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Show 18 REPOET OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Location. I Our&y .......................................... Apr. -,I893 Uiathh ........................................... Jan. -1881 Wnsbingtan: Puraliup ........................................ Oat. -,I873 Pakirna ............................................. ! - -1880 1 ! __ Total ............................................. ............ 1 8,8661 8,R811 7,433 GOVERNMENT DAY SCHOOLS. The little day school, usually consisting of a recitation room, small kitchen, and teacher's residence, located on the reservation and in sight of the camps, is a center from which the missionary spirit of a faithfpl teacher and his wife may be exerted upon old and young. The work at these schools is on the foundation rather than the superstructnre, and if the day-school teacher lays well the walls upon which the fair temple of civilization is to be erected others will supplement the work and in time complete what is begun." Great iuterest is taken in the rational care and management of the sick, in the preparationof simple meals, in cleanliness and neatness of habits and dress, simple mending of torn garments, the shoeing of a horse, small repairs to furniture, gates, cultivation of the garden, and all that multitude of little duties which, added to each other, are the sumof the average man's or woman's talents. The radius of such a course of instruction widens each yea~r as the influence of the zealous teacher becomes more deeply impressed upon the little ones, who make daily pilgrimages between the smoke-filled tepees and the orderly school room. There are 142 of these schools, of which 50 are on the geat Sioux reservations of Pine Ridge and Rosebud, S. Dak., 1G among the Pueblos of New Mexico, and 11 among the Mission Indiaus of southern Oalifornia. The latter are awakening to an interest in edncation, and the establishment of schools in these ancient villages marks an epoch |