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Show REPORT OF THE INDIAN SCHOOL SUPERIXTENDENT. LXXIX The sum of $50,100 was appropriated for the education of Indian pupils, "at a riate not to exceed $lG7 for each pupil." Another provis-ion limits the number to be educated to 300, thus in effect fixing the rate at $167, the compeii~ation allowed for similar service to the larger number of contract schools t,hat are supported out of the general appro-priation beitig considerably less. These various appropriations render the systematic organization of the educational work of the Indian Bureau an impossibility. The folloming is a tabnlated statement of the school appropriation made for the current fiscal year : -- Purposo of appropriation. Amount. - snpportaf Indian day and iodostrial aohools, and far other sdoeational porpo~es. ........ $850. OLIO Constrootion.and repair of school buildin=% .............................................. 53,000 Porchase of horaes, cattle, sheep, goats, and swine. ....................................... 14,000 Sopport and education ofIndian children in Alaska.. .................................... 20.000 soppart of Indian aohool at Chilaeco, Indian Ter ......................................... 30,625 Pomhaee of material, erection of sl~opms d ant-hoildinga, and repairs st Chiloooo school 2, 000. Pay of superintendent at Chilocoo achool ................................................ 1,500 sopport of~ndi anao bool at Cnrlisle. Pa ......... .:. ...................................... 80.000 Pay ofCapt. R, E. Xratt la sn~.erintendant at Carlisle aohool. ............................ 1.000 Sopport of Indian sohool at Sillem, Oreg. .................................................. 85,000 Pay of sopetintendent at Salem aohmi .................................................. 1.500 Completion of bulldin@, rapairs and fencing at Salem achool .............................. 5,000 Sopport. of Indian school at Genoa. Nebr .................................................. 29.7;0 Conslroetion of new buildings and repairs atGenoa sahool.. ............................... 10. 000 support and education " f 120 Indian pupila at amptonv,s ............................. 20.010 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ t . o sfcIhonodl ait aLuaw rence. K m s. ............................................. 01,250 Pepof a*perinteadentathwrenossc hool ................................................ 2,000 Purchase of mkterinl, eredion of .hops and ont.bolldings, and repairs at Lawreneosohoul. 4,750 Completionof buildings and purchase of aditiooal &onas for Lawrence school .....-. 58,000 Support and ednostioo of 200 Indian popils st Linaaln inatitntion, Philadelphia, Pa ...... 33,400. Soppmt of 150 Indian pnpils at Saint Ignatiua mission soh~olM, ontana .................. 22,500 Care, mpport, and eduoation of 300 Indianpupils at schools in States and Territories.. .. 50,100 Collecting s*nd transporting ohildrento and from Indianschools, ma forerpcnses inplao- ing children in white families ......................................................... 28,000, -- Totill .............................................................................. l.211.415 ADDITIONAL SCEOOLS REQUIBED. Nany of the tribes arc comparatively independent. The Navajos are self-supporting. They owu 800,000 sheep, 250,000 horses, and 300,000 goats. The vool-clip for the year is reported to be 8.70,000 pounds, of which 125,000 pounds were manufactured into blankets, BTc. They cul-tivated 12,500 acres. The number in the tribe is reported as 17,358, and for this population only one school, having a capacity of 80, is pro-vided. The Goveri~menot wes these Indians, for educational purposes, according to the terms of the treaty of June 1,1868, the sum of $792,000. The Moquis, numbering about 2,000, occupy a reservation adjoining the Navajos. They have from time immemorial lived on the tops of "the mesas," where their villages are built, and cultivate the valleys below. |