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Show I REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 21 The following table will exhibit the enrollment and average attend. ance at all the schools for the fiscal year 1899, aggregated and com-pared with the fiscal year 1898: TDLE NO. 10.-hrolltnent and average attendance of Indian eohoola, 1898 and ,1899, showing inoraaaa in 1899; also number ~~'sohoolien 1899. Enmllment. End of sohool. of Government aohoola: Nonreaeroatio~l boarding ......... Reservation boarding ............ D ~ .Y... .......................... Tots ........................... Contraot ~ohools: Boarding ......................... Day ............................. Boarding speciallly appropriated for .............................. I Dem-e. Thirtg.sir public sohoola in whioh ~upi lm. tsughtnot ennmerated hem. 1 Theas8choohare oondmted by religions eooleties, some of which receive fmm the Government for theIndian children therern the rations andclothing tonhiohthe ohildrenareentitled to asreservation Indians. Totd ........................... Poblio ................................ Mlssian boarding. ................... Mission day ......................... Aggregate ..................... Statistics relating to education among the Five Civilized Mbes and the Indians of New Pork are not included in the above table. Of the 294 schools condncted nnder various auspices, 243 are exclusively nnder the control of the Indian Department, an increase of 1 in the number of Government schools. Reservation school plants at Fort Berthold, N. Dak., and Winnebago, Nebr., having been destroyed by fire, these schools were discontinned, while new ones at Cantonment on the Chey-enne and Arapahoe Reservation, Okla., and near Toledo, Iowa, for the Sac and Fox Indians of that State, were established. The school at Znni Pueblo, N. Mex., was changed from a day to a boarding school. The following day schools were discontinned: Gull Lake, on White Earth Reservation, Minn.; No. 4, on Fort Berthold Reserva-tion. N. Dak.; one on Rosebud Reservation, 8. Dak.; Nett Lake, on La Pointe Reservation, Wis.j Nos. 3 and 5, on Oneida Reservation, Wis., and the Znni, N. Mex., above referred to. Seven new schools of this class were established at Baird, Gal.; Blue Canyon, Ariz.; Fall River Mills, Gal. j Tulalip Agency, Wash., and Pecuris, Nambe, and Pajare, under Pueblo and Jicarilla Agency, N. Mex. As the Lac Court dlOreilles Day School was condncted for nine months during the fisoal year 1898 as a contract school, it was classed in this list, but as it is now entirely nnder Government control it is eliminated as a contract ncbool, which, with the discontinuance of the rontract 6,175 8,877 -4,-807 -18.888 2,509 98 -3-94 --2,-8-99 315 897 -2-15 24.325 6,880 8.881 -4,851 20,712 - 2,168 42 -393 --2.-903 a26 1.078 --132 25,202 TO5 4 -104 --8 13 141 54 --'1 ----18 % 11 182 ----1-3 8 877 5,801 7.532 -3.2-86 ----16,1-6-5 -- 2,246 Bs -3-26 --2,--688 183 183 145 -- 19,815 6,004 7.433 -3,-281 16,718 - a158 28 -3 35 -- 2.5U 1116 1 --- -- - 167 116 880 177 --1-54 -- -- 3 20,522 607 657 188 --1 6 553 36 39 9 - ---- 32 (2) 3 236 25 76 14% 243 28 a 2 |