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Show REPORT 03 TEE COi&WISSIONE& OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 21 work in preparing the way for emancipation from reservation life. Dissatisfaction with their present condition is inculcated that it may instill the desire to emulate the white man in his higher civilization. These schools are preferably of smaller capacity than the nonreser-vation ones in order that there may he a greater individual treatment of the child in the formative period of his life. There are 85 of these schools, an increase of 7 over last year. Only one large reservation is unprovided with an approximately adequate school. This is the Flathead, in Montana, where, during the past year, a small school with an attendance of 34 was maintained. The following day schools have been increased in fdcilities and classed as boarding schools: Havasupai, Aria. ; Flathead, Mont.; Southern Utah, formerly Shebit school; Bena, Cross Lake, and Cass Lake, under the Leech Lake Agency, Minn. The large Rice Station school, Arizona, add Trnxton Canyon school, Arizona, have been opened, and are now fully organ-ized. The Jicarilla school, in New Mexico, and the Southern Ute, in Colorado, will be opened early in the next school year. By act of Congress the Quapaw school, in lndian Territory, was consolidated with the Seneca school, and its boarding pupils are now cared for in the latter school. Hope school, at Springfield, S. Dak., which was originally a contract school, then leased by the Government, was pur-chased during the year, and is now conducted under the control of the Santee Agency, Nebr., as a school for girls alone. The enrollment, 10,782, and average attendance, 9,316 pupils, being an increase over last year, respectively, of 1,178 and 1,222, are grati-fying evidences of the zeal and energy of superintendents and agents in promoting educational interests on the reservations under their charge. The increase of 1,222 pupils in average attendance in these schools during the year is the largest in ten years, if not the largest ever had. Brief statistics concerning these schools are given in the following table: TABLEN O. 3.-Locatian, date of @,uening, capa~*y, enrollmat, and average attendamof Govanmat resmatzon boardznq sehoob dukgfiscal year ended June SO, 1901. &one: Colorado River ...................................... Mar. -, 1879 1% 103 Keam'sCanyon,Hopr ................................ - - 1881 168 1M Blue Canyon .......................... :. . . . . . . ~ u l y 1 '1899 . 40 69 Navaho ........................................... Dee. 25:1881 180 171 Little Water ......................................... Snly 1 1899 80 80 70 70 168 Pims ............................................... sept, -:la1 2~ 258 255 San Carlos ........................................... Oct. -,I880 200 108 Fort Apaehe. ........................................ Feb. - 1894 65 104 'a99 Rice Ststion ......................................... Deo. 1:lm m m 191 Supai .......................................... July 1,lm 46 75 72 Truxton Canyan .................................... Apr. 1,1901 1130 . M 62 "rhese figures are not counted in total of boardinp sohaols forthe rewn that the puplls were tms-ferred from the Hackberry day school to Truxton Canyon the last quarter of the 6ml yew. |