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Show EEPOKT OF TBX COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 19 GOVERNMENT DAY SCHOOLS. These are small schools with capacity for 30 or 40 pupils each. As a rnle they are located at remote points on the reservations, and are conducted by a teacher and a housekeeper. A small garden, some stock, and tools are furnished, and the rudiments of industrial education are given the boys; and the girls are taught the use of the needle in mending and sewing, and of the washtub in cleanliness. The prepara-tion of a small noonday lunch at the majority of the schools also gives the children an insight into the cooking and serving of a simple meal. They enjoy this lunch, as many are not blessed with an abundance at their homes, to which they return in the afternoon. The conductors of these day schools are usually a man and his wife, who are urged to be practical missionaries of the gospel of cleanliness and work to the parents as well as to the children. There were 147 day schools in operation during the year, an increase of 5 over last year. Of these schools there are 7 which are indepen-dent of an agent or bonded officer, and are conducted in rented build-ings or those furnished by the Indians or their friends. Located in isolated communities remote from a United States Indian agent or other bonded officer, they are furnished with teachers, books, station-ery, etc., direct from this office, to which reports are regularly made. New day schools were established, as follows: Flathead Reservation, Mont.; Salt River and Gila Crossing, on Pima Reservation, Ariz. ; Pes-cada, Santa Ana, and Tesuque, Pueblos, N. Mex,; Bull Creek and White River, Rosebud Reservation, S. Dak.; No. 32, Pine RidgeReservation, S. Dak. Four schools were discontinued, as follows: Spokane, Colville I Reservation, Wash.; Kiowa, Kiowa Reservation, Okla,; Little Water, Navaho Reservation, N. Mex., and Blue Canyon, Hopi (Moquis) Reser- I vation, Ariz., the last two having been converted into boarding schools. I The following table gives the location, capacity, enrollment, and average attendance of the day schools: TABLE7 . - M m , mapacity, m~ollment,a nd average adendance of Governmat day ~ sckools duringj%mal year ended June 80, 1900. hcetirm 1-1- supsi .... : ....................................................... Pims Reservstian- Gil&Cros;dng .................................................... Salt River ....................................................... Hopi Reservation (Moqu1)- Oraibi ........................................................... PO~BCC..O...... .................................................. Second M a .. .................................................. Wifomis: B%i,d.. .............................................................. Big Pine ............................................................. Bishop. .............................................................. |