The Salem Indian School is  unique in its history in that,  there are many notable happenings  that ha-e been recorded  and wo quote  fgom writingo- by hiotorian-s. The  general impression is that the work(  Chem wa deals exclusively with the  present location of the Chemawa  school, -b*rt- before going into history  of the present location it might be  wall for us to begin at the beginning  which takes us back about 10 years  before the school 'tt Chomawa wms,  transferred from Forest Grove, Oregon   --lt is found  in the introduction of the Salem  directory of 1871/and 1872, written  by L. H. Judson and signed by his   
        initials, these words:  Thus year by  year, slowly, yet surely, the little  isolated settlement of hardy pioneers  increased in wealth and numbers while  the Mission settlement at Chemeketa,  with its mills, and its farms at  Chemewa, opposite to the place now-  colled Wheatland, giving employment  to many who, but for such an opportunity to earn the necessarys of life must  have found much reater difficulty  to improve a claim or make a settlement and was a nucleus around which  were gathering the elements of an em-  bry-o town which has grown to be the  city of Salem, the capitol of the  state of Oregon first in  educational and political influence  in this young and vigorous state.   
         Its furm at Chemewa  meant the  original Tason Lee mission site, ofl  course. The spelling of Mr. Judson  of the name Chemawa was C-h-e-m-e-..-a  t the time of the establishment  of the school in 1885 and the place  named Chemawa, Reverend J. L. Parrish  said that it was appropriate, for it  was not far from the original Chemawa,  ce of the gravel on the river.  Thr original pronunciation of the  name Chemawa was Chem-a-wayt uad the  6h  moaB-tog  p'la ce 7 was made with the  FuttraL anund from the thront 44ke  t e j3lo BLLrig of the- broath. The /fcrume  jA*k Chemeketa, Indian name for the  site of Salem, meaning place of  meeting.   
        Historians have variously surmised  that the meaning of the wcrd Chemawa  was  True Talk , or  Old Home ,   Gravelly Soil , etc. We at Chemawa  have accepted the meaning of the word  Chemawa to be  Kappy Home . ,  There was started and organized  at old Chemav  'a (the place opposite  Wheatland) the first Indian School  west of the Rockies and north of the  Californis line.  The first Protestant Sunday  School in the same territory was  organized there, still in existence  as the Sunday School of the first  Methodist Church of Salem. The  beginnings of that church were made  at the mission when it was still in  cLd Chemawa.   
        :..any important things were started  there, among them being the civil  common wealth of Oregon, beginning  with theprovisional government authorized and set in motion there  February 18, 1841.- Vyv  The provisional government was  written there, in the mission -rainery  and hospital.  issionaties cocieties to the  Indians were organized there, and temperance societies.  Indian slavery in the Oregon  country was abolished there. The  first medical physician began, his  practice there.  The first white women and child  buried in Cregon country soil had   
        interment there,  later  I  removed to Lee Mission Cemetery,  Salem.  Sufficient has been said to  indicate the honorable and historically  high setting of the name Chemawa.  The question has been asked who  named the place Chemai a? Dr. H. J .  Minthorn, uncle to Ex- resident  Herbert Hoover, is said to have given  the name Chemawa. Herbert Hoover,  t y///wabout 11 and an orphan, came to  Chemawa when the family of which he  had been a member and so remained until  he entered Stanford University with  the first class of the institution,  alcng with Senator Charles McNary of       Oregon, whose country home is but a  short distance aorta qp   Wa'irfcf the   
        school and a neighbor and friend  of the institution to the nth  s  *y      r jy -A  M f gt;    
        Prior to establishment of  Boarding Schools WAR-FARE - extermination  only good Indian - a dead one.  Forest Grove Indian Training School   Harrison Institute   Salem Indian School   CHEMAWA   Newberg- Portland  First land donated by Citizens of Salem  40 acres by students.  Civilieation- Father fails to recognize soi  Highest average attendance 1080  Lowest              300  Present enrollment 367