“The ‘noble’ red man of traditional lore was usually a very low-bred,
dirty savage, uninteresting except for his blood-thirstiness and
capacity for rum and mischief.” What education, mostly under government
supervision, has been able to do with the Indian is shown in the
extract:
Supt. Friedman of the Carlisle Indian School remarks that thirty
years have elapsed since the first group of eighty-two Sioux
Indians from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations of South
Dakota arrived at Carlisle, Penn., to receive the benefit of a
civilized education. Out of this beginning an elaborate system
of Indian schools has grown, including 167 day-schools, 88
reservation boarding schools and 26 non-reservation schools,
so that to-day 25,777 Indian students are being educated under
the Government’s immediate patronage, at a cost for the fiscal
year 1909 of $4,008,825. The students in the contract schools
and missions swell this total to 30,630. The Carlisle school,
the largest of all, has an enrolment of 1,132, which is not much
below the enrolment of Princeton College.--New York _Times_.
(1579)
=Indians’ Receptiveness to the Gospel=--See FATHER, OUR.