Show PLEADS FOR THE Tilt UPLIFT OF INDAN INDIAN 1 j Rev ev Sherman Coolidge Full Full- Ful- Ful Blooded Arapahoe Advocate Advocate Advocate Ad Ad- for His Race NEED A NEW RELIGION Ono Omie u n c HUI tu to Cl ll cI Cl ii 1101 lu Do Not it t Exterminate t Straight and stalwart hl Ills his features massive and Intelligent Rev Rov Sherman Arapahoe In Indian Indian In- In n- n full blooded Coolidge e n a n blooded Cul-blooded dian dlan pleaded fo for tho time education and civilization of his people rather than thai thal their extermination by br subjection an anwar and war before beCore t two 0 n assemblies bies Sunday af afternoon at- at at tho ho Y T. M. M t C C. A. A Ills His Ils talk talk-J wore were delivered b by the fireside an and vur j listened to to by attentive audiences for tor that thatIs Is Is hi 11 j Indian I. Is a man maim of or culture an and runn men For two twenty years ar no me nas nS been In the ministry and Is Ing to educate his people and cIvilIze civilian them Now he Is 18 stationed on ort time the Wind River re reservation In Wyoming and Is working among the tho Shoshones which tribe tilbe killed his father rather and led lou him Into captivity ly in their tribal wars vr forty years ears ago Tn in his talk to the men hu presented present present- ed cd the Indians Indian's side of the time strife a against the whites who invaded d their hunting grounds rounds Three hundred bo boy were held heM with breathless attention by his Indian tales the stor story of or hl hits his capture and the death of or hits his father the tho tribal traditions and superstitions tons and tho the sign language Ills IUs delivery de do- livery was plain and language perfect per per- feet He lie le a deep rich voice which was pleasing to listen to Dr Coolidge Is pa passing through his forty fifth Cort winter according to th the th calculations of or his mother Ills Ils wife wife- Is with him here und and they have two children Ho lie took toak the name of ar CoolIdge Coolidge Cool Cool- idge from Cram General Coolidge formerly a commander at V Ft Douglas Dougla who reared reared and educated ed him He lie Is 19 a graduate of or tho the Shattuck Military school in Minnesota a and ard d studied at Seabury Divinity cole college c In Minnesota Afterward he spent pent three years ears in Hobart Ho- Ho hart bart college Now York and then thun entered en cu- the Mistake Mistake- of or Forefather While talking t to the mon mop y yesterday he lie said that he le taw saw taw whore where hi his forefathers forefathers fore fure- fathers had hul ma made e their ml mistake But remember he ho continued it i was as a u new life Iro that the t whites forced upon tho the Indians Indian a 0 civilization a n re religion re- re ligion that was wa new to them The In Indians Indians Indians In- In were not taught to believe beleve or ur ordo ordo urO do O as the tho whites did It I was WU forced upon them The Time Indians l had t their own religion and their own awn country countr and the they ought fought for fOl oi I it The They used their bow and arrows ln and Hears ears against the whites whites' guns cannons and swords and were subdued It I Is Is now however that therbe there ther be boa a f change choe In Instead o of them by war teach them a a civilization ion tion ton a new y religion When they accept accept ac nc- ac- ac cepl It I they will wi light fight for far It I Just us as the they did their old ola religion Tho TIme In Indian Indian In In- dian dlan question Is a national question lUe ton toda today Tie The Tie whites whiles now understand that time the l Indian dlan Is 16 not hot an nn animal of af tho the mountains or ar plains but a n numan luman being who can be benefited by b education Ion tion and th time the laws The Indians are arc tan taking hold hald of or the time new life Uto slowly but It will wi come cume to them lieu In dU due time It I is hard herd work hut but ut after they accept accept accept ac ac- ac- ac It they are ure patriotic and true I have suffered many hardships In my work an and so u have han Bothers 0 When I first went to the thE Wind River cr reservation reser reser- I told the youths to tu prepare vaton themselves for tor the work One ho boy left tho the reservation For four cur or five ler years he lie studied before he returned Then he lie said ho Ito was rea ready y to hel help In my work He translated considerable consid erable crable of ot the time new no testament ment Into the time language o of the Arapahoe Sho hone and Bannock tribes tribe Time and amid again the tho medicine men loon of tho the tribes made trouble for him Ho He became discouraged discouraged aged but Just Jutt jUtt before beton he reached th the tho point of or resignation he rec received tho tIme spirit of or God In hIs hiM work worl and I Is still sti speaking among hl his tribesmen Working Among Shu Shoshones hu c I I am working among time the children of ot the time Shoshones whose fathers Cathers killed my amy father In the tribal wars of 1 1870 I 1 IfS Iwas was born during the tribal WILlS wars between between between be be- I tween the Bannocks Dunnock tho the and nd Arapa Arapahoe oe tribe tribes The They were traditional tra tra- enemies but now tho the former Cormor tribe and the have settled on the same reservation on and are accepting accepting ac ac- ac- ac tho the Christian religion and are arc becoming educated During the wars warsIn In 1870 Ip my ry father tather W was killed and amid ald I Iwas Iwas was taken captive Afterward time the Sho Shoshones honel turned mo me re over to the United States StateR arm army and I J was nt brought to Salt Sal Luke Lake General Generl Coolidge reared me and his hil wire wife sent me mo to school and e educated me mo fur for the work ork I am ann 1 now doln doing and umI a work of which I urn am proud 4 It I t Is a up to us now to make muke a a new hl history tor for for ourselves un an epoch of ad advancement ad- ad al- al and I believe beleve that the time In Iii liaRs aro are capable of pt doing It The j schools are aro progressing and time the work of or preach preaching Christianity to them Is making ran Id strides In the b buys boys H. 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A Rov Hov Sherman CoolIdge talked about tr traditions and amid told In Indian stories IQ talked of his his' boyhood and told old of the chaze over time tho mountains for bears and wolves The Tho Indian games and the tho mimic wars indulged by he the Indians In his boyhood days were depleted Ho lie told of the tho war dance ho the sun dance and their sign language Dr Coolidge told the tho boys that hat his r real name was which vas given la I him by his grandmother after his Imis grandfather U It means the swiftest runner He lie said ald he hid did not know time day of his birth but said that tilts was waa his hla forty wIn wIn- vinter ter The sign language he lie said saidI among the of ho plains mountains s Universal He gave of mark made in the sands or on the cliffs lie the f boys how to ak for a horse to ride amid to get to eat and lie I tod several tales drink of Indian li life audience which were The simple boys but Stopped after to iu his L asked talk and him shook many hands with him arid the life of an about the Dr Coo idge came here from with two blind Indian ho are boy hospital being Ohe of theta at the is S. S Marks Mark's 1 but is no hope for recovering Dr Coolidge the other will talk principals before ho time noon and art this after made for him to has of the Salt Lake ape High to the Students Coolidge viii School Dr this return to the the reserva- reserva c g 4 |