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Show Oneidas showed their appreciation of their new privilege by puttiug in 59 pupils the first day and by offering in the first six weeks 40 more pupils than the buildings wouldaccommodate. The Hoopa scl~oowl as established in the vacated military post of Fort Qaston. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes of Seger Colony have fi~llyre deemed the promises which they made as to what they would do if a school of their own should be given them, so that a sohool which will poorly accommodate 76 pupils has had, during its six months' exi~teucea, n average attendance of 68+ pupils, of whom 80 per cent had never been in school before. His interesting experiment in sohool discipline as reported by Sriperintendwt Seger, is worth quoting: As tho matter o f discipline is a, very importat~fta ctor in an Indian school, it was one of the first things to regulate; and a8 about 80 per cent of the ohildrenhad never before been in school and a majority of the parents had never sent children to sohool, and the children not being able t,o speak English, a11 contributed to make the question a difficult one to solve. Remembering horn well the pzrents had rrsponded to the call fbr children, I oo~loluded to make nus of them in helping to govern the sohool. With this view a meeting was called andall.thepatrons invited, and the question a r s submitted to them of how beat to maintain order and disoi-pline, and in the event of any ohildren heing unruly or disobedient, what punish-ment was best to inflict and to rnhnt extent would they support me in enforcing dinciplina. Thematter was disouseed freely, there being some who favored eapelliug acholars who were inoorri@ble and others being put in their place; while others olnimed that none should he expelled, as in so doing it would send to camp the worst chil-dren, those who most need the discipline of the school and who need its influence bath constraining and restraining; that if they &mew up in camp rnith nothing to inflneuce their perverse natures, they wonld not only be of no use to themselves but would be a drawback to those around them. They recommended that the mat-ter of discipline be left wholly to the superintendent, end that if corporal punish-ment was necessary it should he used to the extent necessary to enforoediaoipline. This sentiment prevailed and aas consented to by a11 present. I attribute t,he fact that we did not find it necessary to inflict punishment beyond extra duty and denyingprivileges which would otherwise have been granted, to the children knowing that their parents expected them to obey the rules of the school and would approve of auoh punishment as 'ips8 necessary to accomplish this end. We did uot reqaire the discipline we consider would be proper in an older school, yet it improved from the time sohool began to the close of the term. As discipline is maintained by observing rules, we resolved that the children should ha,ve time to learn them. At Round Valley, Cal., a new building recently cornpleted replaces one tha,t was burned in July, 1883. A boarding school will be opened there this fall for the first time in ten years. A new boarding school building in an outlying settlement on the Standing Rock Reservation has been erected and a school will be opened there this fall. The same is true of a school ready to be opened at Rainy Momitain, on the I Kiowa Reservation. The only agencies that are now without one or more Ooven~ment, I reservation, boarding schools are Rosebud, Sac and Fox in Iowa, I Tongue River, Tulalip, La Pointe, Southern Ute, Mission, Pueblo, and |