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Show I REPORT OF THE COXMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIR8. XXXI I I Carlisle, and Forest Grore, anrl 122 have been placed in various schools 1 in the State*. Reservation sc6ook.-The boardir~g asd day schools on reservations have made a creditable record during the year. Nine new boarrling-schools have been opened, u~aliingt he wllole number now in operation, exclusire of the three training-schools, i9. The new school^ for the Blackfeet ill hIontana, PaL.Otes i r ~N erada, Warm Sprir~gsa, lld Uma-tilla Indians in ..regon, and the Shoshones in Wyoming, gave boarding-schools for the first time to 9,000 Iudia~ls. Those schools cau aecorn-modate, however, but 1.69 pupils and will soon need enlarging. The Devil's Lake Sioux and Rlarnathxbave each been given a second school, and the Poncas have sceu the long-delayed fulfilment of t,he promise that a boarding-sr5ool shonld be given them in the Indiau Territory. Industrial training, mainly iu farming an11 gardening, forms a part of the carricnlum of agency boarrlirlg-schools. The schools have cultivated 1,526 acres, and raised 18,334 bushels corn, 4,952 bushels oats, and 19,340 bushels regetableu; made 1,171 tons of hay and 4,325 pouud~o f butter. But, as I said in my last report, industrial training, especially in workshops, needs more atterrtion, and a much larger outlay of money for tools arld materials and instruction. What Captain Pratt says in regard to the CarIisIe pupils mould apply to all reservation schools: I think it very desirable that we shonld have experimental shops far the boy* not learniog trades, where, under the care of a teaober, even the youngest pupil8 wight have aome kindof manual trsiuiog daily. I do not doubt that the gain is health, energy, and clear-headednoss would make any expenditure in this direction nn ulti-mata economy. We invariably find thet, when an idle or mischievous boy is put te work at a trade, his standing is raised in soholnrahip as well as conduct. In some c-a the improvement has been very remarkable; in not one has it failed of good results. Au interesting event in the year has been the educational inroad in the Ute tribe. The wild Southeru Utes allowed twenty-seven of their ~ o u t hto be taken to the Albuqnerqueboardingschool, although not one of the tribe had ever before attended any school of any description. At first the necessary routiue aud restraint of the school mas irksome, and the labor required \\.as repugnant; but within a few months Agent fiauohhez reported : On his arrival, one h o w~ho aspired to th6 leadershipof hisfeUowasud who thonght he should have fifty cents for bringiug a pail of vat,er and refused to perform any labor without pay, has been kindly and gradually led to change his viema and has'beeorhe s nady, willing marker, being cspeciaily interested in tho induatry of gardening. On 7:oing asked whether he had any word to send to his people, he aoon replied: "Yes, tiem to makes garden; I thiuk a gardon is a good thing." It. was not without repeated assurances that the other branches of the Ute tribe could be made to believe that their relatives had gone so far over to the side of civilization. Twentythree new day schools are reported, most of them on reser- |