There are many, no doubt, who will smile at the title of
this article, much as if it had read, " Education for Buffaloes and Wild
Turkeys." Such, however, will be likely to read it, as others will from a
more sympathetic stand-point. For it is evident that, from one stand point
or another, public interest is excited upon the Indian question now as
perhaps never before.
With the opening up of the country, and the disappearance of the game before
the settler's axe and locomotive whistle-to say nothing of treaty "
reconstruction" and Indian wars-the conditions of, the Indian himself have
radically altered, and perhaps not in all respects for the worse, since the
shrewd Saponi sachem declined William and Mary's classical course for his
young braves, because it would not improve them in deer-stalking or
scalp-lifting, but, not to be outdone in graciousness, offered instead to
bring up the Royal Commissioners' sons in his own wigwam, and "make men of
them."
Source: Indian Education at Hampton and Carlisle, by Helen Wilhelmina Ludlow,
1881, Harper's Magazine, April 1881.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and
then ocr'd. Minimal editing has been done, and readers can and should expect
some errors in the textual output.
