EFFORTS AT EDUCATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 196, 22 August 1935, Page 7

EFFORTS AT EDUCATION

CANADIAN INDIANS RESPOND. OTTAWA, July L I Indians in Canada are wards of the Dominion Government, living mainly in reservations under the administration of the Department of Indian Affairs. Tim response of those native races to the efforts to advance them to a position of independence and selfsupport has been a major factor in the success of the work. Especially gratifying is the success that is attending educational effort. lon years ago tlm enrolment in Indian day and residential schools was .13,872 •nid the average attendance 9,188. This year the enrolment had risen to 17,48.8, a gain of 25.77 per cent., and the average attendance was 13,352, a gain of 45 per cent., much more than proport innate to the increase in population meanwhile. In Indian schools the provincial curricula are followed, with special emphasis on language, reading, domestic science, manual training and agriculture. For the older pupils half the day is spent in class rooms and the remainder in vocational training. Each residential school has farm lands in connection with it. Indian girls receive instruction in sewing, cooking and other household duties.