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Show 44 REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Location, pate of opening, capacity, and attendance of Uuuernment Teseruatia boardtno schoo28 during the fiscal year ended June SO, 1906--Continued. --~ .-~ - - Location. ment. Burned September 10 1902 reopened September 19 1901. a Burued January 20. 1b08 ; &opened January 23, IS&. I take special pleasure in reporting a net increase of six in the number of day schools maintained among the Indians, for these little schools not only perform the usual fnnctions of such institutions with the pupils themselves, but radiate knowledge of better habits of life and a higher morality thru the tepees, cabins, and camps to which the children return every night. They are, in my judgment, the greatest general civilizing agency of any thru which we try to operate upon the rising generation. During the school year just ended 146 day schools were actively at work. The new ones were at San Carlos, Ariz.; Cut Finger and Willow Creek, on the Blackfeet Reservation, in Montana; Fort McDermitt, Nev.; San Juan, N. Mex.; No. 1 on Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota; Oneida and Green Bay, Wis., and Arapaho, on the Shoshoni Reservation, in Wyoming. Schools mere discontinued at Pine Ridge (No. 2), Upper Lake, Cali-fornia, and Lummi, Wash. |