OCR Text |
Show REPORT OF TEE COhIJIISSIO?r'ER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XIX The status of school work among Indians, exclusive of the five civil-ized tribes,cau best be shown by the following comparativestate~uent: Training achaols, Ca~lia1e.:.F..o.r.s.s.t.G ..X.O..T..B.&.,O. . .................................................... .. Pupila in training aohnols Boanling schools on or near reservations.. ............................. Popils in such sohaoln.. ............................................... Chllclren plaoed in varioos sahools through the aountrr ............... Day rchools ........................................................... . Total number of dsv pnpils ............................................ Total number of boarcling poprls. ...................................... I I I Of the above, 130 boarding pupils a.nd S92 day pupils are in New York; the day pupils attend thc 29 public schools which the State of New York provides for her Indian population. Training sekoo1s.-The principal educational adrance of the Sear has been the starting of the three new tminiug.schools referred to in my last report, at Genoa, Nebr., Chilocob, Ind. Ter., and Lawrenc~K, ans., opeued, respectively, in January, February, and September. The re-ports of the first two are herewith, on pages 20i and 209. The latter is only just under way, and has now 125 out of the 340 pupils which it will aceommodate. The Chilocco and Genoa schools have made n good leoord with their 319 pupils. They have the advantage of both Car-lisle and Forest Grove in possessing sufficient land, and are giving special attention to stock.raising and farming. The Chilocco boys have a herd of 428 cattle, and the Genoa boys hare cnltioi~tedf aitlifiilly 202 acres and raised 6,000 bnshels of corn, 2,000 bushels of oats, and 1,200 bushels of vegetables: The liearness of the schools to India6 rcserva-tious greatly reduces cout of transportation, but at the same time it suggests to ;he pupils a prompt remedy for bomesiclmess and restive-ness nuder restraiut. Both schools have been annoyecl by runawaFs, but it is hoped that serious embarrassment from this quarter need not be ai~ticipated. Several of the employ6s of these schools are O;&rlisle and Hampton graduates. If Congress had not modified itts ap1)ropria-tion and removed the restriction n-hioh limited the amount to be ex-pendedin support of these schools to $200 per pupil, incl~~dintrga veling expenses, they ooilld uot have been carried on. To require that the first expense of an industrial school shall uot esceed the lowestsum at bhich it has been found possible to continue a ~ohool already estab-lished is unjust and unreasonable. For the current fiscal year only $175 per pupil (exclusive of traveling expenses) is appropriated, and I am at a loss to see how the schools can complete their first full year on this allowance. The other threetraining schools, a t Oarli~leF, orest Grove, a~lilBamp-ton, have had an uneventful, useful year, with 575,166, and 132 pupils, respectively, and a combined average attendance of 693. The dctailed |