1922 Industrial Survey of Shows as He Goes

"I arrived at this house early in the morning, probably about 8:30. The house was in perfect order. Everything was clean. The furniture is meager, but well kept. Everything was in order in the kitchen and the woman had finished her morning work and was sitting outside in the bright sun doing some kind of fancy work. I thought that many of the younger housewives, even some that are not Indian, might have profited by her example. The whole place about the grounds was in perfect order. The old man is too old to work much, but he makes a garden. He has a white man farming the land on some form of rental, he furnishing a part of the stock and implements for half the crop. It is a very good arrangement. The little girl was just getting on her horse to start to school, 3 miles to public school at Lodgegrass. Last year, through the worst weather and bad roads, she hardly missed a day. The old man took her, either in a buggy or a sleigh, every day and went for her every evening, 3 miles, and when we talk to him about her schooling, he seemed very proud that she was in school with the white children and she looked as neat and clean as she started off as anyone, and apparently as happy."