��������������� t . KAULttPS WAWA. No. H| 501. Special Edition. Haroh 1916? -*���*---���- .---������- . - - Iatrodaetioai This little paper ia lot ieeued by the million, not e?sn by the thousand^, not e?ea by the handrei* bat eiaply at two or three donee ooplea, Jast enoogn tor preventing the origiaal froa beleg loat by haslag a tea oopiee etored ap la oaaa reference to It aay be seeded later on. whea Bathing elae oan be foand concerning the eubleats that are die- oaseed la thia little iaaae. Poaaibly oae doaen oooiea or elgoteea or twenty mt the ��oet will be airoalated to persons iateres* ted, aad although eaoh iaaae aay be worth fifty Dollara or Ten oounde Sterlings the recipients till pleaae reeeUe it ae highly eoapltleeataryl - 1 - Aa ^oa aee the eopy for this little aagasiae ia doae ap on a typewriter, end is then reprodaoed on a Hektograph copying pad. �� ��� p Soaebody waa lately watching ae taking a few ooplea af the Hektograph, and aade the reaark that 1 auet be trying to write aaaethlng to be read after I aa dead / / /, ! ! ! t ? ? It la aow thirty - eaten years that I aa at the work aaong the "Indiaas* ia Brltlah Gelaabia, aad it haa aot beea always "fan". It has not been highly draaatio eithe*** hMill�� beeB ��� ^riod *f ���������'-.���; ;: .,'.. ���.... tm t^*hMh��i 9\ The Enderby Indian Villagr, 10*, The Okanagan Head Lake;. 11*, Quiloheoe and Douglas Lake, 12 V Coldwater and Shooloos, -���-���** ��� ��� ��� k 175 population. 250 ��� 176 ��� 175 ��� \ Tptal t 1875. Motioe, 8alaon Ara Indian popolatiion ia lacladed la the three preoediag oneef ef Balowt, Chaee aad Saiion Ara, 35 ailes farther en along the railroad, 67 ailLes froa Kaaaloops, the Indian Charoh two alias distaat froa the etation. Saderby, tweaty atlea aare agaia by rail to the eaat , thaa 24 alias sore on a braaoh due south* to laderbyfs Station, the Indian Charoh beiag oaky eaa aile froa the etation. lead Laka, tweaty alias aore agaia aa the ease hraaah, to Vernon, the Indian Charoh beiag tea alias away. The Indiaas of that district are aeattered over tifteea siLss ef territory. To reaoh the laat portion of the dietrlot, aae haa to go by rail, to Speaoe's Iridge; 7| ailaa weet ef Kaaloopa on the aain line, then en the Kettle falley branch, 40 ailfrs aare to Shouloue* and tan alias aare agaia to Ooldwater. And to lailohana, twenty ailea aare by wagaa road aad tea alias aore to Douglas Lake. To ge to each of theee plaoes separately, week after week aad retara, aae haa to cover a diatanoe ef 1800 ailea, la a year, easily 75Q0 ailee. -4- Halowt* 3H alias last of Kaalioopa,, to Shouswap Station, aad then one aile aad a halt to the vil* laga. Chaae village, two ailea aore by rail; to Chaae Station, the Iadtan village beiag aaroaa the river one aile distant. kittle River, aix ailea aore an the railroad; ar 42 ailee tooa Saaloops, the village beiag aaroaa the alter half a aile dletant. Salaon Ara, 25 ailea farther en along the railroad, 87 aillas froa Kaaloope, the Indian Charoh two alias distant froa the etation. .Enderby, tweaty ailea aare agaia by rail to the eaat , thaa 24 alias aore on a branoh due south* to Enderby9a Station, the Indian Charoh being oaky one alia froa the etation. lead bake, tweaty ailee aore again aa the aaae branoh, to Varaoa, the Indian Charoh beiag tea ailea away. The Indiana of that district are aaattered over fifteea allies of territory. To reaoh the laat portion of the iietriot, one haa to go by rail, to Speeoe'e Bridge; 7| ailea weet ef Kaaloope on the sain line, then en the Kettle falley branoh,. 40 ailfre aare to Shouloue* and tea alias aare agaia to Ooldwater. And to lullohana, twenty ailea aare by wagon road aad tea ailea aore to Douglas bake. To ge to each of thaee plaoee separately, week after week aad retara, aae haa to cover a diatanoe ef 1800 ailea, ia a year, easily 7500 ailee. ��� ��� ��� eee#��e%aair.��eadie*44��*a -5- My winter prograa. After epending the last ten days ef 1915 at the Kanloops Indian village, and also the three first days of the new year, I went ta Chase village on the fourth of January, and atayed there till eon- day the tenth, when I returned to Kaaloope prepa-ring ring to go to Merritt and Soliwater Jan. lftto Jan. 1| 19, and thence to Quilehena and Douglas Lake, Jan. 19 to 25. Aoold soell and stora having tied up the roads for a few day a*, I returned to Kamloops only on the 28 of January. Sunday Jan. 30, and the following days including oandleaas day were spent at Kanloops, until friday Feb. 4, when I w*cnt to visit the Balowt Indian vil��* lage, until Tuesday Feb.. 3, when I went to the Little River village, staying there three nights, returning to Kaaloopa Friday jteb. Ill I had now to reaiin at Kanloops until Feb..23, waiting for a train to take ne up the North Thoai* son: owing to the protracted cold and stony period, the longest and severest experienced in the country froa tine iaaezaorial, the railroad was tied up for 28 days, and it was only on wednessday evening Feb- 33 that I was able to go to the North Thoason where siok people and others were anxiously waiting for aa. I atayed there until Wedneeeday Maroh the first, when a returning train brought ae back to Kanloops before daylight. My progran goes on like this: Friday March 2, to Tuesday Maroh 7;. Chase Village. Friday ! 10, ��� ��� 14; Bnderby. xxtxxxx+*xxx + xxxx + x*xx*xx *8- I have seen that eyetea of instructing the Indiana Just ae I have deeoribed put ia aotloa by Bishop Durieu la 1880, taking up all the tine froa five la the. aorntng till eleven at eight. After a couple of daye I ooull not atand it any aore.��� I told the Biefcfp.i.&laself declared he was tired oat. le told the Indiansthat night* it was half past elevea, that nobody should ring the bell next aorning that he would ring it hiiself when he would be ready, low, he said, after the Indians retired we shall have a good rest... With all that, the bell went on next aorning at five . then again at half past five and at elx ail as usual. We cane in none tiae late to tied all the Iadiaae In the oherohi waiting* At the end of the exeroiae, nobody oould tell who had rung the bell.A At laet the old ohlaf of the plaoe eaae to tell the Blehop *I aa older than you, but I get up earlier .!��i It wae hia who rang the bell, the night before while we had the "oateohisa", he was aleepiag away, stretched on a net in a oorner of the rook. It is now iapossibie to keep the Indians together for so a*ay daya. Ia this district the* havetaken to faming, they ate living in their farn houees scattered alL over the reserves, and they oannot very well leave their houses for a long tine. In the old Une they had not auoh to look after* no poultry, ao donestio aninala; and it was no aooouat for then to leave their houees for weeks and aonths I.I. ik-Tn I ,1 likkilm I ��� .���n.e.a.eeaee.eeaaeeoeaeeeeaaa -9- togetherl In faot they were usually away for the greater part of the year and oould not gat together to receive the visit of the priest aare than two or three tines in the year. But aow they auet live aore steady on their fame, and they are la a position te see the priest acre oftdn. In fact the ideal would be to visit then as nuoh as possible onoe a a nooth*. even nors if possible. And why not? Dont they require taking oare of as nuch as the white people that have oooe into the oountry? even aare, on account of the greater aunber of thea not being able to read. ��� t * In the old tine there were very few white people la the country. I reaenber the tine, aot ao long ago, whaa ia all ay district, beeides the iadian villages, there were only a few; very few white oatholtc faaliies, very far apart, whioh it was possible to visit aore than onoe or twioe a year, low, new towns have sprung up hare and there, the catholic white population has increased sonewhat, not so nuoh after all; there are five or six plaoes already troughout this distriot where a monthly ser- vioe has been established. Now take one of those placrs for a ooaparisoni there aay be one hundred souls in one place, or aore, or there nay be only fourty, fifty or seventy, If the prieat says Mass ther on a common week day, it is doubtful if he will have aay attendance at all. On Sundays Mass has to bs said at half past / -f - - ^ M M * i -12- clatea of the loweet class who live aa "without God in thie world!.���I have given here the proportiona of soee of the villegee. Ia othera, there are only a very limited auaber of hard cases, two or three only ia the whole band, and othera aone atall. To consider the situation coolly and without exa- geration, I say state t^at of the 1875 iadian popu- latiaa of tbla distriot, after aubatractiag the children, about 625, tbeite are about Ml ska 1000 who sake their Easter duty, 800 of which will approach the aacraaeats as often as they ean eee the prieat, 600 would be frequent oossunioanta, if they had the prieet convenient, who in fact aake the epirltuai communion daily. Of the other 250, who do not approach the aacra- aenta, one half, mostly at Head Lake, are ignorant of their religion, on account of their having not the opportunity of seeing the priest, another hundred are in an irregular state of life,either through passion or aisfortune, and another lot carried away by the distractions or dissipation of their age. If I was to count up the hardesfdriakers", (I do aot aean the ocoaedonal ones!, I do not think I would find 50 ia the whole district. Yet those unrily onee give the black nark tp the whole tribe, beoauee, ae a rule evil la aore ia evidence than good, and a number of people ooalng to thia country know of Indiana only what they have read or heard of "Sioux!, scalpers, and think that 'Hhe saly good Indian is the dead lndian'i aid* description of what has been required of our Indian s as a preparation far a worthy Communioa. - - * Before being admitted te loly Coasnnton* our Indiana were required to know by heart and be able to reolte without healtatiaa the ordiaary prayere, Our Father, BailMary, The Creed; The Ccafiteor, The Com* aaadaenta of God and of the Church,. The Acts of faith, Hope aad Charity, aad of Contrition, The Angelue, The Rosary, the fifteen ayeteries,, The Banner of con* fessioo* The Cateohlaa, The lyase and Acta before aad after Communion*.t They had besides to prove that the had been good Ch Chrietiane faithful to their daily prayere and all other duties of a good Christian, free from scandals aad dangerous praotioes, edo.w low much different from so many white people who will come ta their Easter Confession aad Communion, $ast the one time in the year, often after two or three years only and how little practices of religion can they show, then to return again aostly to the ease kind of life... I do not epeak ef all, but ef a great number, in a country like thie where eo many live far away from aay church and have aelther the oeoasion, nor tne will to go out of their way to reach the priest like good ooncientioae people would be anxioua to da* I suet say I Beet with better, kinde of people here aad there* Ikaew at a Johnny Mac Donald* who would -15-f walk twenty miles aad aore to have the happiness ef coslag to sass and approachiag the Saoraseats when he would know that the prleet ie golag ta be at auoh a place. I know of a family, who will drive ever tweaty ailea ef a country* roada good or bad, to seet the prieat every time he comes to such an Indian village, aad there they will etay three or four days, all go* lag ta Holy Goesunien every sornisg, and Biasing aoae at the exeroiaea , Benediction, etc.. I kaow of ethere, Ban, woman and child* who mill cose an horseback over the mountains notwithstanding bad trails and enow drifts, travelling tea to fifteen ailea faeting to get ta Maes aad to Holy Coaaunion. I was asking an Indian, aome ties ago, -"lhat do yea do when you wake up in the middle of the night? *-"I aay the little prayere for spiritual Communion going over the hyane in my heart as if I was aiaging them. Then if I do not fall aeleep agaia for aoae Use I go over allthe prayere aad hymns beforehand after Coasuaioa* aad then nay ay beada, and it haa happened to me to wake up in the morning having between my fingers the very bead on whioh I fell aeleep. I kaow of a aumber of Indian folka all over the diatrict* who make the acta for Spiritual Communion "lota of times " every day. Moat of the 606 I mentioned above never fail to sake tkoae aota tirat thing in the aorning, every day, aad laat thiag la the evening. - a -