WANTS INDIANS TO FARM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3556, 5 August 1905, Page 3

WANTS INDIANS TO FARM.

fflW Reed, SupcrlntenilenC of Indi«a Mooli, Thlnka Hodmen Shooltt !n» Tb«4p Own, I**4, Ksctclle Reel, ■supertnitenclent of Indian, school*,, takes the position, in her annual 'report that, as the Indian owns his own, land, he should be taught to do his own fanning, :in preference to his, 'old-time custom of renting to his •industrious white neighbors, and living, in idleness. This idea ia* (rtlUecl the red man will be a long 'toward actual reform. Attention i*. balled to the fact that, the first gote *4nunent appropriation iu 1819 was but SIO,OOO, while during the last year the sum of 153,244,250 was expended for Indian schools, and the total number of pupils enrolled was nearly 25,000. A gratifying feature of Indian echrwafeioa as indicated by the report, Is 4he rapid growth of industrial training methods in the Dtadifca schools, Practical industrial -/raininwith •tanfent&ry literary .tudie. "ipplica"J® industrial -work, should make the Indian 4, ‘hseful citizen, and this is Ihe aim j n< j| an sc hool service under IK, present management. Speak* - agriculture, Miss Heel says,* xfo occupation will so soon disposthe Indian of his nomadic instincts ■and fix upon him permanency of habitetion as 'agriculture. Tilling of the y'fcorl ■will necessarily oblige him to rensain in one spot, and the performing 'of ttertain duties at proper times of ’tfei® year will instill into him the necessity lor systematic work and for giving attention to details. To make any real progress theTndianmust-have a home wherein will center all his interests, hopes and ambitions, and a home on a farm will best fill these yfequiremants. As there is no field an which he can so readily contribute to his own support, he should not only be encouraged, but urged, to cease leasing his allotment, to cultivate more acres, raise better crops, and live the thrifty independent life that falls to the lot of tillers of the soil.”