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Show 8 C&MISSIONER ~ D I A NA FFAIRS. pupils; educational leave has been available for teachers, which per-mits them to attend summer institutes or other educational institu-tions on full pay for a period of two weeks in order to further ac-quaint themselves with the best methods of instruction and receive the enthusiasm and inspiration that comes from mingling with other teachers, particularly those from the public schools. Theses on some professional subject which requires considerable reading have been required from them, and to make their accomplishments along these lines of vital importance automatic promotions of certain grades of teachers have been made of not less than $2.50 per month where their record during the year has been excellent. VOCATIONAL TRAINING: The necessity for the vocational training of Indian pupils is being appreciated now by our instructors, and as a result the work along these lines has been much better. Superintendents in their annual report are referring to the closer correlation they have been able to effect between the academic and industrial work. Chilocco has had an unusually successful year in the results that have been obtained along the line of agricultural and allied subjects. During the past year it has presented a very strong course, which has been popular with Indian pupils. Flandreau has extended the work for two years, so that pupils when they leave school will be able to take charge of their own farm, if they have land, or take a place in a shop or with some business concern and earn a fair livelihood. Without the ad-dition of these two years to the course it has been found not only at Flandreau, but at other schools as well, that the pupil leaves just at a time when he is able to profit by taking vocation instructions. PUEBLO SCHOOLS. Last year it was necessary to report that in some of the pueblos there was marked opposition to Indian education. It is pleasing to note that this is gradually disappearing. On the Moqui Reservation, where the feeling was very bitter against the Government and also as between the Hopis and the Navajos, the superintendent now reports that it is practicable to construct a day school where both factions will attend, showing clearly that the animosities that have . hindered the advancement of these people for some time are gradu-ally disappearing. OKLAHO~A SCEOOLS. The $300,000 appropriation in aid of the common schools among the Five Tribes of eastern Oklahoma has been distributed on prac-tically the same terms as was done year before last. Marked im-provement has been noted, however, in the ease with which this has |