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Show I BEPORT OF THE OONMIBSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIBS. 19 The number of contract mission boarding schools was 8, the same as last year, with a capacity of 1,105, enrollment 1,050, and average attendance 919. The number of mission schools under each denomination was as follows: Roman Catholic, 36; Episcopal, 5; Presbyterian, 5; Con-gregational, 2; Methodist, 3; Evangelical Lutheran, 2; Lutheran, 1; Baptist, 1; Christian Reformed, 1; Reformed Presbyterian, 1; Sev-enth Day Adventist, 1, and undenominational, 1; in all, 59. (See Table 8.) On July 1, 1908, the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions requested contracts for the heal year 1909 for St. Joseph's Industrial School on the Menominee Reservation, 150 pupils; St. Mary's, Quapaw Res-ervation, 9 pupils; St. Labre's, Tongue River Reservation, 60 pupils; Holy Rosary Mission, Pine Ridge Reservation, 200 pupils; St. Fran-cis' Mission, Rosebud Reservation, 250 pupils; Immaculate Concep-tion, Crow Creek Reservation, 50 pupils; and for 6 pupils from Lower Brul6 Reservation, 25 pupils from Cheyenne River Reservation, and 7 pupils from Yankton Reservation, to attend the. Immaculate Con-ception School on the Crow Creek Reservation. All the foregoing contracts were to be at the rate of 5108 per capita per annum; &o for St. Louis's, Osage Agency, 75 pupils, and St. John's, Osage Agency, 65 pupils, to be at 5125 per capita. There being no trust or treaty funds of the Yanktons or Cheyenne River Sioux for making contracts as requested, the bureau was so advised. Supplemental petitions were sent tothe Menominee, Tongue River, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Crow Creek, and Lower Brul6 agencies, for the addition and elimination of signatures, as provjded in the original five-year petition presented last year to these Indians. Based on the original and supplemental petitions and requests from the Osage tribal council and the Quapaw national council, all the contracts requested by the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions were made for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909. (See Table 9.) EDUCATION, FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES. Educational work among the Five Civilized Tribes has been pro-moted by the advent of statehood and the consequent organization of the entire region formerly known as Indian Territory into perma-nent school districts. The State was, however, on account of non- ,taxable land, unable to provide adequate school facilities for the entire scholastic population, and in order that the education of the tndian children might not suffer, Congress again appropriated $300,000 for the maintenance, strengthening, and enlarging of the tribal schools, making provision, as usual, "for the attendance of children of parents other thad Indian blood therein" (35 Stat. L., 70). |