Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History
Benson Lossing, Ed.

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Indian industrial schools.

In addition to a large number of day, boarding, and other schools maintained by the federal government, various religious organizations, and each of the five civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, there were in 1900 a total of twenty-four schools for Indian youth, in which in addition to the ordinary branches special attention was paid to industrial education on lines that would render the youth self-supporting in the future. These special schools combined had a total of 262 instructors in industrial work, and 3,076 male and 2,288 female pupils, and the total expenditure for the school year 1898-99 was $198,834. The most noted of these schools is the United States Indian Industrial School, established in Carlisle, Pa. It had in the above year twenty-nine instructors and 1,090 pupils, of whom 487 were girls. In addition to the foregoing schools the federal government was hav-

Indian apprentices making harness.

[21] ing Indian youth educated in the Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute in Virginia, which was originally established for the education of colored youth only. The success of the institution in its original purpose induced the government to undertake the experiment of having Indian youth educated there also, and such encouraging results followed that the government has since kept a large class of Indian boys and girls in the institution.

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