INDIANS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1270, 5 January 1883, Page 2

INDIANS.

I According to ,au pfficial ■ repptt: ;rflVf. j '> cently issued : the ; .total'' number of' * Indians irl the United States, &iclu&ivH ' of Alaska is 262,366. The Commissioner. : comments in severe teruis upou '* 'tie"• : '" iuiquity of the liquor, traffic among tbi ;f j Indiana, aa(l quotes many instances of -< .irbubl^s : arisiug' from it. ..metids. grei(tor : Btnrigonejr.. in" tji«' )ia^' l on tha.subject, and says those: sectipue,'-.';,.;, r pf}sthe 'statutes which- alloi^• r ajr^i j: : ■• • •/*- .officers; to introduce liquonhjq" ss";''. fhdian, :cpuntry,ishould: ■..'" the .report declares that tbeieyw' l :,., \u : gont necessity for addition*! tiou to prevent intrusion 'u'ppn'; lands. Inclusive of tive,bivilistid''trib{Sii '"■',''; the.-I whole number -of: Indian- pupil* s;' attcriding'school during the past I '-year"' <*"' .was ,8408, of these 468 were in attend- VJ ak Carlisle, • Hampton,'and 'Forest -' Grojc tra&ing schools. • Of the remain-r s *'; de'ri'4slo; attended -the ReserVatiouVboarding, schools, and ; 3998 the Kqaevv- '■■■' ation day- schools. The average attendance for the year- was 5249. 'The industrial training for boys is carried on at the Agency' boarding schools,'"'*'' and itf receiving more and moreattention .eic^iyWir.'lit connection with fifty two acuoolsVl4'2B acres 'of land are uuder ' cultivation. Bluckamitliiug, tailoring, and harnegsmaking 'are taught in four jsehools'jfseven 'cflrpontering, and fifteen*the 1 raising, jnd.tho caro of stock. The training in' these branches is greatly stimulated by the success of experiments at Carlisle, •• •Hampton, and; Forest Grove, • Jiu appropriation;of-'not less', IOJOOOfoI, should be mado by Cpngr«ss at the liexfc session to: pwpterly equip tj\e existing Agency echoplß". for industrial work, The. whole -huhiber;;'of schoqU in operation is 101, five less than last ycav....-: ,'■• ■■■ ■■.;■•!..■. .;.,■■-..