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Show 94 REPORT OY THE COMMISSIONER OF lNDIAN AFFAIRS. I Seminole Bation.-As yet no attempt has been made to take control of the Seminole schools pending their agreement. The following table shows for the past year the enrolhnent, average attendance, etc., of the schools of this nation : I I 1 I I I I The boarding schools of the various nations appear to be the favored institntions, and it is nnt unusual to find four or five children of one family in such a school, while some Indians who have reared large families of children have never been able to get them assigned to such a school. The money of the natious seems to have been expended upon these institutions, while the little districts desiring school faoili-ties must erect their own neighborhood schools, and as a natural result they are cheap and squalid affairs, unfitted for the purposes for which they are intended. Neighborhood schoo1e.-the following table gives the s'tatistics, number of neighborhood schools in each nation, their cost (so far as obtainable from meager statistics), and enrollment: Nation. 1 ' Annua Enroll RO;;ls. j M S ~ . I merit: ( . ~-- - . - I - Chemkee ................................................................ 124 $30,180 4,258 Chootaw ................................................................ 100 35.U00 ......... Creek ................... ........................ 65 17,100 ......... Chickasaw .............................................................. 13 26,000 355 Seminole ................................................................ ......... 1 --,-- 2 I Total ............................ ............................ I 113.880 ......... I 36i I Choctaw and Chiakasaw Freedmen-the freedmen of these two nations me, by agreement,prohibited from sharing in the school funds of either nation which are derived from royalties on coal and asphalt. These freedmen do not stand in the same relation as '<intruders," but have certain rights as citizens. They are very poor, and some provision must be made for their education. White Persons.-There are said to be over 200,000 white people in the Indian Territory, which would give a white scholastic population of probably forty or fifty thousand. No general provisions have been made for their edl~cationa, lthough in some of the towns and cities efforts are made in that direction. The condition of these children is as deplorable, if not more so, as that of the Indians. They are prac-tically without school facilities, their parents are taxed by the Indian authorities, and yet none of this money is utilized for the benefit of their |
