The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1894-06-16
Department of the Interior
Office of Superintendent. of Indian School!

Office of Superintendent of Indian Schools
Washington, D. c., May 16, 1894.
Superintehdents, teachers. and other en-
ployes of the Indian school service, as we'll
as other friends of indian education, and
educated Indians, are herewith notified
that summer institutes and conferences in
the interests of Indian education will be
held as follows:
Chi!occo, Oklahoma, from July 2 to July
z; at Santa Fee, New Mexico, from July IA;
at Salem, Oregon, from July 90 to July %;
ut Helena, Montana, from Jvlv 81 to Aug
ust 4; at st. Paul, Minnesota, from August
Ii, to August is.
You are cordially invited and urged to
attend one or more of these meetings, and
to animate all among your friends through
whose attendance the cause of Indian
education can be in any way benefited. It
is hoped that these meetings will do much
to intensity the efficiency of Indian school
work. They will bring to each worker
fresh inspiration, left him upon plane of
missionary fervor, open to him new sorces
of light, teach him fresh and better ways
in his labors, and enable him at the same
time to give to all others who, with him,
are interested in the coming work, the full
benefit of his experience and of his thought
in matters of common concern.
To all who are in any way directly o
ar,,n RI, ~ $ho o1,,oo,r 1e r1i,,, -,
Government schools, these meetings will
be of special value. The Indian Bureau. is
about to take an important step in advance
in the organization and methods of Indian
schools. The officers entrusted with this
work Will avail themselves of these lnsti-
tutes to give full and specific instructions
concerning the proposed changes in
courses of study and work, in methods of
teaching, and in the organization and dis
cipline of the schools. They are instructed
to demand hereafter reasonable efficiency
III the work OF teachers and other employees
on the basis of the work thus brought be-
fore the teachers and others, and to hold
school officers and teachers strictly re-
sponslble for carrying out, with a reason
able degree of success, the planes of the
Indian Office.
III OluCl W dSSlSb Ullolll L1uG0I1d1y u IL
tend the meetings, employees of Govern
ment schools will be granted additional
leave of absence not to be counted in with
the regular leaves granted them under the
regulations of Indian schools. At the same
time arrangements will be completed in
due time for reduced railroad fares and
reduced rates of entertainment.
However, this invitation applies not only
to government employees but equal cor
diality and urgency to those who may be
engaged in contract schools, independent
mission schools, or in other schohls, directly
or indirectly interested in the work of In
dian education, as we'll as to ali persons IN
any way interested in this important work.
The invitation with special urgency to
educated Indians, who, by their presence,
can a6d more than anyone else to the prac-
tical success of these conferences
All who. receive this preliminary an
nouncement are cordially and urgentI. in
vited to send to the Superintendent a In
dian schools, at Washington, D. c., III hes
: OF persons whose presence is partica.ary