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Show SUXNER SCHOOLS. The Indian is already well versed in the spectacular; his paineg and his care-monies are all of that order. He shuuld be brought to a reallzing sense of the dignity of labor, and by some other method than chapel ,Wka He shonld be shown by examplethatitreaUyishonoraLle to work; that it 1s not only honorable, butimperative; that his attaining and lqaintainiug true manhood depsndn upon it; that any person or class that peraists m idleness will and should psrisb. I am not a peesirniat and I have pbonnded faith in Indian @neation, but it is not heresy to suggest that we are in very many instances gettlng away from onr proper course. Schools hake now been in existence so long that we must expect tq be judged in some measure by results. We have been asked for and accorded time, hut it is unfair to ask for all time before the effectiveness of onr system is estimated by the products. Many graduates have gone out as well as many hundreds who never attained to the dignity of having a baccalaureate sermon preached to them. People are watching these men and women, many of whom are not young any more, and want them to demonstrate that they have the capacity to get along in the world without being sustained by a Government position, and they want to see a number su5ciently large to remove them from the danger of being considered freaks. To this end we will do well to discard a good deal of tinsel, and while teaching let it be in the line of making our charges a plain, honest, W-fearing people, capable of earning a living under the condi-tions that actually confront them. The country haa been looking for the end of distinctive Indian schools, and we merit censure if the next few years doea not witness the close of many of them and the education of thelrformer inmates side by mde with other ohildren. It is impossible to have a self-reliant people so long as any form of reservation be tolerated, be it bounded by the limits of an agency or a class school. Can not we do more to hasten the tlme when we o m engage in other pursuits conscious thatme have brought two raoesso near to each other that the lineof demarkation is obliterated and all are granted equal opportunities and held to the same requirements? RESOLVEDT,E ATT HE RESERVATIODNA YS CHOOL SHOULDBE =DE THE P R ~ E FACTORI N INDIAENDU CATION. [F. 0. QEICUFLL, nit& States Indjan agent, Fort Totten. N. D8k.l Indians are beginning to comprehend that their salvation is only in education and labor. Three veara anent in one of the nonreservation schools is a11 too short a time for tbeaechiidreu tb learn a proper use of the Euglisil lun,41ageea, nd I believe it these same children had gained the rnd~menteof Hn edu<!ation in a roiervntiou day school thair indisidu~alitvw ould have been so nronounced uoon eutariur a non-reiervatiou echo01 that bitter results would obtiiu. - [E. C. Scovx~T, eacher, Cms Lake, Minn.] We shonld so educate those in our charge that in the industrial and soholastic work they shall feel not only able tocope with the work in hand as a means to earn their own livelihood hut that in so doing we are molding the charges in our care to a higher plane of iife, to a better and useful citizenship. [C. C. Covey, Teacher, Pine Ridge. 5. Dak.] The aim in Indian education is twofold-to elevate the Indim in character and enable him to live in and cope with advanced civilization. This is in reality but one result. Give the Indian, or any man, the fully developed character and all things else will be included. But most of our Indians lack so much, the casual observer is prone to pronouncethe task of civilization a hopeless one. He ia defi-cient in all the institutional ideas, but has made great str~desin the last genera-tioh. If we will bnt investigate the history oE the best civilization of a few hundred years ago, we will find that it will not stand a comparison with that of the Indian of to-day. Much of this advancemustpe due t? eduoation. Taking for granted, then, that the education o€ the In%au 1s a possibility, the firat questlon m, "In what way shall we accompl~shth is7 Onr aim ia to bring before this body of Indian. educators what we wnsider one of the moat effective means nnder present couditlons of hnngmg ahont the desired end-the education and civilization of the Indian to the aoint where he will be able to hcome a complete Aluerican citizen, be smallowid up, as it wero, in the hot1 politic: sud the v?aiu*. Indi.,n prohlern be forever solved. ,cKiH factor i? the r o ~ e r v ~ ~dtaiyo s~ch~o o1 ad it is now condncted and as it will |