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 PUBLICATIONS OF TH E V^O MEN'S NATIONAL INDIAN 
 ASSOCIATION. 
 
 OUR WORK. 
 
 The churches have done a great 
 work among United States Indians. 
 They could not, however, provide 
 religious teaching for all, and so The 
 Women’s National Indian Association, 
 a union society, finding sixty-six 
 tribes and separated parts of tribes 
 without a mission, after its five years 
 of other work began in 1884 to send 
 missionaries to these destitute tribes. 
 The effort succeeded beyond expecta- 
 tion and work has been opened for 
 forty-seven tribes or stations. 
 
 These missions when well establish- 
 ed are given, with all the property 
 gathered, to the denominational Home 
 Missionary Societies and become their 
 permanent stations. It needs at 
 least twenty-five new ones to sup- 
 ply all the destitute tribes, and the 
 
Association appeals to all Christian 
 patriots for gifts in aid of this work. 
 Please send what you can, oh Chris- 
 tian reader, and move others to do the 
 same, even if the gift can be not more 
 than a dime. The wee gifts make 
 possible the great enterprises, and it is 
 the pioneering that assures the per- 
 manent work. 
 
 Has this work accomplished much ? 
 At a point in upper California one of 
 our missions was begun in 1890 with a 
 day school of twelve pupils among 
 the so-called Digger Indians, and they 
 proved to be as well endowed by 
 nature as are any untaught people. 
 The school progressed steadily till 1896 
 when, having outgrown the financial 
 ability of the Association, it was sold 
 to Government, a boarding school of 
 eighty pupils, with its temporary 
 buildings on its forty acres, and it is 
 now a permanent institution in build- 
 ings costing ^25,000.00. In 1893 our 
 
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 mission was opened among the two 
 thousand Piegans of Montana and in 
 less than two years, with its hundred 
 and sixty acres, its ample cottage, its 
 pretty new chapel, its stock, vehicles, 
 and furniture it was given to the 
 Methodist Episcopal Home Mission 
 Society and became its best frontier 
 mission, its property having cost $4000. 
 In 1896 our unique mission was opened 
 among the Desert Indians of Califor- 
 nia, and the next year, with its five 
 acres and its cottage and chapel, it 
 was given to the devoted Moravians. 
 And so might be given the story of a 
 Sioux station, now an Episopal mis- 
 sion ; of Seminole work now under 
 that same church care ; of work among 
 tribes in Indian Territory, in Idaho, 
 Nebraska, Arizona, Washington and 
 New Mexico, and the details, and per- 
 sonal history of Tnaiiy of those helped 
 would thrill the coldest heart. 
 
 Boys have walked, through moun- 
 
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 tain snows, seven miles a day to get 
 our school privileges, and some have 
 done this without lunch or with only 
 a cold potato for the noon meal ; some 
 in place of shoes have had only grain 
 sacks wrapped about the feet, and 
 some have dwelt in tents the winter 
 through where the mercury often 
 dropped to forty degrees below zero. 
 A singing procession of school children 
 has marched into an Indian hamlet, 
 their sweet gospel hymns winning 
 from heathen dances, and from super- 
 stitious fear of the school to hearty 
 support of it. Dying Indian children 
 have said, “ I go to the better country 
 and Jesus will take me”; hungry 
 minded ones have said, “ I must know 
 book,” and Indian men and women 
 have found Him who is truly the 
 need as “the desire of all nations.” 
 
 ^ The Association has other than mis- 
 • sionary departments; does not dupli- 
 cate the work of any society, and was 
 
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 the first Indian association to ask for 
 lands in severalty and citizenship for 
 Indians, as it did in its third annual 
 petition, that of i88i, and these were 
 granted in the passage of The Dawes 
 Severalty Bill in 1887. 
 
 The great revolution in public sen- 
 timent which has swept over the coun- 
 try since the beginning of this work 
 in the spring of 1879 has already given 
 us about 25,000 Indian citizen voters ; 
 35,000 Indian tax payers; industrial 
 products of Indian labor at an annual 
 value of more than $1,250,000; has 
 secured to date nearly three hundred 
 Indian schools of all kinds, at an 
 annual expense of more than $2,000,- 
 000, now giving educational privi- 
 leges to three-fourths of the Indian 
 youth of the country, and has roused 
 the great denominations of Christians 
 to increased labors for Christianizing 
 our aborigines. 
 
 This Association has given special 
 
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 education to bright Indians, training 
 them as physicians, nurses, teachers 
 and missionaries to help and lead their 
 people. It has built houses from its 
 loan funds thus placing many Indian 
 families in civilized and Christian 
 homes, and these loans are honestly 
 repaid. It has hospital, library, in- 
 dustries, temperence, and kindergar- 
 ten departments, and has built mis- 
 sionary cottages, chapels, school- 
 houses, and homes for the aged. 
 
 For all these aids there is still con- 
 stant and importunate need, and re- 
 quest, and most of these the denomina- 
 tional societies do not, and, they tell us, 
 cannot, supply. The Association has 
 expended from twenty thousand to 
 twenty-eight thousand dollars yearly, 
 and about $3,000 annually in sending 
 material help to aged and otherwise 
 helpless ones in more than seventy 
 different tribes. 
 
 Besides all these helps required 
 there are wrongs to right, laws to 
 gain, and just privileges to secure for 
 our native race, and the need of all 
 these appeals alike to us all as patriots 
 
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 and as Christians. The Association 
 making this request, and its branches 
 in many states, have published and 
 circulated many thousands of booklets 
 and leaflets; have sent many thousands 
 of petitions and appeals to our Govern- 
 ment; have held thousands of meet- 
 ings, and have championed the cause 
 of the red man in the public press 
 since 1879. 
 
 May we not enroll your name on 
 our honor list of helpers ? 
 
 A gift of $50, constitutes an Hon- 
 orary Member; of $25, a Patron; of 
 $10. a Contributor, or, if from a lady, 
 a Life Member; of $5, or $1.00 a Sub- 
 scriber or Donor; and any gift how- 
 ever small will be gladly welcomed 
 for this work on behalf of the thou- 
 sands of our aboriginal race who are 
 still helpless, uncivilized, and un- 
 Christianized in this last year of the 
 nineteenth Christian century. 
 
 Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton, Pres. 
 
 Miss E. W. Jones, Cor. Secretary 
 
 Miss Anna Bennet, Treas, 
 
 210.5 Spruce St., Phila., Pa. 
 
OKKICERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 WOMEN’S NATIONAL INDIAN ASSOCIATION 
 
 For 1899 
 
 HONORARY PRESIDENT 
 
 MRS MARY L. BONNEV RAMBAOT 
 
 PRESIDENT 
 
 MRS. AMELIA S. QUINTON 
 Philadelphia 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS 
 
 MRS. W. R. BROOKS 
 MRS. SARA T. KINNEY 
 MRS. E. JOHN ELLIS 
 MRS. JOHN BIDWELL 
 
 CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 
 MISS ELIZA WILLIAMS JONES 
 2031 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY 
 
 MRS. WM. H. LAIRD 
 
 TREASURER 
 
 MISS ANNA BENNETT 
 2105 Spruce St., Philadelphia 
 
 AUDITOR OF ACCOUNTS 
 
 MRS. C. G. BOUGHTON 
 
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