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Show XXXII REPORT OF THE COXMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. I manufacture or sale of ardent spirits in anj= of the Territories of 'the United States, or if this should hot be practicable at present, that a law be passed prohibitin; the men~~factursea,l e, or other disposal of intoxi-cating liquors within twenty miles of any Indian reservation. Schools for Indiaas are divided into three classes-rlay-schools and boarding-schools for Indians in the Indimn com~t,ry, and boarding-schools in civilized communities remote from Indian reservations. Al-though varying great.ly in the extent and character of their resnlts, each holds its own important place a,s a factor in Inilian civilization. In many tribes the less expensive and less aggressive day-schoolpre-pares the may for the boarding-school, and occopics the field while b~~i ldinfgosr boarding pnpils are being erected and furnished, or while Cougresn is discussing the desirability of appropriatiugfunds necessary for their constr~~ction.I t disarms native prejudice and opposition to . edncation, and awakens a. desire for the tl~oronghfn nbmental teaching which the boarcling-school gives, Tile sending of twenty Pz~ebloc hil-dren to Oarlisle is the direct resnlt of the inroads made by day-schools on the supefstition and prejudice of the most conservative tribe on the continent. I n more civilized tribes like tl~ose in Michigan and Cali-fornia the gorcru~nendt ax-school supplies the place of the State com-mon sohool. Exclnxiro of those among the five civilized tribes, the day schoois during the past year have numbered 106, and have been attended by 4,22I pnpils. Two schools have been opened amonk t.he .Mission In-dians, the first ever given these hard-working, much-abused people by eitller government or Stmate. Three others will open soon. At Pine Ridge day-schools in the variois Indian sett,lements pre having a very god influence, pending the erection of the new boarding-school build-ing; and they will be needed after its completion in order to extend to the 1,400 children of the agency who cannot be accommodated t.herein some small degree of civilizing iuflnence-an influence which will not be confined to the pupils, but will extend to the families in the vicinity of the scl~oolsw, 11ose remoteness from the agency reuders it specially important that some civilizing force should be exerted in their midst. Of the 106 schools one i s snpported by the Stake of Peunsylvania, and 28 are located in and snpported by the State of New York as part of its common-school system. As a result, of the 1,590 Indian children of school age ill that State 1,164 have attended school some portion of the past year, and the average daily attendance has beeu 635.s This provision for Inclian schools has been made by New York for twenty years, at an annulexpense of about $7,000, and last year the New York Indian agent reported that nearly all the Indians in his agency - *Fr'rolu the Aouual Report Superintaudent Publia l u~t r u~: c i oonf the S~i l taof New York, January 5,' 1881. |