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Show 52 REPORT OF TEE COMId18SIONER OR INDIAN AFFAIR8. TABLE 3.-Location, oapaaity, and date of opening of Grovmment veaervation boavd-mp schools--Continued. --. . Oklahoma-Contiuoed: Sac and For.. ........................ x,1 1S8B782 IIlnl XInmdsiama .T erritm Seger Colony ............ .-, .. ...-.. 15 ............ Ready to open io 6% of 1892. Wshiid (K~owaJ.... ................. 125 Feb., 1871 Ore%?*nde ~onda... .................. :.. o8O Apr. 1876 Ximath ............................. 110 Feb.'l874 Silatn ................................. 8~ 0~t.1I8 73 Sinemarho ............................ 75 Au~.,1882 Umstilln ............................. 75 Jan. 1883 mm springs ....................... 00 ~ ~ 4 1 8 % Yainax .............................. 100 Nov.,1882 South Dakota: Cheyenne Rivor.. .................... boo j-Jaa n. 1874 Girla' aohwl. a I880 Boys' aohd. - Cmw Creek .......................... 135 - 1871 Lower Bmie ......................... 70. Oot., 1881 Pine Ridge.. ......................... 2011 Deo., 1883 Sisaeton ......................................................... .. I 126 - 1873 I Yankton 130 Peb., 1882 "-l-""h.. Uintah ............................... so Jan., 1881 Wa$tA%.....t..g..i. .................. 56 Jnly 1868 - Chehalis ............................. m J ~ .i'nn Ohaungan ............................ 60 -' us+ P a ~ 3 l l o.i.~.. ......................... 160 June 1871 mna~eit ............................ 40 - '1868 $I(akomisll .......................... 00 nee., 1888 Tnkirua .............................. lbo - 1804 wiaonoain: Xe~tumanec .......................... 140 - 1876 niYKkE6ne. ............................ --ieo ~pr. ,1878 1,115 .Aim thirt. eAdirional dny pb~nil*. bother htll&n,or at new nsocy doatm at hy mrnado ahen almlorr mmpleld. cOririnall.? Goreromanc hllllrl~npa.an<~i~hl,um,ul elv , a t , ~ p Ab y I;p#,eo , l l~ns , Yew h,,,l,l,np anal dd;fion- r c r n arcctrd 1,. Eplsru~~lmx!a-u, d ~ ; g i n ~iljc rrorrm~en#ll u&iuL una worn out and "plant" now Lcluuga ro rll* n#iera,narja lxr~ryr l8l;h i.;,mic* ~un!l#aat ltuaol. By reference to the above table it will be seen that reservation board-ing schools date back to 1865. Five such schools have been opened during the three years of the present administration, at Fort Belknap, Mont.; Fort Totten, N. Dak.; Fort Sill and Seger Golony, Okla., and Okanagn, Wash. Six more will be ready to opennext fall, among the White Mountain Apaches in Arizona, at Hoopa Valley, Gal., and West-ern Shoshone, Nevada; among the Eiowas in Oklahoma, and at Ouray, Utah, and Oneida, Wis. Many other schools have been entirely rebuilt j to others considerable additions have been made, and most of them have had extensive repairs and improvements. Wbittever may he the relative merits of reservation schools, they have held their position in the scheme of Indian education for more than twenty-five years, and I do not think it would be good policy at this stage of the work to eliminate them from the system. Of course, there are some things very desirable in the preparation of Indiau children for citizenship which reservation schools are unable to do. On the other hand, it must be conceded that they possess advantages which are not povsessed by schools removed from the reservations. |