The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-11-01
INDIAN SCHOOLS.
The Annual Report Of Indian COmmis'
siOner Morgan Submitted to
Secretary Noble.
IDdians Everywhere, Almost Without
Exception, Asking for More and
Better Schools.
The Practice OF Permitting Indians
to Travel With Wild West
Shows Discouraged.

| NoillIlIlSs'ohci nioi S"'l' Vi '''" A'i"'''
bureau, in his annual report to the
secretary of the interior SAWS OF the
1.lo;, ,,,...;,,, oo,oro1I,, that tbere
i'1"''''
mas Oeeli Iol 'e' e"'" VI ''i''0 '0'''
| progress IN the right dlrectloh, ana
the outlook for the future isenCOurag.
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IL mas become 'ho Se". ie'' Po'''S Vi
the government to breaK up reserNa-
tions, destroy tribal relations, settle
Indions unOn their own homesteads,
incornorate them into national lie
and deal with them not as nations or
tribes or rbands. but as individual Citl-
zpns The American Indian is to be-
Come thn Indian American. A public
school svstpmIs IL sbeinprapidlv provided
whereby an accessible Indian boy and
cirl nj school noe is 10 he afforded an
0nnortunity OF acquiring the rudi-
nants of an Enclsh education and
| the elements of nm honorable calling.
Tba Indians themselves are coming to
understand the present policy of the
0ovornment and are showing an in
| Creasinr readiness and even desire to
odiust themselves to it. During the
nast vear have had personal inter
views with prominent chiefs and rep
rasantarIva Indians everywhere. and
almost withmut execution they have
,,Iooded for moro and better schools.
Trom tba snhiart of tht. imnrove-
,,ent of tha narsoneI of the service,
"Reminiscences. Morgan said that
,,,I,ar,,,,,,, i could Lnd0np without too
grpat hardship he has endcayored to
Temo,,n those who were immoral, in
competent, inefficient or untalthiul'
aonnt of n~1;t;cs ~, rnIig;0n and in
no single instance except for the i'm
provement OF the service. Great M
proVemehls nave peeli lil1oe ~ '''o
soT e, ,,,'tT',' s,,h;a"t o1 % IM5;oDs ~ IN.
public schools, the commissioners
says that believing that the public
ochoo'S are me hioSI ehecllEo '''Ill means
t;,, -,''1,, i IS hT,nr?mo fLa In.
5io,' mI :" Ie..V"n ~ itn t,on vii II
t''a,t tha+ SO 81 t'tIo to n,,IIr srhoo,s Not onlv
i,,,t ,,,h,,i.,,,,,,, ,,oss;tIo no iu ,lociro
~ II,''' W., ,,;Ia ",io - f% ft%o m,L,Tc srLooIS
trhn I Observation-Disclosures fay6rs c0mnnlsorv
ii'.,t,I,, ,,,,1 ,,,,o,, +h;,e,,n;art cows
'"T', ns';"' fa,,ar l nf connelIing cverv
t,l;"n a., ni,;Id ~ suitobIa Iaogsand haaItb h
i",'H', tan'hon ,m''" Observation-Disclosures VIZ m ore nro.
Tided m attend school ten months
ont ~ twaiwe General law howev.
0", o',iJ ~ ITr,r ,,ot row no annGad for the
e;,,,>i' J raa.nntLot >srh6oI acrommo.
,I' nng 'U lII, aro nrov;deo for than haIt
us', t%o 'J';, nI1;iI'.a,, ''ar =, scLooI aae
''' '''''l VI -
THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS.
rl,ro oro row twaIva ecbools in on.
~, ..,1.-. l.
era'ioh' Inc average "''e''i"'l'o u,
the training schools during the fiscal
wear ended June 80, 1890, was 1878
ou+ -, m e,rollr,eut ofD110 There
o"' ~ ~ ',' =, -. O', a,,,.a.;aa a;v+u+hrol
are no" III ope'"'io'' ''N ,''ii'e
boarding schools on reservations.
The buildings in many cases are
small cbeap ,nconvenient and often
and IN ayeragr attendance of 3,368
From a statement showing the