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Show COMMIBBIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRB. 45 Contracts were made for the enrollment of Indian pupils in public schools, as follows: TABLEN o. 7.-Pllblffi achwla at which Indianpupila were placed under conhad with th Indian Bupeau, during the@uzl year mded June SO, 1904. Aver- *nee. Miehign .............. Nebrwka .............. South Dakota .......... Toel One difficulty encountered in sending Indian children to white . schools is the irregular attendance. The Indian parent is not suf-ficietitly alive to the importance of education to compel attendance, and on the other hand the average public school teacher wnniders her duties at an end when school closes in the afternoon. The result of this indifference is disclosed in the following table: I TABLE No. 8.-Number of diahictpuhlic schools, showing number of pupil8 coniracted for, a r o b t , and avwage attendance from 1891 to 1904. No.9 ................ No.14 ............... N0.17 ........................................ N0.18 No.92 .................... N0.86 ............... Independent ....... Year. 1,891... ............. .................................................................................. 1883.. ............................................... 1894 ................................................ 1896 ................................................. 1% ............................................... 1897.. ............................................... 1898 ................................................. 1899 ................................................. 19W ............................................ 1901 ...................................... :... ....... 1903 ................................................. 1903 ................................................. 1x4.. ............................................... Lapeer ............................ Thurston do ................ do .............. 1. do ................ Knox ................. Stanley ............... Miniasion nchool8.-From the earliest colonial times, from the days of Elliott and Pere Marquette, to the present, the Christian bodies of our country have manifested great interest in the Indiin. Earlyin~. the field, devoted missionaries pushed on with the pioneers, and fre- ' quently in advance, in their earnest, self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of spreading the gospel among our lndiin wards. With the Bible and the schoolbook, they dotted the West with churches and mission schools, from which the beginnings of civilization reached the savage Indian. Frequently taking their lives in their hands, they braved the rigors of northern winters and the burning deserts of the Number d ~chmla. 8 14 16 27 36 45 38 31 S6 22 19 16 12 7 2 8 8 9 8 16 11 61 Awr 'E!? Id I23 la 192 2% 195 177 167 118 131 98 81 67 Ratio of 1 aT&y enroll-ment. P" &. 22 58+ w- Ml+ ni- 61- 67- . 6l+ 48 61- 62- 49+ 59- Contract number afpupils. 91 2l2 268 259 487 w 384 340 859 175 121 110 99 61 5 9 9 9 6 8 3 ........ Enrml. ----- 7 1, 112 319 413 316 314 326 246 257 189 164 97 4 15 18 7 8 28 ---17 - 97 3- 7- 10+ 4- 6- 18- 10+ 57 |
