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 Title:  Simon Pokagon on Naming the Indians  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I have read with much interest the article in the March number of your magazine on "Naming the Indians," which I have regarded for many years as of vital importance to the future of our race. The instructions therein given by T. J. Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to Indian agents and superintendents of government Indian schools, I consider, in view of our citizenship, of the utmost importance, and ought to have been construed as obligatory upon teachers and superintendents in government schools in naming their pupils, as to naming Indian employees to be appointed as policemen, judges, teamsters, laborers, etc. In looking over the names published in the article referred to of pupils at the Crow Agency boarding school, Montana, I really felt in my heart that most of their surnames, translated from their language into English unexplained, might well be taken for a menagerie of monstrosities. Think of it—such names for girls as Olive Young-heifer, Lottie Grandmother's-knife, Kittie Medicine-tail, Mary Old-jack-rabbit, Lena Old-bear, Louisa Three-wolves, and Ruth Bear-in-the-middle. And then such names for boys as Walter Young-jack-rabbit, Homer Bull-tongue, Robert Yellow-tail, Antoine No- hair-on-his-tail, Hugh Ten-bears, Harry White-bear, Levi Yellow-mule, etc.
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