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Show REPORTS OF SCHOOL SUPERVIYORS. in the narents are reflected in the children more or less in mite of the industrial education in the sohools. The Indian8 are in a fair stage of progress toward civi-lization, with schools a8 an important factor of this progress. There are two nonreservation schools in this part of the district, of which Has-kell Institute. at Lawrence. Kans.. is one of the three meat schools in the service in numbers and in excellehce of management. ChiloZco has the largest tract of arable land given to any Indian school, and should be made the great agricnltural schoo! of the serviw. The western Dart of mv district is totally different in the promess of the Indians and the condit;t,n of the7schools. The JiEarilla .\pilches, the $outhem UWa, and most of tho Paiutes havu had no schools, .tndtlle Northern Utes have fought the achoola thcv have. so that with thr r.xcentlon of the >fescaloro Auaches it ~ mav be said th& there has not been much edrication yet for the wild Indians of cloiorado, L-tt~ll.. +nd Sew Mexico, Of the fuur'nonre~cr\~atils,uc: huols. Grau8l dunctiorl ~ n Fdo rt Lewis sccuro nexrly all their pupilsoutsid~r~l~ ndistrirtm, ostly iron, hrlzona. and Hanta Fo t1r.d Albuiroer(ruc have ti:] latel\.sscured their unu~ls from ~ r i z o n oi r from Mexicans of dbubdul Indian descent. In Colorado %he Southern Utes are the only Indians left, and they have scarcely a child m school anywhere. In Utah the Northern Utes on the Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations send less than 100 children in all to their two schools and practically none to nonreser-vation schools, out of a school population of abont 400. In my judgment there shonld be no further dallyiqg with these Utes, but they should be compelled by military force to send all them children to school. They are wholly supported by the Government on rations and annuities, and have just tinishedpayingthe indem-nities for the murder of their agent and his family twenty years ago. The scattered bands of Paiutes in Southern Utah and in Nevada will soon have a boardiug school in placeof the day schoolfortheSbivwitsBand,nearS t. George. A new school has just been completed for the Jicarilla Apaches, and will be opened this fall. As they are wholly dependent on the Government for their living, having no land capableof cultivation and no native arts of any value, they should be compelled to send all their children to school. Unless they are removed to some better location an industrial education for their children is the only pos-sible future for them. The Mescalero Apaches,in the south of New Mexico, have a good reservation in the mountains, and have been transformed from a gang of bandits to peaceable and industrious half-civilized people by the stern ,use of military force, cutting their long hair-which means that they arenot warrrnors-compelling them to work for a living on farms and in oare of herds, and compell~nga full attendance a t sohool. This is the only fully enforced oompulsory educahon in my district. The Pueblo Indiana in New Mexico were agricuIJural before the whites came. A l a~g enu mber of pupils have gone to noureservatlon schools from Laguna, and many of them are now cultivating their farms. Four outside villages have been created on the territory of Lagnna by breaking through the superstitious con-servatism and moving away from thevillage gods in the old village to farms. I took pleasure in organizing a returned students' association here. The other Pueblos are grndgingly sending their pupils to day schools, and to some extent to non-reservation schools. All the schools are kept in rented rooms, whlch are always of adobe brick, and often have only dirt roofa and dirt floors. In one room school is kept, and in the other the teaoher, usually a woman, must live, wlth no other white person in the village. I have taken some steps toward securing laud from the village councils on which to build scboolhauses. Next to the first establish-ment of these day school% which was a triumph over barbarism, was the change recently made, gtving the agency for the Pueblos to the su erintendents of the two nonreservation schools at Santa Fe and Albuquerque. ?took much pleasure in informing the sullenly conservative councils that this meant that Washington ex~ectedth em to send their children to the day schools and to the nonreservation schools. The schoolroom work in the western district will average at least as good as that in anv citv svstem of schools. The industrial work has not been found to he so well ocgaufzea as the schoolroom work. Industries are taught imitatively rather th;tn intellectnally, and the effort is to get the work done rather than to teach the children. The most important of the household arts is cooking, and the verv smallest fraction of the eirls are learning to cook. At Haqkell Institute rlrere is a cooking school. At smie other school61 hare succeeded in indocing a trial 01 the plau af girl* cookilly on an ordinary stove for a small family. Many ~ 1 ~a1re3 l carnlne to sew on n machine. but verv EPW have 8n o~nortunit7to cut and fit clothes. -Whatever instruction is giren-in cookin sewirig, laundry, and care of rooms is by having the girls do the newsasry wo3 of the school under |