Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Y. M. C. A. in Boston, Sunday afternoon, addresses were made by students from Boston University and the Institute of Technology. Charles Eastman, a Sioux Indian, who is studying at the Boston University Medical School, was one of the speakers...
...Sioux Indian from Dakota told how he had talked to the chiefs who come to Washington about selling their lands. The Indians want to get as much money as possible for their lands in order to buy clothes and tools. The Indians do not want to die and know that civilization is necessary for their existence. They are getting ready for citizenship, but need education first...
...Lougfellow called the meeting to order and read the statement of the association. Its aim is to investigate the home life of the Indians on the reservation. The most important things accomplished so far have been the passing of the Dawes bill and the defeat of the Sioux reservation bill. The association publishes an annual statement which will be sent to any one on receipt of postage...
...editors of the Yale College Literary Magazine, an enterprising youth from Sioux City Iowa, has been caught publishing one of Tom Moore's poems over his own signature and has resigned his position, while the upper grade societies to which he belonged are nearly crazy with excitement...
...reception was tendered Red Cloud, the Sioux chief, by Prof. Porter and other members of the Yale faculty...