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Show 3 post here. These things o cur red while the Department was doing little else than feeding titese tribes. « Now the case is different. Large sums of money have been expended on school houses, ditches and other improvements. But the sentiment among the Indians has not correspondingly advanced, and the duty confronting us is to fill t)ie schools, as abundantly stated in Inspector Junkin's report to the Secretary of the Interior of the 8th and 12th instant, as well as to put to the most advantageous use the other increased facilities which these Indians now have. This can be efficiently and promptly done only by the use of stringent coersive measures, and the moral force of the military at hand is absolutely essential to this end. So opposed are the Uncompahgres to the location (as they allege) of the school buildings on their reserve, that I would not consider them secure one month after tiie military were withdrawn, unless guarded closely.1 In the light of my experience in inducing parents to send their children to the Uintah school, I cannot but consider it an almost hopeless task to fill the Ouray school with children, none of whom have ever attended school, without the influence of the military. To accomplish this by persuasion alone will be the work of years, as it has been |
