The Tomahawk., 1919-04-24

ready to do. 1t is idle to talk about
the Chippewa children not having
proper home conditions thae would
permit their regular attendance at the
public schools. Minnesota has COM
pulsory educational law and the par
ent who fails to send his or her child
regularly to school is subject to heavy
pently.
The Remedy.
The departmental school system
maintained among the Chippewas
should be Immediately disconnected
from the agency system. The EN-
ployees should be separate and dis
tinct and the school fund should be
used exclusively for the schools. The
Indian schools, both day and board
ing, should be abolished as fast as
public schools are provided for the
children now attending the Indian
schools. This should be taken up
with the State and county authorities,
the proper places for the location OF
the additional public schools and the
probable number, of children that
would attend each school should be
ascertained and proper application
made to the authorities for the estab.
lishment of the schools. Phe Gen.
eral Council stands ready to assist
the Department in this work. Every
child now attending a boarding school
who lives contiguous to public
school, and there are number. should
be discharged from the boarding
school and put in the public school.
There are few children, probably not
to exceed one hundred, who are at
tending the boarding schools and
whose families live in remote localities
where it would probably not be prac-
ticable to provide proper school facil-
tiles for them. These children should
be placed in the mission schools and
their expenses paid out of the school
fund. This would be an Inequality
but of little consequence, as compared
to past and present conditions and
the tribe would make no objection
thereto, as the Chippewa Indians, even
though it necessitates financial sac.
rifice, are anxious that all the chill
dren of their blood shall have proper
educational opportunities. Every day
school maintained contiguous to a
public day school, and there are sew
eral of them, should be abolished or
turned over to the State and the chill
dren put in the public schools.
(k) The Improper Classification Of
Pine Land as Agricultural Land.
Section of the act of January IA,
1889, as ratified by the Indians pro-
vided: g..
"the said Secretary of the Interior,
surveys, shall appoint a sufficient num-
Der of competent and experienced ex.
aminers, in order that the work may
be done within reasonable time, who
shall go upon said lands thus sur
veyed and personally make a careful,
complete, and thorough examination
of the same by forty-acre lots, for tho
purpose of ascertaining ON which lots
or tracts there is standing o. growing
pine timber, which tracts On which
pine timber is standing or growing
for the purpose of this act shall be
termed pine lands the minutes of
such examination to be at the time
entered in books provided for that
purpose, showing with Particularly
the amount and quality of an pine tim
Der standing or growing on any lot
or tract, the amount Of such pine
timber to be estimated by feet in the
manner usual in estimating such tim
Der, which estimates and report of
all such examinations shah be fled
with the Commissioner of the Cen
eral Land Office as part of the per-
manent records thereof, and thereup.
on that officer shall cause to be made
a list of all such pine lands, describ-
ing each forty-acre lot or tract thereof
separately, and opposite each such
description he shall place the actual
cash value of the same, according to
his best judgment and information.
but such. valuation shall not be at q
rate of less than three dollars per
thousand feet, board measure Of the
such lists of lands 80 appraised shall
be transmitted to the Secretary of
the Interior for approval, modification,
or rejection, as he may deem proper.
II the appraisals are rejected as a
whole then the Secretary Of the In
terror shall substitute q new appraisal
and the same or original list as ap-
proved or modified shall be fled with
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office as the appraisal of said lands.
and as constituting the minimum price
for which said lands may be sold, as
hereinafter provided, but In no event
shall said pine lands, be appraised at
q rate of less than three dollars per
thousand feet board measure Of the
pine timber thereon" 49,.
The same section also provided:
All other lands acquired from the
said Indians on said reservations
other than pine lands are for the pur-
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