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Sanders Theatre was well filled last evening by an audience of the best people of Cambridge and many students from the college. Mr. Longfellow, after giving a short account of the work Senator Dawes is now trying to accomplish in Congress, introduced Walter Baptiste, an Indian of the Sac and Fox tribe, who spoke on "What will you do with the Indian." He gave a vivid picture of life in Dacotah and spoke of the influence for good which graduates of such schools as the Hampton Institute are exerting on their own people. He appealed for more education and for separate reservations among the Indians.
Daniel Fiery Cloud was next introduced, and spoke earnestly in the cause of his people. He is a full-blooded Dacotah Indian, and spoke in the Dacotah language. Miss Collins, who has been fourteen years missionary among the Indians for the Congregational Society, acted as interpreter.
Miss Collins then spoke in her own character as one who had lived long among Indians and knew them as a race worth working for.
Mr. Longfellow next introduced Gen. Armstrong, prefacing his introduction with an account of the two societies in Cambridge organized for the aid of the Indian race, - a Branch of the Woman's National Indian Association, which aims to directly benefit the Indians by personal help and by missionary work in the West and at the schools, and a Branch of the Indian Race Association, which devotes its attention to the protection of Indians by law.
Gen. Armstrong spoke of the necessity of gradually withdrawing the supplies which the Government is now furnishing, and of giving instead an opportunity for the Indian to earn his daily bread on lands which he himself can own apart from the tribal lands. Gen. Armstrong concluded his address with suggestions in regard to the government's policy, and an interesting account of the Hampton Institute and its work.
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