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Show REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. 327 Such a literary or scientific club call also raise its qnestioi~, can analyze this question, assign to individuals or committees the task of finding and collating facts and other data relating to the several fea-tures of the question, listen to the r a~or t sof these committees, afford every member an opportunity to make up his mind in the light of these reports and to express and defend hls honest conviction-tl~inlring and talking on his feet-in words burning with the love of high principle and reverellce tor truth. SUMMEIL INSTITUTES AND TEACHERS' MEETINGS. The summer institutes have continued to exercise their favorable influence upon the organization and character of work in Indian scbools. Local i~~st i tutehsa ve increased in interest and value. Employees' meetings at individual schools arel I am informed, steadily gaining both in the scope and intei~sityo f thew cliscussions. Thevalueof these employees'nleetings at individualschoolsoannot be overestimated. They afford,more than any other device, opportunities for studvine the children. tbr adautineboth the industrialand class-room mo1.1r n ~ o ~ ~ ~ ' c lto silehliv~id u:li ~BrGds,f or i~~titblilldgi flkre~~dte pttrt. llleuts oi i~~srl.uctiaunr~d\ vork tonid o l ~ e a ~ ~ ~an~t1t tl~~rje dru ee~n~itual 11iAic11ltie.iin rhe ~)ertnrmaucao f tl~ei1r 111tien. Thev R~OI IhIeL Ih eld, i i possible, every wick. In some of the schools one of the pra~tica~lmlyo st valuable outcomes of these meetiugs has been the visiting of the industrial departme~~ts by groups of children under the direction of the teachers for the sake of gaiuiug points aod themes for class-room work. In others, repre-se~ ltativeso f the industrial denartments make it a noint to keen class-room t6~:1cherseo11st.1ntploys teil as to the work tbei are doiur: iud tho dircvtioae in wl~i r lt~lw y CCII be .lidell 111 such work by clas,-ruom instruction and drill. - During the summer of 1897 institutes were held at Omaha, Nebr., Ogdeu, Utah, and Portland, Oreg. At all of theseinstitutes the attend-ance and interest manifested were gratifying. The meeting at Omaha was t l ~me ost notable ill the entire series of institutes so fa,r held, not only because of tho large general attendance, but also because of the ereat number of Indian emuloyees who took an intelligent n.nd heloful A - ;art in the ~liscnssion. : The prolllluellt S I I I I J ~ C ~dSis ei~sseda t the three inatitnten sar,esaively were: . .E~l~~va tf~oro tnru e manhood and 11-omanhood." '.Tl~er elatiou of returned s t u d e~~ttos reservation schools and reservation life,)>( &The reservation school a ~ l dth e Indian home," LLIndiasnc hool employees in Indian schools," "The organic connectiou betveen industrial and aca-demic trainingin 111dia1s1c hools," "Eon~afe ati~reosf the Indian school," "The dining room and dormitory as civilizi~~fagc tors i l l Indian edoca-tion," and "Class-room work in sewing and cooking?' The papers read upon these subjects at tllc different institutes and extracts from the discussions thereon will be printed in the proceedings, which will form all appeudix to this report. Miss Jenny Ericson, of Carlisle, Pa, was detailed by the Indian Ofice to aontinue her instructive series of lessons on the subject of iLSl~yd77 at all of tho it~stitutes. Superiutendcnt Viets, of the Cheyeune School, Oklahoma Territory, was similarly detailed to present the subject of L' School sanitation." Miss Cora M. Polsom, under the gederous auspices of Hamptou Institute, presented at all the iustitntes a valuable paper on the ((Returned studeuts of Hampton." Thesuperintendent of Indian |
