Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-01
INDIAN SCHOOLS.
Records of Students After They Have Received
Their Educations

Their Educationa
| REPORTS RECEIVED AT TIE INDIAN OFFICE rEoM
THE HAMPTON ISsrITUrE-Bow THEY AIE
cLAssIFIED-THE GREATER PORTION coNsrI,-
| ERrp sArIsrACToEY-soME SAMPLE RECORDS
I At the last session of Congress the Senate
| adopted resolution requesting the Secretary
of the Interior to furnish list Of sudden is who
| have entered certain Indian schools since the
! date of their organization and to give the rec
ord of the students while in the school and his
subsequent career. In accordance with these
resolutions the information was called for and
re plics have been received from several schools.
The response from the Hampton Normal and Ag-
ricultural Institute at Hampton, Va, have been
received at the Indian Office and presents in
elaborate tables the facts relating to the In
dian students connected with that institution
for the past thirteen years.
BIoGRAPHICAL sKErCHEs
An interesting portion OF the report are the
condensed biographical sketches Of the pupils
covering the period since they left the school.
Under the system employed at Hampton infor-
nation of this character Is available, as regu-
lar correspondence is kept up with the students.
A novel feature of the report are photographs
showing the homes which the returned students
have made for themselves in the far west As
Hampton is an institution which is maintained
bv contributions of those interested in the edu-
cation of colored and Indian children, every
effort is made to show fully the results which
are being attained, and SO the little sketches of
the careers OF the graduates faithfully portray
the lights aud shadows of life. Some of tho
students do well. others not 80 well, and then
there are those whose records are bad The
record of the returned students as kept at
Hampton is changed from year to year and the
students graded according to what they are
doing and the influence they exert, according
to the classification employed
HOW THEY ARE GRADED.
Those classed as excellent have either had
exceptional advantages and use them faithfully
or those who by great earnestness and pluck
have won an equally wide and telling influence
for good. The good--the great majorlty-are
those who are doing their best and eXerting a
decidedly good influence. even though 1t may
not BE very wide. They must marry legally,
be honest, industrious and temperate and live
q life which We can point TO as an example Ior
others to follow and improve upon.
The fair are the sick and unfortunate. those
who have had few advantages and from whom
no better could have been expected.
The poor are those who have not done as well
as they should; have married after the indian
custom while knowing better; have fallen from
weakness rather than from vice, and some who
are recovering themselves after more serious
falls.
The bad are those who have done wrong
while knowing better; yet, with one exception,
they have proved TO be those from whom no
better was expected.
Upon this basis the SlS Indians who have at
tended Hampton during the past thirteen years
are divided into two principal Glasses described
as satisfactory" and disappointing" The
number stated to belong to the first class is 2s3
and to the latter class only IS. OF the satisfac
tory class ~ are put down as excellent, l49 as
good and 81 as fair. OF the disappointing class
% are termed poor and II as bad.
Some samples Of these biographies are given
below, the names being omitted.
BAD GIRL
Bright, but headstrong, she did well under
restraint, but her second return home while
teaching DIT owed disastrous to her moral char
acter, and. TO give her another chance. she was
allowed to return to Hampton. 1t was useless;
she seemed utterly demoralized, untruthful
and dishonest. AT her request she was sent as
a tea cher to Indians. had to leave there in q
few months and came home to continue her
immoral course. Her record has been worse
than that OF any other Hampton student. She
has one child living. upon whom she lavishes an
Intelligent mother s care and devotion"
A GOOD GIRL.
with no family to insist upon her return she
was permitted to go through the whole school
course, taught at Hampton a year and then
graduated from a normal school in Massachu-
sets She then went west to All Indian school,
where she has attained high reputation a
teacher, Is editor OF one of the school papers,
and is a leader in all social affairs
GOOD BOY.
WAS graduated in 1882. and returned to the
Wichita agency, taking the first good position
that appeared. that Of agency police. He soon
after selected beautiful tract Of land, ten
miles from the agency, and started a farm and
herd. Today he has large fields Of grain and
corn, an excellent orchard and vegetable gar
den, large herds Of cattle, hogs ami ponies,
and a nice house and family. His success has
been the work of his own hands, and he is
most highly commended by all, is honest en-
terprsing, thrifty-a Christian gentleman
A BAD BOY.
wild, bright. but good natured. He has
been teacher, drunkard, interpreter and pris-
oner. with a record varying from good to very
bad"