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Show REPORT OF THE COMMIBSIONER OF ,INDIAN AFFAIRS. 43 There has been great delay in building a new school at Round Valley, but I am hoping now that it will be opened at an early day. That at Perris is approaching completion, and the day schools among the Mission Indians have closed their most successful yea,r. The school at Fort Yuma continues on its modest way, accomplishing good results for those degraded people, and yet leaving much to be desired. On the whole, however, the outlook in California is very satisfactory: Two of the most successful schools that have been inaugurated are to be found in Arizona. One is at Port Mojave, where a most vigorous and every way admirable work is being done under distressingly hazd circumstances,and where a people heretofore given over to neglect and almost hopeless degradation are now being stimulated in ahigh de-gree. At Phcenix, the capital of the Territory, there is now in suceessful operation a school that by its admirable management and striking re-sults has captivated the people of Arizona and largely changed the . whole drift of public sentiment regarding the Indians. Among the Moquis, as already stated, the school which had lan-guished for years is now crowded to excess, and a people that were forced two years ago to send their children to it are now eag.erly on the watch for an opportunity to fill any vacancy that may occur. The school at Pima, on the reservatiou, has enjoyed a very success-fa1 year and has done excellent work. Agent Crouse has succeeded in awakening a very satisfactory spirit among his people, and large num-bers of their children now in schools in various parts of the country. At last thereis a prospect of a, small boarding school for the 2,000 White Mountain Apaches, but under the limitations placed upon me its development will necessarily be very slow and tedious and its com-pletion deferred to some future time. h he school at San Carlos has been used during the year chiefly as a recruiting station. It has, how-ever, done good work notwithstanding the exceptional difficulties that have environed it. Very little has been done for the Navajos, and I am not hopeful as to the future of these people educationally. They are very conserva-tive, proud, haughty, distrustfid, superstitious, aud stubborn. They are scattered over an immense territory, are nomadic in their, habits, have thus far resisted all appeals to allow their children to be sent away to school, and, as I have elsewhere stated, the restrictions put upon the office by Congress have been such as to render it well-nigh impossible to plant schools in their midst. That at Port Defiance, the only one on the reservation, has done valuable work, but has been slimly attended and has by no means met my expectations. In New Mexiw there is a large body of Pueblo Indians with huu-dreds of ohildren of school age growing up in ignorance and heathen-ism. The two Government sehools at Santa PBand Albuquerque are now thoroughly established, fairly well equipped, and are doing very satisfid.ctory work. It has been found, however, dmost impossible to |
