John Brown returned Monday from
a weeks' stay at Hunters Run and with Paul Corbett is spending a few days
in Washington.
June 26, 1896 INDIAN HELPER.
Those who have gone home since the last issue are Lena Hudson, Ida
Wasee, Iouisa
King, Lizzie Stands, Jane Mark, Mary Sitting
Bear, Rose Trombley, Martha Bozelle, Nellie
Morrison, Sarah Nelson, Amos Osage, John
Y. Robe, George Connor, Elmore Red Eyes,
Isaac Crane, William Carrefell, Robert Van
Wert, Paul Corbett, Jonathan Clay, Nelson
Porter, Ray Milligan, Martin Round-face,
George Cobell, Victor S. Bear, Wm. Johnson,
John Brown, David Abraham; Perry Tsamawa, James Pontiac and Jacob Show.
Some of the above will return in the Fall.
July 3, 1896 INDIAN HELPER
Mrs. Paul Corbett, nee Lydia Smith when a student of Carlisle,
tells by letter of their pleasant home in Idaho. It will be remembered
that Paul was also a student of Carlisle. Lydia speaks very beautifully
of the contentment she feels in her home, and yet she misses the school
life, its joys and her many cherished friends. She says: "How I'd
love to come there just now and see Carlisle." Paul has a store,
and he was at the time of writing in Lewiston purchasing Christmas things
for his store. Lydia sees Johnson Spcncer often and says a great change
has come over him. They are all proud of him.
December 24, 1897 INDIAN HELPER
Among other interesting letters from the West this week was one
from Paul Corbett, now in Idaho, who says that he wishes to know what happens
here, though he is far away. We are glad to see that he still feels
an interest in Carlisle and friends. He is "always busy" with his
work, he says, "Trying to make a living." Such news from old pupils
is always gratifying to their Eastern friends.
February 11, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
NEZ PERCE FARMERS.
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LEWISTON, IDA., Sept. 21. -Albert Moses, a young Nez Perce Indian,
has just finished threshing 3,000 sacks of grain on his farm near Soldier’s
Canyon and the quality of the grain is so good that the young redskin will
have no trouble in getting the
top price when he goes to market. Moses is a Carlisle graduate. He
is schooled in art and literature, mechanics and agricultural science,
and his farm is well kept, his stock shows pure lines, and no man in his
neighborhood can lay claim to being a better farmer.
Moses does no boasting. He is too busy making money on his ranch for
that. He has 20 head of work horses, a large number of cattle and some
hogs, and he grows good grain on his well-tilled farm.
Albert Moore is another Indian farmer who has made good. He is a young
man, just turned 21, but he is able to cope with older heads in any business
deal, the deep brown color of his cheeks being no drawback, no matter if
he is trading with a sharp
white farmer.
Albert Moore farms 400 acres of grain and he made a clear profit of
$1,000 last year. He is sober, industrious and modest. Last year he attended
school at the agency to learn more of practical mechanics. He wanted
to learn more about machinery and he made a close study of steam generation
and its application to machinery. He, with a number of other Indians, own
a threshing machine. They not only thresh a considerable quantity for their
own grain; but they threshed a considerable quantity for their white neighbors.
The young Indian farmers on the Nez Perce prairie are good citizens. They
are thrifty and they are doing much to dissipate the false prejudice against
their race.
Paul Corbett, of Kamiah, is another example of tawny descendants of
generations of fighting chiefs who has made good in industrial pursuits
as followed by the white man. Corbett is a full-blooded Indian, but he
is a stockholder and director in the
Kamiah bank, a stockholder in the Kamiah Bridge company and a landed
proprietor of no small pretensions.
The Nez Perce Indians are rapidly learning to transact their own business.
The renegade tribesmen, of course, still cling to their blankets and wait
for Uncle Sam’s pay day, but they are passing away, or becoming intelligent
Indian farmers, useful to their community and respected by the whites who
know them. -Everett, Washington, Morning Tribune.
(Note:--Paul Corbett is also a Carlisler. The writer had the pleasure
of visiting him last year. He has a fine home and an interesting family.
He is a good example of the educated Indian-a credit to his Alma Mater
and his race.-Ed.)
October 9, 1908 CARLISLE ARROW
William Corbett, who left here five years ago, is studying
for the ministry. Mr. Corbett is one of the able men of the Nez Perce
tribe.
October 23, 1914 ARROW