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United States. Office of Indian Affairs / Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for the year 1883
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Report of Carlisle school, pp. 161-165
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REPORT OF CARLISLE SCHOOL. 161 INDIAN TRAINING SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA., August 31, 1883. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith my fourth annual report. The change in the time at which this report is required, leads me to think it better hereafter to begin and end the report with the fiscal year, and I make this report to cover the period between September 30, 1882, the date of my last annual report, and June 30, 1883, end of the fiscal year. The following table gives statistics of pupils during the period covered by report: 1- Tribes. z Boys. Apaches.............Boy3 Arapahoes ............. 17 Caddoes ............... 1 Cheyennes ............. 30 Comanches ............ 11 Creeks ................ 10 Crows ................. ..... Delaw.res...........I...... Gros Ventres ---------I 1 Iowas ............ 3 Kaws .............. 3 Keechieh .............. 1 Kiowas-.............. - 4 Lipans ................. 1 Menomonees ........... 5 Miamies ...............I1 Modocs ................ 2 Navajoes ............. ...... Nez Percs--............. 4 Northern Arapahoes... 8 Omahas ............... 20 Osages ................ 20 Ottawas ............... 2 Onondagas ............. ...... Pawnees ............... 9 Poncas ................ 5 Pueblos ................ 10 Potawatomies ............ Sac and Foxes ......... 1 Sioux, Rosebud........I1 Sioux, Pine Ridge 4 Sioux, Sisseton......... 4 Seminoles .............. ...... Shoshones ............., 2 Towaconies .................. Wichitas .............. 5 188 Q . 0 CI Girle. Boys. Girls. 2 ...... ...... 13 -- - - - - - ...... 8 ...... 121 1 ...... 15 2 ----.... 2 i...... '....... 3 . ..... .. ------ ---- ...... ......'...... 2 ............ 1 11 1 1............ 2 ............ 11 ............ 14.......... ..... .... I... .2 4 ........... 8. 1 .2 . .... 23 11 1 23 8 4 .......... 2 ...... ...... 1 ...... ..... 2 ...... ..... 108 70 24 goo- P 5 30 1 43 11 25 8 1 1 5 5 1 9 2 8 1 4 13 5 10 31 34 4 1I 5 21 1 1 , 35 36 8 2 2 1 7 390 e 0 Boys. 5 Died. Girls. Boys.' Girls. . 3............ 1.......... . 2........ ...... 3.......... 1....... ...... 1 .... .. 1..... ...... 1 .... .. . .... 4... ... Our average during the nine months covered by my report was 367.7. For the whole year between July 1, 1882, and June 30, 1883, it was 343. During the winter we had out in families, attending the public schools, 33 boys and 19 girls. At the end of June, 1883, we had placed out 99 boys and 43 girls. Our pupils come to us now for 5 years, 2 years of which we shall endeavor to place them under this family training. My reports for 1881 and 1882 give a fair expression of the continued esteem these placed-out students receive, and my remarks in those two reports in regard to its advantages are reaffirmed. In my judgment it opens up a practicable course to accomplish the destruction of race prejudices and to bring our Indian population into useful, productive life. Two years in our school will generally give to previously uneducated and untrained Indian boys and girls a sufficient knowl- edge of English and enough skill and industry to make them acceptable helps in farm and other industrial civilizerl pursuits. After three years' trial I can see nothing to prevent a very great expansion of this system, so that it may be made to bear upon thousands instead of a few score. But some encouragement and influence should grow up looking to the enlargement of their sphere of life and usefulness beyond reservation lines after the expiration of their school periods. 5916 IND-11 .C be A Boys.1 Girls. 3 2 1f- 10 26 11 10.. 10 13 3 2 4 1 1.. 3 2 1 1 5 3 1.. 2 2 10 2 4 1 3 2 20 10 20 14 2 2 1. 8 4 4 .--- 11 10 1. 1.. 23 11 26 9 3 3 2 4 2 239 12 Total 5 27 1 37 10 23 8 1 1 5 5 1 5 2 5 1 4 12 5 5 30 34 4 1 12 4 21 1 1 34 35 6 2 2 1 6 360o I
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