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Show 36 REEoRT OF THE COidMI8810NER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ment teacher is sent to assume its charge. A few of these independent schools are conducted m rented buildings. I There were conducted during the year 134 day schools, a decrease \ of 2 from the previous year. The following day schools were dis- 1- continued by reason of the organization of boarding schools near them: Hackberry and Kingman, in Arizona; Lac Court Oreille, Wisconsin; Nespelim, in Washington; and the following for want of proper support and irregular attendance: Baraga, Michigan; Pahquayahwong, Wis wnsin, and Pine Ridge Nos. 1 and 30, in SouOh Dakota. The Whirl-wind day school, in Oklahoma, was discontinued for the reason that the Indians would leave their allotment,s and camp about the school, thus defeating the object of the day school. There were notsufficient Indian families living near the school to support it, and in consequence when the children were taken from several miles distant, the parents would leave their little farms to shift for themselves and come to the school neighborhood. Six new day schools were established as follows: Maricopa, on the Pima Reservation, in Arizona; Great Nemaha, in Kansati, in lieu of a boarding school abolished; Big Wind =ver, on the Shoshoni Reservation, in Wyoming; Seama, on pueblo of same name, in New Mexico; White Earth No. 1, on White Earth Reserva-tion, in Minnesota; and Porcupine, on Standing Rock Reservation, in North Dakota. TABLN~o. 7.-Looation, capudy, enrollment, and avenge attadance of Gowmment day schools duringfical year ended June SO, 1908. --....-. . Big pine.. ............................................................ Bishop.. ............................................................. Independence.. ..................................................... |