WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1937.

EDUCATION OF INDIANS

SUPPORT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS, INCLUDING TUITION OF PUPILS ATTENDING PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Mr. JOHNSON. We will now take up the items under the heading of "Education."

The first item is for the support of day and reservation boarding schools, tuition of pupils attending public schools, and for other miscellaneous educational purposes. You are asking for a total of $5,896,950.

Mr. DODD. We offer the following justification for the record:

Regular appropriation, 1937 act__

Deduct nonrecurring and other items not required in 1938:

Aid to public schools-

State cooperation contracts__.

Alabama and Coushatta Indians

Boarding home care..

$5, 379, 820

$67, 600

6, 100

4, 500

10, 000

88, 200

5, 291, 600

$299, 300

22, 000

69, 000

135, 075

5, 000

12, 875

10, 000

3, 920

23, 160

15, 000

10, 000

605, 330

5, 896, 950

General. This appropriation is used for support and maintenance of day- and boarding-school facilities on Indian reservations, payment of tuition for Indian pupils in public schools and other educational institutions, school lunches and clothing for school children, school supervision, and other educational purposes. With the reduction in nonreservation boarding schools and the development of educational facilities for Indians close to their own homes as far as possible, this appropriation now covers the major educational activities of the Indian Service. There follows a tabulation showing the various items of this estimate together with a statement of the amounts appropriated in 1937:

1. Boarding schools, $2,009,200 (increase, $299,300).-This amount is composed of the following:

To show the detail by schools, there follows a tabulation showing the number of boarding pupils contemplated in each of the reservation boarding schools during 1938, together with the number proposed in the upper grades:

Vocational differential. No increase is requested for the regular per-capita rate nor for the per-capita differential rate. The net increase of $28,500 for vocational differential is accounted for through an increase of 570 additional pupils who are enrolled in grades above the sixth and for whom special vocational training work is required. At the Fort Sill School, for example, on the Kiowa Reservation, we are asking for an increase of 35 pupils in grades above the sixth. At the Riverside School we are requesting the vocational differential for 50 additional pupils. At these two schools we are developing senior high-school facilities of an agricultural nature. These two illustrations are typical of all of the other requests for the vocational differential and are in line with our policy of developing senior vocational high-school facilities on the reservations, where local needs can more adequately be provided for than in the non-reservation boarding schools. Increased enrollment in existing schools.-A total net increase of 910 pupils, spread over the varying per-capita rates and amounting to $270,800, represents increased enrollments at numerous schools as itemized in the above table. It also represents the reestablishment of boarding facilities at Blackfeet, Mont., Fort Totten and Standing Rock, N. Dak., and Crow Creek., S. Dak. These four items are discussed separately.

Cherokee. We are asking for 40 additional pupils at this school.

Senior vocational high-school facilities are being provided and since local public schools will not accept these Indian pupils, it is necessary that we make provision for them. Included in this additional group are provisions for 20 children below the sixth grade who are unable to attend on a day basis.

Cheyenne and Arapaho.-We are requesting an increase in the enrollment at this school of 25 in order to care for the senior vocational high-school program. At the present time such facilities are not available, and these pupils are not attending anywhere. The tribal council has petitioned for these facilities.

Cheyenne River.-We are requesting an increase of 35 at this school in order to care for pupils who are not now in attendance at any school and also to provide senior high-school facilities there.

Crown Point (Navajo).—We are requesting an increase of 50 pupils on a boarding basis at the Crown Point School. A corresponding decrease of 50 pupils is indicated under the item for day pupils in boarding schools. Our experience in the past 2 years has demonstrated that these pupils are not available on a day basis and they are being cared for at the present time as boarding pupils.

Fort Sill.-We are asking for an increase of 50 pupils at the Fort Sill Boarding School, 35 of whom will be on a senior vocational-high-school basis. As has previously been explained, we are developing a senior high-school program at the Fort Sill School. At the present time the majority of these pupils have not been in attendance in any school.

Riverside.—We are requesting an increase of 25 pupils at the Riverside School on the Kiowa jurisdiction. The justification submitted for Fort Sill is applicable for Riverside.

Leupp. We are requesting an increase of 25 pupils on a boarding basis and under the item for day pupils in boarding schools, there will be found a corresponding reduction of 25 pupils on a day basis. Our experience in the past 2 years has demonstrated that these 25 pupils cannot attend-on a day basis. They are being cared for at the present time as boarding pupils.

Pawnee. We are asking for an increase of 25 pupils at the Pawnee Boarding School. The justification submitted for the Fort Sill School is applicable here.

Pine Ridge. We are asking for an increase of 40 pupils at the Pine Ridge Boarding School. A new school building is being erected at this school and will make possible facilities for 40 additional pupils who are not otherwise being cared for. Quapaw (Seneca).-We are asking for an increase of 25 pupils at the Seneca Boarding School. A senior high-school program is being developed here and this additional number of pupils is already enrolled at this school, but no appropriation has ever been requested for them.

Rosebud. We are requesting an increase of 20 pupils at the Rosebud Boarding School. This is to make available the educational facilities that are now being denied this number of pupils.

Shiprock (Navajo).-We are requesting an increase of 100 pupils at the Shiprock Boarding School, and under the item for day pupils in boarding schools will be found a corresponding decrease on a day basis. Our experience of the past 2 years has demonstrated conclusively that not more than 100 children are available for attendance at the Shiprock School on a day basis, whereas our budget has previously provided for 200 on a day basis. It has been necessary for us to care for these 100 pupils on a boarding basis or deny them school privileges.