People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — INDIAN EDUCATION. [ARTICLE]

INDIAN EDUCATION.

The Canadian Exhibit in the Liberal Arts Building: at the World’s Fair. In some particulars the British methods of managing the North American Indians has been more successful than that pursued by the white people south of the great lakes. In Canada’s exhibit in the Liberal Arts building there is an Indian exhibition which shows .that the Canadians have relied upon the education of the Indians to control them. Lpng preceding like effort in the United States, the Canadians have had Indian industrial schools in operation, and the exhibit in Canada’s display consists of products of these schools, and along with it at present are seven Indian girls and boys. They are from the northwest territory, and are pupils of St Albert’s school, Edmonton, San Boniface’s school, opposite Winnipeg, and the school at Battleford on the Saskatchewan river. The girls and boys represent the Crees, Satteux and Muskegons of the northwest territory, and are from the blanketed or mdst uncivilized tribes of the dominion. The children are kept at work before* the public at their respective trades, and make an interesting and creditable showing at mantua-making, harnessmaking, boot and shoe making, and typesetting. They are surrounded by samples of work from all the industrial schools, and in contrast are arrayed Indian fabrications,feathered garments, utensils and weapons, which they made wore, and used in the savage state.

The exhibit in its entirety is striking and interesting, and instructive in showing what the Canadians are doing for its six hundred children in the industrial schools and seven thousand at the Indian day and boarding schools. The children at present at work will be replaced by others soon from other schools, and Charles de Cazes, who has the Canadian Indian exhibit in charge, will shortly have some of the blanketed Indians of the northwest territory added to Prof. Putnam’s ethnological exhibit