her
preparatory school for several years before they can enter college.

It will be seen, then, that the college-educated men and women of my
race have accomplished quite a feat, considering their antecedents and
wholly foreign point of view. They have had to adjust themselves to a
new way of thinking, as well as a new language, before they could master
such abstract ideas and problems as are presented by mathematics and the
sciences. Their own schools graduate them at a mature age and do not
prepare them for college. Furthermore, they are almost always hampered
by lack of means. Nevertheless, an increasing number have succeeded in
the undertaking.

TRIALS OF THE EDUCATED INDIAN

I wish to contradict the popular misconception that an educated Indian
will necessarily meet with strong prejudice among his own people, or
will be educated out of sympathy with them. From their point of view, a
particularly able or well-equipped man of their race is a public
blessing, and all but public property. That was the old rule among us.
Up to a very recent period an educated Indian could not succeed
materially; he could not better himself, because the people required him
to give unlimited free service, according to the old regime. I have even
known one to be killed by the continual demands upon him.

There was a time (not so long ago, either) when the educated Indian
stood in a very uncomfortable position between his people and the
Government officials and shady politicians. Every complaint was brought
to him, as a matter of course; and he was expected to expose and redress
every wrong. As I have said elsewhere, such efforts are generally
useless, and resulted only in damage to his financial position and his
reputation. No doubt he often invited attacks upon himself by a rashness
born of his ardent sympathy for his fellow-tribesmen. In this matter I
speak from personal experience as well as long observation.

Even in the old, wild days, an education was appreciated by the Indians;
but it was a hard life for the educated man. They made him carry too
heavy a burden, without much recompense save honor and respect. But we
have pretty well passed through that period, and the native graduates of
our higher institutions have begun to show their strength and enlarge
their views. They have not only done well for themselves and their race,
but they stand before the world as living illustrations of its capacity,
disproving many theories co