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Show REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. 339 TRANSFERS. I am gratified to learn that the tenLative experiments mde with reference to the svstem of transfers of children from Indian reservation day schools and kservation boarding schools to nonreservation schools, as well as from nonreservation schools of Olass I to nonreservation svllool.; of' Cli~ns1 1, 11:lt.e bee11 s~~t i icie~so~ctclyes sfi~lt o 1v:trrant a more stringent euecntiun o f t l t a ~ ~Il sau~bl~ni tred to the 1ndia11O ffice on AI:trc!h 7 of l ;~s tv r:Ir. hluel~b ullelit will wme to the ludiun rjcliool dervice iu this impo;taut matter from the abrogation of the clun~sya nd expensive ways of collecting pupils through agents of rival boarding schools aud from a syste~natic observation of the climatic and personal needs of the children to be transferred. COMPULSORY &IEASU&ES. On the nl~oleo, pposition on the part of Indians to the work of the sehools is bvingstetldily orercollle. School nttcndauce keeps paco fhirly well with increased and imnrove~lf acilities tnr the ~ccolllwod~tioalml 1 iustroction of cliiltlls~~rh;k trn~lsferoic hil~lre;l~~w :~yti.omro servatior~s to il~tlusrrialt rsi l~i l~tigel ~oolnu lrets with cle[.r~asil~opl~ positic~ann, d in manv instances is ofen sought bv Inore intelliwnt darents. Neverthe- ~ess,"t~iere:~lorcoa lities in \vL'irh nbm nnd tho18t Lc cobser\~ati\~ee~eme~~ts, unclrr tho laudcrslip 01' 111edi1.iuoIU CII a~l dv hiefs, ;iuragoniee tlir eiti)rta <~f'tho(;ovcrnmenFt or theeduc:~tioo~t'l~n dian youth. 111a fen.i~~stauccs, roc,, this tendelley is fi~xtered1 1y ~ ~ n s c r u l , ~w~hliote~ I~nesn , nl~of,o r the purponeof gniu, seek to cajole the Indians by encouragiug them in false ..,..,.,a ".U,.U. More particularly, where Indians have been allotted and have acquired citizenship, designing demagogues teach them not infre-qnently to appeal to local courts in order to prevent the 'Labduction" of their children to Indian schools or to compel their return therefrom. While, therefore, on the vhole, the development of the full consent of the Ind~ansto the education of their children might be left to a natural course of ilealtl~yd e'ieloplueut, it woultl seem n&.essa~i.l l~ a number of instanced that sollie sort of c o ~ ~ ~ p u lhsei od~er~is etl for their p~.otectiol~ against designing conservatives in their own ranks, as well i s against evil.i~itentioued demagogues among their white neighbors. It is to be hoped that Congrefis at its ensuing session will empower the Indian OEce to afford such protection in a11 cases where it may become desir-able to do so. WHITE INDIANS. Inspecting officials are frequently embarrassed on visiting boarding schools by the discovery that among the children there are many who apparently have very little Indian blood, if any. On inquiry, these children claim a slight degree of Indian blood, varying from one- Rixteenth to one sixty-fourth. In a number of instances, however, it is found that they are the children of white parents who were adopted into the tribe previous to the census for registering its members. In most cases the parents of these children are sufficiently well-todo and able to provide for their education. For a ni~mber of reasons the presence of these [[white Indians" in the sci~ools is liable to beconle a disturbing element in its life, either throng11 the greater natural turbulence of the white blood in their veins or through fancied superiority of race. Moreover, these children upon |