One being with these people every day can clearly see that the redemption of Africa is in the little folks, and, therefore, I think, that a number of these boys and girls should be taken by somebody, and trained, as they are at Hampton.
This part of Africa is very little behind the South in 1866; and see what the A. M. A. has done in that dark place since that time? There are only two things that differ here from the South. First, the colored people in the South had been taught to work with more skill than these people have. Second, those at the South had more civilized people to deal with than these people have now. Take out these two, and Africa (this part), to-day, will compare with the South before the A. M. A. took it in hand. Now, if so much has been done in America, why not in Africa?
THE INDIANS.
S’KOKOMISH RESERVATION.
REV. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., PORTLAND, OREGON,
Superintendent A. H. M. S., for Oregon and Washington Territories.
The best way to study the Indian problem is to study the Indians themselves. The agents and employees on the reservations have all the means to test every element of this question.