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Show I REPORT OF THE COM~ISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 3 as reward for faithful service. The Army has used Indians for scouts with great success, and wherever employed the Indian has been found faithful to the trust coufxied to him. I would also recommend that. the police force be supplied with a uniform similar to the style of clothing which I shall hereafter suggest to be furnished for all Indians, with the addition of a few brass buttons by way of distinction. The employment of such a force, properly officered and handled, would, in great measure, relieve the Army from doing police duty on Indian reservations. I am t,horonghlg satisfied that the saving in life aud property by the employ-ment of such a force would be very large, and that it would materially aid in placing the entire Indian population of the country on the road to civilization. EDUCATION AND CIVILIZATION. There is little hope of the civilization of-the older wild Indian, and the only practical question is how to control and goveru him, so that his savage instincts shall be kept from violent outbreaks. There is, however, much encouragement.to work for the gradual elevatiod of the partially civilized adult Indians, and especially of the yonths of both sexes; and considerable progress has lieen made, notwithstanding the difficulties which a humane treatment of the Indians has had to en-counter. These difficulties may be stated as partially growing out of the dishonesty of Indian agents, traders, and contractors, by mhich Indians hare been deprived of their just dues, and sometimes of the nec-essaries of life. Another and serious drawback is to be found in the J encroachment of greedy white men, who surround them and continually plot to deprive them of. their possessions. Unfortunately, Indians judge all white men by these specimens, with which they a.re only too familiar. Notwithstandiug all the disadvantages, there is, as I have said, a per-ceotible nroaess. which. under more favorable circumstances., mi-g ht be greatly ~cceikmted. Undonbtedly onr chief hope is in the education of the yonng, and just here our best and most persistent efforts snonld be made. The Indian youths in the various schools show surprising progress in pen-manship and drawing, and can be taught the ordinary branches of R. ' common-schbol education as readilv as white children. excent. nerhans. arirllmeric. Such being the enst,, &wry etYurt dhonld'l~c whtl; to tdko atlvilntage of the al~titndeu they hare exlribitc.11, a11d to briug lntlin~~ cl~iltlrrniu to achoola. I mould advise theestabliahwe~o~f ta rule maklr~r . it compulsory upon all Indian children between the ages of six and foa; ", teen years to attend schools, andrequiringEnglish alol~teo be spoken and taught therein; and it is decidedly preferable that as many of them as possible should be .placed in boarding-schools, which possess more advantages in every way than dag.schools, for the reason that the ex-posure of children who attei~d only day-schools to the demoralization1 and degradation of an Indian home neutralizes the etforts of the school-teacher, especially those efforts which are directed to advancement in , moralitv and civilization. Forty children can be boarded and instrutted ~~~ at 311 e;)ltn:e of one ~ U I I I JbIt~~!df~ \\ .el~ty-livtelo llnrs each per anllilm, tile cost bril~gs l i ~ h frle~du ced in schools contuinlng a larger uu~nber I . . - - of pupils. 1 rttcotnmend that provision be made to give a higher education, in some of our normal schools at the East, to Indian youths sufficiently advanced to enable them to enter such schools, in order that the bureau may be supplied with educated iuterpreters to take the place of the in- |