| Summary: | And Early Explorations 6.33 The first Council of the Knights of Columbus in North Dakota was organized at Fargo in 1903. Councils have since been established at Grand Forks, Dickinson, Bismarck, Minot, Wil- liston, Devils Lake, Jamestown, Langdon, Wahpeton, and New Rockford. "Hau Koda" is the name of the Knights of Columbus official organ of North Dakota. "Hau Koda" is native Sioux language and is the Indian expression of greeting translating- into otir "Plello, Friend." The name was suggested by Ignatius Court, a full-blooded Sioux Indian then living on his farm on the Fort Totten reservation near Tokio, he being the only full-blooded Indian in the world to hold fourth degree membership in the Knights of Columbus order. Protestant Missionaries and Churches John West, M. A., came from England in 1820 as chaplain for the Hudson Bay Company and the Red River Settlement and remained until 1824. He was the first Protestant minister so assigned and visited Pembina many times during those years. On September 15, 1851, Rev. Black, a newly appointed resident missionary on the Red River for the Presbyterian Church of Canada, arrived at Pembina and held services when on his way to Kildonan (Winnipeg). In the summer of 1851 two Protestant missionaries, Rev. Alonzo Barnard, a Presbyterian, and James Tanner, a Methodist, and a half-breed came to Pembina from the Cass Lake Indian Mission and held services and arranged to establish a mission at St. Joseph (Walhalla). Early in the spring of 1852, Mr. Tanner, who was then affiliated with the Baptist church work, accomapnied by Elijah S. Terry of the First Baptist Church of St. Paul, came to Pembina and soon planned to build a log house and found a Baptist mission at St. Joseph. On June 28, 1852, in the early morning, the Indians massacred Mr. Terry and the first Protestant mission in North Dakota came to a sad and sudden ending. On June 1, 1853, Rev. Alonzo Barnard and family, Presbyterian, David B. Spencer and family, Congregationalists, and John Smith came from the mission at Cass Lake where they had labored as missionaries for over ten years, being sent there by Oberlin College, and established a mission at St. Joseph. In October, 1853, Mrs. Sarah Philena Barnard, wife of Rev. Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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