The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-05-12
lily, with a combined enrolment of

S4l.
Eight reservation boarding schools.
located on the various reservations of
the state, with an enrolment of 1,O4S.
Fifty-four day schools, with an en-
rollment of $50.
Three contract mission schools. en-
rolling $50 pupils.
Three mission schools supported by
church societies, 1873 pupils.
Making the total enrolment, as
stated above, 1925.
The work of these schools, insofar
as literary attainments are concerned,
is practically all in the primary or
common school grades The nonres-
ervation schools, at the present time
are carrying pupils through the grade
work and preparing them for taking
up the High school course. The reser-
walton boarding schools are doing a
similar work. though no carrying so
many through the higher grades The
day schools have their pupils COM
plete at least the Fourth grade, and
some are taking some beyond this.
The contract and mission schools do
a work similar TO the government
boarding schools. In all of these
schools, the industrial training is a
very prominent feature of the work.
The older boys are instructed in the
various trades, and in farming and
stocluaising. The girls receive in
suuction in practical housekeeping
and domestic science. About one-half
of the pupils time is spent in indus
tIiNl training, Consequently the adj
vancement in literary work is not so
rapid as it would otherwise be. In all
probability, the literary work of the
schools will be advanced as the pupils
become more able to acquire knowl-
edge. In all this work the environ
ments and home conditions of the
pupil enter very largely. The teach
or, in many instances, finds that in
struction must be given in Il language
and this necessarily retards the work.
This condition is fast passing away
and o great many pupils are able to
speak the English language when they
enter the schools. The Indian Blu
reau is urging upon the educational
workers in the field the necessity Of
adapting themselves so far as pos.
sible to the schools and conditions in
the states to which they may be as
signed. thus the Indian schools in
South Dakota are urged to make the
course of instruction as nearly paral-
lei with that of the state schools as
can we'll be arranged. The object OF
this is, that pupils who may wish to
continue their education after leaving
the government schools, may take up
the work in the public or state schools
without any serious break or special
preparation 1t is also presumed that
SONIC lllHe III Vic Inv ii'AieAA
schools as special schools will cease
to exist All these Indians are citi'
zens of the state, and as they assume
the obligations o. citizenship, and be-
come taXpaye and producers, they
must necessarily fall into the state or.
CARNATIONS and become a part of the
state system. AS first stated, to make
these people good and useful citizens
is the purpose for which the schools
are established, and their success
must necessarily mean their termi'
nation, as it is not the province OF
the federal government to carry this
special work beyond the point of pre-
pairing the people to assume their
proper relation in the citizenship OF
the state. However, it is very prob
able that some of the schools and
educational institutions established by
| the government will continue to be
maintained for an indefinite term,
and some of these will perhaps pass to