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Show 4 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. runs counter to school discipline and habits; and a short time at home does much to nullify the training received at school. The aggregate ei~rollment for the year has been 21,451 pupils, and the average attendance 17,096, being a little over 79 per cent of the enrollment. It is given in det,ail as follows : TABL3E.- Enroll,nsnt aad average attendance at Indian schools, 1893 and 1894. Kind of aohool, Government sohoole: Nonreseraation training .................................. Beilervation boarding ............................ ... nap ..................................................... Total .................................................. -1-4.71 5 -15,280 - 11.238 1 11,328 contract sohools: Boardiug ................................................ 4,182 4,048 Y.MJ 3,607 Day ..................................................... 616 593 2 423 Boarding, 8peclallS approprra%odfo r .................... -1,327 -1, W1 -1,113 -1,152 Tntal . 8.125 5.927 4.904 1 5.087 .--~ --~,kbl i e day asachool.s. ............................... :. ....... 202 22 123 132 ' Miasion aohools not assiated by Governmoat; boanlmg and dry pupils ................................................. ----75 ----8 8 ---4 3 - -. 49 Aggregate ............................................. 21,117 21,451 16.303 17,096 Inorease. ............ ........................... 834 .......... 793 It will be noticed that there has been .ala,rge increase in the enroll-ment. at Government boarding sohools on reserrations amounting to 851, with an increase of 693 in average attendance. This is a gain of 129 per cent. The 20 training schools have held their own in enroll-ment with a slight fallii~go ff in average attendance. The falling off in the Government day scl~ools is explained by the closing of three day sohools among the Sioux (one merged into the new boarding school under the Standing Rock Agency and two discontinued on the Oheye~~Ruee servation) and the temporary olosing of four day schools among the Eastern Cherokeeg, which .will be reopened this fall. Contract sohools have fallen off in enrollment, as was also the case last year; but have gained in average attendance. The largest gain anywhere has been at the point where it was most needed and least expected, vie, anlong the Navajoes. The Navajo soh001 opened in September with 15 pupils, and closed in June with 197. Parents brought their children voluntarily; many were refused admis-sion because they could.not possibly be accommodated, and some were tarned away crying. It was an overwhelming increase of 100 per cent, and like an unprepared-for mountain freshet was quite as likely to do harm as good. Delight and dismay combined. Fortunlttely the risky experiment of crowding that number of children into buildings, which will properly provide for less than 150, had no untoward result; but it is too hazardous to be repeated. All sitting rooms and play rooms were converted into school rooms and dormitories, and then the boys slept |