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

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       D E D I C A T I O N.

       NOTE.

       INTRODUCTION.

       TEN YEARS AT SKOKOMISH.

       I. SKOKOMISH.

       II. PRELIMINARY HISTORY.

       A WAR INCIDENT.

       III. EARLY RELIGIOUS TEACHING.

       IV. SUBSEQUENT POLITICAL HISTORY.

       V. THE FIELD AND WORK.

       VI. DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY OF RELIGIOUS WORK.

       (a) LANGUAGES.

       (b) THEIR RELIGION.

       (c) BESETTING SINS.

       VII. TEMPERANCE.

       VIII. INDUSTRIES.

       IX. TITLES TO THEIR LAND.

       X. MODE OF LIVING.

       XI. NAMES.

       XII. EDUCATION.

       CORRECTING THOMSON’S PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC.

       XIII. THE FOURTH OF JULY.

       THE FOURTH OF JULY ON SKOKOMISH RESERVATION.

       XIV. CHRISTMAS.

       XV. VARIETY.

       XVI. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

       XVII. SICKNESS.

       XVIII. FUNERALS.

       THE DEATH OF SKAGIT BILL.

       XIX. THE CENSUS OF 1880.

       XX. THE INFLUENCE OF THE WHITES.

       XXI. THE CHURCH AT SKOKOMISH.

       XXII. BIG BILL.

       XXIII. DARK DAYS.

       XXIV. LIGHT BREAKING.

       XXV. THE FIRST BATTLE.

       XXVI. THE VICTORY.

       XXVII. RECONSTRUCTION.

       XXVIII. JOHN FOSTER PALMER.

       XXIX. M——F——.

       XXX. DISCOURAGING CASES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS.

       XXXI. THE CHURCH AT JAMESTOWN.

       XXXII. COOK HOUSE BILLY.

       XXXIII. LORD JAMES BALCH.

       XXXIV. TOURING.

       XXXV. THE BIBLE AND OTHER BOOKS.

       XXXVI. BIBLE PICTURES.

       XXXVII. THE SABBATH-SCHOOL.

       XXXVIII. PRAYER MEETINGS.

       XXXIX. INDIAN HYMNS.

       XL. NATIVE MINISTRY AND SUPPORT.

       XLI. TOBACCO.