The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-13
RAPID CITY SCHOOL
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Practical Education Is Given the
Young Wards Of the
Government.

for their Commencement exercises to
be held early in June. This will close
the ninth year for this institution. 4.
1.-The school is especially fortunate
in its situation. The farm Of $40 acres
ice. It is Under irrigation, and apart
from the knowledge and the. service
that it gives to the students is really
a. paying proposition.
The school can accommodate $50 pu-
pills, but in reality 253 have been en-
rolled this year. The boys and girls
are. taken at any age between and Is,
and must enroll for three years, at the
end of which they can re-enroll. This
year there are about seventy-fvev pu-
third Of these will re-enroll in. this
school, another one third will enroll in
some. other government school and the
remaining third will probably feel that
their education is completed.
!. &C., Work and Study.
These pupils work half the day and
study, half. the day. The, boys are di-
Vided into two. sections, as are also
the girls. In the morning one, section
of the boys marches to the schoolroom
while, the other. goes to the fields or
the shops. S'.@ -. :, -. 2..*, =
It is the object Of the school to train
all their students so that they will not
only, know how to live, but also so that
they will have the means of earning a
livelihood. AS all Indians are land
owners, great stress is placed upon agri.
cultural training for the boys.
So The method Of dealing with the girls
is similar except, for the fact that when
not in the schoolroom they are taught
the domestic arts, such as sewing, bak-
are transferred from department to
department once in every two weeks.
Indian and Filipino Compared.
Professor Mathews, who has recently
accepted position in this school, makes
some interesting comparisons between
the Indians and the Filipino children
whom he instructed for three years. He
says the most apparent difference is
the ease with which you can establish
personal relations with the Filipino
child in distinction to the natural re-
serve of the Indian child. The FILIPINO
speak and to enter into all the exer-
cises of the classroom. The Indian chill,
dren are more stolid, and it is often
difficult to get them to talk.
Like their cousins in this country
however, the boys and girls in the Phil
ippine islands are lacking in mathe
NAUTICAL ability, especially in any con
structive work. Like the Indians. again
they, are musical and artistic. They ex'
of fingers. They make excellent tele,
graph operators and clerks. One finds
more inertia among the Indian children
less spontaneity than in the Filipinos
Children Of both nationalities, however
are exceptional. in the fact that they
are, easily governed, having great re-
speetI for authority. !:
= sr.> Non-Reservation Schools.
Superintendent J. F. House, who ha,
BEEN in the Indian service ninetee1
years, believes that the non-reservatio1
schools are showing better results thar
are the reservation schools. The point
| in favor of the former are, he says, thu
| fact that the discipline Is better, til,
life broader and that the students COM.
| in contact with more people. No chill
dren are taken in at these schools with
| out the consent of the parents, wht
Ing the school to which the child viii
90, with the approval Of the Indian
| agent. - 80: ! !
'Children of this school come from
| the tribes of the Sioux, the Nortl
| Cheyennes and the Crows: three-fourth
Of them are Sioux. The North Cheyenne
Indians have not had the school advan
| tages Of the Sioux, and are therefor
| more backward, but show just as goot
ability in the industrial departments. :
| Indian Instructors.
| There are two Indians among tn
instructors of this school. One is Mis-
Fremont, the kindergarten and prfmar,
i teacher, whose work is said to compar
! favorably with that of any teacher
:. The other is Chauncey Y. Robe, tn
teacher Of military tactics and athletics
! and the assistant disciplinarian.
yn 1888, when Ii years Of age, Chaun
ficey Yellow Robe, as he was then known
Rosebud directly to Carlisle. He re
manned there several years and is now
| man of education and fine presence. MI
I Robe says that the land allotment Law
I is :" the best thing that ever happene'
! to the Indians, because it gives t.
them homes - He says further stha
many of the young folks on the reser
zdhsqe 3 ba hs ia a. ssa s ss
Itions.: H.. - <sI -SeS n I. |9s;sS s&sSas
1 n For. example, in Indian homes regulat
! ed by old customs, an Indian girl is no
allowed to speak to- her brother, no
he to her; but all intercourse betwee
them must be had thru the medium o
either their father or their mother
Neither is IL considered proper for
man to3speak to his mother in-Iawsor t
be- seen in the same room with her. I
he is known to have committed eithe
one of these questionable, acts, he
considered quite beyond the pale Of re
spectability. &a
Race Is Improving.
| s Many proofs of the advance Of tn
\ Indians in the last decade are to
1 found right here in Rapid City. The
i are also faithful to their. work, an
many Of them can be seen every ever
ling at shutdown coming back to tow
with that emblem tof modern plebeia
life, the tin dinner-pail. in their hands
ss METHoDIsM IN INDIA.
I : Washington, y. q, May u. II
Methodist churches turnout the countr
an observance will be held tomorrow O
the fftieth anniversary Of the establish
ment Of Methodist work in INDIA and
special offering will be taken with tn
object, Of raising Jubilee fund of $3.50
/ 900, with which M ethodist effort in In
dia may be practically douhIed.{
Metho dist work in. India was sestat
I1ished by Rev. DR.. W Liam Butler an
This wifi elm. 1856, at Bareilly. There ar
now nearly 100000 members and ad
herents Of Methodist churches there
and property worth about 100000 ha
been accumulated. iss
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HYGIENIU EXPOSITION.
| Vienna, May THE frst create,
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