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Mtw ' 1 . TrM;parceremony, just the simple gospel denied privileges that foreigners arepreached to the Indians, ami at times given? The Indians have more rights• I dir*ANDREW J. BLACKBIRD, .na,(Historian of His Tribe. Who Is 100 Years Old This Year. fclaloffiiItentl . . Here have been no speakers on the ^ in this country than foreigners, woo I ground, the Indians have held commtl-1 are taken into society and given ev- (’nion among themselves. | ery recognition that is denied the In- t_ , a I (Commurnon by Elder. fdlan. 1 (The Rev. A. T. Ferguson, presid-, Dr. Montezuma has said that thej lt;ing eider of the Grand Traverse dis- reservation system makes vagabonds I (trict, held communion services on the of the Indians and that they should I jcamp grounds and the service in the be done away with, lie believes that! jshadow of the birches was most im- the reservation Indian should be made 1 prje. Thursday night the Rev. p. to work for his living and take his waWhen the Rev. Mr. Thomas first sum- grounds, also running trains fiomthem a supply of tobacco, and while sion boat will also he run from Char-they were smoking their pipes he levoix.I. Whitman of Harbor Springs, former-' place in the business life of the coun-ty pastor of the Methodist church at try side by side with the foreigners, gtn North port, delivered the address, who flock to the United States and gand yesterday afternoon the Rev. Will* who are merged into American citi-lHa1lain Petoskev of Petoskey preached zens with no class distinction.to the Indians in TTieir own language, j. Train Service. strIaist night the sermon was by the j In order that the crowds who go *Rev. T. C. Thomas of Odanah, Wis.,' to Xorthport will not have to walk to onwho is doing a noble work among the and from the grounds arrangements pagan Indians of northern Wisconsin, have been made with the G. R. I.Fpos n e iin addition to his regular charge, ' railroad for train sendee all day to- anlt;having a mission which is flourishing.; morrow between Xorthpon and tne kbO (ed to tell the pagans about the gospel \ Oraena. The steamer Chequamegon j onthe only way he could gather them I will run an excursion to Xorthport,! Itogether to listen to him was to give \ leaving at 9:3© a. m., and an excur- 0,1 •theOUat*
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Traverse City Evening Record

Traverse City, Michigan, US

Sat, Aug 15, 1908

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