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Show REPOET OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN BCEOOLS. 339 Schools in bringing the matter of a wmpulsory educational law before Congress, was appointed: Supt. C. F. Pierce, Oneida, SVis.; Supt. A. H. Viets, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Supt. C. W. Goodman, Pawnee, Okla. COURSE OF STUDY. In ~ccordancew ith the request of the superintendents, and in oom-pliance with rule 5 of the Indian Eules, I am at present at work upon the preparation of a course of study for the Indian school service. RETURNED STUDENTS. Superintendent Allen, of Albuquerque, N. Mex., in his address, "How shall the educated Indian he held free from and above the degrading influences of camp life?" said: I have seen an Indian child taken from the camp Wan institution that in a few years gavehim a faint knowledgeof thecivllization that is thnglory of the Anglo- S-~a xo~n -rw e o~f - tho nineteenth ceuturv. and then sent hint hark to tho smmv of the ~~~~ ~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ - ~ ~ . ~ '1 realization that there can be no ~ l a &fi r him. ~ ; e r ry ear this sin is b i n c~or n- m~t t ed~ n nutlterous m8tanct.d by exmluely ro~~scicniidnpse ople. In manj; cuses tlle work. l~owevcfra ithfully pertorured, were1,ertcr left undone. W e i lldl&nantly den" and urooorlv too~. t.h~e assertlanriooftenmade that aneducated Indlnll irnrne. ~~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ I diaieivuniearisdl theschools have taught him when he rebrus to his home: but / this notion has not gained currency among the people without some facts tosub tain it. We must better the aims of the vonnn Indian. and to do this we must end the eri-fence of tho resrrvation and itucurnfm. Theyouth must Ire brought into and kept in our civililanon, nnleseonrcivilierltioni~ta ken to him. In many instances tribes of Indians have beeu snrro~lndedb v u cmdi.lnssof whitesettlere. In thaaa communities the debasing camp life is eridinh. You do not need to iwuire how rtr keep an erlllcated Wyindottc away from tGe camp, for thrre is no camp. The work there 18 uccd~nplished, ntlil the ttllle is comlni: when the Oorelnment may well ronnt tho task c(8ntnleted: but there ia an alwnat huoelava taw before u* in tho less favortd regi~rus'oi the fur west. You might havi sn Indian child 6rlish all thecn~~r sirns8 11 thr.~r~~lytecl~utc~chothoels uonfl verseand unles* ?onlaemploy-m ~ n irs i ,r~vlJaJf ur tho s n ~ ~ l cwn rlt tn he has rrturlled to the cnmn he ~nov-itahlv be' com~elledto drou back into the customs of the CamD. = To- s l~~nnp. -rheu. krop lilm nlluva und frct f r o u the debaskg in8uenc.e~o f the camp by keeping. Itim ;,way irom it. There is uo other way. Smzl some oua elm ah a missiolmry 10 tho tribe to elevate the old. The rehool bog or girl can not do it. The downpnll o r the triha is ((rcntervi~~tlythuthno uplift of a few unassisted boys and girls. I do uot monn hy tho foregoing to intimate that work on reserva-tlonsisentlrely wilsted, but workshuuld be done to remove the camp life wherever it 15 ~wsiUe. In the discussion that followed this paper, Superintendent Collins, of Rapid City, S. Dak:, stated that ' L t,he children return from school and are willing to work, but there is no work for them, and there is nothing for them to do except to return to camp life. The solution is to give work to the educated and the uneducated, by which a living can be earned, and it is earnestly hoped that the Department can see its way clear to provide such work." Superintendent Locke, of Fort Hall, Idaho, stated that he had found the weeks spent at home during vacation were detrimental to the children. Superintendent Breen, of Fort Lewis, Colo., thought that the indus-trial feature in the education of the Indians should be very much more prominent than the literary, and that they should be taught that labor is not degrading, and should depend upon their resources and not upon any claims on the Government. Superintendent Viets, of Santa Fe, N. Mex., stated that it was his |