THE NEW NATIVE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
HYDABURG TRADING CO.
r
HYDABURG, ALASKA.
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The New Native takes
emphatic exception to a re
cent article addressed to the
Editor of the Alaska Daily
Empire by Lewis Paul Sec.
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Aside from several other de
batable statementss, the par
icular paragraph with which
differ radically says:
There is nothing in the
sysiem of education present
ed by the Indian’Bureau of
Education which fits the In
dian for industrial competi
tion. The curriculum as
presented in their various
schools has not to our obser
vation prepared any Indian
in Alaska for entranc to a
high school. If anything the
Indian must leave school af
ter attaining the fourth
grade for system dose not
carry them beyond that *
grade.
If the Alaska Native Bro
therhood endorses this
kind of talk, then the peo
ple of Hydaburg don’t
want anything to do with
it. For the peopie'here are
thoro supporters of the
Bureau or education in its
untiring efforts to help
them to a higher, econo
mic, education!, civic, mo
ral and spiritual status.
Your article, brother Paul,
is an injury to the cause
for which we are all striv
ing. Such matter should
de well digested before
presented to the press.
You speak of our curricu
lum not preparing anyone for
high school. Our currculcum
not only prepares for high
school but for Life. You say
[ “accoring to your observation.
Well, the trouble is with your
observation.
Facts are always stronger
than glib talk. In 1918, our
school had two graduates,
one who is attending high
school, the other a business
college in the states. In 1919
four boys and two girls were
graduated, all of whom are
continuing their education in
high school. This year three
pupils will likely be graduat
ed from the eighth grade. T he
4th grade curriculum of which
you speak may refer to som e
northern points of which we
have no knowledge.'
But a casual
observation of the three big
schools in S.E.Alaska would
convince you directly that
your information is incorrect
and therefore your judgment
warped. Is it necessary to tell
you that this town is built
upon co-operative ideals.
Nearly every child in the
school is a stockholder in the
mill, cannery and store. Ttye
function of the school is plain,
viz. to train the child for '
efficient participation in these
co-operative activities. In
business life, there is more
call for the correct know
ledge of the three R’s, then
for the subjects which are
given in the average high
school. Hence these funda
mentals are stressed. Space
forbids an adequate Sstate
ment of the whole work.
Suffice it to say, that the
Hydah people have caught
the importance of the co
operative mind and they in
tend to go on.
than that—he wants to loaf
& destroy at the same time.”
The New Native thinks
that the Star reporter
ought to make a tour of the
principal Native villages
of S.E. Alaska, in order <
that, we may get a differ
ent classification. We feel
assured the Star man up
on a casual investigation
of these villages with their
various produciveand dis
tributive enterprises suc
cessfully administered by
the Nat veswouid become
more discriminate in the
use of his epithets. Our
Natives are not of the long
braided-hair and sombre
ro-hat variety. On the
contrary, they are an in
dustrious forward looking
people. That is why The
New Native has con tended
ed for the name “Native
nstead of “Indian” when ^
freferring to our people. ™