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81 tnalsn Affairs What the Department
uas g. Cant~aa VITA.
N~ksuxarox. Oct 2-floh T. J.
Moran Commissioner Of Indian Az
fairs has submitted his annual report
ID the Secretary Of the Interior on the
1poraf ous Of bis bureau during the
asst year.
The report devotcs considerable space
T. the school question and Indian edu-
-atian II shows hat there are now
Twelve schools in operation The aver
arc attendance az the training schools
during the fiscal year ended June 30.
ls-a vas ISIS out % an enrolment Of
ana There are now In operation six
ty-three Government boarding schools
on reservations Concerning these
schools he says they are poorly
equipped The buildings In many cases
are small. cheap inconvonient and
often in~adequately furnished There
were IN operation during the pastyear
100 days OF school AZ the various agen.
Giles with an enrolment OF ao57 pupils
and an average attendance OF 236Z
From a statement showing the mount
set apart for the various religiou1 bodies
for Ind an education for 1891. II appears
hat out OF 1854. 55s, s345.6 8 were APP
portioned 90 the Roman Catholic
schools s44. $50 TO Presbyterian and
sat- 7f 20 Congregational. Tho report
says that the work carried on By the
various religious denominations has
boon a very potent II not indispensable,
auxiliary In tho efforts OF the bureau
for the elevation OF the Indians
Tho Comm %ssioner says that in addi.
tion to ordinary routine work he has
given especial attention 20 the follow
ing improvements: or tho personnel Of
the service; the development OF indus
tries; tho improvement OF the sanitaiy
service; the modification Of the ration
system; the incubation OF patriotism,
and the discouragement OF Wild West
Show business
The COMMISSIONS says that one OF
the difficult things 70 contend with In
the administration OF Indian affairs Is
the vice Of incompetence. A large pro-
portion OF the Indians live a life OF idle-
ness and are therefore liable 70 yield
TO the temptations OF drinking and
gambling as they would not II constant
~ employed. The report says that the
practice which has prevailed for many
years Of occasionally permitting Indians
to travel with wild Vest and similar
shows throughout the country and
abroad, for the purpose Of giving ex.
hibitious OF frontier life and savage
customs, has been very harmful in its
results, and the Commissioner has from
the beginning steadily refused to sane.
ton any permits
The Comm ssioner favors compulsory
education and upon this subject says:
81 am In favor OF compelling every In.
dian child OF suitable age and health,
for whom accommodations are provided.
to attend school ten months out Of
twelve. A general law, however, could
not now be applied for tho simple rea-
son that school accommodations are
provided for less han half the children
OF school age"
At the date OF the last annual report
there were 1873 Indian reservations in
the United States having an aggregate
area Of 1lG, 900. 600 acres or 1Ol, $50 square
miles During the year about 10, 900, 900
acres have been secured by cession from
the Indians, and agreements by which
about 1900 900 will be secured are pend
ing in Congress- The work of making
allotments of land in severalty under
the severalty acts of Congress has
steadily progressed during the year,
1,4s4 allotments having been made on
tho Yankton reservation in South Da-
kota, 052 on the Winnebago reservation,
900 to tho Grande Ronde Indians in
Oregon, 72 10 the eastern Shawnees and
20i to those on the Papago reservation
in Arizona. A large part OF the work is
now in progress, making it impossible
to state the number of allotments made