Fenger Academy High School - Courier Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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As Henry WadsworTh LongTellow was inspired To choose Tor The beauTiTuI sTory oT I-liawaTha, The subiecT, The American Indian, we, The June Courier STaTT oT I940. also soIecT The American Indian Tor our Theme. Mr. LongTelIow TeIT deeply ThaT This was The righT and only Theme Tor such a sTory, Tor The American Indians were Truly The TirsT dwellers on our vasT conTinenT. In a Time when They were eiTher greaTIy Teared or haTed, Ivlr. LongTeIlow was somewhaT alarmed as To how The people would receive a long poem abouT The American Indians. We, The sTaTT, aT a Time when These braves are largely TorgoTTen, or are mere picTures, have The same Tear clinging in our hearTs. Sfill aTTer careTul reading and research we believe we owe our TirsT people much. They have given INDIAN us vasT weaITh, while we in Turn have given Them liTTle. Though we may laugh aT Their wiTch docTors, The American Indians have conTribuTed enor- mously To our modern medicine. IT has been said ThaT abouT eighTy-six per cenT oT all our Icnowl- edge concerning drugs has been Taken Trom These people. AgriculTurisTs sTood in amazemenT when They learned ThaT sixTy per cenT oT all Toods used ThroughouT The world Today originaTed wiTh The American Indian. Through Their accuraTe knowl- edge oT AsTronomy, Physics, and MaThemaTics, we Today could surely learn many Things which would beneTiT us greaTly. In some oT The arTs and sciences we have reached on one line a poinT which The Indians reached along a parallel line, many, many years ago. Joining These Two lines we shall undoubTedIy advance Tar in These subiecTs since uniTy means progress. Today in CenTral America are highways and bridges builT approxi- maTeIy 8,000 To l0,000 years ago, and many oT These are s+iII in exisTence and in use. So leT us noT Thinlc oT The American Indian as TuTile, buT as a symbol signiTying greaTness. For all Their gracious giving in The Times oT our ToreTaThers, we have noT TreaTed The Indian iusTIy. We have Torced Them from Their lands, Taken Their crops, shoved Them Trom reservaTion To reservaTion as our Tancy Tlamed wiThin us, or I'2I