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Show 42 COMMIBf3lONER OP INDIAN AFE'AIR8. As more and more educated students return to their homes, the easier the day school problem becomes. They appreciate education and unconsciously transmit the influence to their offspring. The Indian is naturally gregarious, and in his aboriginal state lived in villages. Under the present policy of segregation the day-school teacher has every facility to supplement or rather to assist the work of the farmer. On several reservations steps are being taken to reduce the capacity of the boarding school and to establish day schools. This course is intended to furnish feeders for the larger and better equipped institu-tions, where civilized lif8, manners, and customs can be taught to better advantage. The day and boarding schoolv of the reservation thus correlate the work of civilization, and the time is fast approach-ing when the former will be filled with children of civilized parentage. and the latter may be dispensed with entirely. As foreshadowing the policy of the day schools, in the following quotation from my first annual report in 1897, I said: While the results secured in these schools are not so noticeable ss those obtained in the boarding schoolq yet they are of permanent value in forming the character of the pupils. Day schools are foundstion stones upon whlch the boarding schools build the superatmcture. The teacher snpplementa work in the school room by missionary work among the older Indians, and appliances and conveniences which civilization brings to the white man's home gradually find their way into the aig-wam and tepee. As the advantages of a clean, well-ordered domestic life begin to dawn on the youthful Indian, he daily babeare mule portion of the impression to his home, and his conduct betokens the gradual modifiation of inherited tendencies. There were conducted during the year 138 day schools, a decrease of 2. New schools established were as follows: Fort Peck Reservation, Mont.; Camp McDowell, near Phoenix, Ariz.; Cibicu, on Fort Apache Reservation, A'iz.; McCarty's and Miseta, among the Pueblos of New Mexico; Portemille and Pembina, on the White Earth Reservation, Minn. These day schools were not in operation for various reasons: Net Lake, Normautown,and Lac Courte Oreille, Wis.; Santo Domingo, N. Mex.; Tesuque, N. Mex.; Tonkawa, Okla.; Potter Valley, Cal.; Upper Pine Creek, S. Dak. TABLEN O. 6.-Loeation, capacity, enrollment, and average nuemdance of Gouemmmi d a y schools duringfiscal year mded June 80, 1904. Amna: Pims Reservation- Gila Crossjng .................................................... 40 8slt River .................................................. 40 Madeopa ........................................................ 40 h h i ............................................................. 40 Blaok W8ter ..................................................... 40 Caaa Blanca ..................................................... 40 FOrt Apache- Cibicu ........................................................... 45 |