Black Hills State University - Eoicha Yearbook (Spearfish, SD)

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T H E E O C I H A 1 9 2 0 Elaine had many friends and they often wondered where she mysteriously disap- peared each morning and why she returned home in the evening looking so radiant and happy. One day she decided to tell them her secret so they too might take ad- vantage of this splendid opportunity. After she had told them all about it every one of those girls thought of some piece of furniture they would like to have for their rooms or to use as gifts. These were some of the thoughts that ran through the various brains of the various maidens in Elaineis sitting room. calf I could make a dressing table, my room would look much more up-to-datef, HI wonder if I could make a Morris chair for grandfather?7, HI know mother would like a tea cart, it would lighten her work so much.'7 calf I could make brother a neck tie rack, it would save me the trouble of picking up those ties that are draped over his chairs and dresser every morningf' It did not take very much discussion until each girl was fully convinced that she needed just such a course. How nice it would be for her to judge the construction of furniture and to be able to tell good wood from the cheaper grades besides learn- ing to drive a nail straight and to saw a board as a board should be sawed. And then to learn how to stain and varnish and shellacl Why, that is an art in itself and to think how the bills could be reduced each spring if one could retouch oneis own furniture and woodwork. At the end of her course Elaine had completed enough furniture to furnish her living room and how valuable that furniture was, for each piece was made of solid oak and you know that which you purchase these days is nothing more than veneered. Then besides the money value of each piece there was that personal relationship, for she had constructed each one of them and had planned each for its own particular place and use. Wlien the happy day came that Elaine and Gerald were to move into their own home there came the moving van to the door loaded with Elaine's surprise. Gerald could hardly believe she had made it all, and do you know, I believe he loved her a great deal more for he realized all the hours she had spent and what a real help- mate she was. The money that was saved was applied on a neat little roadster that Elaine was going to drive herself. Their friends, uthe pals, realized their desires too. The dressing table was duly installed in the bed room. Grandfather had his lVIorris chair. Mother her tea cart, and brother the necessary tie rack. The girls were so interested in the work, they wouldn't stop after finishing those pieces, so they can be seen measuring cedar chests, clamping arms to spring rocking chairs, and there are glove boxes and pedestals, and a dictionary could not dehne every thing else they have made or will attempt. Of course you will say, UNO wonder it was easy for them to succ-eed, when they have so many tools with which to work, and all the late and improved machinery at their disposal. Then, too, there is the hearty co-operation of instructorsfj 29

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i 0 4- I ll A I 'I 2 n THEEI MANUAL TRAINING D E PA RT M IC NI' w i l ,l C. SANDELL ll XXI I, X Xt l.IlX Manual Training, SllI7ffffl'll1'Ill16'l1t llfrrrmf lminin: f'ltf'1'l' of Buildings lSLAINliiS SL lil'lilSl-I ERALD had just returned from France. and this extent marlf' lflaine. his fiancee. very, very happy, for they had planned on heing marrir-cl as soon as Gerald was again established in business and had their bungalow finish:-d. There was so much to be done and Elaine longed to do sonivtliing to help heside filling her hope chest with dainty and useful linens. lf she- could jtlrl t,'Hlll,'PlYC an idea to reduce the cost of furnishing their home. One day Elaine was sitting on the porch Crocheting. when thi- mail man brought her a catalogue of the Spearhsh Normal School. She had heard ahout this splendid institution before, and so she looked eagerly through the page-s to ser- what she could find that would best lit her for work to make her help dream come true. She found the home economics department. the 1-onnnt-rvial department. and various others, but none of them awakened any plan in her mind until finally. right under her very nose appeared, in large letters. NlANl'.iXl. 'l'll,fXlNlNC DEPART- MENTY' That's just what she wanted. Why couldn't she take a course and make some of her own furniture? i She talked the subject over with her mother and it was agreed upon that she should take a course and not tell Gerald a thing about it. lt would he so much fun to surprise him and they could save this extra money. and put it in a car. School opened in September and Elaine was one of the most enthusiastic students. Sheiwas assigned to bench number 8, and there right within easy reach was her tool Eabinet, Hlled with such an assortment of tools that Elaine thought she would go inad efore she learned the use of them all. But the instructors were very kind and patient and after she had completed her first piece she felt like a master craftsman. 28

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0 I ll A I 9 2 U T H E E SOUTH DAKOTA 11 ISTOH Y 1 O Sion of the Dakota Country and of Wlrat Iififfiilttfj of A 1 the Indians. South Dakota oecrrpies the r'ent1'11l portion of the orig- inal Dakota Country. The Dakota Indians, the most im- I portant part of the great Sioux tribe. can he traced to . the Great Lakes, wherree they rnoverl Wf'rlWiiI'fl about W 1700 A. D. The Dakota Indians, based on dialer-t. are fliyiftf-d into ' three main branches: the powerful Tetons who led the way and settled west of the Nlissouri river and over- LYNN P. MCCAIN flowed into Wyforiririgg the Yanktons who settled between Supervisor of the Elemenwfy the Missouri and the Big Siouxg and the Santees who Te che's,C0me' Pedagogy 'md settled between the Big Sioux ZIINI Xlrssrssippi rivers, Methods, Civics and South ' . . . Dakoza History principally Ill the southern half of Nlrnnesota. As the Indians, prior to 1870, were r'ecfognized by the U. S. government as nations without our nation, to be treated with separately. the ques- tion of how to dispossess the Dakotasvof the land her-arne an all-ahsorhing one in our early history. This has been accomplished principally hy rnc-ans of treaties. The first one covering any of our territory was the Traverse de Sioux t1'e11ty in 1851. It opened up the narrow strip east of the Big Sioux river' in South Dakota. and toffether w'ith the Vlendota treaty made at the same time, opened up rl o rhout rll of outhern lhnne sota fM1nnesota territory extended we tward to the 111 u11 IIN 1 untl 18381 In 1858 the Yankton cessron opened up the thea tern p ut I II trte lyme p proxrmately south of Faulkton Redfield and Vt rtertown In I 66 ex Coyernor Ed munds, chairman of a commission to trert with the Drkotr Inch rn in quretnrv the Santees after the War of the Outbreak ucceeded in pl 11111 l eton ind Vi ah petons fpart of the Santeesl on a resery rtron rn the northct tcrn put f the tate and rn opening the rest ofthe eastern part of the trte to fttlr nic nt extept the e tab lrshed reservations at Crow Creek ard in Charle thx County About this same time the government had trouble 1 lllt thc O lrlr tr brar eh f 1 oxer the hurlchnff of a w rffon rord from Ft Lara 1 11116 I to the gold fields of Montana Thr w rs nuned the hed Cloud War after the O lala chief I g t resulted 1n the goxernment xrelchnfr to the Indrrn d mancl that the road should not be built, and rn eedrnfv to the D rkota Indr rn 111 1068 by the Lafamle ITCHTY all of South Dakota west of the Mr ourr 11X er with huntrnff 191'1V1l6g6S ln Wyoming and Montana, lying wrthrn the conhne of the North Platte Big Horn, and Yellowstone rivers B 1 y tie terrns ot thi trertx the white were for brdclen to enter thrs reservation, or to Come 11 1 1 o po session of rnx put of it without Hrst gaining the consent of three fourths of the adult rn rle The BIHCIC HIIIS, rn violation of this treaty w as rm rded in 18141 by a troop Of a ry rn command of General C uster and gold w rs dr Coxered neu the pre 61 STATEMENT oln llow tht- Wlrites flitllll' Illlft Posses- ?--,. . uv. 'IV I lu -Y 1 , ' -gn. 0 . ri' l C Ns 1 ' 1 s 1 ' 1 s ' - - . ' ' ' 1 ' s '1 ' 1 'sso 'i 'i 'e' i . .y - 'xr -' sou 1s ' 1' o Ol'FZ . -' ga- ' ' l , . U . . , . K-. , , c c . U . ' ' - ' lr' '1 1' 1 '1 s.' I ' C ' ', s ' 1 g tie Sisse s 1 '1 - ' I '11 1' ' A -1s-' 1' o s , ' ' ' 1' S2 sa 1 1 s - ' 1 I L i S 1 I '. ' 1 ' v' 1 gl 1s. 1 1 o the Tetonsl west of the Black H'lls, ' .' ' ' C 1 '1 - ' 1 ' ' . ' J s '- , I 1 ' . C- 5 if l . ' ' ' is ' P li s' e- ' - I . I ' 5 I .1 N . 0 . C, 1. 1 1. D. 5 , ,C YC, .SS Q. Q U. 6 ' '- A ' : I 's '1 ' ' ' s ' ' '- . i s: QI' 1 ' 1' ' , ' C k S. . M I we lc: I 'Z . in ' ' I cavl . . ' l Q 1 11: s ' ' 1' 2 If 30 l