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Show Fouty five young Sioux Indians are being educated in the Hampton, Va., Normal and Agricultural college, and they are making fair progress iu their studies, proving that it is not impoemble to impart to the aborigines a knowledge of books. What efl'cct their education will have upon them hereafter, or npou Uuir i-cp, remains to be eeeii. We que.-- inn Hie utility, of at present giving Indu-wis a hij'h school training. VV'hiit ( i i . - ne. il id instruct on in the prm-timl tmhoo! of life, which will tench ilium how to earu a living, and improvo their soi-UI condition. Many of the Indians in tho northern and northwestern states, and in Canada, not only maintain themselves' hy manual labor, tilling! the soil, but support ihurown bcIiooIs! and keep up churches. A general . system of primary education on .the reservations, under the management i of practical workmen, accompanied by an administration of affairs that will not give the lie to the morality taught in the text books, would prove of more value in the way of reclaiming the red man than driving a fow score of the aborigines through a college course. |