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Show aspect might be regarded as a most generous contribution from the , public treasury for the benefit of these Indian children. There is no doubt that in years to come, when the nearly 20,000 Indian children now enjoying the advantages thus provided by the people of the United States out of the public treasury shall have finished their education and established themselves in life, and realize what has been done for them, there will be thousands of them with hearts fullof grati. tude and ready to recognize fully their deep sense of obligation to the people who have made such liberal provision for their education. GENERAL 8U&VEY OF THE FIELD. On my recommendation you have admitted to the Government schools the children of the New Pork Indians, so that hereafter the discrimination against them which heretofore has worked to their det-riment will no longer' hinder their educational advancement. The Indians of Michigan will have very soon a good's~hooiln opera-tion for their benefit at Mount Pleasant. Those in Wisconsin will be fairly well provided for when the two schools under way at Oneida and Tomah are finished and in operation. Considerable remains to be done for the Indians of Minnesota. Plans are in successful operat.ion for the development of a systeln of schools that shall be, when completed, fairly adequate for the Sioux of North and South Dakota. A very greatly needed addition will be made to the school facilities of Montana when the industrial training schoolnow in processof devel-opment at Fort Shaw is completed. The Indians of Wyoming are rejoicing in the prospect of the speedy completion of the great school at Shoshone. Much progress has been made in the two schools at Iiapwai and Fort Hall for the Idaho Indians, and it is possible within two years to ren-der the school facilities ample for all the Indians of that State. The school ~t Carson, in Nevada, has more than met expectations, but it ought to be enlarged to at least twice its present capacity. The boarding school at Pyramid Lake, Nev., has been strengthenedand is now doing effective work. In Washington there is still a lack of suitable educational facilities, although the schools at Yakama, near Tacoma. and elsewhere have been enlarged and rendered more eficient. That near Tacoma is particularly prosperous and encouraging. In Oregon the school near Salem has reached perhaps its full development as to capacity and equipment, and has entered upon a new . career of usefulness. Improvements have been made at Siletz and Klamath, and there is a better state of things generally regarding edu~ationa mong the Indians in that State than heretofore. Port Gaston, in Hoopa Valley, California, has bem converted into an industrial school, and will open the 1st of September, or soon after. |