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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIBS. 3 I I EDUCATION. The eduoation of Indian pupils during the fiscal year just closed has been conducted upon the same lines as those laid down during the past few years--through the medium of nonreservatiol~ boarding schools, reservation boarding and day schools, contract boarding and day schools, and public schools carried on under State supervision. ATTENDANCE. I The enrollment and average at$endance at thevarious Indian schools for 1894 and 1895 are exhibited in the following table: I TABLE 2.-EwoZlmmt and anwage attendance at Indian achools, 1804 alul1896. I Enrollment. Average Hind of school. 1 attendanoe. 1894.- 1 18g5. 1 1894.a 1 1895. ---- ==-= I . Publio day sohoole. .......................................... 204 319 102 192 Mission sohoole not assisted by the Government; boding . . -- 194 Aggregate ............................................. 21,RlQ 23.036 17,220 18.163 1nrne-e ........................................ 1 .......... 1,417 .......... 968 hernment sohoola: ti^^ training ................................. Resenstion boarding. ................................... D~~ ...................................................... Tobl .............................................. contraat sahools: ~os rdin.g. ............................................... Day ...................................................... Boarding, apecidly rrppmpristed for ..... Total ............................................ I 1 I I a These Bprea are taken fmm table on page 510 of report for 1894, made np fmm later mtorns thsn table on psge 14. I These figures do not include schools among the Five Civilized Tribes nor those which the State of New York provides for her Indians. Therefore it is peculiarly gratifying to note the fact that from the remaining tribes 23,036 Indian pupils are now gachered together under the civilizing influence of schools and brought into daily contact with enlightened ideas and customs. This is over 60 per cent of the entire Indian school population exclusive of the New York Indians and the Five Civilized Tribes. Every agency and almost every reservation has one or more school plants, many of them well equipped with modern conveniences and fully adipted to their purpose. The older Indians seem more favorably disposed toward education than hitherto, and agents and superintendents are not now encounter-ing the unreasoning opposition to schools so common in the earl~er history of this work. Indians are beginning to rehgnize that the old order of things has passed away with the buffalo, and that only by educating his children can the Indian compete with the white man in the struggle for life. This fact is disclosed in reports, and is demon-strated in the increased attendance. 4.350 7,631 3,256 -1-5,23 7 4,147 598 I. 2 a 6.016 4,673 8.008 3,848 -16,584 3.8~3 688 1.319 5.880 a,609 6,146 2.082 -. -11,831 3,58a 428 1,152 5.163 - 3 180 d 477 2:523 12,BM 3 . 4 ~ 4W 1.185 4 . M |
