THE NATIONAL 
 INDIAN ASSOCIATION 
 
 INCORPORATED 1887 
 
 Meeting the Needs 
 
 156 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 
 
Meeting the Needs. 
 
 [Reprinted from The Indian’s Friend ] 
 
 An employee in the Government 
 Indian Service to whom reports of 
 the work of The National Indian As- 
 sociation had been sent, recently 
 wrote: “The Gospel is what the In- 
 
 dians need, and it is such tidings as 
 these missionary notes that keep up 
 our faith for their ultimate redemp- 
 tion. The Indian is as restless as 
 other men now-a-days, and not until 
 he has the love of God in his heart 
 and consideration for his fellow man, 
 will he have that sedative that enables 
 men to become self-supporting and 
 self-respecting citizens.” 
 
 The letters from our mission station 
 among the Rocky Boy Band of Chip- 
 pewa and Cree Indians in Montana, 
 published in the columns of each issue 
 of this paper, tell of the great needs of 
 those Indians and of the earnest and 
 untiring efforts of our workers to 
 meet them. 
 
 The activities at that mission sta- 
 tion include : 
 
 1. Religious services in the chapel. 
 
 2. Visiting the Indians and placing 
 
 copies of the New Testament 
 
in the Cree language in the 
 homes. 
 
 3. Evening school for the young 
 
 men who, by reason of their 
 heretofore nomadic life, have 
 not had educational advantag- 
 es. 
 
 4. Boys’ club with manual training 
 
 and indoor and outdoor games. 
 
 5. Women’s meetings for sewing, 
 
 helpful talks, games, social 
 hour and luncheon. 
 
 6. Girls’ club with various features, 
 
 such as sewing, games and 
 luncheon. 
 
 7. Fresh air room, where a sick In- 
 
 dian needing special care is 
 looked after by our workers. 
 
 8. Sick and needy relief (including 
 
 supplies of fresh milk, eggs 
 and other nourishing food, and 
 the dispensing of simple home 
 remedies in case of minor ill- 
 ness). 
 
 9. Bead-work industry — now devel- 
 
 oped by our workers to the 
 point where it is an important 
 factor in the support of sever- 
 al Indian families. 
 
This bare enumeration of the varied 
 activities at Rocky Boy Mission indi- 
 cates a community work which help- 
 fully touches those hitherto neglected 
 Indians at every point of human need. 
 But the financial support received is 
 inadequate, and the work will suffer 
 unless a larger support is given to it. 
 Instead of the work being curtailed, it 
 should be enlarged. Further expan- 
 sion is not possible until the present 
 work is adequately supported. 
 
 After several decades of wandering, 
 the Rocky Boy Indians are permanent- 
 ly settled. They have not had the ad- 
 vantages which most Indian tribes 
 have had, and we are helping them 
 along the new trail which leads to 
 Christian American citizenship. They 
 will be retarded in their forward 
 steps if this work is cut down. Will 
 you not help to prevent any retrogres- 
 sion by sending a contribution toward 
 the support of the work to the Treas- 
 urer of The National Indian Associa- 
 tion. 156 Fifth Avenue, New York? 
 
 New York,