“We are prone to think the Indian problem is solved. It is not. Generation after generation must pass away before the last drop of Osage blood in amalgamated lines shall be lost. The future of the remnant of this once great tribe, its influence in the middle west, is a story yet to be written. In the years gone by it was never the government that controlled it so much as the church in its broad reach of influence. What the Osages did or refrained from doing can oftenest be traced back to the character of the red man as shaped by the good influence of the white man’s civilization.”
Written by Margaret Hill McCarter in a sketch on the Catholic missionaries to the Osage, Mother Duchesne and Mother Bridget.
Pg. 284 “Life and Letters of Fathers Ponziglione, Schoenmakers and Other Early Jesuits at Osage Mission, Sketch of St. Francis’ Church, Life of Mother Bridget” by W.W. Graves 1916
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