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Show REPOBT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 11. of the country, in the Indian schools an industrial course of study should also be adopted, so as to train these youths in knowledge which will have practical utility for them in the environment in which by force of circnmstances they are placed and doubtless will be placed for years to come. Any system, Indian or otherwise, which overlooks that method of industrial instructiou by which the great masses of our people, who do not intend to enter the professions, are to be benefited must be con-demned as unwise. Few Indians, in the brief time which has elapsed since their race emerged from barbarism, have sufficient natural apti-tude and acquirements to compete successfully with the white race in those professions which are the outgrowth of higher collegiate train-ing. Therefore, I fcel that our Indian youth should receive a vigorous practical education to fit them for the average walks of life. With this in view a commercial course has been added during the year to the facilities hitherto oEered by Haskell Institute. This school has just graduated its first normal training class of tno young women and five young men. RESERVATION GOVERNMENT BOARDING SCHOOLFJ. Seventy-seven Government boarding schools were in operation upon the various reservations, whose location, capacity, and date of opening are set forth jn the subjoined table: TABLE 6.-Location, capaoily, and date of opening of Qonemlnsnt reamation boa~ding schoozs. Arizona: coiorado Biver .................... Eeame Canyon .................... Naaqt., Agency ......-..-----...... Pims. .................. .. san Carlos .................................. . White Mountain Apaohe C&liCornia: Fort Puma ..........-.......---..- xoopa valley ...................... Round Valley ..................... 1 SO Id-. -I879 90 - ,1887 120 Deo. -,I881 I50 Sept.- 1881 100 oot. -: U80 65 ( Feh. -, I894 Idaho: FortH ell .......................... 150 - -,I874 FortLspwai ....................... 250 Sept. -,I888 Lemhi ............................. 40 Sept.-,1883 m i a n remtaq ...................... Quapaw ........................... 80 S e p t . 1~87 2 Senma. Shawnee. sod Vpndotte.. l40 June -, 1872 Bspn by Frienns aa o hm. aaylom in 1887 vnder oontr8oTwith tr~ba K;10888: giokapoo .... ; ..................... M ~ot. -,1671 ~ottawatomie.. ................... 80 - -,I873 SBC znd Fox and Iowa 40{ g -, .............. I871 Iowa. spL , 1 8 7 5 Sac and For. Minnesota: Lwab Lake ...................... ..( 50 SOT-,. 1867 Pine Point ......................... 100 ACm. -,1892 Prior to this dats a contract eqhool opened in November,l888. Red Lake ........................ ../ BO NOT. -. 1877 Whlte Earth ....................... I 54 - I871 Bnilding bnmedinF8brn~ry.1895. Wild Rice Ri ~m.... ............ ...I 85 Mar. -, 1892 Prior to this dste a oontrnot achool opensdin Nouemer, 1888. - |