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injurious effects of the conditions which we have forced upon the race are miunderstood and lamented by the thoughtful men in the tribes. Some had sought by war to shake off our evil hands, others have fallen away to dispair and folded their robes over their heads and died of a broken heart; while a few have grasped the idea that their last liberty could be regained through the power of education, and those men have pushed their children out among the white people to learn our secret of power.

The Indians as well as we, are looking to the Indian students as the means by which the meshes of superstition and ignorance that entangle the minds of the race are to be broken, and many young ^[[Indians]] [[?]] and [[?]] are willing and ready to essay this task.

I recall a young girl who watched beside my bed when I lay ill among the Indians. She told me how she desired to study medicine, that she might be able to instruct her Indian friends in the laws of health and minister to them in sickness. These talks took place seven years ago and I determined as I watched the gentle actions of the girl, and discerned her mental ability that

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