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Show while in the Creek and Cherokee nations the control has been merely supervisory. The Chickasaws have operated their own schools and resented governmental assistance. Under these conditions it is inter-esting to compare results of the past year with previous years, and with the several nations themselves, as will appear in the following table: TABLE 31.-&~oUment and awerage dtmdance during the ficd years 1899 and 1900, s M n g iweoae in 19W; a h avmage annual cost per pupil each year. Schwl. cherokee Nation: Male Seminsry ............... Femsle Semina..r.y. ........................ ......... Total ....................... Choctaw Nation: .............. Jsopenneos eAr cademy ............ Academy Tushhoma Femsle Impti-tute ........................ Total ....................... creek Nation: mfaula ...................... 100 100 ........ Creek 0rphe.n Home ......... 50 60 ........ Eucbie ...................... Wemmh ................... ... .... coweta ....................... ........ Wealah ...................................... . Tallahsssee ........... ...................... .............. Total ....................... Chiokssaw Nstion: C h i o h w O r p h E~o me .... ...... 47 ........ 150. w 1 8 0 . ~ + 3 0 . ~ Wa nuoh Institute ........ ...... 60 ........ 150. W 216.04 + 56.W co~PiBna ~nstitut.e. ............ ...... 33 ........ 150.00 173.W + 23.00 Earley Instimte ....................... ...... 75 ........ 166.00 175.W + 1 0 . ~ BlwmfieId8eminery ...... 86 156.26 176.00 + 21.00 Total ....................... Seminole Nstion: MekusukeyAeademy ........ lW 66 .............. .................. Emahah Academy .......... 1W 80 .............. Total ...................---m- .............. .............. .................. An inspection of the above table shows that the average cost per capita for education in the boarding institutions of the Cherokee Nation was $137.81 in 1900 and $159 in 1899, a decrease of $21.19; in Creek Nation $103.62, a8 against $124, a decrease of $20.38; in the Choctaw Nation $133.78, as against $180, a decrease of $46.22; in Chickasaw Nation $184, as against $157, an increase of $27. These figures are pregnant with suggestions which can not fail to impress the intelligent, disin-terested citizen. In the nation completely under governmental con- |
