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Show several thousand children remaining unprovided for in that terri-tory. Additional facilities for thew are being sehured ss rapidly aic monne~&av ailable and school plants can be constructed or enlarged. The Leupp Boarding School is being enlarged to provide for 50 porn boys and 45 additional girls. At Western Navajo tlie boarding school hss been increased by an additional capacity for 118 girls. The .boarding schools at Fort Defiance and Pueblo Bonito have bean en-larged and a new day school has been-built and opened at Lnki Chuki. Plans for providing additional school capacity at other , points under the San Juan, Navajo, and Pueblo Bonito superin-tendencies are being definitely made and will rapidly be constructed. .. ;, . PAPAQO SCHOOLS, m N A . Schools have been completed at the Indian villagea of Indian Oasis, Santa Rosa, Gila Bend, Chiu C h ~ c h ua,n d Cockleburr con-templated for the Papago Indians in southern Arizona under the jurisdiction of the Sau Xavier and Pima superintendencies A 'school is being erected at Quajote md another soon will be erected at Vamori. All of these. schools will be opened in a few months. Each has a capacity of 40 pupils, or a total of 280 new pupils among the Papagos. INDIAN STTJDENTS IN STATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Importnnce has been attached to the education of the Indian child . in the same school and in association with the white child. In the past there has been some opposition on the part of the patrons of white schools to the presence of the Indidn, but this feeling is grad- . ually disappearing, and in nearly all of the States aqd public-school - districts there is a willingness to cooperate with this ofice. In many places, however, where Indians are on or adjacent to their rmrva-tions no adequate public school system has been established in which the Indian children caq be accommodated. The amount, $20,000, appropriated for this pltrpose was inade-quate. It was all expended for tuition of the Indian children in 46 public-school districts, and a number of applications for contracts were denied for want of funds. The price paid has ranged from 10 to 85 cents per ~ u p ipl e r day, but the more common rate has been about 15 cents. 1, TEAXP STUDENTS. The term Litramp student" has been applied to those students who , have formed the habit of trahsferrjng from one school to another, ' not because they required new work which the first school did not . |