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Show REPORT OF THE OO~ISSIONER Ow INDIAN AFFAIRS. 49 five boys who were known to their mates as "The Middle Five." The frontispiece to this book is by Angel Decors, and the original painting hangs on the wall of this room. Standing in this third division of the general exhibit and looking over the school work to the front lines, where is given a glimpse of native art in forms as strange to us as the Indian tonguea, one realizes the value of the education given in the schools. By means of this education the Indian is not only enabled to earn his livelihood, but we are enabled to become acquainted with him, for he now has the power toexpress his native ability and artistic feeling in a Fay understood and appreciated by us through the various articles of skillful handicraft here displayed, as well as through art and literature. The schools represented in this exhibit are Blackfeet, Mont.; Car-lisle, Pa. ; Chemawa, Oreg. ; Cheyenne River, S. Dak. ; Chilocco, Okla. ; Eastern Cherokee, N. C.; Fort Lewis, Cola.; Fort Mohave, Ariz.; Fort Shaw, Mont.; Genoa, Nehr.; Hampton, Va.; Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kans.; Keams Canyon, Ariz.; Mescalero, N. Mex.; Nav-aho, Ariz.; Nevada, Nev.; Nez Perch, Idaho; Oneida, Wis.; Perris, Cal. ; Phoenix, Ariz. ; Pine Ridge, S. Dak. ; Rosebud, S. Dak. (hoard-ing and day schools); San Carlos, Ariz.; Seger Colony, Okla. It was the intention to present in some suggestive way the progress which has taken place among Indians outside of school work, especially in farming. But the o5ce was prevented from doing so by a diap-pointing lack of response to its attempt to obtain necessary materials. It is indicated 6 a small extent by photographs, especially those show-ing the homes and oconpations of returned students. COMMISSIONS. Crow, Flathead, etc., Commission.-The Crow, Flathead, etc., Commis-sion had remaining, when my last annual report was submitted, only the Yakima and Flathead Indians with whom it was authorized to negotiate agreements Their nnsuccessful negotiations with the Yakima Indians are referred to on page 167. In accordance with departmental directions, the commission was sent to the Flathead Reservation, Mont.,October 2,1900. Here nego-tiations were continued until April 3, 1901, during which time the Indians were met in council several times. Chairman McNeely then finally reported the inability of the commission to secure an agree-ment with the Flatheads for the cession of a portion of their reserve, attributing the failure to the opposition of cattlemen adjacent to the reserve and of a few well-to-do mixed bloods and squaw men having large ranches and farms on the reserve. In Department Letter of April 29, 1901, the opinion was expressed that it would he useless for this commission to attempt further nego-tiations with the Yakimas, and that it would he better to conduct such negotiations, if at all, through an Indian inspector; also, that the sev- 8593-01-4 |
