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Show SYNOPSES OF REPORTS OF SUPERVISORS OF INDIAN SCHOOLS AND SPECIAL AGENTS. Ulring the past year I haw had charge of the third superviaork diwirt, eom ria-ing the yrhools in South Dakota and Nt.hraaka and the *~:l~ooalt I'iptslone, d n n . For three months I aiw in ehara. of the whml at Albuquequc. ?IIf.e x., nnd sa ~ ~ such acted as agent for the Ptlrhh. Oeneral aonditions.--Nearly all the I n d i a ie the BfIh d h i e t are Liieu are makinl; ~wnouwndahlr progrmn toward civilization. Cnder theorderof?h:$E miwionsr of India Afiirn thc rations have been cut off from tba ahl~tmdied augl work provided for them. TWa is curtingat the ruot of the chief fault of the hioux-idlenessand improviden-which has k n p r m t l y e n n ~ u r dby the rationsystem. With this chanpr a new meaning is given for pupils ant1 arenu to the industrial e.d-nc-sa.tin-n- o.f.- n-- -n- r Indian -s cl~wlo. The Sionx are wneral6 clt%&* and tetuwrate, ~~ ~ ~ honeat and kindly. M&of them live in the =mi-d belt west of the limit pf snffiuent rainfall for field meultorp. and the on1 outlook for them seems to be m keeping cattle. For thls reasan I urge that tbeec%ools of the Missouri be assigned large tracts of land and keeo Lam herds of cattle. Iestimate that a herd of 250 cattle of all ages will keep up its ;WO number and ~opplya homliny scht,ol of 100 pllpils with all tlle Iwef neces-sary for ewn thew hrwditsry mrat eaters; hut such a lirnl will ncerl frour 3.W Io h-, .lU..U l r-u..m.-s -in- thir w~~~u-i~a riclt wit. To kwo derail# of podla out lkerdiny thr*c cattle ~ ~ will moire some chanees in the omniza%on of theS&ool work, which, however, - be bade. - The sale of heirship allotments is &in these Indians quite large amounts of money in lump sums, which is usually equanrfered very soon to the further detriment of both parents and children. But the sale of these land8 is bringing in a god rlaas of white settler8 scattered through the reservations, who me estsbltshing public schools. Nearly all the healthy children are in school through the effective work of agents and suoerintendents. and there is little active o.p.p a sltion to schools except among the wknebgo. ' COWM of #hay.-The C o m of Study is now followed wb3tantially in the literary work in all the schools. The induatrisl work lacks on the educational side, except as it is taught in the echooLmoms to oun r children. I think we mn not expect much improvement in this IinenntiTwe E v e a higher educational atandard for induatriai employees. Indian ernp1oyesa.-During the year a general order from the President has required that hereafter Indian school employees in all the more responsible pomtions shall ' pass the same examination as white employees. White Indians and Mexiana.-During this year the rule has been enforced forbidding the admission to Indian schools of ,pemons with so large an amount of white blood as to be practically white. In obedience to special orders, I have also removed from the school at Albuquerque a la e number of Mexican pu ils T h e had lnostly sufficient Indian hlood Wbe eli$le under the rules forbid8ioi the admission of "white Indiahs " but th+y were c h ~dr en of Mexicans, whose ancestors had long abandoned their t rhal relat~onsa nd had intermarried with whites. They are countad in the census as whites, and the line between themand Indiana is clearly drawn by the Mexican8 themselves. Mexi-can pupils have also been removed from the other echools in the Southwest, and I believe'it would be wise to forbid the admiasion of Mexicans into my Indian schopla. Indian pnpila in nblia schoo1a.-It is of course the object of all our educational and other work in civ$izing the Indians to fit them for full citizenship. This includes |