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Show 96 REPORT OF THE COMMIEISIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIR8. cWi1ization. The Indian yonth should be instrdcted in their, rights, . privileges, and duties as American citizens ; should be taught to love the American flag; should be imbued with a genuine patriotism, and made to feel that the United State%, and not some paltryreservation, is their home. Those charged with their education shonld constantly strive to awaken in them a sense of independence, self.relia.uce, and self-respect. Eighth. Those educated in the large industrial boarding-schools yhould not be returned to the camps agpiust their will, but shonld be notonly allowed, but eucouraged to choose their own rocations, and contend for theprizes of life wherever the opportunities are most favor-pble. Education should scekthe disintegration of the tribes, and not tiueir segregation. They should be educated, not as Indians, but as Americans. In short, the public school should do for them what it is so successfully doing for all the other races in this country, assimilate . them. Ninth. The work of education should begin with them while they are young and susceptible, and should continue nntil habits of industry and love of learning have taken the place of indolence and indifference. One of the chief defeats which hav? heretofore characterized the efforts made for their education has been the failure to carry them far enough, - so that they might compete successfully with the white youth, who have enjoyed the far greahr advantages of our own system of education. ~ g h eerdu cation is even more essential to them than it is for white children. Tenth. Special pains should be taken to bring together in the large boarding-schools members of as many different tribes a8 possible, in ' order to destroy the tribal antagonism and to generate in them a feel-ing of common brotherhood and mutual respect. Wherever practicable, they should be admitted on terms of equality into the public schooYs, where, by daily contact with white children, they may learn to respect them and become respected in turn. Indeed, it is reasonable to expect that at no distant day, when the Indians shall have all taken up their lands in severalty and have bewme American citizens, thme will cease to be any necessity for Indian schools maintained by the Government. ThcIndims, where it is impracticablefor them to unite with their white neighbors, will maintain their own schools. Eleventh. Go-education of the sexes is the surest and perhaps only way in which the Indian women can be lifted out of that positionof servility and degradation which most of them now occupy, on to a plane where their husbands and the men generally will treat them with the same gallantry and respect which is accorded to their more favored white. sisters. Twelfth. The happy results already achieved at Darlisle, Hampton, and elsewhere, by the so-called "outing system," which consists in placing Indian pupils in white famiies where they are taught the ordi- |