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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF lNDIAN AFFAIRS. 21 SU3IMEB INSTITUTES. The institutes held for Indian school employees in the summers of 1894and 1895 have had an excellent intlnence upon the Indian schools. They develop esprit du corps, kindle enthuaiasm, give to all schools the benefit of the experience of each, acquaint the school workers with each other, turn them out of ruts into new lines of thought and method, and bring those outside and inside the Indian service into contact, to their mutual benefit. The institutes have always been well attended by those living in or near the towns in which they have been held and leading persons in the vicinity have had prominent parts in the programmes. In this way the Indian school work gets into touch with what is going on out-side the reservation and the outsider finds out what effort is made, what obstacles are met, and what progress is attained inside the Indian service. Thus prejudice and lnisunderstanding are removed, and kindly helpful interest in Indian work is encouraged or won. During the past summer institutes have been held as follows: Law-rence, Kaus., July 13 to 18; St. Paul, Minn., July 20 to 25; San Pran-cisco, Cal., August 3 to 8. The programmes and many of the papers presented accompany the report of the superintendent of Indian schools, page 359. Attention is invited to that report for detailed information as to various phases of Indian school work. INDIAN SCHOOL EXHIBIT AT ATLANTA EXPOSITION. The small amount allowed for the expense of the exhibit of the Indian Bureau at Atlanta made it necessary to restrict the exhibit to the pres-entation of the educational side of the work of the Government among Indians. owing to limited space assigned that Bureau in the exhihi-tion building, the exhibit was again restricted to the work of the school rooms, sewing rooms, and shops, omitting any presentation of the methods and results of Indian school training in other domestic lines and in farming. In the exhibit were represented 16 of the nonreservation schools, 12 reservation boarding schools, several day schools, and 2 mission boarding schools. The school.room work consisted of papers representing all grades from kindergarten to algebra, together with well-drawn maps and free-hand drawings, clay modeling and relief maps. The sewing rooms and tailor shops sent all sorts of needlework, from patching and darning and neatly made (and sometimes elaborately trimmed) underclothing to finely finished uniforms for men and cloth suits for ladies, not omitting orocheting, knitting, drawn work, and embroidery. Samples of lace from her lace-making schools among'the Chippewas were added by Miss Sibyl Carrter. . Theother school shops fi~mishedh arness, bridles, shoes, and tinware, and specimens of joiner, blacksmith, and wagou work; among them |
