Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-24

questionably secure a higher type Of on
cials than can be obtained In any other
manner.
Agencies Under superintendent.
at present there are twenty-five agen-
cies under the control OF bonded superin-
tendents, as follows: Cherokee. N. c.;
Colorado River. Ariz.; Grande Ronde, ore.;
Hoopa Valley, Cal; Jicarilla, N. M;
Lemhl, idaho; Mescalero, N. NJ; Neah Bay,
Wash; Nevada, New; Nee Perces (Fort
Lapwai), Idaho; Pawnee, Okla; Puyallup,
Wash; Quapaw (seneca), l. T.; Round VAL
ley, Cal; santee, Neb.; Siletz, Ore; Puyal-
lup, Wash. Umatilla, Ore; Warm Springs
Ore. Western Shoshone, New; Yakima,
Wash; Yankton, S. n.
THE foregoing represent complete res
ervations, but when the adult Indians have
taken allotments and become practically
citizens, or when groups Of Indians on a
reservation are so located as to be con-
tiguous to a training school, certain por-
lions of tribes or reservations have been
segregated from the agencies, and the du-
ties pertaining to such portions have been
devolved on the bonded superintendent of
the school,. On account of his position 1t
has been found that, without materially
affecting his school duties, he has been
better able to control the civilization and
educational interests of all, both adult and
child. Indians in the transitional period
require supervision more of an adviser and
friend than Of a ruler, and in this role
the superintendent can more effectively
counsel in business, in agriculture, in
trade, in domestic relations and the general
duties Of life. A smaller number in his
charge is the result of these changes, thus
bringing the government representative
into closer contact with his charges for
individual treatment.
Schools for the Indians.
ut is believed that agents generally
have an interest in the welfare and ma
terial prosperity of their schools, but they
cannot be as we'll acquainted as a superin-
tendent with the ambitions, hopes and de-
sires Of the child for better things than
the indolent life of the camp. Their school
life has instilled other ideas and other
aspirations, but the agent, dealing largely
with the old Indians, whose ideas Of civil
ization and right living are primitive, can
not understand, and they are treated ac>
cordingly. When a pupil returns from
school to the reservation and finds itself
treated as a camp Indian, without any
particular encouragement given to the fond
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tivated, not even given credit for what is
really known, an unconscious spirit of re-
bellion rises in its heart; but a superin-
tendent who has probably for years come
in daily contact with the child during a
part of it's school life, and has been per-
sonally interested in seeing the minds of
his youthful charges gradually unfold, with
new desires created and brighter anticipa-
lions formed, can better understand the
natural longing Of the boy or girl for a
different condition of life than that which
he sees presented on the average Indian
reservation, and he will naturally have
more sympathy for its failings and back
slidings than an agent who has only come
in contact with it on the reservation
among it's kindred or at the agency on
ration day.
THE following schools are thus placed
in charge of bonded superintendents: Can
Torment, Okl.; Fort Totten, N. D.; Hope,
s. D.; Oneida, Wis; Rice Station, Ariz.
Seger, okl.; Shawnee, Okl; Truxton Can
yon, Ariz.; Western Navajo, Ariz. OF
which number the following were segre-
gated during the year: Hope, Shawnee,
Seger and Cantonment.
During the year the following agencies
were placed in charge Of the superintend-
ent of the training school located thereon:
Colorado River. Ariz.; Lemhi, Idaho; Neal
Bay, Wash; Nez Perces fort I.apwai),
Idaho; Santee, Neb.; Siletz, Ore; Puyallup,
Wash; Yakima, Wash; Umatilla, Ore.
Yankton, s. D.; Jicarilla, NJ. NJ"