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Show the Five Civilized Tribes will be found on page 122, and are therefore omitted from the above table. It will be seen from the above table that there have been maintained 249 Government schools in which only Indians are taught, 25 of which are nonreservation, 90 reservation boarding schools, and 134 day schools. During the previous fiscal year there were conducted 251 ~choolsm, ak'ing a decrease of two schools. In these schools there were enrolled 24,434 pupils, an increase of 1,102, with an average attend- 4 ance of 20,540 and an increase of 1,030. Both reservation and non-reservation boarding schools show material increases to offset the decrease in average attendance of 54 pupils in the Government day schools. The following table gives a summary of schools and attendance extending through s, period of twenty-six years: TABLEN O. 12.-Number of Indian schoob and average nttendaneepom 1877 lo 19o.e.a - - . -- - - . - ... - - . -I .- I -. o3,lnc 8 1 1 111% figure, in! fhla wljl.. ssgr.rrr,p.n.lu r tu 1896 r t r s r n kw frr,m I P , ~ ~ ur.iloe s~u peTln. ten Irut of lndlnrl ivhools. A r rrvlrr t l e ? I)TC ~ l!.kl c1 1 fnlm the rcporuuf ine Ca,mrncr~on~rd 11lll:atl atfaln L'Tlor m I*! rhe lip-* inclllfl: rhr St w Yorkrd>ooC. 1 lndlau rh~ldrcnrt rrnJ1111: ~ u t l terc l.orlr: d m intl~8.ledi n chr d v r r q d strend*nx. Iotrv the schools arc ttot ~lwllldcd1 1, the n!rmLrr of scb. c.1.. 1 It will be observed from the above table that there has been a steady increase year by year of about 1,000 pupils. The possible enrollment of Indian pupils, based upon the population statistics, is about 35,000 children. The present enrollment in a11 schools is 28,610, which leaves, assuming the possible enrollment given above as approximately cor-rect, about 6,390 now not in schools. The following table gives the distribution of Indian population by States and Territories, with number of schools, capacity of same: |
