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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER EDITED AND PRINTED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES INDIAN SCHOOL VOLUME VII. CARLISLE, PA., APRIL 28, 1911. NUMBER 34 THE AMERICAN INDIAN AND COLLEGE several records. From Carlisle he THE CREATION OF MAN. ATHLETICS. went to Dickinson College, and was the first Indian to obtain a diploma L o u is D uP u is , Sac & Fox. It is an undeniable fact that inter from it. Now he is athletic director Every race has its myths and leg est in physical culture and sport is at Franklin and Marshall College at ends. The Indians had no written increasing in our educational insti Lancaster, Pa. language, yet through oral traditions tutions. Nevertheless, there are James Phillips, another Carlisle they have preserved some interesting many who believe that in the colleges athlete and a full-blooded Cherokee, stories. and universities this tendency is de is a judge at Aberdeen, Wash. The following is an Indian legend veloping athletes rather than fitting Almost everybody in the United which has been preserved for many students for higher and better things. States knows that Charles Bender generations concerning the Indian Some are so radical as to declare by his pitching was largely respon idea of creation. They believe in that college athletes are apt to be sible for the winning of the world’s two Gods—Ketchi-manito or the failures in practical life. On the baseball championship by the Phila good spirit, and Machi-manito, or other hand, others declare that noth delphia club last fall. Bender, a the evil spirit. ing so fits a man for the battle of Chippewa, learned to play ball at Ketchi-manito, or the good ruler life, for success in any field of labor, Carlisle. He is married, has a beau thought to himself that the world was as a thorough training in athletics. tiful home at Tioga, a suburb of Phila incomplete without anything living in There may be two sides to this delphia, possesses other property the water or on the dry land. So he question of college athletics for the there, and is a respected member of created the beautiful fishes to live in young American white man, but the the community. the water and man to live on land. testimony seems all one way as to James Metoxen, famous as a full Matchi-manito saw that these two the American Indian, according to back at Carlisle, went back to the creations were good and this made facts collected by Mr. Friedman and Oneida reservation in Wisconsin and him very angry and jealous. He went published in the College World under to-day is a prosperous farmer. to work to imitate the good ruler. the title “ The Carlisle Indian Athlete Bemus Pierce, captain of Carlisle’s In trying to make a fish he made as a Citizen.” And it should be re famous football team of 1896, owns a snake. He felt ashamed because membered that the Carlisle Indian a fine farm at Irving, N. Y., but he could not make a fish, so he turned athlete is a good deal of an athlete, manages to spend part of each year his attention toward making a man; holding his own with the best of the as football coach at one of the East but here he also failed; instead of a college world. ern universities. man, he made a monkey. This is the At Carlisle, a school maintained James Johnson, another Wisconsin reason the Indians assign for the ex by the government for the purpose Indian, was considered a wonderful istence of snakes and monkeys. of uplifting the Indian race, particu athlete in his day. From Carlisle he --X-X W lar attention has been given to ath 7 7 7 7 r went to the dental department of letic training. Mr. Friedman says: A n employer of experience, who Northwestern university, was grad Because so many of these athletes were knows the importance of strict obedi uated in 1907, and is now earning well known during their terms at Carlisle and ence to orders, recently said of a boy received enough attention in the public press $4,000 a year practicing his profes in his employ: “ That lad will never to turn many a white boy’s head, and in view sion at San Juan, Porto Rico. of the recent interest in the whole subject of get along because he hates to obey. Edward Rogers, another all-around athletics, 1 have carefully investigated the re I never give him an order without athlete of Carlisle, is a successful cords of the most prominent athletes from the feeling his resistance to it, though Carlisle school, and I invariably find them lawyer at Walker, Minn., and has he may say nothing. He will never among our most successful ex-students and been judge of the Probate court. find work that suits him, or that he graduates. Those mentioned are only a few of Here are some instances cited: the Indians who won fame as athletes is happy in, because every good The first football captain at Car at Carlisle and afterward achieved worker has to obey, willingly and lisle was Benjamin Caswell, a Chip success in business life. The note cheerfully, either his employer or the pewa from Minnesota, in 1892. To worthy fact is that the Indians who laws of his work, or the terms of his were best in athletics turned out the day he is superintendent of the best citizens. Therefore it must be contract; but he cannot get away government’s Indian school at Cass conceded that the maximum of col from obedience. Bob, of course, Lake, Minn.; he owns real estate and lege athletics was helpful and not thinks differently. But Bob is only property valued at $9,000 and has a harmful to the Indians, and the fourteen, and his employer has had champions of college sports may bank account. “ point with pride” to him when their fifty years experience. Which is the Frank Mt. Pleasant was one of the hobby is attacked. —Editorial, Chica more likely to be right?— Industrial best athletes in this country, holding go, 111., Inter Ocean., March 12, 1911. School Echo. THE CARLISLE ARROW ■>- FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL GENERAL SCH OOL NEWS. Robert Doyle, who is out on a Mrs. Elmer Echohawk, formerly farm, writes to a friend stating that Alice Jake, writes from Pawnee, Lyford John is working at his trade he is getting along all right, and Oklahoma, that they have moved in of painting. that he has a good home. to their new home. Ida Elm who is teaching at Oneida Amos Kern, one of the small boys Gladys Earl, who is living at Ken- W is., is getting along splendidly with who went to the country with the nett Square, is doing splendid work her work. first party, writes that he is well in school; she wishes to be re and happy in his new home. Joseph Denny writes cheerfully membered to her friends at Carlisle. from Belvidere, New Jersey, where Edward B. Fox, one of the paint Clifford C. Taylor, who left for he is nicely located. ers, left last Saturday morning, for home last month, writes that he has Anna Brokey states in a letter Sunbury, Pa., where he will work at been helping his father plant corn. his trade during the summer. that she has a very nice home in Glen- He has also made a garden for him self. olden, Pennsylvania. Mr. Veith, the florist, has started John Skenandore, an ex-student Daisy Mingo, who went home two work on the campus flower beds. It will not be long now until our writes: “ I am using, with benefit to years ago, has returned recently to campus is abloom with flowers. myself and others, the knowledge take nurse’s training. which I gained while under the Out Jonas Jackson, class ’07, writes Rachel Chase, who is at her home ing System.” from Seattle, Washington, that he in Wisconsin, writes that she is stead Word comes from Louise Thomas, ily improving in health. expects to finish the course in the Acme Business College this June. who is living in Glenside, Pa., stat Manly George, who went out in the ing that she is well. Louise has lived country with the first party, writes The grass on the campus is show in the same home for about seven that he has a good home. ing green and soon the leaves and years, and is greatly beloved by her the flowers will be out and the patrons. At the first meeting of the newly- campus will look beautiful again. organized Freshman Class, Harry Through a letter we learn that West was elected president. Among those who have come in Eugenia LaRoche, who is out in the from the country to join the Junior country, likes her home owing to the Alice Denomie, class ’08, is now Class arqCora Elm, Flora and Phoe fact that she is able to keep on with working in Supervisor Charles Da£e- be McDonald, and Leila Waterman. her studies and thus keep up with nette’s office in Denver, Colorado. Hurrah! the country spirit has her class. Charles McDonald and Guy Plenty been aroused and a great many of Naomi Greensky, a member of the Horse, printers, left for their homes the students are eagerly waiting to Sophomore Class who is attending in Minnesota and Dakota this month. hear the conductor’s “ All aboard!’ ’ school at Lansdowne, is doing very Montreville Yuda gave the Stan Delaney Davis, who recently went well with her studies, reports one dards a very interesting talk on “ Pro to the country, writes that he is hav of her friends who has just returned tective Tariff’ ’ last Friday evening.