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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXXVII was started in October, 1579. It is expected that the in8jority of them will return to Carlisle this fall for further instruction. For this the most morthy and promising will be selected, and especially those whose mom1 stamina has stood the test of the temporary return to the old as-sociations and degradations. Though the record of the students who returned last year from Hampton has been in the main satisfactory, yet it is apparent that to return immature youth to heathen homes after only three years of training under specially favorable conditions is a hazardous experiment. Jntiticc to the child as well as economy in the service require a supplemental course of at least two years;duriug which the seed sown may have opportunity to take deeper root. Here-after parents will be expected to surrender their children for five in-stead of three years. ' .' Industrisl work at Forest Grove has met with unus~ial success. The b1aoksmit.h and shoe shops hiwe netted $772 to the school. The ap-prentices to the carpenter have put up two 2-st or^ additions to the dorrnitolie.6, 32 bs- 32 feet, a11d two smaller additions, 25 by 3fi and 14 by 28, besides n~akingfuruitnref or the school and a,tteuding to necessary repairs. The renting of 43 acres furnishes an opportunity for practical lessons in farming, ~vhiles.e vrralof the boys have been employed iythe harvest field by farmerr in that section. Lieutenant Wilkinsou reports : The local press of the conniry notes t,he fact that rrithont i,hc help of i.ha Fop of the Inrlisn achuol sonro of the farmers of t,bia section wollld have had gt.eat trouble ill htlrvesting their crops. One paper han raitised its warnia:: 01.). for the protection of white lellor as agoiu~tI ndisu. The boss Lave work& side lry aide ~rit,hth e white man, earned the f inl~ew ag<!a, and this in a 8 ~ ~ t i oofn c ollrltrg where i t has always been claimed tho Irdian n~oold'nutw ork. As stated last year the great need at Forest Grove is the purcl~aseo f land which shall be the property of t,he school. Injustice has been done this school by the wording of the appropria-tion for its support, which limits the anlount to be paid for the care and anpport of the pupils to $200 per capita per annum. Expenditnres can be reduced to this fignre, but it will be n t the expense of the best in-terests of the pupils in attendance. Buildings.-Nine new boarding-school buildings have been occupied during the year, and in nine more new buildings schools will be opened this Pill. The office has t,hus been enabled to open boarding schoolsfor the first time among the 27,106 Indians of the five ageuaies already name.d, and also among the Yankton Indiaus; that tribe, however, has not been wholly deprived of boarding-school facilities hitherto, for the reason that the remissness of the government in that respect has been partially atoned for by the Episcopalians, who, for Inany years, have maintained there a flourishing boys' boarding school. The buildings to he occupied this fall will provide for the opening of boarding-schools for the first t,imeamong the9,412 I n d i a~o~f sth eNevada, Umatilla, Blackfeet, and Warm Springs agencies, among the Snake. Indians at the Yaiuax |
