the dIspensary school for boys in Hungary, but on the reserve. . fled from there with his pupils They came to Heron Bay fIve taking a route through YUgO ~ years ago . .Th e docto.r was also slavia and Turkey to Gre,ece. ~n th e PolIsh army In Engla~d • ' • J D.e tladt, Hdf,H.eIz.!/ He took part in the Siege of ~n 19~4 .and worked f~r the B~It­ I' IN "O-tc Tobruk with the Polish Armed Ish MInIstry of EducaLon (PolIsh .t'·'iJP NU~SERY RI-\YME Forces, and from there he jour- Branch). He also taught a~ a WA S A REA 1. PERSON. ·th 500 f large grammar school for gIrls $/~ NAME WAS' neye d t 0 E ng 1an d . WI ' 0 . . h IS· pUpI' 1s. I n E n gl an d he re -or - III Gloucestershlre. JACJ( HORNER & HE WAS ganized a Polish Navy School in STEWARD 7D 7HE" FORM~R. 1945. ABBEY OF GLASTONBURY At that time, the Polish people How Many Eskimo IN FN6LIIND ~ did not recognize the Warsaw Government, so the group stayed In The World? in England and changed from a About 55,000 Eskimo inhabit nautical to a t echnical school. th e northern coasts of America La ter Mr. Mazewski moved to from Greenland and Labrador in Northamptonshire and taught th e east to Bering Strait in the school there for eight years be­ west, to.gether with a short fore proceeding to Canada to stretch of the Siberian coast line teach at Lac Lacroix near the in the vicinity of Bering Strait. ?he Minnesota border. Of thes'e 5,5,000, some 11 ,40'0 live lMTICAN LIBRARY, Mobert was his next port of in Canada according to the latest 1959 estim:lte. Greenland has WI1IC#4 IS AN call and h e lived there for three about 26,000, Alaska about 16,- INl£RNATIONAL RES,EAR,CU, years, moving then to Heron Bay 000 and Siberia about 1,300. The CENTRE, +lAS MORE where 'he has been for the past Il-IE OLDEST M~NUSCRIPT \ Siberian figures are more than 'THAN 700.000 BOOKS O~ A COMPLETE 5OO1( OF 1HE OLD T£STAMENT 2ight years. AND 6QOOO MSS. 3.0 years old. since no statistics IS ~E SCROLL. OF ISAIAH, foUNO NEAR -me: The other teacher "on the re­ for Siberia have been made 'DE'AD SEA IN " serve is Dr. Josef Zmigrodzki, available since 1926. Page 8 INDIAN RECORD OCTOBER 1960 Father Murray Emphasizes Hon. D. Fulton Opens Training of Indian Youth BATTLEFORD, Sask. (CCC) - "We must impart to our Chilcotin Day School students the certitude of the reality of God," the founder of HANCEVILLE, B.C.-Greeted by village chief D. Hance Notre Dame College, Rev. Athol Murray of Wilcox, Sask., and a troop of mounted cowboys, the Hon. D. E. Fulton, Minis- told members of the Saskatchewan Indian Teachers' Associa­ ter of Justice, officially opened a $146,000 day school here tion at a convention banquet here recently. September 23. "We must · train our Indian that word made illegal," the The school had peen blessed Kelly and J. M. Patterson and children. Why can't an Indian speaker declared. "They are na­ the previous day by Bishop M. Chief Douglas. l,oy become prime minister of tive Americans - not Indians at A. Harrington, of Kamloops, who A buffet luncheon was served Canada? Shape him. We can do all. In view of the terrible thing celebrated Mass afterwards in by the Sisters assisted by pupils it. Man reasons with univers­ at Little Rock, Ark., that is Sacred Heart church; the Bishop Noreen Harry, Elsie and Mildred qlitv but each one of us is unique. menacing Canada I hope they was assisted by Father G. Mc­ Alphonse, Alice Sam, Francy Instill into your stndents th;s won't stand to be treated like Kenna, C.Ss.R., and J . M. Pat­ Stump and Sarah Mack. The understanding of Christ. The second rate Canadians. That terson, O.M.I. Indian popula tion was also spirit we have at Notre Dame is exists in Canada right now. We guests of the s,chool girls at a authentic .. . it is the power of are all on this planet. We are Present at the official opening Canadians. Indians are Cana­ were Indian Affairs Branch of­ luncheon served at the commu­ God." nity hall. "This is an historic segment dians. We treat them like lepers. ficials A. V. Parminter, A. B. This is the 20th ,century. The Ash, W. M. Christie, R. H. Fraser The new day school has four of the province in a land that is classrooms, an office, a staff reekjng with the traditions of time has come to face reality, to and J. E. Ingot. Visiting clergy fa'ce our attitudes and ap­ included Revs. G. F. Kelly of room, a clinic and X-Ray depart­ the Canadian Indians," Father ment, a spacious auditorium and Murray said, "and it is my ob­ proaches to these people. After Lejac, G. P. Dunlop of Kamloops, 300 years we are administering J . A. Morris of Williams Lake a covered play area. servation that there are grave problems. All my life I have con­ to them on reserves and through and J. T. O'Brien of Anahim trea ties." Lake. sidered the Indian story to be • The city of Grand'Mere, on surrounded with more glamor Based on God Mr. Fulton, welcomed in the Quebec's st. Maurice River not than any oth er. Our primeval school auditorium by Chief far from Shawinigan, was named historv has no peer in the world "We had so many potentials, Hance, noted that the Chilcotins " grandmother" in French be­ for chivalry, adventure, heroism Father Murray said. "I want our were his constituents; Mr. Par- c~use of a rock in. ~hich the In­ qnd courage but unfortunately Indian boys to be real Canadians minter congratulated Chi e f dlans saw the, hkenes~ of an with equal rights and opportuni­ Hance and his people as well as elderly . The Canada is not yet mature enough ~oman.s prof~le. to grasp this." ties. To my mind the very heart th M· · S· . .. - -rock,-OrIgmally m the rIver bed, of Western culture is based on e ~sslOnary ~sters of ~hrIst was moved to the shore when "Canada had great men and t~e Kmg fo~ theIr work m In- the power dam was built. The the existence of God. When light women and great v ision. What came in to the world man pre­ dIan education. Ot?e~ speakers city, founded in 1898, owes its has happened to the glamor that were W. M. ChrIstie, agency existence to the water power and ferred to walk in darkness. That superintendent, Fathers G. F . timber of the S t. Maurice valley. made people look to her great is our tragedy. Socrates, Plato, future?" he asked. Ar istotle and the Christians, "We have more than glamor Augustine and Aquinas proved now. We have the Indian Affairs the reality of our mind and the department looking after a popu­ souls and our inheritance from LISTEN TO 1570 on your dial lation of 175,00.0 people and a them is what made the West." CFRY fund in the treasury of $50 mil­ In conclusion, he said, "I'm lions. positive we must get rid of the - , FOR- Warns of "Efficiency" word 'Indian'. There is too much "Canada can brag of the ef­ idiom attached to the word like ficiency in our Indian depart­ Congolism and tribalism. The ment in education." Father Mur­ sooner we' can get rid of this "THE INDIAN VOICE" ray said, "but I have a feeling idea of classification, the better. we're goofing it. . . I am very I tell my students, it's all right Sunday Afternoons F'rom 3.00 to 3.3'0 much alarmed. As an outsider to be proud of their birth but looking to the inside, I think let's be Canadians first. Get rid 'Commencing Sunday, Olctober 16th vou are magnificently effkient of these things that pull us down." (In Sauteux and English) but I'm worried. Look at Africa." The Belgian parliament has issued a vote of censure on the 8.dministration of the Belgian Collect Folkore Religious and Po'pular Music Congo. The Jesuits had a univer­ O'n 1ndian Reserve sity there as large as the univer­ HERON BAY, Ont. - Soon ~it y in Montreal. The education there w ill be a complete and PRODUCED BY : given to children was amazing professional collection of folk­ but everything was controlled by lore from the Ojibway Indian St. Mary's Indian Residential School white people. Everywhere there Reserve at Heron Bay. was feudalism. KE'NORA Miss Chislaine Lecours, who - ONTA'RIO "When the French Congo was spent three months last year at c:{iven independence, the transi­ Heron Bay, living with the In­ SPONSORED BY : tion was completely smooth. The dians and getting to know them, French had trained those people is back again this year to com­ Rev. A. K. Macdonell, Pastor to stand on their own feet. They plete the collection for the Ot­ nroduced a great race of colored tawa Museum. St. John's Catho.uc Church, Portage la Prairie, Manito,ba folk. The keynote of the Belgian Her work involves the taking administration for 50 year$ was of hundreds of photographs and ~ fficiency and today the mess in hours of tape recordings of their the Belgian Congo is tearing the songs, poems, stories and family 1570 CFRY On Your Dial continent apart," he said. histories. Not Indians Portage la Prairie, Manitoba Deadline for November issue is "We call our native popula­ October 31. Scribes please comply! tion, Indians, but I'd like to see