,,transcriber',s ,,notes3               
,italicized text is surrounded by       
underscores3 italics4       ,,sarah     
,,winnemucca',s    ,,practical          
,,solution ,,of ,,the ,,indian          
,,problem4    ,a ,,letter ,,to ,,dr4    
,,lyman ,,abbot   ,,of ,,the            
8,,christian ,,union40    ,,by          
,,elizabeth ,p4 ,,peabody4              
,illustration    ,,cambridge3   ,,john  
,,wilson ,,and ,,son4   ,university     
,press4   #ahhf4     ,,sarah            
,,winnemucca',s ,,practical ,,solution  
,,of ,,the ,,indian ,,problem4   ,,to   
,,dr4 ,,lyman ,,abbot1 ,editor of the   
,christian ,union3--  ,because you so   
cordially announced ,sarah ,winnemucca's
 8,,new ,,departure10 a year or more    
ago1 as the ,christian ,union's solution
 of the ,indian problem1 ,i send you    
this ,report that ,i am now desirous to 
make to the public1 unofficial and      
official1 of her progress4 ,the         
distinguishing characteristic of this   
,new ,departure is that1 instead of     

being1 as usual1 a passive reception of 
civilizing influences proffered by white
 men who look down upon the ,indian as a
 spiritual1 moral1 and intellectual     
inferior1 it is a spontaneous movement1 
made by the ,indian himself1 from       
himself1 in full consciousness of free  
agency1 for the education that is to    
civilize him4  ,sarah ,winnemucca's idea
 is an inheritance from that remarkable 
chief of the ,piutes1 ,captain ,truckee1
 who in #ahdh1 for the first time1      
discovered that there were white men in 
the world6 ,in the first chapter of her 
8,life among the ,piutes0#a ,sarah tells
 of his meeting with ,general 7then     
,captain7 ,fremont in the mountains of  
,nevada1 who accepted his proffered     
guidance on the unaccustomed way1 and   
with whom he and a dozen of his braves  
went down to ,california1 where the     
wonders of civilization burst upon him1 
firing his imagination1 before his      
self-respect had been wounded and his   
heart discouraged1 as is the usual      

,indian experience1 with an unquenchable
 ardor to share these glories4  ,he and 
his braves were able to do ,fremont     
service in the affair of ,mariposa and  
the immediately following conquest of   
,california1 for which they were        
decorated1 and so respectfully and      
kindly treated by ,fremont that the old 
chief's heart was completely won2 and he
 clung to his 8white brothers10 as he   
pathetically called them1 to the end of 
his life1 although immediately on his   
return to ,nevada he was told of those  
terrible emigrations that had rushed    
across it 8like a roaring lion10 as     
,sarah phrases it1 striking terror into 
the souls of the women and even of the  
brave men1 who could not understand the 
wanton and unprovoked cruelty with which
 these white savages shot all ,indians  
down as soon as they were seen1 as if   
they were wild beasts4 ,but he persisted
 in calling them exceptions to the end  
of his life4  ,the artless autobiography
 of the first chapters of ,sarah's book 

gives the key to her career as          
reconciling mediator for the mutual     
understanding of the two races4 ,she was
 educated for it by her grandfather4    
,that she has actually become this1 is  
shown by an article from the 8,daily    
,alta ,california10 of ,july #bd1 which 
,i have just received2 and ,i beg that  
you will insert every word of it here3--
    8,we have referred already to the   
school for ,indian children             
established in ,nevada by the ,piute    
woman1 ,princess ,sarah ,winnemucca4    
,her efforts have seemed to us to       
deserve encouragement4 ,travellers      
through ,nevada who have seen the       
squalid crowds of ,indian children   at 
the stations taking eagerly scraps of   
food offered them at the   car windows1 
may think that the regeneration of those
 people is   impossible4 ,to change this
 opinion it is only necessary to        
consider   the case of ,sarah           
,winnemucca1 who1 when her childhood was
 long past1   first had opportunities   

for education1 and improved them so well
 that   her attainments command the     
respect of all white people who know    
her4 ,what education has done for her it
 may do for a majority of the   children
 of that tribe in which she was born a  
,princess1 a ,chief's   daughter4 ,she  
is very active for her people1 and loses
 no opportunity   to urge them forward  
in the path to civilization4 ,recently  
she sent a   message to those ,indians  
living in ,inyo ,county1 in this ,state1
 urging   them to send their children to
 school4 ,a copy of this letter was sent
   to the ,school ,trustees of ,inyo1   
and we invite the attention of our      
readers to it4 ,she says3--             
8#8,,brothers ,,and ,,sisters3 ,hearing 
that you are about to start a school    
to educate your children1 ,i want to say
 a word about it4 ,you all know   me2   
many of you are my aunts or cousins4 ,we
 are of one race1--your   blood is my   
blood1--so ,i speak to you for your     
good4 ,i can speak   five               

tongues1--three ,indian tongues1        
,english1 and ,spanish4 ,i can   read   
and write1 and am a school teacher4     
,now1 ,i do not say this to   boast1 but
 simply to show you what can be done4   
,when ,i was a little   girl there were 
no ,indian schools2 ,i learned under    
great difficulty4   ,your children can  
learn much more than ,i know1 and much  
easier2 and   it is your duty to see    
that they go to school4 ,there is no    
excuse   for ignorance4 ,schools are    
being built here and there1 and you can 
have as many as you need2 all they ask  
you to do is to send your   children4   
,you are not asked to give money or     
horses1--only to send   your children to
 school4 ,the teacher will do the rest4 
,he or she will   fit your little ones  
for the battle of life1 so that they can
 attend   to their own affairs instead  
of having to call in a white man4 ,a few
   years ago you owned this great       
country2 to-day the white man owns it   
all1 and you own nothing4 ,do you know  

what did it8 ,education4 ,you see   the 
miles and miles of railroad1 the        
locomotive1 the ,mint in ,carson1       
where they make money4 ,education has   
done it all4 ,now1 what it has   done   
for one man it will do for another4 ,you
 have brains same as the   ,whites1 your
 children have brains1 and it will be   
your fault if they   grow up as you     
have4 ,i entreat you to take hold of    
this school1 and   give your support by 
sending your children1 old and young1 to
 it2 and   when they grow up to manhood 
and womanhood they will bless you4'     
8,it is hard to find in all the         
literature of pedagogics a stronger     
appeal to a primitive or any other      
people to avail themselves of the       
benefits of education4 ,exceptionally   
good in its language and logical   in   
its presentation of reasons1 it         
constitutes not only advice to   her own
 tribe1 but it is the finest of all the 
genuine proofs of   the capacity of the 
,indian intellect4 ,we cannot help      

feeling that   such a woman deserves    
help1 and that her work should command  
support   far beyond the lines of her   
own ,state4 ,if each of the tribes could
   furnish only one such woman1 of equal
 culture1 sincerity1 and energy1   their
 joint influence upon the future of our 
,indians would be greater   than all the
 armies that can be put in the field4   
,the ,federal   ,government should      
consider her and her work4 ,she has     
defended her   people against the       
rascally treatment of its agents1 but   
with a rare   discretion has never1     
therefore1 inflamed them against the    
whites4   ,she has constantly pointed to
 civilization as desirable above all    
things1 and has taught them that return 
to their old ways is forever            
impossible4    8,we believe that the    
,indian ,department should found an     
,indian   school in ,nevada and put     
,sarah at the head of it4 ,the cost     
would   be small compared with the value
 of the experiment1 and surely it       

would command the sympathy of all       
right-minded people4 ,she has   ample   
culture1 and she knows the ,indian      
character thoroughly1 while   it is easy
 to believe that her example will be of 
great value in   encouraging her pupils4
 ,when ,indians have a white teacher    
there must   naturally seem a great gulf
 between them4 ,the pupils must often   
despair of ever approximating the       
learning which they believe came   as   
naturally to the white man as the color 
of his skin4 ,but when an   ,indian     
teacher like ,sarah can say to them1    
#8,i learned this1 ,i am an   ,indian1  
and you are as good as ,i am2 what ,i   
learned is as possible   and as easy to 
you1' there must be in it a superior    
encouragement4 ,we   do not know whether
 there is on this coast any organization
 that is   charged with the interests of
 these humble people4 ,we believe ,mrs4 
,john ,bidwell has done something in her
 vicinity toward advancing   them1 and  
she may be known to the ,east for her   

good work4 ,if there   be an            
organization it should bring this matter
 to the attention of   the ,government1 
to the end that this ,indian woman may  
have facilities   equal to her energy   
and to her noble spirit4 ,it won't hurt 
the whites   any to give their gentle   
and philanthropic sentiments free play  
in a   matter that is full of interest  
and of genuine ,christianity40  ,without
 stopping to tell of the circumstances  
of her life1 inward and outward1 that   
have brought her to the point of her    
present undertaking1--though to do so   
would give new meaning and interest to  
it1--,i hasten to say that a year and a 
half ago1 when it seemed as if the      
conditions she craved were to be        
despaired of1 ,senator ,leland          
,stanford1 who came into relation with  
the ,piutes in #ahfc and personally knew
 their exceptional character1           
spontaneously deeded to ,sarah's        
brother1 ,chief ,natches1 one hundred   
and sixty acres of land near ,lovelocks2

 and a few of the friends of ,sarah at  
the ,east1 to whom she had fully        
communicated her idea and what she      
wished to do1 advanced from their own   
private resources barely sufficient     
capital to enable ,natches to get his   
land surveyed and in part fenced and    
planted1 and ,sarah to open her school  
for his children1 and those of some     
other ,piutes wandering in the          
neighborhood seeking chance jobs of     
work4 ,she began instructing them in the
 ,english language1 which she had grown 
up speaking in her equal intercourse    
with both races4  ,our idea in giving   
this aid1 without which the land would  
have been no boon1 was to give ,sarah   
the chance to begin her experiment      
independent of the agency at ,pyramid   
,lake1 which1 like the large majority of
 ,indian agencies1 prevents civilization
 by insulting and repressing that       
creative self-respect and conscious     
freedom to act1 from which alone any    
vital human improvement can spring4 ,we 

wanted that there should be no pretext  
of favors received1 for the agent1 who  
naturally enough is her personal enemy1 
to interfere or meddle while she1 with a
 few of her people1 began a             
self-supporting1 self-directed life on  
the ground of their inherited domestic  
moralities1 which1 in the case of the   
,piutes at least1 are very pure1 as she 
had demonstrated to us in her lectures  
and by her own remarkable personality1  
thus making a healthy wild stock of     
natural religion on which to graft a    
,christian civilization worthy of the   
name1 which might rebuke and correct    
that which certainly disgraces it now on
 our frontiers4 ,but all that we did for
 her still left her with broken health  
and numberless hardships to contend     
with1 which would have crushed any less 
heroic spirit4  ,she began her school in
 a brush arbor1 teaching gospel hymns   
and songs of labor1 that she interpreted
 in ,piute2 and as soon as the children 
could speak and understand some ,english

 she began to teach them to read and    
write it1 also to draw and even to      
cipher1 sending us through the          
post-office specimens of their work and 
of their sewing4 ,and in ,february we   
were surprised with the following       
letter1 which came soon after one from  
herself1 in which she described the     
unexpected visit1 and said that ,captain
 ,cook made a speech to the children    
7which she interpreted to them in       
,piute71 telling them that when he was a
 boy he had not such advantages of      
education as they were enjoying4 ,this  
letter ,i immediately sent to the editor
 of the 8,boston ,transcript10 who      
published it with his own indorsement as
 follows3--   ,a ,,princess',s ,,school4
    ,miss ,elizabeth ,p4 ,peabody has   
had her heart cheered--not that it has  
ever faltered in that generous trust of 
which only noble natures are            
capable--with the following unexpected  
testimony to the faithfulness   of the  
,piute 8,princess0 ,winnemucca to the   

cause of uplifting her   people4 ,other 
friends of the ,indian have turned      
against her1 but   ,miss ,peabody has   
persevered in supporting this most      
remarkable woman   through every kind of
 cruel and scandalous assault upon her  
character   by those interested in      
having the poor1 dispossessed remnants  
of   the peaceful ,piutes left naked to 
their enemies4 ,this is surely          
trustworthy testimony3--                
,,lovelocks1 ,feb4 #be1 #ahhf4    ,,miss
 ,,peabody1--,a few of the principal    
residents of ,lovelocks1 having   heard 
so frequently of the ,piute school and  
the aspirations of the   ,princess1     
concluded1 after very little cogitation1
 to verify in   person the truth of     
these prodigious reports4 ,as a few of  
the party   were unable to attend during
 the week1 the children were kindly     
retained on ,saturday for our enjoyment4
    ,the site of the school building is 
about two miles from the town2 and   so 
unpretentious is it in appearance that a

 stroller would look upon   it as a     
quiet rural home instead of the labor   
field of your worthy   beneficiary4     
,when we neared the school shouts of    
merry laughter   rang upon our ears1 and
 little dark and sunburnt faces smiled a
 dim   approval of our visitation4      
,after a brief conversation with the    
,princess1 we seated ourselves          
comfortably1 evidently feeling that     
8,come what come may1   ,time and the   
hour runs through the roughest day40    
,speaking in her native tongue1 the     
,princess requested the children   to   
name all the visible objects1 repeat the
 days of the week and   months of the   
year1 and calculate to thousands1 which 
they did in a   most exemplary manner4  
,then she asked them to give a          
manifestation   of their knowledge upon 
the blackboard1 each in turn printing   
his   name and spelling aloud4 ,it is   
needless to say1 ,miss ,peabody1 that   
we were spellbound at the disclosure4   
,nothing but the most assiduous   labor 

could have accomplished this work4 ,but 
most amazingly did ,i   rudely stare    
7and most of our party were guilty of   
the same sin7   when these seemingly    
ragged and untutored beings began       
singing   gospel hymns with precise     
melody1 accurate time1 and distinct     
pronunciation4 ,the blending of their   
voices in unison was grand1   and an    
exceedingly sweet treat4 ,we look upon  
it as a marvellous   progression2 and so
 gratified were we that we concluded to 
send this   testimonial containing the  
names of those present1 in order that   
you may know of the good work the       
,princess is trying to consummate4      
,considering that only six weeks have   
been consumed in effecting this   much  
it is six weeks since the house was     
completed2 the school out   of doors had
 existed longer4--,e4 ,p4 ,p41 we feel  
that any further   assistance would be  
well deserved and profitably expended by
 ,sarah4   ,one of our party1 ,captain  
,cook by name1 addressed the children   

upon   the usefulness of knowledge and  
its power in the world4 ,when the       
,princess had made proper interpretation
 of this speech1 their bright   eyes    
seemed to say in response1 8,we are1    
though still in the bud1 the   flowers  
of the coming dawn which perfume the    
golden mosses of the   oak40            
,i remain very respectfully1            
,,louisa ,,marzen4    ,signed by each-- 
,,mrs4 ,,jennie ,e4 ,,harrington1       
,,mrs4 ,h4 ,c4 ,,emmons1       ,t4 ,h4  
,,workman1       ,,geo4 ,w4 ,,lecompton1
       ,,emily ,e4 ,,cutting1           
,,captain ,,frank ,,cook4  ,sarah wrote 
also that she had asked these people to 
write and tell me of their approbation1 
because it was ,i that had given the    
schoolhouse4 ,but in doing this1 and    
also by subsequently naming her school  
the 8,peabody ,institute10 which is     
painted on the outside1 there has grown 
up a false impression1 as if ,i were the
 originator and prevailing influence of 
the school4 ,this is diametrically      

opposite to the fact2 for the very point
 ,i would make most prominent is that   
the whole thing is an ,indian idea and  
an ,indian plan2 and the reason that she
 feels me to be her mainstay is that ,i 
do not bother her with my suggestions1  
but wait to see what it is her impulse  
to do1 because ,i see that she knows1 as
 ,i cannot1 how the ,indian mind is to  
be approached and set at work for that  
self-development which is the only real 
education4 ,i owe to her a conviction1  
which has grown upon me continually for 
three years1 that the only vital        
education for the ,indian as for every  
child is ,froebel's method of keeping an
 equipoise of doing and thinking4  ,soon
 after receiving the above letter ,i had
 several newspapers sent me from        
,nevada1 ,utah1 and ,california1 from   
which ,i will extract specimen          
paragraphs4 ,one from a ,lovelocks      
correspondent of the 8,silver ,state0   
says3--    8,the ,princess ,sarah is    
making her school for young ,piutes a   

success4 ,the attendance is large1 and  
little ,indians may be seen   on our    
streets every morning with their        
lunches1 wending their   way to school1 
a mile and a half off4 ,she keeps       
excellent order1   and conducts the     
school as systematically as any         
experienced   #8schoolma'am4'0  ,there  
is a very certain proof that neither    
,sarah nor her brother suggested this   
article1 in the seven words we put in   
italics in another paragraph of it2 for 
,piutes have never been known to handle 
8tomahawk or scalping-knife10--never    
took a scalp1 though they have been     
scalped themselves by whites1 of which  
,sarah told several pathetic instances  
in her lectures when she was here4      
8,chief ,natches has put aside the      
tomahawk and scalping-knife1 and   taken
 hold of the plough and grubbing-hoe4   
,he has cleared about forty   acres of  
the one hundred and sixty given him by  
,governor ,stanford4   ,he will sow     
thirty acres of wheat1 and put the rest 

in barley and   vegetables4 ,he has a   
dozen or more ,indians working with him 
upon a   dam belonging to his white     
neighbors1 who pay him by allowing him  
water for his ranch1 this season40      
,another says3--    8,sarah ,winnemucca 
,hopkins has erected a schoolhouse for  
her people1   and has about twenty-five 
pupils1 all little ,piutes4 ,they learn 
rapidly2 and though the school has been 
housed only about six   weeks1 some of  
them can read and write already4 ,the   
school is free   to all ,piute children 
in this county1 provided their parents  
make   arrangements to board them4 ,this
 is the only drawback to the   school1  
that ,princess ,sallie has not means to 
feed the children1 and   she could not  
have built the schoolhouse had it not   
been for the   assistance given her by  
philanthropic people in the ,east40     
,another quotes from the 8,daily ,alta  
,california0 the first notice it made1  
as early as ,march 7referred to on page 
#d73--     8,out in ,nevada is          

proceeding an experiment that deserves  
the   respectful sympathy of the world4 
,princess ,sarah1 daughter of           
,winnemucca1 late chief of the ,piutes1 
has opened a school for the   ,indian   
children1 and the young of her tribe are
 flocking to it for   instruction4 ,in  
this effort to reclaim her primitive    
people this   ,indian woman rises to a  
nobility that puts her in line with the 
best   of the superior 8 race40  ,when  
,i wrote to ,sarah for an explanation of
 the 8drawback10 she said that the      
,piute parents who had been doing       
job-work for the people of ,lovelocks in
 the winter1 must go on their summer    
hunt for subsistence and winter stores1 
and take their children with them1 and  
already some of her best scholars had   
gone2 for which she was sorry1 as she   
had hoped that when ,senator ,stanford  
should go home from ,congress at        
midsummer1 he would stop and see them1  
and be so pleased with what ,natches had
 done with the land and what she had    

done in the school1 that he would       
demand1 from the fund in the ,indian    
,office appropriated for ,indian        
education1 money enough to make her     
school a boarding-school during the     
summers4 ,she said the poor parents had 
assembled in council in her schoolroom1 
and expressed their grief that they     
could not pay her themselves for their  
children's board2 and they compared this
 school1 where the children were so     
happy in learning1 to the ,reservation  
schools1 where they were whipped and    
taught nothing1 but on which the        
,government wasted millions of dollars  
every year4  ,now ,i 7together with     
other intimate friends of ,sarah7 was   
desirous that the ,government should not
 be solicited to help1 but that her own 
work1 seen in contrast with the work of 
the agency1 should command its          
sympathetic co-operation2 and ,i put    
into the 8,boston ,transcript0 of ,april
 #ba the following article3--   ,,the   
,,first ,,school ,,taught ,,by ,,an     

,,indian4    ,to the ,editor of the     
,transcript3 ,i was much obliged to you 
for   your sympathetic introduction to  
the letter from those seven people   in 
,lovelocks who wrote me about ,sarah    
,winnemucca's school1 whose   success   
under such hard conditions as she is in 
7starving on pine   nuts1 without bread 
or meat7 is such a very important fact  
with   respect to ,indian education1    
which hitherto has been necessarily so  
imperfect1 because conducted by         
instructors who did not know any        
,indian language4 ,this is the first    
instance on record of an ,indian        
school taught by a full-blooded ,indian 
who grew up with both races1   speaking 
both languages1 and inspired from her   
infancy with the idea   of civilizing   
her people by making ,english also their
 vernacular1   and preparing the        
scholars in their turn to teach ,english
 to their   companions and their        
parents1 as children can best do4       
,then1 after inserting the above-given  

slips from the ,western papers1 ,i added
 this paragraph3--    ,if ,i can raise  
#ajj a month this summer1 the calamity  
of having this   real school scattered  
may be averted4 ,within a week ,i have  
raised   nearly a hundred for ,april2   
and if promissory notes to be paid in   
,may1 ,june1 ,july1 and ,august1 can be 
sent me at once1 ,i can send her   a    
telegram to keep her scholars1 for their
 board will be paid4 ,any   sums from   
one dollar to a hundred may be sent to  
me at ,jamaica ,plain1   #d ,cheshire   
,street1 in these promissory notes1 for 
which ,i shall not   demand payment     
unless the school goes on4              
,,elizabeth ,p4 ,,peabody4  ,this appeal
 immediately brought #djj in sums from  
one dollar to fifty dollars1 and a      
promise of another #ajj for ,august2 and
 ,i sent word to her to keep her        
scholars4 ,this was a great proof of the
 moral impression she had made of       
herself in the summer of #ahhc1 for     
already all the organized sympathy for  

the ,indians in the ,east was           
pre-engaged2--as1 before the ,piutes    
were heard of1 all the funds to be      
raised by the women's associations were 
pledged to their own missionary work2   
while ,general ,armstrong came every    
year and carried off thousands of       
dollars for ,hampton ,school and        
,carlisle1 and ,bishop ,hare did the    
same for ,dakota4  ,but ,i see that ,i  
am transcending the limits you          
prescribed for my article1 and must     
hasten to tell of a month's visit made  
to ,sarah1 beginning ,july #ah1 by a    
lady who has been for twenty years      
engaged practically in public and       
private education ,west and ,east1 and  
who became acquainted with ,sarah in the
 summer of #ahhc1 and then promised her1
 if she recovered ,malheur1 that she    
would go out and renew with her the     
school that ,sarah and ,mrs4 ,charles   
,parish had kept1 under the auspices of 
the only good agent among seventeen that
 ever were sent out to the ,piutes2 and 

it may be seen1 by reading the sixth    
chapter of 8,life among the ,piutes10   
that nothing is wanted to solve the     
,indian problem practically 7at least   
among the ,piutes7 but good faith on the
 part of the ,government agents in      
giving them the white man's chances     
without discounting their earnings in   
the agents' interest4 ,for the last year
 this lady has been the teacher of      
methods in a normal school in           
,wisconsin2 and she offered to go out at
 her own expense1 if provided with free 
passes1 and report to me concerning the 
school4 ,in quite a voluminous          
correspondence with me she has given a  
history of the statu quo1 comprehending 
an account of the state of things both  
inside and outside of the ranch1 having 
found that the half had not been told   
her of the difficulties attending such  
an attempt as ,sarah's1 arising from the
 general hostility of the frontiersmen  
to ,indians1 and their disposition to   
crush their attempts at                 

self-subsistence1 intensified by every  
degree of ,indian success4 ,she found   
,sarah personally also in circumstances 
of infinitely greater discomfort than   
she had imagined1 and in addition to the
 chronic rheumatism and neuralgia from  
which she knew she had been suffering   
for two years1 prostrated every other   
day with chills and fever1 so that the  
first thing she set herself to doing was
 to cure her with quinine1 which she    
effected4 ,but this makes more striking 
her testimony to the character and      
quality of ,sarah's teaching1 which is  
directed to making the children         
understand and speak ,english and then  
to read and write it4 ,she found the    
pupils in the ,second ,reader1 and she  
said every lesson was read in ,english  
and in ,piute2 and in ,sarah's reading  
to them 7from the ,bible for instance71 
there was the same use made of both     
languages1 and the conversation upon the
 subject matter that accompanied it was 
extremely animated4 ,comparing the      

classes with those with which she was   
familiar in the ,united ,states schools 
of children of the same age1 ,sarah's   
scholars were decidedly superior4 ,in   
their writing and drawing1 of which she 
sent me a dozen or more specimens1 the  
superiority was marked1 and made more   
marvellous by the fact that there was no
 school furniture but benches without   
backs1 which1 when they wrote1 drew1 or 
ciphered1 they used as tables1 sitting  
or kneeling on the floor1 and sometimes1
 making the floor their table1 they lay 
on it to write or cipher4 ,but the      
children were so interested and zealous 
to learn that they were perfectly       
obedient1 and when out of the specific  
school hours1--which were1 at the time  
she arrived there1 diminished from the  
four hours that had been the rule1 by   
the pressure of the industrial work     
connected with the agriculture and      
housekeeping 7for this school of        
,sarah's comprehends all their          
life71--she found the boys digging a    

cellar1 and the girls assisting ,sarah  
about the cooking and the cleaning1     
everything being scrupulously neat both 
in schoolroom and tent4 ,the ages of the
 children ranged between six and        
sixteen1 and the individuality of each  
child was described1 with those points  
in which they severally excelled4       
,within its range1 in short1 the        
education was superior1 instead of      
inferior1 to the average white education
 in our primary schools1 being upon the 
method of the 8,new ,education10 in     
which doing leads thinking1 and gives   
definite meaning to every word used4  ,i
 wish ,i could induce your readers to   
look into the volume published by       
,carleton  ,co41 of ,new ,york1 named   
8,the ,hidden ,power10 written by ,mr4  
,tibbles1 the white husband of the      
,ponca ,bright ,eyes1 every word of     
which1 as he told me1 is fact1 except   
the proper names4  ,it is utterly       
impossible to begin to do justice to any
 such movement as ,sarah ,winnemucca's  

unless the century-long action of the   
,indian ,ring is understood4 ,this      
subtle power1 which dates with the      
organization of the ,fur-traders'       
companies1 has come to govern this      
country as completely as for a time did 
the ,slaveocracy1 and still defeats     
everything proposed to be done2 and this
 explains why in these last few years so
 little has been accomplished by ,indian
 ,rights' associations1 and the         
enlightened plan of ,mr4 ,dawes and     
others for division of lands in         
severalty to ,indians4     ,,postscript4
   ,here ends the article ,i prepared   
for the 8,christian ,union10 but which1 
proving too long for a newspaper1 you   
have advised me to print in a pamphlet2 
and ,i conclude to make it an appeal to 
the ,,unofficial people of the ,united  
,states1 instead of to the ,government1 
as ,i first thought of doing4  ,for1    
notwithstanding the good intentions of  
the new administration1 ,i see it is    
effectually hindered 7how1 it does not  

itself realize7 from doing justice to   
the ,indian1 as its first act with      
respect to the ,crow ,creek tribe       
promised would be its policy4  ,i       
mentioned that the satisfactory         
testimony respecting the character of   
,sarah ,winnemucca's school1 with which 
,i closed the above report of it1 was   
extracted from 8voluminous letters10    
overflowing with details of the         
innumerable difficulties ,sarah had to  
contend with1 of which some idea may be 
obtained from the following extract of a
 letter which my correspondent addressed
 at the same date to an ,indianapolis   
newspaper3--    8,natches wanted land of
 his own2 and for a wonder1 he got it4  
,senator ,stanford gave him one hundred 
and sixty acres4 ,where cattle   range1 
land must be fenced4 ,lumber is very    
high1 as it comes from a   distance4    
,miss ,peabody sent him #bjj to fence   
it4 ,water comes next4   ,nevada is a   
desert without irrigation4 ,by agreeing 
to pay them out   of his crop1 ,natches 

furnished thirteen men 7,indians and    
himself7   one month1 to work on the dam
 and ditches1 to pay for his water1 but 
gets no paper to show how long4 ,eastern
 people help him to a wagon1   plough1  
spade1 hoe1 and axe4 ,he already has    
horses1 and he gets in   sixty-eight    
acres of nice wheat4 ,as the wheat grows
 and tempts the   cattle1 the           
water-power people tell him he must     
leave the gate open   so they can get to
 their ditches1 some of which they put  
on his land   without permission4 ,the  
white men on each side of him have      
gates1 and   keep them shut1 although   
their land is used only for grazing4 ,i 
go to   town1 find they have no right to
 say anything about it1 and the gate    
is put up1 and the old uncle who has    
camped by it to keep out the   cows and 
save the wheat can do something else4   
,the wheat gets ripe2   he can hire a   
machine to cut it at #a4ge per acre1    
cash4 ,he has no   cash2 he must hire   
,indian women at #e per acre1 and pay in

 wheat4    8,the next time ,i go to     
town1 ,i am told that the water company 
has   decided not to let ,natches have  
any more water1 because #8,indians are  
so lazy1 they don't want them around1'  
and1 for illustration1 point   to that  
old man who sat all day by the hole in  
,natches fence4 ,i tried   to explain2  
but it is not permitted to explain      
things here4    8,at all the railway    
stations along the road1 one sees       
,indians sitting   on the shady side of 
the house or walking along the track1   
sometimes   begging4 ,i talked with one 
of them of the loafing and card-playing 
that is so common4 ,she admitted and    
regretted it1 and added3 #8,let me      
disguise you as an ,indian1 and go to   
the reservation where all these         
,indians have been trained4 ,stay a few 
weeks as an ,indian1 and learn   to     
enjoy work as we have to do it1 and see 
if you think our young men   can see any
 good in it1 or have any motive for     
doing it4 ,you know   children1--see    

what you think the same training would  
do for a white   child4'0  ,it is plain 
that jealousy and opposition were       
excited to madness by the very success  
of ,sarah's unexampled enterprise1 which
 has also aroused the attention of      
,agent ,gibson1 whose intrigues form the
 subjects of other letters4  ,the week  
before she arrived1 an official from    
,washington1 who was an intimate friend 
of ,gibson1 had appeared1 and told      
,sarah that unless ,natches would       
surrender his independent possession of 
the land1 and she the direction of her  
school1 to the authorized agent of      
,pyramid ,lake1 no aid would be given to
 the boarding-school from the reserved  
fund for ,indian ,education4 ,sarah1    
however1 had indignantly refused to     
accept any aid on such destructive      
conditions4  ,i must confess ,i was not 
surprised or very sorry for this final  
demonstration that the only effectual   
thing to be done to help the ,indian to 
come up from himself 7to use a happy    

expression of ,mr4 ,dawes'1 that exactly
 describes what ,sarah is intent upon   
doing71 is to ,,abolish ,,the ,,present 
,,agency ,,system ,,altogether1 as ,i am
 glad to see was proposed by ,mr4       
,painter1 at the late ,mohunk           
,conference2 for it is the most         
effectual instrumentality of a          
formidable ,,ring1 composed of the still
 unreformed civil service on the        
frontiers1 and of the majority of the   
frontier population1 who deprecate      
,indian civilization1 and work against  
it with an immense mercantile interest  
scattered all over the ,union1 that     
fattens on the ,,contracts ,,for        
,,supplies1 which is the breath of life 
to this well-named 8,hidden ,power40    
,it has been suggested that the         
preliminary step to such abolition must 
be to make public the history of this   
,ring1 whose action from its beginning  
has been for the general removal of the 
tribes from their several original      
localities2 revealing the secret of the 

,florida ,war1 and other                
operations1--among its most subtle ones 
being its apparently friendly           
co-operation and hypocritical flatteries
 of the various organizations for       
educating and christianizing ,indians4  
,such a history would explain their     
motives in making ,sarah ,winnemucca 8a 
suspect0 in the eyes of just those who  
should have received in generous faith  
this champion of her people's right and 
opportunity freely to select the best   
things in civilization1--the principal  
one being1 as she intuitively saw and   
everybody is at length convinced1 the   
individual versus communal tenure of    
land1--while they are also free to      
retain whatever of the inherited tribal 
customs she also sees intuitively are   
necessary to preserve their social life 
heart-whole1 though open to inspiration 
for individual self-development4  ,in   
her 8,life among the ,piutes10 which    
every one should make it a matter of    
conscience to read before making up his 

mind upon the character and aims of this
 most remarkable woman1 it will be seen 
how naturally and inevitably she        
incurred the enmity of the several      
agents to whom has been traced directly 
every slander1 especially that of       
,rinehart4  ,the sixth chapter of that  
book gives an appreciative account of   
the only agent among seventeen that had 
been sent out to the ,piutes since they 
were known to the whites1 who was not a 
calamity to them4 ,this man1 ,samuel    
,parish by name1 by his                 
disinterestedness1 honesty1 and the     
simple humanity of his arrangements1    
demonstrated that there need be no      
difficulty with the ,indians if they are
 treated fairly1 and that with the same 
chances the ,piutes at least can become 
as prosperous and rich as the white     
settlers1 instead of being the burden   
that all ,indians have seemed to be     
during the 8,century of ,dishonor10 so  
faithfully represented by 8,h4 ,h40 in  
the book of that name1 and later in the 

wonderful story of 8,ramona10 which is  
gradually doing for the ,indian what    
8,uncle ,tom's ,cabin0 did for the      
negro4 ,but it would take a volume even 
larger than ,mr4 ,tibbles' book upon the
 8,hidden ,power0 to give in detail even
 the history of this persecution of     
,sarah1 which has been traced out in all
 its subtleties by many of her friends1 
who consist1 ,i may truly say1 of all   
the hundreds of audiences whom her      
artless addresses took captive1 between 
her arrival at ,boston in the spring of 
#ahhc and her departure to the ,west    
from ,baltimore in the ,august of #ahhd4
 ,i have never seen or heard of one     
person of all those who themselves heard
 her speak in public 7after the first   
lecture that she gave in ,boston71#b who
 was in the slightest degree affected by
 accusations that answered themselves in
 every person's mind who had been under 
the spell of the simple statement of    
facts that she made with names and      
dates1 and defied the world to prove one

 of them false4 ,i myself heard her     
speak in public in ,massachusetts1      
,rhode ,island1 ,connecticut1 ,new      
,york1 and ,pennsylvania as many as     
thirty times1 in which she never        
repeated or contradicted herself once1  
though it was obvious that except in the
 choice of some particular subject to be
 made her theme1 she took no previous   
thought as to what she should say1 but  
trusted that the right words would be   
given her by the 8,spirit ,father10     
whose special messenger she believed    
herself to be1 and impressed her        
audiences to believe that she was4  ,she
 got thousands of signatures to her     
petitions1 made friends for herself1 and
 interested the most excellent members  
of ,congress to present her petitions1  
and the ,senate did1 on ,july #f1 #ahhd1
 pass a bill which by implication       
abolished the agency of ,pyramid        
,lake1--for it proposed to give the     
reservation to ,winnemucca's and        
,leggins' bands in severalty of lands4  

,and so ,i content myself with what will
 give to any person of common sense and 
candid heart the above hints by which   
they may estimate the intrinsic worth1  
or rather worthlessness1 of the         
slanderous rumors which ,gibson has     
lately succeeded in impressing upon the 
minds of a few persons who ought to be  
her coadjutors1 and whom she could aid  
in her turn in carrying out their own   
good intentions to the ,indians1 if it  
were not for the unhappy misconception  
of her which prevented their making     
acquaintance with herself personally4   
8,there is nothing so sad in the records
 of experience as that the children of  
light should misunderstand each other20 
nor is anything so disastrous as a      
mistake made by the good-intentioned1   
because their impressions are not       
questioned but swallowed incontinently1 
without investigation4 ,could ,i have   
had a personal interview with those     
persons1 ,i feel sure they never would  
have given publicity to their mistake1  

for which ,i hold only ,gibson morally  
responsible2 but this interview they did
 not seek1 having jumped to the         
conclusion that ,i was passively        
deluded4 ,they did not know that ,i had 
been a student of ,indian history for   
more than seventy years1 having1 as     
early as seven years old1 taken my first
 impression from my own mother's        
enthusiasm for another 8,indian         
princess0 whom a great-uncle of mine1   
one of the generals in our              
,revolutionary ,war1 married in         
,northern ,michigan1 where he went to   
settle after the war1 and whose         
half-breed descendants1 by the name of  
,hunt1 are valuable citizens of that    
,state4 ,it was the first impression of 
the noble domestic education this       
,indian princess gave her children1     
followed up by hearing my father read to
 my mother1 before ,i was ten years old1
 the ,moravian ,heckerwelder's 8,history
 of the ,north ,american ,indians10     
which goes into the details of the      

tribal mode of training the children to 
habits of reverence for elders1         
truthfulness with each other1 and a     
majestic self-respect1 that gave me a   
key to the characteristic ,indian       
virtues1 and enabled me to read         
8,hubbard's ,indian ,wars10 with open   
eyes to see that the white race was more
 responsible than the ,indians for the  
cruelties which transpired on both      
sides4 ,ever after ,i was an omnivorous 
reader of everything ,i could find about
 ,indians1 whether from ethnologists or 
travellers or residents1 among          
them1--like ,catlin1 for instance2 so   
that ,h4 ,h4's 8,century of ,dishonor0  
told me nothing that ,i did not know    
before4 ,besides this1 ,i learned from  
,william ,b4 ,ogden#c the history of the
 origin and action of the ,indian ,ring 
from its beginning with the fur-traders2
 and studied the secret history of the  
,florida war1 with officers of the army 
engaged in it1 who revealed to me its   
persistence in the interests of the     

civil service under ,governor ,duval4   
,all this1 and acquaintance with the    
half-breed ,chippewa missionary ,tanner1
 who thirty years ago made in ,boston   
precisely the same explanatory criticism
 on the vicious principle of all the    
missionary work for ,indians that ,sarah
 ,winnemucca does1#d prepared me to     
appreciate and understand the first     
lecture ,i heard from her1 which she    
addressed 8exclusively to women10 in    
which she unfolded the domestic         
education given by the grandmothers of  
the ,piute tribe to the youth of both   
sexes1 with respect to their relations  
with each other both before and after   
marriage1--a lecture which never failed 
to excite the moral enthusiasm of every 
woman that heard it1 and seal their     
confidence in her own purity of         
character and purpose4  ,the faith that 
she then inspired in me has grown by    
everything else ,i have known her to say
 and do in a more than three years'     
intimacy in which my life has been bound

 up in hers2 yet my faith and confidence
 in her do not rest exclusively on her  
own eloquent ipse dixit and practical   
consistency with it1 far less on my own 
subjective impressions1 which ,i am     
fully aware can be no evidence to other 
people1 but on collateral evidence that 
has been continually pouring in upon me1
 that ,i am ready to give viva voce to  
other people1 but much of which cannot1 
with propriety1 be put into public      
print1 as it involves a story of private
 trials of her own that are sacred to   
those who know them in all their        
particulars4 ,this collateral evidence  
consisted1 in addition to what is       
published in the ,appendix to 8,life    
among the ,piutes0 7see the 8,letter of 
,roger ,sherman ,day1 unsolicited071 of 
the testimony of persons unknown to     
,sarah ,winnemucca1 who unexpectedly    
arose in her audiences to confirm what  
she said and declare it was not         
exaggerated1--such persons as the ,rev4 
,edwin ,brown of the first ,church in   

,providence1 ,professor ,brewer of ,new 
,haven1 ,father ,hughes of ,st4 ,jerome 
,convent in ,new ,york1 and a ,french   
priest for whom he spoke1 and who he    
said was in ,yakima when she was1 all of
 whom gave personal indorsement to her  
statements2 also correspondents of mine 
in ,nevada and ,california1 one of whom 
furnished the following slips from the  
,california newspapers of #ahgi1        
confirming her statements about         
,rinehart and ,scott4    8,in addition  
to what ,princess ,sarah ,winnemucca    
said during her   lecture the other     
evening about one ,rinehart 7the ,indian
 agent at   the ,malheur ,reservation71 
to the effect that not an ,indian       
remains   on the reservation at that    
place1 additional statements come by way
   of ,walla ,walla4 ,these reports say 
that there has not been a single        
,indian at that agency for over a year1 
and yet supplies are being   constantly 
sent thither by the ,government4 ,the   
agent 7,rinehart7   himself has tried1  

and sent his emissaries all over the    
country1 even   unto ,nevada1 to bribe  
the ,piutes to return4 ,but in vain4    
,those poor   ,indians have had a taste 
of his brutality1 and they want no more 
of   it4 ,so it seems that ,sarah knew  
what she was talking about1 and knew    
the facts4 ,she said that this pet of   
the ,indian ,ring had promised pay   to 
the ,indians for working2 and when they 
applied for their wages1   his course   
toward them was such that they declined 
further peonage of   that kind4         
8,then he assumed the character of the  
bully1 and with pistol in   hand        
attempted to force them to work for him4
 ,now1 allowing the one   concession    
that the ,piutes are men1 it is         
perfectly natural that   they should    
have left him and the reservation4 ,had 
he been a man   of honesty and honor1 he
 would have informed the ,government of 
the   exact condition of things1 and    
thus have prevented the ,government     
from still forwarding supplies for that 

agency4 ,not an ,indian is   within two 
hundred miles of the agency1 and not one
 can be bribed to   return4 ,yet the    
,government still sends the supplies4   
,what becomes   of them8 ,perhaps       
,rinehart could tell2 and perhaps       
,commissioner   ,hoyt could tell--if he 
would4 ,under such circumstances1 no    
wonder   the question is asked why      
,rinehart is still kept in office under 
salary1 for performing duties that do   
not exist4 ,it is suggested that   the  
reservation lands be sold for the       
benefit of the ,indians4 ,the   question
 is asked1 says the despatch1 for what  
,indians8 ,there are   none within two  
hundred miles40  ,here is another       
newspaper slip of this date1 headed 8,a 
,model ,representative of the ,indian   
,bureau30     8,two or three weeks      
since1 a fellow named ,j4 ,w4 ,scott1   
who pretends   to be acting for the     
,interior ,department1 arrived here from
 ,oregon4   ,his threats created        
considerable alarm among the ,indians1  

who   congregated here from all parts of
 the country to hear what he had   to   
say4 ,natches and ,winnemucca say that  
at the time of the outbreak   at the    
,malheur ,reservation1 a year ago last  
summer1 this man ,scott1   who they     
state had a beef contract at the        
reservation1 had a talk   with the      
,indians at ,crowley's ranch4 ,they told
 him that if he would   state their     
grievances on paper and send the        
document to ,washington1   they would   
return to the reservation4 ,the chiefs  
dictated and ,natches   interpreted what
 he should write4 ,when they finished1  
not having very   much confidence in his
 integrity1 they took the paper from him
 and   gave it to ,g4 ,b4 ,crowley to   
read4 ,in this way they ascertained that
   he had not written what they         
dictated1 and instead of stating the    
fact that they were being starved at the
 reservation and were driven   to       
desperation by the treatment they       
received1 he painted the ,indians   as  

demons and the agent as an angel4 ,this 
infuriated the savages1 and   ,natches  
and ,winnemucca could hardly restrain   
the reservation ,indians   from scalping
 ,scott right then and there4 ,knowing  
that he had played   the ,indians false 
at that time1 ,natches and ,winnemucca  
were afraid   to trust him at the       
council held here upon his arrival from 
,malheur   a short time ago1 and they   
asked a few white men--among them the   
writer--to be present4 ,what occurred at
 the council was truthfully   reported  
in these columns at the time4 ,scott1 it
 appears1 does not   like the truth2 so 
he reported to ,natches yesterday that  
the #8,silver   ,state' stated a few    
days ago that he 7,natches7 and ,jerry  
,long1 the   interpreter1 were the most 
notorious liars in the country4 ,what   
object the fellow could have in telling 
such a lie to the ,indians1   the writer
 cannot surmise1 unless it was for the  
purpose of making   them distrustful of 
those who tell the truth about the      

,malheur   ,agency4 ,an acquaintance of 
many years with many of the ,piutes of  
,humboldt ,county warrants the writer in
 saying that so far as his   experience 
extends1 they are generally truthful and
 reliable2 while   respectable white men
 who knew ,scott in ,plumas ,county1    
,california1   before he went to        
,malheur1 say the records of the courts 
in that   county will show that decent  
men testified that they would not       
believe him under oath4 ,surely the     
,interior ,department ought to send   a 
man with a better reputation as its     
representative to hold councils   with  
the ,indians1 and keep ,mr4 ,scott at   
,malheur to take the census of   the    
,indians and make affidavit to the      
quantity of beef and blankets           
distributed at a reservation where there
 has not been an ,indian since   a year 
ago last ,june40  ,to these slips ,i    
might add most curious letters that ,i  
have received from both ,democrats and  
,republicans of ,virginia ,city and     

,reno1 who1 supposing me to be sister of
 the millionnaire banker1 wrote to      
induce me to serve their political      
interests with money and                
influence1--some praising and some      
abusing ,sarah1 and both enlightening   
me4  ,hoping that ,i shall be pardoned  
for the inevitable egotism of making    
this special plea for my reliability as 
a witness in this case1 ,i conclude to  
add to the report of the claims of her  
school what has transpired even since ,i
 began writing this ,postscript4  ,with 
her last letter acknowledging the last  
money subscribed for her boarding-school
 in ,august1 came a notice that the     
literary exercises of the school were   
suspended for a month1 on account of her
 need of rest1 and in order that the    
children might assist in harvesting the 
splendid crop1 some of which1 as it had 
been agreed upon beforehand1 was to pay 
the eleven men who had labored with     
,natches in the winter to buy water from
 the water company for the year's       

irrigation1 and some was to pay the     
fifteen laborers1 men and women1 who    
were to help in the reaping1 while the  
rest of the wheat1 sold at the current  
market price of #cj per ton1 would      
provide for the ensuing year's          
maintenance1 besides affording food and 
seed corn for another year's planting4  
,i must confess ,i was rather surprised 
at her letter's not containing a pan of 
joy on this impending happy             
consummation1 but only a painfully      
earnest expression of anxiety that ,i   
should now rest from my labors for her1 
and be content if she only went on in   
future with the day school4 ,but ,i     
ascribed her subdued tone to the        
exhaustion produced by the long strain  
she had been under of body and mind4 ,it
 was1 however1 explained by her next    
letter1 when she enclosed to me a letter
 she had received from a mistaken friend
 of mine telling her that ,miss ,peabody
 had sent her all the money that had    
been provided for her own old age1 and  

had been working for her to get the #ajj
 a month1 harder than she 7,sarah7 had  
ever worked in her life4 ,i need not say
 that this was accompanied with a       
passionate entreaty that ,i would never 
send her another cent1 and suspend all  
further care for her work4 ,of course ,i
 replied1 instanter1 that this letter   
was false in every point2 that the      
provision for my old age was untouched1 
and that the work ,i was doing for her  
was the greatest pleasure ,i had ever   
enjoyed in my life4 ,but before she     
could get my reply 7for it takes six    
days for a letter to go from ,boston to 
,lovelocks71 another short missive came1
 saying that ,i must not write to her   
again till she should send word of her  
new whereabouts2 for1 8on account of our
 ill luck10 ,natches and herself were   
going away to earn some money1--she to  
get work in some kitchen for at least   
her board4 ,but not a word of           
explanation of the 8ill luck10 which ,i 
could not divine4  ,i have therefore    

kept back this paper from the press till
 ,i should hear again4 ,and another     
letter has at last come1 after a        
fortnight of dreadful silence1          
acknowledging my letters that she had   
just found1 on her return to ,lovelocks 
after a fortnight's service in the      
kitchen of a ,mrs4 ,mary ,wash1 of ,rye 
,beach1 where she had earned her board1 
and had less than a dollar in money2 and
 in this letter she explains the 8ill   
luck40 ,some of her inimical white      
neighbors had told her people1 who had  
agreed to take pay for their work from  
the wheat1 that ,miss ,peabody was      
sending her out #ajj a month for them1  
and thus put them up to demanding their 
pay in money at once6 8,if we could have
 borrowed #bjj for two months10 she     
says1 8we could have paid them in money1
 and then sold the rest of the crop for 
#cj a ton4 ,but it was the game to force
 us to sell the crop to the             
store-keepers for #ag a ton1 which      
7thanks to the ,spirit ,father for so   

much7 paid all our debts1 but left      
nothing over2 and ,i could not feed on  
love1 so could not renew the school2 and
 ,i was perfectly discouraged and worn  
out40 ,add to this1 her dear niece      
,delia had just died1 who had been in a 
consumption ever since the death of the 
elder son of ,natches1 which took place 
when they were all so sick of pneumonia 
at ,winnemucca just before ,mr4         
,stanford gave them the ranch4 ,she     
rejoices that 8she is safe in heaven20  
she hopes the 8,spirit ,father may soon 
let me die40 ,when she has fixed up her 
winter clothes she says she shall go and
 seek more work for her board2 and adds 
in closing1 8,so1 darling1 do not talk  
any more on my behalf1 but let my name  
die out and be forgotten2 only1 don't   
you forget me1 but write to me          
sometimes1 and ,i will write to you     
while ,i live40 ,of course ,i have      
replied to this wail1 that while ,i do  
not wonder at her despair for the       
moment1 ,i by no means accept it as the 

finale of our great endeavor1--that it  
is a natural but temporary reaction of  
her nerves1 and ,i see that she is still
 her whole noble self in this energetic 
action for personal independence1 which 
,i shall make known at once to all her  
friends1 sure that it will challenge    
them to help her through another year   
until another harvest4 ,meantime ,i     
believe that the entire change of work  
will prove a recreative rest1 and her   
people will plainly see by it that it is
 not true that she had been living      
irrespective of them on the #ajj a      
month1 and that her enthusiastic        
scholars will not fail to bring their   
parents back to their confidence and    
gratitude to her4#e ,i tell her that ,i 
have found at the bookbinder's two      
hundred copies of her book1 which ,i    
shall at once begin to sell for her     
again1 offering to send one1 postpaid1  
to whoever sends me #a4jj1 and thus make
 the nest egg of a new fund to enable   
her to renew her grand enterprise of    

making a ,normal ,school 7for that is   
what she was doing7 of ,indian teachers 
of ,english1 for all the tribes whose   
languages she knows1 and who will1 in   
their turn1 give their scholars1        
together with the civilizing ,english   
language1 the industrial education that 
they have at the same time received1    
while helping in the housekeeping and on
 the ranch4  ,and with this implied     
appeal to the multitudes of individuals 
in the ,united ,states who1 ,i am       
certain1 are earnestly desirous to do   
something for our ,indian brothers1 but 
do not know exactly what to do1 ,i send 
forth this pamphlet in the faith that   
has brought millions of dollars1        
unsolicited except in prayer1 to ,george
 ,muller's ,orphanage in ,bristol1 old  
,england1 and created the ,consumptives'
 ,home and the asylum for incurable     
cancer patients in ,new ,england4       
,,elizabeth ,p4 ,,peabody4    ,,jamaica 
,,plain1 ,,mass4     ,,footnotes3  #a   
,for sale by ,t4 ,y4 ,crowell1 #ac      

,lafayette ,place1 ,new ,york4  #b ,in  
that first lecture she offended1 by her 
story of the conduct of the ,methodist  
agent ,wilbur1 a ,methodist lady1 who   
endeavored to bribe her to say no more  
about him1 by promising her hospitality 
and other assistance4 ,but ,sarah was   
obliged to tell her she had nothing else
 to tell but just such actions of agents
 as his4 ,this started an opposition    
against herself at once1 that succeeded 
in making the ,woman's ,association turn
 a cold shoulder to her4  #c ,william   
,b4 ,ogden--sometimes called 8,king of  
the ,west10 the founder of its capital1 
,chicago--was brought up near the       
,indians of ,central ,new ,york1 and did
 not abandon1 until the last part of his
 life1 a plan he formed early1 to go    
into ,congress and agitate to gather    
,indians into ,states to be represented 
in ,congress1 to which he thought they  
would give a needed predominating moral 
element4 ,this opinion was formed from  
long and intimate acquaintance with     

individual ,indians1 ,east and ,west1   
and sympathized with by those who had it
 in their power to send him to          
,congress4 ,he thought to give ten years
 to the agitation of the subject2 but   
the pecuniary responsibilities for      
others1 whose property he had advised   
them to invest in ,chicago1 and which   
was imperilled by the panics of #ahcg   
and #aheg1 obliged him to put it off    
till death mocked his great purpose4 ,a 
great purpose must be executed in the   
first fervor of its conception1 or it   
never will be4  #d ,this 8vicious       
principle0 is admirably set forth in    
,frederic ,denison ,maurice's           
8,religions of the ,world10 and their   
relation to ,christianity1 which ought  
to be a manual for missionaries to the  
,indians especially1 they are so apt to 
forget1 with the exception perhaps of   
,quaker missionaries in the spirit of   
,william ,penn1 that ,god reveals       
himself to every soul of man4  #e ,it   
may seem strange that her own people    

could be so influenced by the settlers  
even for a time4 ,it shows their        
demoralization4 ,it was one of ,sarah's 
acutest trials to find1 when she went   
out to ,nevada1 in ,august1 #ahhd1 how  
the last seven years of homelessness    
depriving her people of all opportunity 
for family councils and the hereditary  
domestic discipline1 had told on their  
morals4 ,she found them divided into    
small squads scratching for mere bread  
under captains elected for their        
smartness in getting along1 instead of  
their goodness1 as when the fatherly    
chief appointed them2 and that they had 
partially lost their old confidence in  
her as their faithful 8,mother10 though 
she could not blame them for it1 as she 
said she had been made the mouthpiece of
 so many lying promises4 ,the same want 
of confidence had transpired temporarily
 in #ahhj1 when the ,indian ,office     
failed to send the canvas for the       
hundred tents to ,lovelocks that it     
spontaneously promised her father when  

they were in ,washington in #ahgi2 and  
the ,secretary of the ,interior also    
failed to follow up the written order he
 gave her to show her people and ,agent 
,wilbur of ,yakima4 ,but that had proved
 a transient spasm of doubt1 and she had
 come ,east on her mission in #ahhc1 at 
their entreaty4 ,she had begun to feel1 
however1 since commencing her school1   
that it would prove a rallying-point of 
union1 and with the exception of the    
interpreter and the other virtual slaves
 of the agent on the ,reservation1 that 
they would be brought into unity with   
her1 notwithstanding the unceasing      
intrigues of ,gibson against her1 and   
which were undoubtedly excited by the   
fact that her school was attracting even
 the ,piutes on the ,reservation1 who   
wanted to send to her their children4