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Show REPORT OF TEE COM~SBIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 29 some years been neglected from an educational standpoint. Hence a few months ago they were placed in charge of an industrial teacher, and a day school is in process of erection. Conditions are favorable at several other reservations, and it is expected during.the year to continue the process of subdivision into small cominunities with a responsible bonded teacher. In the reports of this Office for the past four or five yeamgreat emphasis has been placed upon the above policy. A bonded superintendent has usually a less number of Indians to control thananagent has and is thereby enabled to give more individual attention to the Indians surrounding his school. The education, not only of the child when in school but on its return to the reservation, is in charge of a man who has watched its growth, seen its possibilitim develop, who, being vitally interested in its wel-fare, after it leaves the walls of the institution continues to carry out. the idea of self-support inculcated in the child while at school. The segregation of the adult Indians with their children in smaller cominunities than heretofore, in charge of a superintendent.who is bonded for the proper performance of his duties, freed from the bias of political prejudices, with his position solely dependent upon his own exertions and success in making the Indians self-supporting is, in my judgment, the only way by which the Government can finally bring theae people to a realization of their own condition and make them work as a white man has to do for his living. It is folly to educate an Indian and then pension him. Government schools teach him to work and the dignity of labor. An Indian who works is always as welcome as any other m n in any community. The Indian who is shiftless, a drunkard, and a loafer is ever an undairable element, but an Indian who can contribute to the wealth, the honor, and integrity of his neighborhood is always gladly received in it. Breaking up the reservations into small communities enables the superintendent to continue the good work of the schools, to induce the young Indian man or woman practically to carry ou& his education to his own benefit. The sphere of action is more circumscribed, but the area of results is multiplied. It brings the returned studentunder the watchful eye of the superintendent. His education is therefore con-tinued on his own farm or.iu her own home. Helpful counsel can be given in individual cases, which should undoubtedly be productive of lasting and beneficial results. The success of this policy has been unquestionably demonstrated. Everywhere it has been tried it is productive of good results. There is less scandal, less peculation, less friction than under the old agency system. Collated statistic8 relative to the length of service of the different superintendents and agents in the Indian service confirm the state- |