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Show I 12 REPORT OF THE COMMISBIOXER OF WDIAN APEAIRS. reservation, and .I small section of the northwest corner of the Moqni Reservation, were segregated and placed in charge of the bonded superintendent of thewestern Navaho training school situated at Blue Canyon. From the above data it will be seen that, although the idea of plac-ing the educational features of the reservation in advance of that of the adults originated scarcely ten years ago, it has been practicable to carry out the same at a few places only. The experiment; for experi-ment it was, has now been fully tried, and demonstrates beyond ques-tion that the policy is in the line of good administration and makes a distinct advance in the solution of the Indian problem; At the places named the substitution of the bonded superintendent of the school for the Indian agent has invariably produced good results. The business interests of. the adults are as carefully conserved as they were under the jurisdiction of an agent, while, on the other hand, the education and civilization of these people are given their proper preeminence. r The perpetuation of the reservation and agency systems at those places where such systems have outlived their usefulness means the perpetuation of the Indian problem and indefinite appropriations by . Congress. A careful, economical administration clearly indicates the duty of this Department to advance all policies that tend to the final and early abandonment of the paternal dealings of the Government L with the Indians. That the reservation system of segregating these peoples does not solve the problem is illustrated by tbe New York Indians and the Pamunkies of Virginia. At the t.ime of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., in 1607, the territory surrounding the same was the home of three great Indian confederacies, of which the largest was the Powhatan. The most powerful of these tribes was the Pamunky, numbering at that time about 1,000. "The history of these Pamnnky Indians, whose distinction is to be the only Virginia tribe that has sur- ' vived the encroachments of civilization" until the present time, when they are still living on tbeir reservation of 800 acres, with a popula-tion of 100, fully illustrates the futility of endeavoring to solve the Indian problem by continuing longer than necessary for police and commercial reasons the numberless Western Indian reservations and ' their coordinate evils of rations, clothing, and governmental control. The Indians can not be made an integral part of the body politic or i fitted for citizenship by herding them on limited areas, with aseparate j goiernmenl, and feeding tbem in idleness; but they can be thus 'i advanced by giving the children industrial training, breaking up their reservations, and throwing them upon tbeir own resources among the \ white people. The Pamnnky Indian segregated from the people surroundin&.him has remained a Pamunky Indian for three hundred years; hut, on the |
