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Show 20 FSPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFmS. INDIAN SCHOOLS. There were maintained 217 Indian day schools situated on the reservations near the Indian homes, for pupils from the first to the ,. Wth grades. The boys were also instructed in gardening and ele-mentary carpentry and the girlsin sewing and housekeeping. A noon-day lunch is served at many of these schools. The typical Indian day school consists of a school building with a capacity of 25 to 40 pupils, a room for the serving of the noonday ' . . lunch, or for industrial training, and quarters for the employees, who are usually a teacher and his wife, the latter acting as house-keeper. There is always a garden at each school and frequently from 40 to 160 acres of land, which is used for grazing purposes. Seventy-six reservation boarding schools were maintained. They enrolled pupils for the entire, year in grades from the first to the seventh, inclusive. These schools are better equipped than the day schools to give training along industrial lines to both the boys and the girls. The pupils are housed, clothed, and fed and allowed to 'return to their parents during the summer vacation. Ordinarily these schools have a capacity of from 75 to 400 pupils, the plant consisting of school buildings with classrooms and assembly halls, dormitories for girls and boys, and such accessory buildings, as laundry, ware-house, shop buildings, and employees' quarters. . . There were 35 nonreservation boarding schools, situated off the reservations, some of them at a considerable distance from Indian communities. Pupils are brought to these schools at Government 'expense for periods of 3 to 5 years. These schools have .more buildings and are usually better equipped than the reservation schools. There are several dormitories, large shops, increased facili-ties for the housing of employees, domestic science cottages, and also buildings for the electric power and heating plants. Their capacities ' range from 75 to 750 pupils. Nonreservation schools represent the highest class maintbined for Indian pupils and furnish academic training through the eighth grade, a few doing work comparable with that given in the first year of public high schools. Indian children were also enrolled in 45 public schools in which a tuition was paid and in several hundred public schools ui which no tuition was paid, not including the 325 public schools in eastern Oklahoma among the Five Civiliied Tribes where the sohools are in Indiin communities but under the control of the State. Sixteen mission schools under contract and 53 not ,undkr contract enrolled Iudiai pupils. There is no record of the number of Indians enrolled in private schools. |