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Show Gommmsnt 8choob: 4,481 4,787 3'66 23 73 Day ...................... -4.215 -4,160 -553 -2.848 -3,234 -386 -138 Total ................... --11,189 --18.603 --814 --14,365 --14,816 --511 --234 Contract aohods: Boarding ................. 3,499 % 519 a920 3,108 d28 Day ...................... 583 208 0305 861 5 Boarding spially ap-proprisiea for .......... -MI --24 -- 2 Totd ................... I 4,439 3.::: / o1.281 3 , 1 REPORT OF THE COMMIRSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 3 EDUCATION. ' Indian edncation during the past year has not shown such growth in the matter of school attendance as has been noted in previous years, I yet it is on a better basis than ever before. In the development of its educational plan the Indian Office seeks permanent, rather than quick, results in the uplifting of the Indians to a higher industrial and social plane, and the facilitiw for education have been enlarged and improved as a wider experience has dictated. From barbarism to American cit-izenship is an immense step which can be accomplished only by pains- ~ taking and intelligent efforts operating not only upon the children, but upon the older Indians as well. Indian schools are divided into noureservation boarding schools, res-ervation day and boarding schools, contract schools, mission day and I boarding schools, and certain public schools with which this office con-tracts for the edncation of Indian pupils. These various classes of schools are designed to meet the varied requirements of Indian educa-tion, thus giving in the nonreservation schools the advantages incident to their location in more advanced and civilized commnnities, while in the reservation day and boarding schools the pupils are brought into contact with modern educational methods within the radius of their I Public .... : .................. Miasion, boarding" .......... Mission, day ................. Aggregate ............. own homes, under the eye of kindred and friends. The great work of Indian education is performed mainly in the governmer~tasl chools; bnt the school work of the churches is a most helpful adjunct, whose value can not be overestimated. ATTENDANCE. The enrollment and average attendance at the schools aggregated and compared with the preceding year are here exhibited for the fiscal year 1897: Tanm 2.-Emrollmeat md avsrogs attendance at Indian 8ohoola, 1896 and 1897, showing inweass ill 1897; alllo numbw of schools bn 1897. Enroument. Average sttendanre Eind of sahool. 1896. / ISW. I1ncrease.l 1864. 1 1891. /Increase, 413 -835 =08 23,572 '303 -813 87 a4981 all0 -a22 a0 = a608 -------------- '294 I ----------'191 -- - -----736 -- -1 41 -- 70 / - 00 -- 19,282 18.616 ;I00 -5 ----16 - 0564 -(W 17 2 as8 |