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Show . . REPOBl' OF THE COMMISSIONELL OF INDIAN AFFAIRB. IX TABLEI. -fist of tkiaining schools with their location, date ofopening, and eapsoity. Nme. Loostion. Carlisle ..................................... Salem ..................................... 230 Gem* ................................................................. ................ 230 cbihoa ............................... .................................................. ... Grand Jooctioo .............. Colorado Albpqoerqne ............................... Hen Mexico ........................ 2-25 Cailrun ....................................................................... .. NavsUa .................................................... . Pierre ...................................... South Dakofs ...................... Fob Totten ............................. -.-. North Dakota ...................... 1P90 250 TABLE 2.-Showing attendance, coat, etc., of trailling schools during fiscal yrar elrdcd Jane 30, 1890. I I I The work, embracing as it necessarily does, the supplanting of a for. eign language by the English, the destruction of barbarous habits by I the substitution of civilized manners, the displacement of heathenish superstitions by the inculcation of moral principles, the awakening of Name of eahool. cAalbrnsqantcerqrnrae iTnraioi.n.z.i.n .g.. .. . chemawa ~r s inin.g. .... ChiloccOTraining ....... OonoaRaioing .......... crana ti^^ rmininai ~ a ~ l h ~ t i t.u..t..a... Total For the fiscal rear ending June 30,1891, Congress hai made liberal . . : appropriations for these schools~hichw ill help the Office to put them . . on a broad basis, and thoroughly equip them for their importaut work. With the improvements now bcing made they will be able next year to care for not less than thirty-three hundred students. ,' In estimating the work done several thing6 should be carefully borne in mind : Tbese institutions are not nuiversities, nor colleges, nor acade-mies nor high schools. In the best of them the work done is not abore that of an ordinary grammar school, while in most it is of the primary or iutermediate grade. The pupils come to them for the most part ignorant of the English . langmge, nnacoustomed to study, impatient of restraint, and bringing with them many of the vices and degraded habits of camp life. From the very necessities of the case, the length of time which most of them (i hare been kept in school has been very short. The time required for , .. children in the public schools to complete a coarse of study embraced ' : in the primary, intermediate, grammar, and high schoolis from fourteen to fifteen years. It has been heretofore commonly supposed that three , .. gears was long enough to educate an Indian and fit him to oompete with his white neighbor, who has enjo~edso mnch greateradvantages. , . , Location. Albn oerqoe N Mer car& pa..:..: ..... : Near sdem.Oregon ... Chiloooo.Ok1~homa ... Geno%Bebr. ......... cmnd tion. on.. c.o..l.a. . . 28 84 33 Z l $115.00 2P5 1~7.00 500 175.00 250 115.00 200 115.00 250 ~75.00 60 -- - 222 789 194 196 Uv?~enoe,Ksna 23 203 48 5 . 0 0 1 0 , :1 460 , 4"11 1 75,961.62 116 31,851.66 g,*za 12 -- - 184 102 169 158 -- - 27,22436 1110 074 34 30'0~d28 . . 2f083.21 .............................................. 1,835 233 2,112 1,818 301.691.59 . . |