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Show REPORT OF THE C O ~ 8 S I O N E R OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 19 Little Water,N. Mex. Plans for a new school at Vermilion Lake, Min-nesota, and for the Chippewas at White Earth, Minn., are being pre-pared. The large sohool plant for the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Reservation at Mount Scott, Okla., is still under consideration. At a great number of schools minor improvements of varying character have been made, so as to keep them up to the standard of efficiency. APPROPRIA!I!IONS ROB SOHOOLB. The appropriations for Indian school purposes during a series of years is given in the following table: Tmm 10.-Annual oppropriaMons nwde by the Goamment sinw thsfiawl year 1877 fm the eupport of the Iadian sohools. SUXXEB INSTITUTES. Institutes for superintendents, teachers, and others in the Indian school service have been held during the past summer at Omaha, Nebr., Ogden, Utah, and Portland, Orcg., under the supervision of the Super-intendent of Indian Schools. Good attendance, excellent programs, and lively interest insured their being of great value to the service. Cordial hospitality was extended by the authorities of the oities named, and the institutes left behind them many new friends of Indian educa-tion whose influence will be helpful hereafter. The conclusions of such a gathering of experienced Indian educators ought to have weight, and they have been summarized by the superintendent in his report, page 318, as follows: < These resolutions favor the bonding of superintendents of larger reservation aohools; the enactment and enforcement of B compulsory law to apply to Indian ohildren; the repeal of the provision requiring parmta' consent for the pupil'a trans-fer after the latter shall have sttained the age of fonrteen yearn; strict regard for existin-e ren- ulatiansin theselection and transfer of p.u p.i ls for nonreservation schoola: greater rare in the selection and prassrvation of names for Indians; the extension of the reading.circle movement; the organization of retmed stodenm into iraeocta-tion8 for self-help. They indorse rho prinoiplo of the civil-service law sa applied to the Indian sohuol sersire and the employ~nento f Indiana in positions for which they mey he fitted, halt waold have a.p-p ointments to tho puaition of teaoher limited to gradustea of regular normal ooaorses in Indian training schools. |