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Show 22 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. upon the more than 225 pupils making up the school delegations, the Exposition has a most sti&lati~lg effect. But its influence has been made much more far-reaching by providing that every Government school, boardi~~agnd day, should have an opportunity to display some of its work in the Chicago building. Each school bas been asked to send a book containing six specimens each of composition,maps, draw-ings, arithmetic papers, and kindergarten work, with some needlework, and articles made by boys, each paper or article having attached the name, age, and tribe of the child making it. ' This has aroused enthusi asm and healthy competition, and the contrihntions of the various schools have been highly creditsble. A delegation of 332 boys and girls from the Carlisle School, with its band of 31 instruments, made a noticeitbie feature oE the Columbian parade in New 'York on the 10th of October, 1892, and won many flat-tering newspaper notices. Ten days later 305 of the Carlisle boys, including the brtnd, won similar approval for their part in the opening ceremonies parade at Chicago. Divided into ten platoons of two ranks each, each platoon represented one of the industries carried on at scl~oolt, he front rank bearing t.he tools and imple~rleutso f the trade, the rear rank bearing the manufactured products. An interesting descript~on of these displays, with quotations from the newspapers, are included in Capt. Pratt's report herewith, p. 448. Capt. Pratt has also arranged to have over 500 Carlisle pupils spend four days at the Fair the first week in October, and the choir of SO voices aud the baud will be given oppor-tunities in the mnsic halls to show mhst they can do. Altogether, it is safe to say that Indian pupils throughout the co~m-try have taken a lively aud intelligent intere~ito thecelebration of the discovery of the land of their forefathers, and that few classes of people have.participated in it to a larger extent proportionally than the Indian race. INDIAN SOHOOL SITES. In the last annual report, pp. 879-897, there w;ts given a history of the lands assigned to twenty-five Indian schools, with description of . titles. Similar infor~nation in regard to the lauds of the schools at Fort Shaw, in310uta1la; Fort Sill a~td Pawnee, in Oklahoma; Grand Junc-tion, in Colorado, a,nd Umatilla, in Oregon, will be found in this report, pp. 469 to 474. As rapidly as the lauds assigned for the use of other Indian hoarding scllools are definitely designated by section, township, ' and range, or other boundaries, and are approved by the Department, a descriptio~o~f them will be prepared and published as a permanent I record for convenient reference. |