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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. OFFICEO F INDIAANE im, Washin"aton,. D. 0.,. S e<v tember 1. 1983'. SIR: I have the honor to submit this the Ninety-second Annual Report of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923. EDUCATIONAL EFFORT. Ar re~o~~oe. -Thef fective enrollment drive of 1921-22 was re-peated last year with advantages accruing from previous exper,ience and awakened interest. A program of special effort was furn~shed in detail to all superintendents directing that for enrol1,ment week every resource of the agency should be enlisted and that in add~tion to special, systematized worlr by all field employees invitation should be extended to the missionaries of the reservations to give their Sun-day service an educational trend. The active cooperation of traders was also solicited. An earnest appeal to field workers urged as a guiding maxim for the Indian Service, "Every eligible Indlan child In school every d a ~ ?,a nd as the immediate goal, "Every Indian school filled to its imit." The result, so far as at all racticable, was a very,successful year. The total capacity of all 8 overnment boarding schools was more than filled, and, any shortage at day schools was, with negligible exception, the result of a lack of children near enough to attend. PUBLISCCH OOLS AND OTEER ~xrn~810~8.-Theen rollment and aver-age attendance of Indian children in public schools has been unprece-dented. The number enrolled in these and other non-Government ~choolsla st year was approximately 13,000 more than in all Govern-ment schools, which increased the expense for tuition by about $100,000, hut as compared with the maintenance of boarding schools it saved a much larger sum to the Government. Notwithstanding this favorable showing, as well as the extension of facilities for 350 pupils at the Fort Apache military post, Arizona, now converted into the Theodore Roosevelt School, together with enlargements at other boarding schools for about 800 more, there still remains, particu-larly in the Southwest, almost an emergency demand for additional school privileges to save non-English speaking children from reach-ing their majority unfitted for American citizenship. The boys and girls of the great Navajo people are still the most in need and, in some respects, the most deserving of education. OROANIZATION.-Three vised course of study, partially introduced in 1922, was in printed form and fully distributed at the opening of the last school year. It calls for all-day attendance of all pupils in 1 |
