Show ONE ONI LITTLE INDIAN SCHOOL Where Pupils lie Are Men and and 1111 Bo Boys 5 s 's anil amI Girls T. T R. R Porter in May St. St Nicholas Out on ott the black prairie of South Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- Da- Da kota kota- in the valley alley of a little stream known as Wounded Knee KneCt creek there Is a frame framo schoolhouse where liere all the pupils are arc Indians In the old days da s 's before they were confined on great bodies of oC land Jand called reservations the Indians used to hunt hun all over the great western country and while hile none of or them could read and write yet ot even teh leh small boys could follow a trail across the he prairie man ninny many days after it was made male and thc they could tell from loot looking at the pony tracks s whether the rider was a Cl white while man or an au IndIan In In- dian dma But Bul after the last Indian war had been settled settled after after the braves had burled buried the lie hatchet and the peace papers had beer been signed 1 by nil all the great grent Indian chiefs the chIefs the government built schoolhouses in many portions of the tho reservations and white while teachers were sent to teach the lie Indians how to read an and write and to become good bood cit cit- cit cit- fzens And the are not all boys and girls either hut but there arc are some men and women omen In iii every ely school In this particular school in the Wounded rounded Knee valley there is one boy about 1 15 j years old the boys boy's father who hio is J 45 5 years ears old and the boys boy's grandfather er em an old man 70 years old I all going to school In fn the same room and all aB stud studying the same books and the lie same sam lessons and the bo boy learns more easily and amid rapidly than thai his father or grandfather s docs does When the little Indian boys hoys and girls first como conic to school they thoy wear ear earlie the thc picturesque clothes which the In Indians In- In dla wear car in their savage half-savage stale state But Dut as soon as they are arc enrolled the government supplies them with ith clothIng clothIng cloth- cloth Ing lag like Jike that the white people wear I Lucys Lucy's father was was was' ns a great warrior I su hen he lie was a young oung man nina and he lie was a great reat chief w w iv-ii he ho grew older but he lie wants his little girl to learn to read and amid write to s ew sew and amI to cook and and to to I keep house hoube as white girls do 10 Over at a school school- In Montana a 3 lit littie little little lit lit- tle tie Indian girl one day camo came to school wearing ing a purple velvet dress covered with two thousand elk ell teeth The lie dress was wm made just like I a meal sack with holes arm and a hole for fat the head but the elk teeth are arc worth about two and a half dollars each no O that lint this little girls girl's dress I could coulet have e ebon eben en sold for The little Indians when they first come to school do not know how lio to todo todo do eto anything at all nh They rhey cannot even Vt n talk lalk English and first the they have to learn a new Jan language before the they can learn heat to read Yet tho they do 10 this tills very quickly quick nut and In a few Cew weeks the they can talk tall English quite well weB but bul it il takes a lon long time for them to learn to read And all nil the time tinie they lie ore are learning to read and write the they arc are also learning learn learn- lag ing to do 10 things which any little American American Am Am- ho boy or girl does naturally The Time girls arc areS taugh Laugh to sew and to cook cool and amii to sweep while the boys bos I learn arn to cut wood to farm and amid to take care of horses pigs and cows The larger girls cook coot lunch for the little girls and the time boys and all aU the schools are arC provided with J kitchens and dining dining- rooms There is also a n little farm Carm at attached at- at I at-I to each cach school chool and In It the boys grow all the vegetables eaten Inthe in iii inthe the When recess time comes conies the little tittle Indians get out omit and play just as the white children do They have bows bowa and arHl arrows and balls and bats bale and everything of that kind and anel they thc make just J as much noise as tho the girls g and boys at any American school chool make White people used to think the In Indians Indians In- In never smiled and never laughed but iut that lint was uvas because the Indians In lans were shy and amI backward when white people were veme around When hon the time Indians get gel out by themselves they laugh and Joke and anel have hn great fun Every year ear three or four of the brightest pupils at each school arc are ta taken ta- ta ken hen down to to the agency enc where the Indian agent lives and arc are there placed placed pine pine- ed In the boarding school which is equipped by b the tho government o At U tiLls this alwa big school there are arc always s 's hundred Indian boys and girls and the government pays all alJ their theil expenses ses Here Hero they learn many things not tau taught ht at the day schools They have sewing societies for the girls and a printing lm and a brass band for Cor the bo boys s The Tho girls make malt the clothes that both the thc girls and amid bo boys g wear weal and amid the lie boys in iii turn make mal c shoes for them all alJ Tho The boys work worl the farm and toad tend the stock and work worl in iii time the harness shop and the carpenter car car- penter shop and learn all sorts of useful things of that kind while the girls learn to sew and to cook cool and to take e care of a house But after the little Indian is through school ho is still far far Car behInd behind be be- hind the average aera e white boy bo or girl for he lie has never nver had hoel an opportunity of seeing seeing- railroad trains and amid street streetcars streetcars cars cam and electric lights and gas stoves and sewing machines machine and amid thousands of things s with which white children are surrounded |