Ten years of missionary work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884

TEN YEARS AT SKOKOMISH.
SKOKOMISH AGENCY.

By Rev. M. Eells, Missionary of the American Missionary Association . BOSTON: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, CONGREGATIONAL HOUSE, Corner Beacon and Somerset Streets.

COPYRIGHT, 1886, BY CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL AND PUBLISHING SOCIETY Electrotyped and printed by Stanley & Usher, 171 Devonshire Street, Boston.

In accordance with these ideas the following pages have been written.
It is surprising to find how few books can be obtained on missionary work among the Indians. After ten years of effort the writer has only been able to secure twenty-six books on such work in the United States, and five of these are 18mo. volumes of less than forty pages each. Only five of these have been published within the last fifteen years. Books on the adventurous, scientific, and political departments of Indian life are numerous and large; the reverse is true of the missionary department. Hence it is not strange that such singular ideas predominate among the American people in regard to the Indian problem.
M. E.
Skokomish, Washington Territory, August, 1884.