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Show 14 EEPORT OF THE COMMISBIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Arrangements are in progress to erect additional buildings at Potta. watomie and Great Nemaha, Fort Lapwai, Fort Berthold, Pine Point, and Wid Rice River schools; also to give five new schools to the Navajoes. Their educational awakening was referred to in my last report, and ittention called to the importance of responding vith illcreased school facilities. For 20,000 nomads upon alarge and mostly barreu reservation several separate schools must be provided, and I have decided that, at present, instead of enlarging the one boarding school now there, it will be better to establish at each of five principal points where there is plenty of water a school to accommodate and care for 50 pupils. They will be erected this fall, and I am in hopes will prove a great blessing to the Navajoes, who are now clamorons for the schooling which they formerly scorned. One of the new day schools opened last year was given these people. A delegation of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, under the charge of Captain Woodson, acting United States Indian a.gent, who visited Washington last spring, manifested considerable interest in obtaining better school facilities for their people. After fully considering the matter with he agent, it has beeu deeided to erect a new school plant at the Red Moon issue station which will acommodate about 60 pupils. NEEDS. The needs of the Indian school service are many, but I desire now only to call attention to the most important or the most obvious. My attention has been directed to the large number of chlldret~o n the Kiowa, Comanche, andWichita Indian Reservation. About 400 are yet to he provided with school accommodations, although this reserva-tion has now four boardin'g schools, at Fort Sill, Riverside, Washita, and Rainy Mountain, respectively. The Washita school, with a capacity of 150, must be abandoned,,as the buildings are dangerously worn out, and it will.cost more to repair them than they are worth. It is proposed to discontinue this school and increase the capacity of the remaining three so as to accommodate the school population unpro-vided for now: To make these changes properly will cost not far from $50,000. 1 Wbile the needs of the La Poiute Agency have been partially sup. plied by the new Lac dn Flambeau school, there is great need for board-ing schools upon other reservations under that agency. The various Indian communities are so widely separated that each one needs its , own school. Early this year the school plants at Santee, Nebr., and White Earth, 1 Minn., were destroyed by fire. Temporary arrangements have been inade to continue these schools and it is proposed to rebuild as soon a8 i practicable. The large Pine Ridge Agency has been withont a. Government board. ing sohool einoe its buildings burned in February, 1894, while Rosebud |