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Show REPORT OF THE C031MISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XSXIX not be carried on; but that will not affect the case, even though the result be t.hat the Indians go without their school and part of the $400,000 be returned unexpended to the Treasury. This reverses the proverb so as to makc it read: Lam knows no necessity. Again, part of the appropriation for placing children in schools was provided for the placing of children from all the Indian aohools, with the consent of their parents, undeP the care and control of such suital>le white h i l i e s as may in a11 re-apects he qualified to give such children moral, industrial, and educational training for a term of not less thanthreeyaars, underarrangementsin which their proper care, suppott,, and education shall he in r-xchange for their labor. There are undoubtedly '& soitable white families" who are interested euoiigh in Indian civilization to be milling to try the experiment of ad-mitting into their homes shy, uncouth, ignorant Indiarr children, and aho are milling to de,vote to their mental, moral, social, and industrial training all requisite time, labor, patience, and tact. But it is unreason-able to require such families to add to this the support and clothing and medical care of t.heir prot4gi.s mit.h the understanding that such labor as the children can be tauiglit to render out of school honrs and during 'vacations shall he considcred an equivalent therefor, and to further obligate themselves to continue the experiment for not less than three gears! Of course, no children hare been placed in families on the above terms. If the office could expend a small sum, not exceeding $50 .per annum for each ehilrl, for clothing or board, and the restriction as to time could bc omitted, I donbtnot many Indian children could he placed where they woulcl receive the best of home iuflueiice, and that in many families they would remain for three Sears or even longer. By the special legislati011 referred to in my last report, the 3,000 Moquis-Pocblos are still barred out from all schooliiig. I cannot tllink that this was the intention, but it is tlie unaroiilahle result of that legis. lation. c I deem it my duty to again makc a statement similar to that in pre-vious reports, of unfalfilled treat.5 provisions for education. In the treaties of 1868 with the tribes named below, a building, a teacher, and a school mere promised for every 30 children of school age in the tribes. The following tabular statement shows the appropriation which those treaties would require of this next session of Congress: POPULATION. S~OD..X.. ................................................................. 26,616 Utes ...................................................................... 3,333 Navajoes .................................................................. 17,000 Xiowas, &c.. ............................................................. 2,900 Cheyennes and Arspahoes ................................................. 6,496 Crowa .................................................................... 3,200 Shoshone ................................................................. 1,880 Bannaeks ................................................................. -1,556 W2, gel Sohaol population.:.. ...................................................... -12,595 |