24. St. Stephen’s Mission School, Date Unknown
(Wind River Archives at CWC)
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The mission was self-supporting. I helped raise a garden.
And I went home and got the lard—we got our own lard. We
made our own bread. Make our own bread...my sisters would make
bread. Our own milk. Dairy herd and our own beef cattle....And
hams, we had our hams and bacon. We were self supporting. We had
a cellar—we built a cellar for our potatoes. Vegetables—we
put vegetables in sand, carrots, to keep them fresh. Sold to Lander.
Peanuts and every kind of flower, sweet peas and corn, squash,
watermelon. Sisters canned corn, rhubarb. We didn’t go to
town to buy anything. But whatever we need...everything was done
right there at the school. Our own milk, our own eggs, we had
a lot of turkey, too. We raised chickens...all that stuff I learned
how to do at school....Some of them went down to the barn and
worked with horses, some with cattle, some with the cows, some
with pigs, some with chickens. St. Stephen’s was self-supporting,
it was all organized at that time. (Paul Moss)
All I learned, just farm labor...that’s all I learned,
stacked hay, cut hay....If I’d learned some kind of trade,
I’d been somewhere. (Tommy Brown)
