een prepared in the larger Government
schools, in many instances with the addition of normal and college
courses. At least two are superintendents of schools. A number of young
women, Carlisle graduates, have taken up trained nursing as a
profession, and are practising successfully both among whites and
Indians.

In the sciences, especially in ethnology and archaeology, we have several
who have rendered material service. William Jones, a Sac and Fox quarter
blood, was a graduate of Hampton and of Harvard University. He took
post-graduate work at Columbia, and was a pupil of those distinguished
scientists, Dr. Putnam and Dr. Boas. The latter has called him one of
our ablest archaeologists. Dr. Jones travelled among the various tribes,
even to the coast of Labrador, and labored assiduously in the cause of
science for Harvard and the Marshall Field Museum of Chicago, as well as
other institutions. It was the Chicago Museum which sent him to the
Philippine Islands, where he was murdered by the natives a few years
ago.

We have also such men as Professor Hewitt of the Smithsonian
Institution, Francis La Flesche of the same, and Arthur C. Parker of
Albany, N. Y., who is state archaeologist.

In literature several writers of Indian blood have appeared during the
past few years, and have won a measure of recognition. Francis La
Flesche, an Omaha, has collaborated with Miss Alice C. Fetcher in
ethnological work, and is also the author of a pleasing story of life in
an Indian school called "The Middle Five." Zitkalasa, a Sioux (now Mrs.
Bonney), attended a Western college, where she distinguished herself in
an intercollegiate oratorical contest. Soon afterward she appeared in
the _Atlantic Monthly_ as the writer of several papers of an
autobiographical nature, which attracted favorable attention, and were
followed by a little volume of Indian legends and several short stories.
Mrs. Bonney has more recently written the book of an Indian opera called
"The Sun Dance," which has been produced in Salt Lake City by university
students. John Oskinson, a Cherokee, was first heard of as the winner in
an intercollegiate literary contest, and he is now on the staff of
_Collier's Weekly_. The Five Civilized Nations of Oklahoma can show many
other writers and journalists.

In higher business lines a number have shown special ability. General
Pleasant Porter, who died recently, was president of a short railroad
line in Oklahoma; Mr. Hill,