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Show REPOET OF THE COMMISSIONER OF IXDIAN 'AFFAIRS. 7 the Sioux of Dakota, the Indiana of Michigan, and from vtsrioua other points at a distanoe, while during the past year we have been expected to draw from Kansas and the Indian Territory only. There are many discouraging features in the oolleo-tion of pupils for vanreservetion schools; but as they grow older and their reputa-tion, aa in the mse of Haskell, spreads, the number of appliostiona from Indian youth at ~s r iousa genoies for entry materially inoressea. It is somewhat remarka-ble, aa well as enoournging, to note that during the month of June 37 new pupils ' arrived, nns~oompauiedb y escort and withont solicitation. Of course, upon reservations the knowledge on the part of the Indians that rations can be withheld quickens the interest of ignorant or care- 'less parents in school attendance. But even then. the chief motor power is ceaseless moral suasion on the part of the agents, superin-tendents, missionaries, and all connected, officially or otherwise, with the business of Indian civilization. NEW WORK. So1~ools.-The three new boarding schools which 'my last report stated were ready for opening with the new school year have been suc-ceasfully maintained a t Rou~~Vcal lley, Cal.; Grand River, Standing Rock Reservation, N. Dak.; and Rainy Mountain, Kiowa Reservation, Okla. A much-needed boarding school among the White Mountain Apaches has been substituted for the day school at that far-off point. After being closed for two years, owing to the burning of its buildings, the boarding school at Fort Peck Agency was reopened last March in the buildings vacated during the past year by the Fort Peck military post. These buildings can easily be made to accommodate 150 pupils. Their old-time interest in schools was immediately manifested by the Fort Peck Indians by promptly running the enrollment up to 132. Two new day schools have been opened among the Moqnis Apaches, one among the M~ssionI ndians in Oalifornia, four among the Sioux at Pine Ridge, and three among the Rosebud Sioux. A few day schools have been discontinued because boarding schools' were substituted, or because, for other reasons, they were not needed. Buildings.-The burned Winnebago buildings have. been rebuilt and 'occupied. The Albuquerque, Grand Junction, Fort Totten, Mount Pleasant, Mescalero, Rainy Mountain, Seger Colony, Crow Creek, San Oarlos, and Hoopa Valley schools have been given important additions to their respective plants. At Pine Ridge 11 day soh001 buildings for recitations and 12 industrial cottages, to be occupied by teachers, have been completed or are now in course of construction. Three such school buildings and cottages are nuder way at Rosebud, and three more at Fort Berthold. Some of these are for ncw schools to be opened this coming fall, but most of them are to replace wretched, makeshift build-ings, which kad been utilized and made to hold together while the experi-ment of establishing camp schools in the respective districts was being put to the test. Arrangements are iu progress.for putting up buildings in which new boarding schools shall he established at Fort Berthold and |