1930's-40's - Whites Teach Indians
Paleface Teaches Indian Forest Lore
1931, June 10 The Akron Beacon Journal
Asheville, NC - Indian boys are learning forest lore from a paleface. A boy scout troop has been chartered on the Cherokee Indian reservation and a white scoutmaster is teaching the members on hikes in the great Smoky mountains.
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| 1931, June 10 The Akron Beacon Journal |
Whites Teaching Indians
1938, March 28 The Ithaca Journal
Porterville, Calif - In a new vocational program at Tule Indian reservation, white instructors will show Indian boys and girls how to make buskskirts shirts and do bead work.
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| 1938, March 28 The Ithaca Journal |
Seminoles Being Taught by Paleface
1949, Dec 23 Wilmington News Journal
Miami, Fla - Sminole Indians are being retaught their lost art of pottery making. A paleface, Vernon Lamme, is their instructor.
Florida's Seminoles came originally from the great Creek nation of Alabama and Georgia. In early colonial days, when English Georgia frequently fought Spanish Florida, the Creeks became divided. Some wanted to join the English against the Spanish, while others declared the Spaniards were their allies. Those Creeks who favored the Spanish broke away and came to Florida.
The name "Seminole" means, in the Creek tongue, "the break-always" or "runaways."
Creek Indains made handsome pottery ware. But the Seminoles found no clay in South Florida suitable for firing. They used sea shells and gourds for utensils. Pottery making became a lost art to them.
Lamme decided that the Indians could attain an additional source of income if they returned to pottery making. With Mrs. Lamme, he first interested Josie Jumper, a Seminole living on the nearby Dania reservation, who became his principal assistant.
Men and women, young and old, took up the art They are taught to mold, fire and glaze, but designing is left up to the Indian's natural talent. Clay is shipped in.
Now the Indian handiwork is being sold to tourists, and some is being sent to northern markets.
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| 1949, Dec 23 Wilmington News Journal |
