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Show SUPPLEMENTAL :REPORT ON INDIAN EDUCATION. DE PAR T ~NOTF THE INTERIOR, OFFIOE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, Washington, December 1,1889. SIR: I respectfully submit herewith a supplement to the foregoing report, in which I have outlined a plan for Indian education. When the regular annual report of this offlce was submitted, I had not at hand the data necessary for formulating such a plan and hence could not present it at that time. This plan, of course, issobject to modifications, as experience may show them to be desirable. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, T. J. MORGAN, QomnCiesiolter. The SE~I~ETAEOYF THE INTERIOR. A SYSTEM OF EDUCATION FOR INDIANS. GENERAL PEINOIPLES. The American Indians, not including the so-called Indians of Alaska, are supposed to number about 250,000, and to have a school population (six to sixteen years) of perhaps 50,000. If we exclude the five civilized tribes which provide for the education of their own children and the New Pork Indians, who are provided for by that State, the number of Indians of school age to be educated by the G.overnment does not ex-ceed 36,000, of whom 15,000 were enrolled in schools last year, leaving but 21,000 to be provided with school privileges. These people are separated into numerous tribes, and differ very widely in their language, religion, native charwteristics, and modes of life. Some are very ignorant and degraded, living an indolent and brutish sort of life, while others have attained to a high degree of eiv- |