SENATE Part 4 Rules and Regulations governing the Department of the Interior in its various branches Furnished in response to a resolution adopted by the Senate of the United States February 1, 1907 IN FOUR PARTS PART 4 FEBRUARY 26, 1907 WASHINGTON RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE INDIAN SERVICE. INDIAN SCHOOL RULES. 1. The preparation of Indian youth for the duties, privileges, and responsibilities of American citizenship is the purpose of the governmental plan of education. This implies training in the industrial arts, the development of the moral and intellectual faculties, the establishment of good habits, the formation of character, and preparation for citizenship. The development of this plan should be through the medium of permanent and well-directed efforts. 2. Indian schools are divided into nonreservation boarding schools, reservation boarding schools, and day schools. 3. These schools should be conducted upon lines best adapted to the development of character and the formation of habits of industrial thrift and moral responsibility, which will prepare the pupil for the active responsibilities of citizenship. 4. The administration of the Indian school service is vested in the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. 5. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of Indian schools, under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to assist in the administration of the educational work of Indian schools; to organize Government schools for Indian youth; to prepare courses of study and circulars of instruction concerning the educational management of the schools and methods of instruction; to examine and recommend text-books and other school appliances; to visit and inspect Indian schools, and from time to time to report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning their condition, defects, and requirements, and to perform such other duties as he may direct. SUPERVISORS OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. 6. There shall be five supervisors of Indian schools, each being assigned to a supervisor's district. 7. The supervisors' districts as at present constituted are as follows: No. 1.-Schools located in the States of Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory, and the Territory of New Mexico, with the exception of the Navajo Reservation. No. 2.-Schools located in the States of Nevada, California, the Territory of Arizona, the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, and schools in Oregon south of the forty-third parallel of latitude. |