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Show I REPOBT OF THE, OOMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 23 1 TABLBN O. 5.-Location, date of opening, capacity, enrollment, and acernge nttmdance of Gocernment reamation boardzng s c k ~ 2 8 e, tc.-Continued. S~"thD&kOta-mnti""ed. Sisseton .............................................. - - 1873 ~o s e b u d.. .......................................... sept. -:1897 -. .Y ankton ............................................ Feb. -,I882 "(an: ouray ........... Apr. - 1893 Uinta (Uinfeh) Jan. -'15.31 Southern Ufeh ....................................... Oot. 2 : 1 ~ 0 Washington: colvzlle July 1,1899 Puyellup .. Oot. -,I873 Yakima .............................................. - -,I860 Wisconsin: .................................... l,ae du Flambeau July 10 1895 vermilion L&e ...................................... 0ct. -:1899 Green Bay Agency (Menomlee). ................... - -,I876 -. oneid& Mar. n.1893 I I I I . GOVERNMENT DAY SCHOOLS. I . The third class of Government schools is known as day schools. They are located in the majority of instances on reservations, and in others in communities where there are su5cient Indian children to support them. A few are known as "Independent day schools," from the fact that they are solely in charge of the teacher, who, while a regular Government official, is not bonded. The buildings are usually furnished by the Indians or their friends. Noonday lunches are pro-vided by the Government at most of the day schools, which department is in charge of a housekeeper, who teaches the pupils the simpler arts of domestic life. Industrial pursuits commensurate with appliances are given the boys. These little schools are centers of missionary work on the part of the Government in sending some fragments of its civilization to the homes of the Indians. Owing to the want of proper support the following day schools in California were discontinued: Baird, Hat Creek, and Fall %ver Mills. - By reason of its proximity to the boarding school, day school No. 1, on Pine Ridge Reservation, S. Dak., was closed. Shebit, in Utah, and Hackberry, in Arizona, were merged into boarding schools. Day I school No. 1, on Devils Lake Reservation, N. Dak., was destroyed by fire, and Baraga, Mich., Oneida, Wis., Nos. 2 and 3, and Lac Courte Oreille, Nos. 1 and 2, on La Pointe Reservation, in Wisconsin, were abandoned, by reason of failure to properly support them by pupils living near. The only new day school established was at Port Madison, in Washington. |