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Show 70 ,REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. tho minds of the Indian pupils the broadest principles of moral it^, hon. esty,integrity, truthfulness, fidelity to duty, respect for the rights of , . others, etc., in no narrow way, but in such a manner as to lead them to cherish good will towards all, and to be prepared to take their places as American citizens on the plane of good fellowship with all. In Government schools eoeducation prevails. The Indian boys and girls are educated together; they sit at the same tables, recite i n the ' same class, arrd are thus brought into such relationshipas to lead them to respect each other. This is particularly helpful in destroying the false notion which so largely prevails among the Indians as to the inferiority of the women. Indian boys who arc educated iio the same schools with Indian girls, and who are often surpassed by them in their studies, come to have such a respect for them as will insure to the Indian women in the future a fuller recognition of their rights and . a greater respect for their womanhood. The Government schools are modeled after the public schools, and the Indian pupils wlro are educated iu the Government Indian schools nnderstand their workings, and pass easily int,o the public white schools, as ofJportouity offers. Those educated in these schools will be prepared, as they become citizens of the United States, to understand and appre-ciate thevalue of the public school, and will seek to establish and tnain-tain such for their own children. The Indians will thus be brought into close sy~npatheticre lationship with one of the greatest Americal~i nsti-tutions. In all the large Government training schools there is a blending together of many tribes. There are to-day rnore than fort,y tribes rep-resented at Carlisle. By bringing representatives of these various bodies of Iudians together they learn to respect and love each other, and there is thus broken down those tribal animosities and jealousies which have been in the past productive of so much harm an11 a fruitful source of so much trouble both to the Iudiarls and the nation. Firrally, the Government schools all being modeled on the sauie plan and administered ill the same spirit, the thousan(ls of Indian pupils who are edncated iu them have foreach other a fellowship that will in a few years result ill bringing about homogeueity amoug all the various Indian tribes and reuder future strifes between tribes and wars between the Iudisns and United States entirely improbable, if not impossible. MISSIONARY WORE. I would not be understood as wanting in appreciatiou of the good that may be accomplished for the Indians by the chnrches through distinctively missionary work. Untold good has already been done; much more can be done, nrld there perhaps never has been a time in the history of the Iudians when they are so susceptible as now to religious influences. There never was a better opportunity for the churches to establish sohools or missio~~asn d prosecute Christian work |
