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Show XXXVIII REPORT OF THE COXXISSiONER OF INDIAN AEFAIRS. 1868, made with the Sioux, Navajo, Ute, Eioma, Comanche, Cheye~me, Arapaho, Crow, Shoshone, and Pawnee tribes the educational proris-ion is a general one, and is substantially as follows: In order to insure the cisiiization of the Indims entering iota this treaty the necessity of education is admitted; especially of such of them as are or may be settled on said agricultoral or otherreservations, anc$$hey therefore pledge themselves to compel their children, male sud famale, between the sgea of six and aixteen years ta attend sohaol, and the Unitnd Statesenreen tinat for every thirty children between wid ages who can he induced or compelled to attend sohaol, s, houee ahall be provided and a teacher competent to teach the elementltry hrsnches of an English education furnished, who will reside among aaid Indians and faithfully discharge his or her duties as teacher. The nrovisiona of this article to continue for not leas than twenty years. These t,ribes number in the aggregate 60,000, and have at least 12,000 youths of school age. For these childrenthe tables herewith show that after a lapse of thirteen years only twelve boarding and seven day schools have been provided, which will accommodate respectively 858 and 565 pupils. To ft~rnishd ay-schools only, according to the treaties, for the remaining 10,000 youth would reqnire the ereot,iion and' furnish-ing of 250 school-houses 't an averaKe cost of not less than $800 each, total, $200,000, besides an annual expenditure of $150,000 for salaries of 250 teachers a t $600 per anoum, and $80,000 for boolrs, s ~ l ~ o aolll-ylia. xices, kc. (at an average of $8 per l~l~piol )r, more than the entire amount expended during the past year at all Agencies for both board. ing and day schools. The shoStsightrcil~iss ant1 dishonesty of the policy hitliexto pursued ill thia coul~ection is beyond question. AR Lie~~tenaPrr~att t sags, after making a similar estimate : The illjury done by the United Statetes Government to this large number of Indian bogs aod girls who have grown np daring thia pariod by withholding this promised and valuable intelligence, and the actoxl iojory audloas to the coantrg from their hav-ing been anigoorsnt, pauper, peace-disturbing, life-destrosiog,impoveriahingi,n stead of so intelligent, producing elemeut could not he stated in figures. STOCK CATTLE. Owiug to the insufficieut appropriations made by Coi~gressf or the snpport of tllb Indian service during the preseut fiscal year, no stock cattle could be purchased for thebenefit of those Iniliaus who had not been supplied in former years. Experience has shown that the In(lia,n is able and willing to take care of his cattle, and it is hoped that tl~e appropriat,ious made for the. coming Ascal year will be snficient to s~zp-ply at least a part of those who desire cattle. Since 1878 stock cattle were furnisged to different agencies as folloys : Blackfeet Agency, 50 ; Cheyenne illld Arapaho; 500; Orow) 82 ; CPO'IVC reek, 300; Flathead, 700 ; Fort Hall, 200 ; Eiowa, 1,089 ; Klamath, 225 ; Lower BITIIB, 500 ; Osage and Kaw, 2,728 ; Pawnee, 400 ; Pine Ridge, 907 ; Ponoa, 800 ; Rosebnd, 1,000; Sac and Fox, 212; San Carlos, 1,12i5; Shoshone and Bannack, 765 ; Sisseton, 437 ; Standing Rock, 600 ; White Earth, 52 ; %'eatern Shoshone, 200 ; Yankton, 495; totat, 13,264 head. |