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Show 20 ' REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. INDIAN EXHIBIT AT NASEVRLE EXPOSITION. At the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, now being held in Nasb-ville, the office has an exhibit similar to that which was presented last year at the Atlanta Exposition. Under the same restrictions which limited the Atlanta exhibitlack of funds and lack of space-attempt has been made to set forth only the educational work of the Govern-ment for Indians, and that only so far as it can be shown by specimens of written class room work, maps and drawings, and by articles mann-factured in school sewing rooms and shops. The industries of cooking, general housekeeping, farming, dairying, care of stock, etc., and num-berless branches which are the foundation of industrial training in Indian schools, it is scarcely practicable to present in show-case form. The papers furnished by pupils in the various classes--reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, history, etc.-show natural aptitude and good progress, as well as excellent teachingmethods. The kinder-garten is very much in evidence with its special adaptation to the teaching of children in a language other than their own. In industrial instruction a decided advance is marked by articles made by youthful sloyd workers and by examples of graded courses in the carpenter and blacksmith trades. Several groups of photographs of school plants, giving both exterior and interior views, illustrate unmistakably the improvement made in recent years in the construction, mrangement, and equipment of sohool buildings for Indians. Eight nonreservation schools, fifteen reservation boarding schools, and several day schools are represented, and anyone inclined to study this unobtrusive exhibit may gain from it a very fair idea of what the (iovernment is undertaking in the way of Indian education, and of how it is succeeding. INDIAiT SCHOOL SITES. The history of Indian industrid school sites and of the title to the land upon which Indian sshools are located was commenced in the annual report for 1892 (pp. 879-897) and continued in 1893 (pp. 469-474) and 1896 (pp. 496497), and thus far has embraced 33 schools. In con-tinuation of this history there is incorporated in this report (p. 421) similar iinfrmat,ion regarding the land8 and sites of 10 Indian indns trial scbools, via, Blue Canyon, Aria.; Greenville, Cal.; Tams, Iowa; Clontarf and Morris, Minn.; Cherokee, N. 0.; Eiowa or Washita and Red Moon, Okla.; and Chamberlain and Rapid City, 8. Dak.; also additional information respecting the schools at Mt. Pleasant, Mich., and Carson City, Nev. |
