The Penn's Grove record., 1884-11-29
ABOUT AMERICAN INDIANS.

According to statistics of the Indian
Bureau there were three years ago
about 10000 Indians in the United
States, distributed as follows: Gill
zens, G7. 1000; the Six Nations, the rem-
nant of the Iroqdois, 700; the i've.
partly civilized nations i'll the Indian
Territory. IS, 200; other Indians in res
ervations, estimated ut gS,OOG wan
deriqg tribes, 1900, aud in Alaska
81, 600. OF Indians then IN the rese:-
vations, $1,000 were supported by the
Government, 1900 received large
appropriations, 5000 were supported
by fishing and bu ting, farming and
other small industry, and the proceeds
Of the sale of their land. The land
under cultivation by indians increased
from 157, 900 acres in 1879 to 2O5,tOO IN
1881. while the number increased 5I24
during the years 1880 81, leaving out
| indians who were citizens and those OF
Alaska. There were CO,0o0 children
among the Indians Of school age; the
| education Of the SIX IroquOis Nations
was managed by the State of New
| York; that of the Five Nations of the
Indian Territory was ID their w
hands; that of the Indians on the res
eryations was left to missionaries OF
religious bodies, with some help from
the Government, amounting IN 1851 TO
S365. 900. The New York indians had
a special allowance from the state OF
$4,000 a year, and teachers, and a
Teacher Institute of their own, with
1175 out of their 1900 children in the
schools. The Five Nations in the
| Indian Territory had eYer 5000 chill
dren in their 1913 day and IL boarding
schools, educated in their own Chico
rokee alphabet with its So letters, in
vented by one of their own members,
| in 1927. For the children of the other
and wilder indians, they were schools
at various places, including Hampton,
Va, Carlisle and Philadelphia, in Penn
~sylyania and Forest Grove, Oregon,
where industrial training is made Il use
full elemeEt in fitting these Indians to
return home ready to be instructors to
their tribes.
There were 1000 Indian youths of
both sexes in boarding schools and 1000
in day schools, established among their
Town wUsrern homes, and OF these the
Santee Normal School and st. Paul's
School in Nebraska were reported to
be the best, while a newspaper in the
Dakota language was printed at Chi
| eago for their benefit. The Indians
| show a real zeal for education of their
children, and the Omahas Of Nebraska
sold part Of their lands to the Wine
sagos for the purpose of raising money
for schools. The energetic friends of
Indian civilization assert that with an
expenditure annually of teR million
of dollars there could be provided
schools for every IndiaH child and that
in fifteen years the whole Indian popu-
lation would be civilized and self-sus-
tanning. Another plan is to establish
boarding schools for 10000 young In
dians, at a cost of two million of dol
lars, aud to spend another million in
day schools. Either sum would be but
q snail proportion of the value Of the
land which once belonged to the
Indians. NJ. Papy mentions that.
while there is still good ground for
complaints, the Government and the
people of the United States are still
doing what they can to solve the In
dian problem by some better method
than that Of d~estruetioR either by force,
or by The still more deadly means of
neglect and ignorance and vice.