Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-11-13
EDUCATION OF The INDIAN,
Gen Morgan Talks Of The Remarkable
Work that Has Been Accom-
plished in a Few Years.
Eastern and Western Training Schools --
100000 a Year for Albuquerque
and Santa Fe- Benefits Amply
Illustrated.

ton OH thelf present IMP celtSlHpti ~
and up to this time have visited the In
dian schools and many the reservations
in Nebraska, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada,
California, Arizona and New Mexico In
Arizona they travelled by ambulance over
800 miles through the Apache country
with Gen McCook, visiting the reserva-
tons OF the Apaches, Navajoes, Moqnis,
Papagoes and Pima Indians. The latter
are making excellent progress, having $50
children in the schools. The Navajoes
are doing comparatively little toward edu-
eating their children they have seventy
pupils in the school at Defiance and this
| is now being enlarged to accommodate
$50. In the way OF tlocks and herds they
are very prosperous, but do not pay as
much attention to farming as it is hoped
they will in the near future. On the
whole, however, Gen. Morgan regards
them as the best class of Indians he has
met.
THE NEw MEXICO sCools.
The commissioner is gratified to find
the government Indian schools in New
Mexico doing such good work, and he
thinks the larger institutions at Albu'
oueroue and Santa te have a future for
good second in Importance to none in
the country. At Albuquerque there arc
now It's pupils, and twelve more are on
the way there, which will give that
school all it can at present accommodate
AT the work now being done there con-
tinues for five years believe it will be a
| tremendous force for good, said Gen.
Morgan. Good not only for the In
dams in New Mexico but for all the PEG
pie of the territory, for the money spent
! in educating these Indians is eventually
to lift great burden from your residents.
The Pueblo Indians are really American
citizens, and when fitted for the full eX-
ercise OF their duties they will have to be
recognized as such, and be allowed to
exercise the elective franchise, hence 1t
must be the policy OF your New Mexico
schools to impress this idea upon them
in every manner possible.
Speaking OF the newly finished school
at Santa Fe the commissioner said it's
advantages would be first offered to the
Pueblos. Every means possible will be
used to induce them to take up here the
education OF their children, and possibly
some sort OF compulsory school law
will be adopted by congress for the con-
troll of those who are inclined to overlook
the benefits of this great boon. In San
ia Fe the wants OF the Pueblos are to be
served first, and the Nayajoes and other
tribes afterward.
Gen. Morgan says no expense will be
spared to improve the Albuquerque and
| Santa Fe schools. His idea is that they
must be made to accommodate not less
than go pupils each, and he will use his
best endeavors to have $4,000 expended
here and at Albuquerque $50, 900 q year for
the next few years in order that tirst-class
facilities shall be had for carrying on this
important work.
SUCCESS OF INDIAN EUCCATION.
The Indian agencies are 81 in number.
The number of houses occupied by In
dams is 1882 The estimated number
of Indians in Alaska is 10000. The total
Indian population of the United States is
247.7Gl. The number OF Indians living
on and cultivating laLd is 9,6l2. There
are ten Indian training schools in differ
ent parts of the union. The number OF
Indian church members in the United
States is 2s,663. The number OF Indians
in the United States who can read Eng
fish is 1855. ooo
At the present time there are 10000
Indian children attending school. One
of the best schools is located at Genoa,
Neb. There they have 4S0 acres under
cultivation and an orchard OF 5000 apple
trees. Much OF the land is devoted to
the production of broom corn which is
manufactured into brooms by the Indian
bows, while other pupils are Taught har'
ness making and saddlery, and wagon
mandatory has been ordered for the
bows. That school now has contracts
with the government for supplying $1,000
brooms and $50 sets OF harness. At the
pioneer Carlisle, Pa, school there are
now 72G pupils, representing over forty
different tribes OF Indians, and during the
summer months the boys are allowed to
90 out on the pennsylvania farms and
learn the methods of American agricul'
ture and fruit growing, working Tor wages
which they themselves are allowed to
own and control; every boy has bank
account. This past year over 400 lndlan
boys thus worked on Pennsylvania farms
and their earnings amounted to over
$l6,O OO The girls, too, are given similar
opportunity to hire out in families, thus
learning cookery, sewing and other do
nestle habits that fit them for higher
life than that heretofore led by them in
the forest wllds.
EAST AND WEST TRAINING SCHOOLS.
These things were touched upon by
Gen. Morgan to illustrate the particular
good all the schools are doing, whether
located in the east or west. He thor,
oughly appreciates the peculiar advantages
Of locating large schools at such points as
Albuquerque, Phoenix, A. T., Fort De-
fiance, Grand Junction, Colo, and Santa
Fe, where the agricultural conditions, the
soil and the climate, are the same as pre-
vail at the Indians home, and where also
| the children, while under those clvlllzlng
influences W hich come of mlngling with
Americans, are not 30 far from home but
that they can be easily and often visited
by their parents in this way double In
nuence for good is had, but the commls'
sioner argues that the eastern schools
have sphere, as shown above, Tor quite
as much usefulness in other lines OF edu
cation. His idea is that while educating
the head and heart of the Indians they
must be taught such trades as carpenter
ing, blacksmithing, wagon making, har-
ness and saddlery work, tinsmlthlng,