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Show I 482 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. devote themaelvea to family life. Is it necassary they should know algebra or rhetoric or have been the cantain of a hall team. for this nnmose? Think not that I wish todkparage higher docation or iitaiary trainine-never. The reservation school shonld give its pupils athoroogh knowledge of thecommon b~r-a~n~ch~e s. van more. it should ina.nlcate a taste for thb hieher: csorciallv pl~ouldi t ~ ~~ -.,-. ~~ ~ ~~~-~~ ~~ ~~~ --- . ~ ~~ ----, ~~=~~~~ . ~ ~ - ~ ~ foster a iefish for mod. sonnd literature. which whilst affordin.. innocent amuse meot, prevents dekired fur the forbidden urrd aids en powerhlly iu character molding. Unt whilst literary pornnits receive ~pecial attention, the indudrrial m- -u~a~t~ uwer he norlcrid. Ilrnce ererr clnv school eoudoct~alc cordine to th,, wise c6Rulefso ; the ~~di&s choo~le rviee:" fcmiliar toyou all.~must~ r a v zon e of the granted factors I!. rlw uplifting~,it here~erviatlont rihe. Hut lo :dmPlg with,thc-e ia nocmy task, and if there IJ any one ~ . a ~ i.,tI : i n the Iudian school 8crr11.ai n which de%,ot~,=l.I f-saerificinu wru :~ndw om.n are inorethanin any other "lace a desideratum, it is in the day school. To conclude. I repeat, every day school conducted according to the Rules of the Indian School Service exerts a powerfully uplifting influence on the tribe. [Mr. M. M. JIURPBY. Teacher Kingman Day School, Arizonn.] The ignorance and superstition of the old Indiana must he overcome before any permanent advancement ciln LC made iu thn worlr of civillation. That this cad-not all he done through the medium of returned students lias been amply demou-stratell. Every sul,erintcncleut would Like to haye hi? popit8 spared irum tho ordaaloPcamplifeorrcservatiunlifeifitwere~rssil~leY. etthcseretnmedsto~lentn woold be a powerful filctor fdr civiliratiun, lf the proper coudltions provailrd ,%t home. Those ~:onditiouca~n be hrouaht:~l~otohtr oneh well e<roiooeda ~rdor onerlv conducted day schools. A large uu6ber of lndiausare iudiffeidnt to educ~tio~i. But if theif children must go to ?+hool, they would adv0oate.a day school. The dav school is 1n touch w ~ t hth e Indians. and is the nroosr mndlum throneh whioh ~~ ~~. ~~- ~ - ~- -~ ~ ~ - - t&each their homelife. wecsn readily see that a Gonng person n&di home train-ing as well as school training to fit him for the battle of life. HOWM ANY YEARSC AN PROFITABLBYE SPENTA T A DAY SCHOOL? [REUBEN PensY, soperintendent Lao du Flambean Sehoul, Wisoonsin.1 The primary purpose of Indian edncation is the oivilization of the race, the instilling into them of industrious, thrifty, and cleanly habits, and giving them knowledge to live and support themselves in a civilized way. All schools that efficiently help in attaining this are beneficial to the Indian and should be given due credit for what they accomplish. It takes day reservation and nonreaervstionschoola to make the system com-plete. The da school should give the child a few years' training and then pro-mote him to txe reservation hoarding school. The reservation boarding school should, after the course is completed, enooorage the brighter pupils to attend a nonreaervation aohool where they can learn more of the outside world and more of civilization and civilized pnrsuits. In answer to the question, "How many years can pxofitably be spent at a day school?" I would say that, under ordinary circumstances pupils should he trans-ferred to a hoarding school after finishing the third-reader grade and when they are 10 to 12 yews of age. TEE FUTURE OF THE PUEBL~OD I A N . [BURY E. D I S ~ ESn,p~ wi.VidngT eacher of the FJanta Fe Day schools. Santa Fe., N. Mex.] The fntore of the Pneblo Indian will brighten when we be 'n to treat him as a reaponaihle haman baing to whom wo show the same respect ttat we domand from him; whcn we judge him, as we do other people, by the aharacter, and not tho com lerion. &must then providein tho futnresnch practicaleducation as \rillenablethese chi.dron to mako the most of the resources and opportunities of their home hfe. We must study the conditions of their homes, and prepare them to meet and improre them, not by destroying and abolishing the native art8 and employtnentv of their parents, hut by hringrng to them the lwnefitsof the trainod hand and eyr. impro\~ngth eir quality and airtencling thcir illarket. Self-sopport meanssoll-respect, which ia the basis of all moralitg. I believe. therefore, that with the intrrwlnction intn these villages of thosl~~nninwgh eels and hanlllaxns of our b~andmothers, there \vonld also follow some of the shining vir-tues for which rhay waro so conapicooua. |
