, though the Rev. Frank Wright, a Choctaw, is well known
as an evangelistic preacher and singer.

One of our best-known clergymen is Rev. Sherman Coolidge, a full-blood
Arapahoe. He has had an unusual career, having been taken prisoner as a
boy by an officer of the army. He was sent to school and eventually
graduated from Bishop Whipple's Seabury Divinity School at Faribault,
Minn. Since that time Doctor Coolidge has devoted himself to the
Christianization of his race. He is the president of our recently
organized Society of American Indians.

Bishop Whipple developed many able preachers, of whom perhaps the most
accomplished was the Rev. Charles Smith Cook, of the Yankton Sioux. He
was the son of a Sioux woman and a military officer. Mr. Cook was
graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, and later from Seabury
Divinity School. He had unusual eloquence and personal charm, and became
at once one of Bishop Hare's ablest helpers in his great work among the
Sioux. Stationed at Pine Ridge at the time of the Wounded Knee massacre,
he opened his church to the wounded Indian prisoners as an emergency
hospital. His much regretted death occurred a few months later. He was a
tireless worker and much loved by his people.

One of our promising young ministers is the Rev. Henry Roe Cloud, a
Winnebago, graduated from Yale and Oberlin. Stephen Jones, a Sioux, who
was graduated from the Y. M. C. A. training-school at Springfield,
Mass., has done good work as field secretary among the Indians for a
number of years. I should add that there are many ministers of my race
who have no college degree nor much education in the English language,
yet who are among our most able and influential leaders. My own brother,
Rev. John Eastman, who passed but a short time in school, has not only
been a successful preacher among the Sioux but for many years their
trusted adviser and representative to look after their interests at the
national capital.

A few men and many women have succeeded in the teaching profession, most
of them in the United States Indian Service. It is the express policy of
the Government to use the educated Indians, whenever possible, in
promoting the advancement of their race; indeed some of the treaties
include this stipulation. Therefore preference is given them by the
Indian Bureau, and although they must pass a civil-service examination
to prove their fitness, such examination, in their case, is
non-competitive. They have b