Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . peti-tioning for schools and churches under the influence of Catholic missionaries. The sad story, which can only be hinted at, of the gross immorality of white menand Indians in many of the reservations; the dissolute white man and the savage inleague to destroy every remnant of purity in the poor Indian girl; the parents them-selves, the natural guardians of the children for whom they have such warm love,engaged in forcing their daughters to lives of shame—alas ! how often has all this beenrehea
Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . peti-tioning for schools and churches under the influence of Catholic missionaries. The sad story, which can only be hinted at, of the gross immorality of white menand Indians in many of the reservations; the dissolute white man and the savage inleague to destroy every remnant of purity in the poor Indian girl; the parents them-selves, the natural guardians of the children for whom they have such warm love,engaged in forcing their daughters to lives of shame—alas ! how often has all this beenrehearsed as the common tale of the reservations ! But what a change when the good Sisters came amongst the children of thesewretched people! In the midst of privations and trials, these brave women fightingthe good fight against superstition and darkest temptation preserved the children en-trusted to them pure and holy; gave the Indian mother a new life of freedom, beforeunknown, and investing them with Christian purity made the Indian family a fitsubject of rejoicing both to angels and to BISHOP FOLEY, DETROIT. BISHOP HEALY, PORTLAND. BISHOP SCANNELL, OMAHA. BISHOP RADAMACHER,FT. WAYNE. BISHOP KEANE, WASHINGTON. BISHOP BURKE, ST. JOSEPH. BISHOP McGOLRICK, DULUTH. BISHOP MESSMER, GREEN BAY. WORLDS COLUMBIAN CATHOLIC CONGRESSES. 93 Give us, said the chief of the Gull Lake band of Chippewas, Minnesota, speakingin July, 1892, to the bishop of Duluth, give us a black-gown to teach ourselves and ourchildren. 411 have been twenty years on the reservation here, said an old chief, and thepromises made to us I never saw fulfilled; give us a priest and a school for our childrenand we will be satisfied. Many of these were pagans, but they had centered their hopes for their children inthe sisters school. The act of Congress, February 8, 1887, giving the Indians an individual title to cer-tain lands, and thus bringing them under the ordinary laws of regular citizens of thecountry is the
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