The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-09
INDIAN SCHOOLS
Facilities on White Earth Reserve
Are QYertaxed.

WHITE EARTH, MINN.-The schools
on the White Earth reservation opened
last week with a large attendance. When
the Mile Laos Indians are removed here
there will be added to the school popula-
ton between 200 and 800 children. The
present school capacity is sufficient for
about 400 pupils. Proposals are now be-
ing advertised for for furnishing and de-
livering the necessary material for the
construction and completion Of two day
schools with a capacity Of thirty pupils
each. A day school Is now being MAIN
tanned at the agency with an average at
tendance of about forty. This school
does not differ In any way from the or
binary district school In rural white COM
munities. The government furnishes the
necessary books, school furniture and
fuel and pays the teacher. In the day
schools away from the agency, it is GUS
tomary to have teacher and house
keeper, and the children are given a noon
day meal and taught In the ordinary do
nestle duties. This plan is likely to be
followed In the new day schools to be
erected. ~
Agents from the different non-reserva-
ton schools have been on the reservation
collecting pupils for their respective
schools. Many pupils have been trans
ferred from the reservation schools to the
larger Indian training schools located off
the reservation. Some have gone to
noa Indian training school at Genoa, Neb.
to Pipestone school at 3Pipestone, Mimi,
and others to the Indian schools at Nor
ris, Mimi, Pierre, S. D., Lawrence Kan,
and Chilocco, Okla. There are now about
800 pupils belonging to this reservation in
attendance at these non reservation
| schools. The education of these pupils
| Is costing the government about $4,000
a year and the schools on the reserva-
tion are maintained at an annual cost of
about $60,0 600, so that more than 100000
IL being annually expended for the edu-
| cation Of the White Earth Chippewas.
Under the new ruling Of the Indian
office no child Of more than one-eighth
Indian blood who does not live on an In
dian reservation and have an allotment
| there, can be enrolled as a pupil in any
Indian school. Any pupil who runs away
from an Indian school forfeits all school
privileges unless he returns at his own
expense and completes his time.
Congressman Page Morris left the res
ervation to-day for his home in Duluth
He came here to seek. seclusion and rest
| and enjoy a little hunting and fishing. He
was completely captivated with the rare
beauty and progressive appearance Of the
reservation. He said he expected to find
a wilderness, but beheld a paradise.
Beautiful farms, commodious houses
large aelds Of grain and herds of cattle
bespo1e a progress of the Indian Of
which he had never dreamed. = q.
He visited the schools and expressed
! himself as we'll pleased with the educa-
| tional advancement on the reservation.
| He is an ardent advocate of Industrial
training for the Indians and believes If the
| government can succeed in teaching them
| industry and cleanliness, and inspire
| them with a desire to-. possess a home
| suitable to their station in life, a long
step Will be taken toward the ultimate
solution Of the Indian problem. He be-
lieves in throwing the Indian on his own
| resources. The present commissioner Of
Indian affairs, he says, Is pursuing the
| proper and only logical course in his pol
| Icy of cutting off the government sup
| FORT and providing work for all the able
| bodied Indians. ~
HOUGHToN, MiCH.-The ,.Redridge
Lumber company Of Ashland is negotiat-
ing for a large tract of timber land in
Houghton and Ontonagon counties. r.
E. Stephenson has charge Of. a. crew Of ten
! cruisers engaged in estimating tract of
several thousand acres.-R. A. Leonard of
Brockton, Mass, has been appointed gen
eral superintendent Of the #. Houghton
| County Electric Light conpany.-Sight of
| a. Side-p haa1 river sian, 4