Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-10-10
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INDIAN CONFERENCE.


Lax Mosonx, n. T., Oct. s.-Todays
seaaion of the Indian eonfsfencs VS.
dsvoted % tie discassion Of education,
adoption Of . platform snd faRsven speech
%. The educasional topic vss introduced
BY Emily s. Cook, for Is yeafs connected
with the Icdisn dspaxsmsnf In Warrington.
Sc rev;esed the changes taken place since
she began work there. The whole number
Of Indian children Il the school at that time.
exclusive Of the New York Indians and
Five Nations vas s700; nov thsfs are
Is 600 in the school.
Then the appropriations TOR school pur-
poses were trin!ns; nos they run up INTO
the millions. At least 10000 cnnofen are
still unproyided for and there VII have te
be still larger sppropIiaanus Df. hisss
Of the Ssnsss n io. and school. spaxs ot
the difienlsi-s of compulsory eeueahon,
srd irstsg c. d several CASES where ine ehit-
dreu OF Iadisn ci..Ieus Of the United States
were cot allowed by the government 70
attend the MISSION school, which they con-
sidsred Q hardship
A brisk discussion On contract tcaaols
followed Ii SIS snnouoeed thst the PIES
oysefian Fl me Mission Society sss ready
to sithdrAs from sll government support
ia the c1rducg Of its schools ~ soon rs tbe
gavsrnu ant = ii ext I'D 70 the Incisns ~
effective sysf.m Of common schools, And %
econ ~ changes can be made N i!s miseion
work ~ will be reqr'red by the new conf
'ons The general expression WAS that
h. tons-scs schools will become in the
urar fu. e-e mission schools, wholly uoder
the care aud at he cost Of the churches.
An account Of the Che csws in Rcaonke
College, Virgins, vas gwen BY Pfesideps
Julius d Dreher. Tnree graduated there,
sd many ohrrs have ken partial
course, Who are now filing important
places in ne loo Al Territory.
Mr. Cornenrl, a young Oneida Indian CT
good educa.i ~, ug.d the necessity for
shing some provision for leasing allotted
lsrds IN eperisl c1ses. Several o'oef H.
dams made pithy speeches. among them
y,uyg sifi from the Ffedoria Normal
School. Letter, were resd from Bishop
Wnipple, Sec,s.sry Noble and others.
SumInsrs of pl,tform adopted: Looking
back on an unusually fruitful year, under
9 geneYou. sud io. liigent corporation o.
the executive ard legislative depart nents OF
'hs cove, sment, end the labors OF The in
cressirg and devoted body Of teachers ar d
others y no toiisd for the advancement of
the Inoisns. we seiecs rs among the most
important ma.ers for immediate EFFORT
this year: Fu-'aer extension OF the civ ]
service rules ,those 10 the Indian service !;
application # the pi nciples, II NOT the
rules, of civil service to the ap-
pointment snd tappre Of IadiAn sgents !:
gre ster unity OF tie Indian service BIZ civ
ing selec ions Of agents to the Indlan
bureaus; rapid increase Of appropriations
for education ul il provisions are made for
all Indisn you'h; such administration Of
the rstcnrl school system as shall not
hsmper benevolent schools slresdy estab-
Iished; sssump' on by the nssionsl goverG-
meat of equitable local taxation Of inalien-
able sllo. ed ls1ds; early settlement OF the
legal statue Of 'he Iodian on reservations,
and the fu-tber development and perfection
Of the y i.e legisls ,on Of he pa few Year,
aooIi ion under just conditions of tribal
reseryst ors and cnrdi .ons in New York
state refusal to GLOW reservation Indians
t, make exhibition OF bafbarism in "Wild
West" shows; refusal to allow the removal
OF u es; the sill more generous support by
Christian people OF that Christian mission
work in which The civilization Of indians
began,