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Show I 22 REPORT 02 TBE COMMI~SIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIR8. T m s No. 6.-Number of district public sohaoh, showing number of pwpzpwpczIosn tracted for, enrollmmt, and average aftendancef~om 1891 to 190.9. Minsion schools.-The most valuable adjunct of the Government work of civilizing the Indian is the missionary and educational work of. the various bodies of Christians who maintain schoolv and churches in the Indian country. They are doctrinal and denominational in character, and seek to impressupon young and old the religion expounded by the respective churches. While there may have been slight friction at a few places, in the main there hss been hearty cooperation between the missions and the Government in the great work in which both are malously enlisted. The God-fearing, earnest, and sincere mission teacher is an immense power for good in uplifting the Indian race, developing the spiritual nature of its aeople, and making sober, religious men and women. Forty-four boarding school^ and 4 day schools were conducted by religious bodies or charitable organizations. The large majority are located in the Indian country in connection with mission churches and chapels. Of this number the Presbyterian Church reported 4 hoard-ing schools; the Catholic Church, 30 boarding schools and 3 day schools; the Episcopal Church, S boarding schools; the Reformed Presbyterian Church, 1 boarding school; the Congregational Church, 3 boarding schools; the Methodist Church South, 1 boarding school; the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1 hoarding school; Lincoln Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., supported by voluntary contri-butions; the Lutheran Church, 1 day school. Contract schools were abolished by the discontinuance of Govern-ment aid by Congress in the Indian appropriation act of 1901. Row-ever, a special appropriation was made in the Indian appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903, for the education of 120 pupils at the Hamphn (Va.) Normal and Agricultural Institute. The location, denomination controlling, and other information relative to mission schools will be found condensed in the following table: Number of mho018. Contract number of pupus Enroll. b.v et e mce. Ratio of attend- %:,? ment. |