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Show 372 REPORT OF TEE WPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN 80HOOL8. The Fort Totten Industrial School, a bonded school on the Devil's Lake Reservation, is an excellent one and has been very successful the past year. The average attendance has been about 312; Special attention is paid to agriculture, the school havin a farm of 740 acres, 240 acres of which are under cultivation and pro $ uce sufficient to sup-ply the school needs and maintain the stock. Five hundred acres of good pasture land afford grazing for the dair herd and the working animals. The boys are given instruction in a 9 1 branches of industrial training, and the girls are learning to become good housekeepers. This school is under competent and sk~llfuml anagement. The school conducted under the supervision of the Gray Nuns had a good attendance of Sioux children, and excellent work is done under the faithful direction of these self-sacrificing women. Oregon.-Grande Ronde.- There are about 350 Indians here-citizena-having the azme rights as white men. They hold oEce, etc. With the exception of a few aged and infirm, they are self-supporting. They do not rent their lands; some till their allotments and others use the,= land for hay a d pasturage. All wear citizen's clothes, and 85 per cent of the childresare in school. The principal occupations are farming and stockmising. The enfollment of the Grande Ronde Boarding School was 83. Es ecial attention has been given to industrial training. Individual anlclass rdens are tended by the pupils. The boys have done es e . cially welff&in carpentering. The gmls have been taught all braucles of housework. The management of this school is particularly good, and reat credit is due the superintendent. sifetz- Most of the Indians here are self-mp Nearly all speak English and bnt few are receiving rations or annuitiee. $e%& rent their land, the m$;rity pre-ferring either to till or graze it. &veuty-one per cent of the children attend school. All wear citizen's clothes. Many of the11 homes are neat and well kept. More p i n is sown each year and they are leading industrious lives, working where they can find employment. At the small boarding school of about 40 children the management is excellent, and great pro ress and im rovement have been made dur-ing the past few years. h e school c&ldreu all speak English. A small dairy herd is maintained, which supplies milk and butter for the school-enables the boys to learn the care of cattle, and the girls to become proficient in butter making. A11 departments of the school have been well conducted, and a number of pupils have been prepared for transfer to the Chemawa School. The management reflects great credit upon the superintendent, J . J. McKoin. Chemawa.-Salem Training School.-This is the largest Indian. school in the Northwest, havin an enrollment of 706. The farm and arden work are much better t % an in former gears. The students who fave been graduated from industrial departments have been successful and have reflected credit upon the institution. The boys are taught trades well. The literary work has been satisfactory. The hospital is one of the best in the service. Umatiia.- Thw Incliana areall ~U.mpporting,and 8C, per cent of them speak Engliah. None of tl~emr rreive rations or aunuirien. .4 rnajonty of those having lands am tilling it, althnlloh ko~nca re~ ~ra- ntine their allotments. U~arlvalwl earriti~~~n's~~lotlrNeinn.r tv ~ ~~ ~~~ ~ per cezt of the d r e n in khool: ~arn&<iathe princi 1 occu ation a hi present condition of the Indiana upon this reservation is all t%t t, ?x ex&ted. |
