and then take their inheritance and so joseph merle thought this was unchristian and he thought it was not right and it was a matter of he started in indian orphans home. he used this to spread word about the issue and raise awareness for the issue the indian orphan was almost a newspaper that tried to promote the injustice being done to the native american orphan. the content included news about fundraising and even missions work that was happening in the area and it was southeast of us said this is here to remind her students that printed words are powerful. that we exist in a tradition that we have inherited from those who goes before us and to be a voice for the faith. this is a typical example of the late 19th century letterpress. top-rated with the turning of the wheel or with the foot pedal which is in the front. the way it would work, this is being played and it would be applied to thick ink, almost like a paint and every time the wheel is spun the gears cycled through it is turned one eighth the return and there would be a roller that comes up and runs across together the ink.

we will go up to the gaskin archives and look at some of the documentary history of joseph merle as well as of the university and his own present in the shawnee community. burke so this is an excellent example of the indian orphan. this is from january of 1905. to give an example of types of news that they were publishing in this to raise awareness about the plight of the orphans who were being somewhat manipulated, there's a section on how the southern district of course will now start holding the guardians responsible for their stewardship of the land that was allotted to those under their guardianship. this is probably the largest repository of the indian orphan publication that we know of. it contains some terrific images of the school and the students who were there. moving on down the line, this is a photo of key and one of his wife spirit we are not sure which wife. the year after he arrived in oklahoma his first wife passed away, and as did each of his subsequent wives. he ended with four wives and many of his children also died in the oklahoma indian territory. he stopped tempor