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Show run Indian schooling into the regular educational ~haunelosf the couu-try is shown by the following table: TABLE 8.-P&bZi~ 80h00k at which Indian pt'pila ,were plawd under eonboot with th Indtan Bureau during the jiscal yea* ending JiLne $0, 1894. Nebraska: .................. .... South Dakota: Plam Valley District Rad River Dietriot, Stanlegcounty 12 Sahool District No.1. .................. Sohool Diatriot No. 3.. ................. No. 12. Box Elder Coontv ..... 40 Californis: Pupila. Helm .................................. 13 Meadow View.. ........................ 11 noun valley .......................... 30 Minnesota: YohoolDistriot No. 4 ................... B School District No. 7 (indamendent) .... 3 OkhhomsiContinned. Pupils. Soh001 Distriot No. 77.. ................ 13 School District No. 32. ................. 3 sahool ~ i a t r i oNtO . 83. ................. a SchoolDistriut No. 90 .................. 2 Orepon: Diatrict N:. 32. ........................ 3 The strange language and the uncouth customs-barriers which the public schools areintended tobreak down-are the very obstacles which. prevent the entrauce of the naturally shy and usually poorly fed and meagerly clad Indian child into B public school. The need of special schools for Indian youth in which they shall have specially adapted help for becoming assimilated in thought and habits with their inexor-able civilized surroundings will continue many years. But there are small groups of Indians scattered all over the country for whom no such schools can be provided. Moreover, the ultimate end of absorbing" our small Indian population into our school system, as well as our civil polity, must be kept constantly in viev and every effort made, by pres-sure and persuasion, to increase the attendance of Indian pupils at. public schools. So far as this office is concerned, the persuasion consists largely in oflering to every public school district which has Indian children within its limits the sum of $10 per pupil per q2arter for all Indian children actually attending the school, such coinpensation to be computed on their average attendance. The terms are as follows: The party of the seoond part [the school district] for and in consideration of the oompecsation herinafter named, agrees: To admit to the public sohool maintained at ppnblio expense in sahoal district named - during the fino* year ending June 30,1895, -Indian pupil8, which Indian pupils shall be entitled to all the privileges of white pupils attending said sc h To instruct such Indim pnpils in classes with the white children (except as pro-vided hereinafter) in the common English branches, giving to eaoh of said Indian pnpils the aame oilre and attention in matter and methods of instruction as is given to the white pt~pilsin said classes end school. SohoolDistdct No. 36 .................. 3 Oklahoms: . Sohool Dirtriot No. 18.. ................ 13 sohaolniatriet No. 29.. ................ 3 School Diat+t No. 305. ................ 8 School Diatriot No. 47 .................. 4 Soha01 Distriot No. 68. ................. 3 School Distriot No. 71 .................. 3 Sahool District NO. 74.. ................ 10 Waahingttt: District No. 10, Pierce Coontg ......... 1 District No. 53, SkagitCoun.tg ......... 8 District Bo. 87, King CounQ .......... 12 Wiaoonsin: Town of Ashland.. .................... 12 - Total ............................ 259 |