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Show 54 XEPORT OF THE C03.1&IISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. to repudiate. This matter is now under investigation. The above 82,096,064 includes $30,000 paid to the Santee Sioux, which is referred to nlore yarticalarly on pago 95. The $9i5,147 paid to the Indians for services and supplies was earned by them iu t l ~ efo llowing manner: Rognlnr Indian employ& at agenoiea ......................... $108,700 Regular Indian ernploy6s at schools .......................... 91,691 Irregular Indian employk at a,genoies ........................ 55,500 Irregolar I ~ ~ ~ lei~aunp loy6sa t schools ......................... 37,956 Arl<litio~mfla rmers. .......................................... 13,700 Intcrpretera ................................................. 17,700 Police ................................................. :. .... 116,500 Ja(1ges of Indian conrts ...................................... 12,300 Hauliug snpplies ............................................. 105,800 Proclnee: has, and other supplies purohnso,l from Indians ..... 266,300 Cutting anrl banliing logs about ............................. 150,000 -- - Tot;,] .................................................. 975,147 Thissumstal;dsfor no smallamoout of labor on the part of the Indians, and is, of conrse, of vastly greater benefit to the recipients than would beamnch largersiutrt paidto them witltoutexacti~rga ny labor equivalent. FIELD MATRONS. The first recognitiol~byC ongress of the need and propriety of ha~6ng persons paid by tlte Government to instruct Indians in civilized pur-suits is contai~reiiln the act of March 3,1819. It appropriates $10,000 for the pnrpose and '~~tllorizesth e President of the United States- In overs case here he shall judge iml,ro\iemont in tho habits and condition of such Indims lwscticable sntl that tho moans of instrlxotiun can he introduced with their o\nt eousent to employ eapnhle poraonr of good mom1 character to iustrnot them in the nlodes of ;ig~.icnlturesu ited to their ~ituationn;a udfbrtosching their children in readilia. vritiur. ant1 ;irithrnetio. and oerfo'ormins such othcr duties as may be Subsequently illany of the treaties with Ir~dian tribes contained special l~rorisionsfo r tlte employment not only of farmers bnt also of blaclismiths, carpenters, millers, and othcr mechanics, who should both furnislt Iudidi~ tribes the services iteeded in t.heir respective lines, and also instruct Indian meu to do s~~c1l1u? or1<fo r tlremselves. It was reildily recognizecl that :rn Irldian mall could not be expected to plom a fi~rrowp, ut up a house, shoe a horse, or manage a sawmill without oontit~netl and carefill instruction. The Indian woman, however, was left to morli ont as best she conld the problem of exchanging a tepee or vigrraln for a ueat, comfortable, and well-ordered home according to civilized sta~ld'rds. Even witllont a teacher the 111diau ma11 could leanr much of farming, for instance, by watching ltis white neighbor; but the Iltdian wonlan had little chance to observe the methods of the honselreeper ~tenrh er. |
