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Show The following hble exhibits the condition of these contracts: Pub@ schools in which Indim p i p l k were placed wnder contract with the Indian Bureau during the fiscal year ended June 90, 1907. I Number contract State. 1 School diatm i County. I mc$ths I -2 1 3EF 'Of pupils. I session. NO. 20 ............ No.% ............ ... NO. 1 ............. ..... No. 10 ............ ........ NO. 14 ....... ---.---...-............. .......... NO. 21 ............I..... do ........ NO. 22 ............,.....d o ........ NO. 23 ................ ..do.. ...... Yankton Agenoy.! Charles Mix .. Independent. .... i Stanley. ...... DEstimated; no reports received from thls sehoal. Unfortunately, Indian parents,' though often appreciating in a measure the advantages of coeducation with the whites, are prone to listen and yield to the trifling objections of their children against prompt and continuous attendance. On the other hand, the teachers are not so diligent as they ought to be in hunting up delinquents. The following statistics, covering a series of years, will show how desultory the attendance of Indian pupils has been at these district schools : Number of district pubZ<c 8chnoZ8, number of pupils mztracted for, mroUment, and amrage attendance from 1891 to 1907. Year. Ratio of anee. ment. - MISSION SCHOOLS. Most of the Christian bodies of the United States not only have been zealous in spreading their work among the Indians by mission-aries, but have supplementerl their missions with many schools for |