Show U ama V HAT THE f GOVERN ar I 1 I 1 MENT IS MAKE firste CLASS MEN AND OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF REAL RED 1 11 1 1 7 MEN SOME EXCEL acs ics LENT RESULTS 4 A raa wt I 1 tv ta comm 1 fr sta tee by EDWARD B 8 CLARK iff ir 0 OTHER bureau burea u in in any other depart ment of the U united I 1 so 8 slates g govern mout ment employs as many me men an and ad women in its held field of work as does the office file ot of led indian affairs fr or m here or 1 Is an office me which in a vital way lay has control central ot 11 the affairs ot at people who ho once arm owned all ot at the continental united stat states 3 there thera are ara about as many holi indiana in this land as there were re the flay day that columbus landed feet adgner ally known it Is recognized by everybody that tho the indian has baa certain rights of fostering care are and ot of direct direction long along the road read to civilization tant P proa 3 polity and health and it is tor for una this high and hu comit mane reason that the nobce file ot of indian affairs of which cato sells Is the directing chief must be administered sanely an and it helpfully even eve today american people notably the east erners think thick of the american america I 1 indians in the mass as aa still being in a more or less savage state tat or at any rate a state of barbarism th the old time problem had to do largely with the file me men wh who ec constantly went want on an the warpath karpath and who war were a in menace nicee 1 to the ins advancing cli civilization flotat to ot I 1 the I 1 whites miles the th indian problem tor for a long time to was we in 1 consid m to crable part a we war d department part in ant problem today things thing h have charged changed the problem largely I 1 as with wilh the young indiana indian the boys bay and ad the girls gills who oho meet be trained along lines running diametrically opposite to those these followed by 41 their ancestors it la Is largely a problem ot of ed education ti and ad th abs tbs a ducted states gOrla government cent today 1 t trying afen ifen to teach the young indians I 1 in order older that w when they be become 0 ome old indians indiana they will bill present no much bubb in task s it ot at regulation and of at g government count as a th that t which confronted the authorities in the cases otheir of their forefathers toda today y there is only one roving band of indiana indian ri in tho the c continental united states and even this b band and Is now of at rest within certain cartel limits where hem I 1 it t probably will remain contented of course on occasion the restless restle a elders among the indians wonder wander about a little tot but the alongi nes nea no longer are reamers and wanderers wanderer 1 in the sense that they were as aa it aita as a a quarter of a century ago the one roving bond band is that ot of chief chia rocky boy and this little group of about three hundred indians indian has roused pity PAY and made mada for a good many my ya years it 1 Is forari a montana ran be band d and d while le many Y years s ago go con gross gress tried to L do s something ameta g definite f top e rocky boy and his followers the attempt came to little or Dot lung and they kept a on roving a charge if xin not a meram menace to the people of montana T aba ji present ciar commissioner missioner of indian affairs M mr foor sella sell ot of texas a lawyer a banker and ad a farmer transplanted temporarily at least into a field ot of endeavor con concerning ca dirig which he knew a good ties deal I 1 before the transplant lag he has succeeded mcce eded in india ane 19 rocky hocky boy bay and ad the men a women w on and children in his following to locate upon government g verime t land t in montana where they have an mea area equal to four fear t townships ishits on which to dwell there to till the tha soil act to as earn their living congress will be asked this winter to set aside this land as a reservation tor for rocky HOT boy the roter rolet A As be has be been said bald the chi chief f problem today 1 la e fth the y g india indians it if they can be educated properly the tha indian problem in a few years will vaniah recently Recen tl there was as held in t NN ab hington a meeting nie eting ot of the supervisors and superintendents superintendent a and instructors Instruct ora ot of the greater schools tor for the in aldna throughout the united states they were of called c together by cammi loner sells to consider a recon strut tion ot of the system of study for the tha inch indian n childr children tn ot of school age A course ot of study has been prepared and has be been 0 n adopted it to la hoped that it will give to the children or of the led indians the beat 11 vocational 1111 1 1 training offered by any my chool beer I 1 in ft abo U united led states state concerning this mind course of study which has haa lust just been adopted the commissioner sas sacs it emphasizes the tha stud study y of at home economics and agricultural sub subjects sublets jets b because c m as any attempt to change the indian imi population talati n 0 of t tb this is country from a dependent to an lial independent pende u t people within a reasonable length or of time must at give gt special con on adi elder ade atlon tion to the improvement bran mo of tho the indiana a homes home bud and to the development of their lands the usual subjects of school instruction or are not at reg neg lecter but they are subordinated to subjects subject which batch if ff I id arned d practically lead lad of directly fly to pro edict efficiency yand and sort self support the tha indian children of the united states receive rl mary pava prevocational ti I 1 and ad vocational call I 1 instruction I 1 in an introduction 0 n to the report on the new course or of baudy cary prepared r pared under older the direction of the this nal explanation tic I 1 Is ande do the primary division fueled tue the first th three 4 b 1 N grades ad the bite prevocational catanas division includes the gra th next t three me for grades sties and the vocational division con templates tem platea a lour year course above the sixth grade tah the first rat group la Is the beginning stage the second group la Is the finding stage and the third group 1 Is the fitting stage there should be interest 1 in knowing how bow this course of study for the indians compares com parea with the con course ree which white children follow 1 in the first brat six years year the indian course parallels the pub lie school course in all the essentials essen tiala of academic work in this period the principles are taught fought and application of them is made just as can boon after the principles are understood dera teed th the knowledge of 1 industrial and domestic activities at this stage centers centera more or less leas around the conditions same list to the proper maintenance and improvement of at the rural he home for years year the ilia adult indi indiana at resented all efforts to secure their consent that their children should attend the tha indian schools in december 1890 there was an indian uprising produced by varl vari ous oua conditions and fostered by what was known knew as the tha ghost dance craze on the plus pino ridge reservation in south dakota at that if time the indiana nere divided into two tao camps on the ques tire tion of flowing allowing children to attend school at tho the agency those who refused to allow their chit dren dran in to go to school looked upon those who were in favor of the school plan us as mi enemies catic of the sioux sim to raie W hen bea the indians that year were upon the war path the children ot of the peaceful ones onea continued to attend school at the pine pan ridge agency one d day BY a band of warriors arriol lett left the main in body ot of in dibons dions to in the field and wept swept down by the agency and fired fared a fusillade into the school building which stood on a bluff happily one of the school teachers had seen the inch indiana hiding biding behind a clump of will willows on cray clay creek clock and ad had bad bounded attended an alarm the 8 school e be 0 I 1 children w were bu hur ried ded to the basement indeman nt of th the building and ad thus escaped injury when the structure was riddled with bullets belief this incident I 1 is spoken spoke ot of only to how the vast difference that has been created by time and ad by the advance in civilization today commis ahmer sell selie reports that the vast majority of the india indians are east and urgent that the little ones shall go to their lease lessons the problem wil low instead food of bring one a of at he how to rude induce their that par ants to lot let them come concerns itself with provid ink ing school room daem for all of 1 those who seek to of fit themselves tor ter the life s work walk aggressive sto steps p a have been taken take toward the development ol al improved vocational training among the indians indian the indian office has adopted plans which it believes believe will accomplish tho the edu do cation necessary to instill in the indian youth the responsibility of 1 belt it support and ad citizenship post fm chast Is being placed on agricultural and domes tic science this P program 91 will be carried carded out I 1 la all 11 the indian schools school next summer eummer teacher teach cra institutes will be b hold oil fill x in dill different e rent parts of the west and all the indian school superintendents and teachers will attend to exchange views with a view diew to bettering the service in addition to this the best beat known edu voters in the country will be invited to attend the institutes and address the teachers th the next final effort is to give the indian exactly what he needs 1 to better his bis way health and industrial prosperity being two of the main objects the idea is to hurry harry the day when the indian no longer will he be wholly or in part a consumer of thing pro object for him but will become a producer 1 in his hia own we behalf there are many farms tor for the use of at indian india pupils they usually consist ot of large tracts of fertile land capable ot at raising every crop that the climate in w which tha he school I 1 la a located will permit in som some e ca cases the these farms are well irrigated every school commissioner sells says has been or will III be furnished famished with all 11 the equip equipment eat mecca sary eary for tilling filling t the he farms to the fullest extent and they will be ba furnished with talk stock BO that les lea sons sees can be given give to in the care cam ot at animals and in their abig raising it la Is believed that a substantial showing along these line lilies mr can be made every farm 1 is expected to gro grow ar sl all the emps crops that it is possible to raise in f the he localities fill 1 in which they are situated corn core oats wheat alfalfa clover timothy and so on the schools are ex traded to raise all the potatoes and other vege tables with wh which ich to supply apply the table mablea of the pupils at the choc loco indian school on the edge of oklahoma last year in the a p pupils calls put up tor for their own use 20 0 vege vegetables tabi a and fruits fruit this of 1 course me we was in addition to to the fresh flesh material which was on the uble fears during dor I 1 off the b ripening season la in a letter to the tha superintendent but of the indian schools commissioner sells bells 1 a I 1 believe there is a splendid chance for in creased efficiency ot of our school service by ape lal effort and co opera operation t ion along the lines indicated I 1 must rast insist that you give the development of the school farm your most careful attention to the end ad that the highest degree of efficiency ana results be accomplished there la Is abool absolutely no a excuse for a waste are acre or of overlooked ally on the tha school farma farm we need all they will produce and ad wo we cannot justify jollity the purchase or of anything we Is can raise it is inconsistent to ex pact the tha indian bay boys a 8 and d girls gill to return ter home be fr from their schools school and do more than they have wit eased their teachers teacher doing tor for them when they are 8 supposed opposed to be qualify ing the themselves melv lor far industrial equipment and self support the indian schools prepare the children tor far vocational I 1 and ad industrial work word they are aspect ed ad and the records show that the expectation pc lation I 1 is not vain to go back to the places place from which they cam cama there to he becom soli supporting to take atio th saw came interest in lims life a work that the white man does dead and tuua thus eventually to solve forever what has been known tor for a some centuries of american life us as the indian problem |