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Show 16 R-ET OF THE COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Lapwai Reservation, Idaho, in the combination of the public school with the Indian school, whereby Indian pupils will be placed in classes in the Lapwai school and white children from the town in classes at the Indian school. This enables a better grading of both schools. As it will be s. reciprocal arrangement, no tuition will be charged by either party. The admission of white children to the Indian day schools on the payment of an appropriate tuition fee has been allowed for several years, with good results. So far the records show the following enrollment of white children in Indian schools : Envollment of white childra in Indian schools. armns.. ............................................................................ 3 1 Polsonpfday& ...................................................................... 9 5 Qrsat eon (day) ................................................................ 17 5 Sac and Fox (day: Ki~~ip".:"..).. ................................................ M 9 Buuhd day Gtand!lng ockl .................................................... 1 1 Wsm81e {day; Standlng Roo!&. ................................................... -6 -3 66 .......... Omha .............................................................................. 9 4 Non -Omaha day school m in sesplon only fifteen days, closing Ootobsr 4,lW The value of t h ~ sin termingling in t.he schools must not be consid-ered merely from the point of view of school work. In the Indian country Indians and whites will inevitably have to live closely to-gether, and every effort should be made to bring about a state of real neighborliness. It has already been proved that where the children of both races have learned to know each other the relations between the parents are greatly improved, and the whole community becomes more harmonious. The reservation boarding schools numbered 82, a decrease of 6 from last year. The schools discontinued were Potawatomi, Kansas; Wmnebago, Nebraska; Arapahoe, Oklahoma; and Panguitch, Utah. Flathead, Montana, Fort Berthold, North Dakota, and Siletz, Oregon, were changed from boarding to day schools. A new school was ~peneda t Leupp, Aris., on January 4, 1909. These boarding schools @how a total enrollment of 10,988, an increase of 83; with an average attendance of 9,236, a decrease of 337. For details see Table 4. The number of day schools was increased from 167 to 194. Flat-head, Mont., Fort Berthold, N. Dak., and Siletz, Oreg., already men-tioned, were changjd from boarding to day schools; Grand Portage and Normantown, in Minnesota (La Pointe Agency, Wis.), and |
