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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAI? AFFAIRS. 39 APPROPRIATION6 FOR 80HOOI. PURPOSES. The appropriations for Indian school purposes for the past twenty-four years, showing the increases and decreases over each preceding year, are exhibited in the following table: TABLE 10.-Annd appopri&hns made by the Govanment from and including lheficul year 1877fw the mpport of Indian schools. sear. Year. IA ppmplisr Per cent don. ]increase. m , O W ... 30, OW MI, OW 75, OW 75,OW ... 135 OW 4 8 7 : ~. ~ 675 200 992' em 1 1 ~ ~ 0 6 5 <<2 11'416 179'916 1: 348: 016 I 1 I1 I I I Decrease. INDIAN EDUDATION~ RESULTS. The ultimate resuIt of all Indian educational processes should be the preparation of the younger elements of the tribes for the duties and responsit)ilities of American citizenship. They ~hoold leave the schools fitted to cope with men and nature in the struggle for exist-ence. By education they should he made supcrior to their fellows in the tribes who have not taken advantage of the opportunities presented by the Government. Therefore, unless these processes produce these ~esultn,t hem should be a iadical change of methods, so that the end desired may be more quickly and effectually attained. An analysis of the data obtained by this oflice indicates that the methods of education which have been puraued for the past generation have not produced the results anticipated. I t must not be contended, however, that all the efforts have only produced failures. On April 15, 1901, a circular was addressed to all "Indian agent8 and bonded superintendents of rettervations," stating: In order that this o5ce may iorm a just estimate of the relative merits of the different methods of educating Indian children and the value of those methods in their relation to after effects upon the character and life of those who have attended the reservation and nonreeervationschools.. y. o u are directed, immediatel.v uwn receint of this circular, to make a careful canvass of all returned pupils from nonreservation schools now living upon the reservations under your oharze, and unon the within blank give theirnames and the information as.indicatebok same: You will be careful to give briefly your estimate of their character and wnduct with reference to the resuite of their educational wume at the school attended, using the following terms in their arbitrary sense, as follows: "Poor," that the returned pupil has not been, so far as his life and actions are concerned, in any manner benefited by the education which the Government has given him; " fair," that while the resulta of his |