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t1Yaitft3f3SB8wi.yo»j» «5* «$* «S* ^ •$* *J» •£* *J» *5♦: Indian Schools for Indians Only* * «s* «j* * ❖ **♦♦:* This Is What Will Happen Unless There Is a Govern- *« r* ment Appropriation—Value of the School Properties. ♦*j» «$» *}* *5* *$♦ *$♦ *}* «{* lt;j* «j* «j* ♦$• •$» ,j« *j» «$* ♦j* «j» *}*,♦}»■ •{* »i» +j* «{« lt;$ •{♦ «}» «g« *gtIf there Is no government school appropriation this'! year it raean3 that government schools will drop back to what they were three years ago and that special schools costing half a million dollars annually will be maiiytWfned for the • Indians arid' the Whites ^ill be ex-' eluded from them; While this will suit ta few of the fuli-bloods who dislike to mingle with the whites, experience has proved that -it is the worst possible thing that could happen to the Indian ■ children.John D. Benedict, who has had ten* years experience in schools in old Indian Territory, says that the average Indian child from eight to twelve years °ld, will learn more from associating wiJ,hj white children during the first, two or three years he is in school than he will learn from his books. It, is the fixed policy of the government to educate the Indian by close association 'With white children, and it has proved the most successful, But this will be no longer possible in t'he five civilized tribes unless the state changes Its attitude toward the government schools.There is available annuallyfrom the tribal money a school fund of $487,000. Prior, to the time the government added a similar 'amount, all this money was expended teaching Indians. At that time there were 286 rural schools being taught and there were ‘ 23boarding schools, w'blbh correspond to colleges. In the 23 boarding schools there were 1.860 pupils and In the rural schools there were 7,920 pupils. Under thepresent system there are 1,000 .rural schools with an attendance of 40,000 Indians and whites, and the boarding schools are’ all full. Thus we see that. the government is furnishing eight.; and nine months schooling eaclr year to 32.-080 children, and this ‘support will be withdrawn when the whites are excluded from the Indian schools.The Oherokees own four boarding schools, with forty acres of land surrounding each one, the total* value of the school properties being $200,000; the Creeks own eight boarding schools apd *or^y acres of land for each one, with a total value of $60,000; the Choc7-a b«io ho-'^'ne schoolsand 160 acres of 1 and lor eachone, valued- at *l20’°£?tL icSChickasaws have five with 100acres for each one, - valued at $130,000; the Seminoles have two with 160 acres each, valued at $60 000. • The Cherokee schools are' the two seminaries and orphan home and a colored boarding school, all at Tahlenuah. The Creek schools are the Eufaula high school at Eufaula, a boaiding school at Weslaka. Euchee Mission,■at Sapulpa, Newyaka, -Mission nearB eggs i Wetumka boarding schoolat Wetumka, the Creek Orphanhome at Okmulgee and schools for negroes at Tullahassee and Pecan Creek. The schools are Jones Academy near Hartshorn, Armstrong Academy east of Caddo, both schools for boy,8/ while there is a girls’) s»aininary1 attSPuBkahotna 'add'Another at Whellock Academy near Gairvln. The Chickasaw schools are Bloomfield seminary, 12 miles east of Denison, Collins institute, 20 miles northwest 6f■‘Colgate, Rock Academy, near Wa-panucka, Harley , institute, near Tishomingo, and the Chickasaw orphans’ home at Uebandn. The Sem-inore schools ' are ' Mekesukey, a girls’ seminary located 15 * miles west of Wewoka, and Emahaka, a boys’ school 4 miles south of Wewoka. All these are national,schools and have been maintainedfor many years at the expense of the tribes themselves. In some Of tihese schools, notably those of the Chickasaw nation, the board and clothes as well as medical attention, 'were also supplied by the nation, and in cases wher© parents lived close enough for children to remain at home and attend the schools the parents were entitledto draw from the nation $12.50 per month for each child that stayed at home and attended school, it being estimated that this was the coat to the tribe to keep the children in school.No white children have ever been allowed to enter thee© schools, because there were more Indian children than could be accommodated. The rural schools were thrown open to both Indians and whites and the mingling of the Indians and whites encouraged. In these schools too, teachers are not allowed to us© the Indian language, even if they can do so, and the Indian children muBt converse in English, as the white children cannot understand anything else. Before the government took charge the Indian language was taught in many of the schools and fuli-blood teachers wer© employed.Badly Shipped Cotton,The United States consul at Dundee, Scotland, has made a report on the cohcjition of cotton arriving in European countries, and the comparison of American and Egyp-tion cotton is not at all favorable to the former. American cotton is so poorly packed that the bales, frequently arrive in a -dilapidated condition. They have the appearance of dirty rag bags and shed their contents at every handling;. On the other lhaiid the Egyptian bales are well formed, neat and trim, With hardly a lock of cotton visible anywhere. It. is evident that our methods of packing cotton are badly iri need of improvement, and that the present methods have a tendency to reduce the prices real-i'/or] fnr our p.ntton abroad.
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New State Tribune
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Jan 30, 1908
Page 7
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