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.

Supervision, general..

Summer subsistence..

Apprentice teacher__

Total estimate, 1938_.

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: