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Show The following item, inserted in the Indian appropriation act for this year, and the debates in Congress while the bill was under discussion, seem to look in the same direction of gradually discontinuing Goveru-ment aid to schools for Indiana carried on under i~rivatec ontrol: The Sdcrsraryof the Intnrior ie hereby directed to inqurre into ulrd iuvt.srigott.tl~e .pr op.r iety o f di*conrinuin;: <ur,rrnar rrhoola, md wherlter, in hinjudgmenr, tbraame oan be done without detriment to the education of the Indian ahildren; and that he submit to Congress at the next session the result of such investigation, including an eatimatta of the additional oost, if any, of subatitutiug Government schools for oantract sahools, together with such recolnmendatioua as he may deem proper. The amounts allowed for contract sohools, aggregated and compared with former years, are as follows: TA~LlS0. --9ntowtts eet apart for edruation of Indiaw in sohoola underprivate cont~ot fw thepaeat years 1889 to 1895, inclvsiue. Roman Catholic .............. $347,672 ! $356.957 $363,349 $39.1,156 g175.845 8339.145 $359,215 Preabslerian ................. 41. 825 47.650 44,850 44,310 3U.090 36.340 .......... Congregational ............... 29,310 98.459 27,211 29.118 25.736 10,825 .......... Epis~op:bL.. .................. 18.700 24,876 29,910 23,220 4.860 7,020 1,020 Frisnda ...................... 23,382 23,:133 24,748 24.143 10.020 10.020 10.020 Mennonite ................... 3,115 4,376 4.315 4,375 3,750 3,750 3.150 Unirarian .................... 5,400 5,400 5,400 6400 5,400 5,400 5,400 Lutheran Wittenberg, Wia.. 4,050 7,560 9,130 16.200 15,120 15,120 15,120 ~ ~ t h ~..d...i..~...h... ...... 2.725 9,910 ti, 700 13,980 .............................. Mm. L. H. Daggett .................................................. '6.480 .................... Misa Rowad ................ 276 600 1,000 2,000 2.500 %,000 3,000 Apprapriation for Lincoln Inptitution ................. 33,400 33.4CU 33.400 33,400 33,400 83,400' 33,400 A propriation.for Hampton %gtitl>t.e. ................. 20,010 20,040 20,040 20,040 20.040 20,040 20.010 Woman's Nat.io..n.a.l. ..I.n.d..i.a.n. .................................................. Association 2.040 4,320 point Iroquois, Mich .......................................................... 900 (100 Plum Creek, Leshe, S.Dak.. ............................................................. 1.620 -- -- - -- - - -- Tot81 .................. 529,905 562,840 510,218 611.570 533,241 531,600 463,505 I I I I I 1 I aThiaoantraat waa made,in l?sz with the Board of Home Misaiona of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As that orgaoiuatuon d ~ ndo t wish to make any oontrada forlPJ3, theeontract wsa renewed with Mrs. Uaggett. FIELD MATRONS. The purpose and method of field matron work among Indians, especially among Indian women in their homes, were set forth in detail in my last annual report andneednot berepeated here. Indians, like other people, can not be tra~isformedb y legislation or any wholesale action. Moreover, legislation is usually the result of earnest individual eetfot by which a majority is worked up to de~nand the enactment of laws whose provisions they are, on the whole, intelli-gently prepared to carry out. Wit,h the Indian it is the reverse. The white man has legislated for him. .His circumstances are not an out-growth from himself, but something to which he must grow up-an unnatural process; but inevitable when civilization and barbarism col-lide. Therefore, the individual work which would naturally precede a change in his political or social status must come afterwards. This hand to hand work must be done by men and women for men and |
