Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
DOING GREAT WORK
TWENTY-FouRTH ANNUAL RE-
PORT OF INDIAN SCHOOL.
FORTY-SlX GRADUATES THIS YEAR
Total Attendance During Existence of
Carlisle School 4,903-Attendanc
Last Year 1,298-Total Cost Per
Capita to the Government $152.eo.

SaiiSie SSHoot OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Last Year 1,29s-Total Cost Per
Capita to the Government $500.
In recent issue of the Red Man
and Helper, the paper published at
the Indian industrial school at Car
Isle, Pa, is given the twenty-fourth
annual report of Colonel R. H. Pratt,
the superintendent of the school. This
report shows that in the twenty-four
years that the school has been in ex-
istence there has been total of A.
903 students and that the attendance
for the past year was 1928, represent
ing twenty-seyen tribes of Indians
The report shows the great work
that is being done by the students of
the Carlisle school in an educational
way among the Indian tribes and it
also shows what the young Indian can
do in practical life when given a fair
opportunity in competition with the
young white child.
The report is addressed to the COM
missioner of Indian affairs and is in
part as follows:
"Sir:
THE sixth of September next ends
the twenty-fourth year since under the
act OF congress, orders We're issued by
the secretaries of war and of the inter-
Tor directing me to establish this
school.
THE total attendance during the
twenty-four years was 4,903. The
attendance during the last fiscal year
was 1928. The average attendance
during the school months was 91S.
The total number graduated has been
373 of which forty-siX were graduated
this year. There We're seventy-seven
tribes represented.
Our special feature. the outing sys-
TEN, shows constantly increasing val
lie and interest to both pupils and pa
irons. Five hundred and nineteen boys
and 429 girls had outing privileges for
some portion of the year. Their united
earnings for the year amounted to
$31 ,39302, Beginning last year they
save half they earn and their accumu-
lated savings at the close of the fiscal
year. were S35, 903.6S, OF which there
was on interest with the Girard Trust
Co., of Philadelphia S27,961.S5; the
balance in the hands of the patrons to
NC lidHSlGlISQ W OuT care DIT TIE 6uu
of the outing season
During the year we had applica-
tons for 976 boys and 1859 girls, to-
tai 1885; and were unable to supply
457 places for boys and $50 girls, or
total of 1857 The requirements OF
our outing system are so we'll known
can safely say that 80 per cent of
those who applied for Indian help
We're suitable people with whom to
place our pupils, and it is greatly to
lie regretted that for want of num-
bers these many opportunities could
not be utilized. While the boys work
ed largely for farmers, some were
placed in mechanical situations, work
ing side by side with the regular en-
ployes in various establishments. 9th
ers were employed at seashore and
other summer resorts in such posi-
tons as are often filled by college stu
dents OF our own race during vacation
One hundred and thirty-four boys and
Ill girls remained out from the
school during the winter attending
public, private, normal and prepare
tory schools and colleges with the
white youth. | find no prejudice. In
dian youth properly prepared are
welcomed at all our schools and col
leges everywhere. Concerning the
value of this particular feature of the
outing | can only repeat my frequent
former favorable statements.
Of Great Benefit.
"My previous reports with regard to
the general objects and the beneficial
results of the outing are reiterated.
1t gets young Indians on an equality,
and acceptably, into actual industrial,
social and moral relations with the
good people of our country, and breaks
! down prejudice between the races. 1t
establishes that youth of the Indian
race are entirely and Immediately ca
pable of taking on civilized industries
and pursuits, their only obstacle be-
ing want of fair opportunity. This be-
ing provided by the outing, they re-
spond fully and satisfactorily. 1t gem
erously opens wide way out from
the reservation into civilization and
proves that misconduct and failure
| among them under these individual
privileges are comparatively infre-
quent. 1t exposes the folly of special
izing the Indians and making them
| peculiar through so-called 'renais-
sance of Indian art employments to
pass from nomadic hunters of game
for living through a purgatory of
nomadic basketry and other curio pro-
ducing accomplishments, migrating
| between summer resorts in search of
meagre and degenerating livelihood,
| in order to satisfy the spectacular and
chronological whims of a few self-con-
stituted bosses among our own peo-
pie. Our experiences with pupils
coming to the school from these gyp-
sy, homeless influences prove that
better results can be expected by TAX
ing youth Immediately from original
Indian life.
What Carlisle Students Have Done,
"The emphasis placed by the depart,
ment upon the employment of young
Indians from the schools as helpers
throughout the service leads me to
compile from your report for the fiscal
| year 1902 list of those so employed
who have passed under Carlisle train.
ing. 24,000 youths attended the var.
ious schools. or these Carlisle had l..
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