Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — Educating the Indians. [ARTICLE]

Educating the Indians.

Preliminary to expected important legislation by tne next congress affecting Indian education. Commissioner Jones of the Indian bureau will try to ascertain just what measure of success has attended the instruction of Indian pupils. Questions addressed to Indian agents and superintendents are designed to show the relative merits of Indian pupils who have attended schools upon the reservation or the general educational institutions located elsewhere. To what use the Indian pupils have put their education is asked, and also whether their course in life after returning to the reservation indicates that their career will be that of the average white person. Commissioner Jones is seeking to make the inquiries of practical value, and he asks for*-relative statements by those in immediate charge of the Indians as to the status of those Indian pupils who have attended and are now attending Indian schools.