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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXIII Ieare home and friends and settle down in more or less uncomfortable quarters among a heathen people, and for a small salary devote time and energy, not only to teachiug children a new language, but also to inspiring and directing the awkward attempts toward civilizationof the the entireIndiailrillage in which the schoolislocated. The allurementof a Gorernment salary of $40 or $50 per month will not attract to such work $hose who are suited.to it, unless they possess a genuine love for humanity and a desire to labor personally for its elevation. Many such teachers, especially in the mission day schools, are managing Indian schools at isolated points, and by toil, hardship, ant1 self-denial hare become the powerful, though often unrecognized lerer which is raising to a higher plane the surrounding Indian community. The 7,000 Rosebud Sioox have nearly lost faith in the Government promise of a boarding school. The pleilge cannot be redeemed until Congress gives funds to cover the expense of relocating and removing the Rosebud Agency, and mean time district day schools are being established as rapidly and uystematically as practicable. Doring the past jear the total accommodations for boarding pupils both on and ott'reservations, in Government buildings, was 5,461, for day pu~i lv3 ,181, making a total of 8,642, or a little over one-sixth of the entire Indian school population. New York provides for 1,286 day pupils, and religious societies filrnish accommodations for 1,020 board-ing and 1,346 day pnpils, and thus the number of pupils who last year had no possibility of schooling was reduced to about three-fourths the whole number. In looliiug at the eclueational gain made during th8 last few years, the proportions of the work u ~ ~ d o usheo uld not be lost sight of, ant1 appropriations must largely increase before this large unschooled remainder cau be cared for. Some progress is being made toward compulsory education. It has been successfullg tried at foor agencies, the compulsio~a~t t a o taking the form of withholding rations, and at the others of withholding an-nuity payments. As soon as a sufficient number of school buildings are erected in the va~iousag encies for the Sioux, the syste.m can be en-forced through that entire tribe under the terms oftheir treaty. Buildings.-The embarrassment under which the office has labored for several years-insufficient school buildings-is becoming chronic. If reports gave the number of boarding pupils for which existing buildi~~gsfnrnisshui table accommodation, insteadof thenumber which such buildings are compelled to accommodate, a much smnller showing mould be made. Inspectors condemn the crowded, stifling dormito-ries which they find, and agents on the other band deplore the turning away from school of those who ask for admittance, and they decide to crowd the children temporarily, in the hope that the new bllilding or addition for which they have entreated will soon be allowed. Too often the year goes by without relief and the whole nianagement, even the morale of the school, sneers, sometimes seriously. Build |