Because you so cordially announced Sarah Winnemucca’s “NEW DEPARTURE,” a year or more ago, as the Christian Union’s solution of the Indian problem, I send you this Report that I am now desirous to make to the public, _unofficial_ and _official_, of her progress. The distinguishing characteristic of this New Departure is that, instead of being, as usual, a passive reception of civilizing influences proffered by white men who look down upon the Indian as a spiritual, moral, and intellectual inferior, it is a spontaneous movement, made by the Indian himself, _from himself_, in full consciousness of free agency, for the education that is to civilize him. Sarah Winnemucca’s idea is an inheritanc…
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